Programs
U.S. Programs

Grantees

Grantees

The Open Society Foundations U.S. Programs aims to address core threats to open society, including increasingly punitive national security policies, decreasing government transparency, entrenched structural racism, and growing incarceration rates.

  • American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Maryland, Inc. 2012

    A grant to secure adequate state and city funding for public schools in Baltimore City, and to ensure through education and advocacy that management and funding reform translate into better schools for Baltimore’s children.

  • American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Maryland, Inc. 2012

    A grant to promote housing choice and dismantle residential segregation in Maryland by reforming the state’s Low-Income Housing Tax Credit system and maximizing the resources created by the recent Thompson v. HUD litigation.

  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists 2012

    A grant to design and garner support for a model of health care that improves the recruitment and retention of substance-using women in treatment and preserves the unity of the family.

  • American Judicature Society 2012

    A grant to provide general support.

  • American Rights at Work Education Campaign 2012

    A grant to provide general support.

  • America’s Voice Education Fund 2012

    A grant to provide general support.

  • Ana Muniz 2012

    Working with a broad-based coalition in Los Angeles, scholar and activist Muniz will challenge the continued and growing use of gang injunctions. Individuals typically targeted by these policies are overwhelmingly black or Latino youth, raising serious concerns of racial profiling and criminalizing young people.

  • Angad Bhalla 2012

    Documentary filmmaker Bhalla will promote his film that examines the injustice of solitary confinement. The film explores the remarkable, creative journey and friendship between artist Jackie Sumell and Herman Wallace, a man who has spent 40 years in solitary confinement, longer than anyone in the history of the American penal system.

  • Angelica Foundation—US 2012

    A grant to support the “End the Drug War” Peace Caravan.

  • Applied Research Center 2012

    A grant to provide general support.

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