Awarded Grants
The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. The vast majority of the grants made by Open Society are to organizations, but we also award a limited number of grants to individuals, primarily through scholarships and fellowships offered across a number of different programs.
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Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
2019$50,000Descriptionto support the Grantee's mission to become a national center of expertise on drugs and development
Referring ProgramGlobal Drug Policy Program
Term1 year
RegionMiddle East and North Africa
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Asia-Pacific Addiction Research Institute
2019$48,000Descriptionto support the Grantee’s efforts on drug policy reform in Japan
Referring ProgramGlobal Drug Policy Program
Term1 year
RegionAsia Pacific
FunderOpen Society Policy Center Inc.
Aspire Education Group Ltd
2019$50,000DescriptionTo increase community awareness of the relationship between drug policy, inequality, and violence in Black and Minority Ethnic communities.
Referring ProgramGlobal Drug Policy Program
Term10 months
RegionEurope
Colby College
2019$41,500Descriptionto support two conferences that invite decriminalization and drug policy reform research and advocacy strategies from around the country and the world, and develop gender sensitive drug policy reform recommendations that focus on the needs and experiences of women in Maine
Referring ProgramGlobal Drug Policy Program
Term19 months
RegionUnited States
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Down East AIDS Network, Inc.
2019$42,000Descriptionto support policy advocacy on criminal justice reform
Referring ProgramGlobal Drug Policy Program
Term1 year
RegionUnited States
FunderOpen Society Policy Center Inc.
Elementa Consultoria en Derechos
2019$31,140Descriptionto develop political and legal strategies aimed at the formation of policies that guarantee the rights of the people involved in the chain of cultivation, production, trafficking, and consumption of drugs
Referring ProgramGlobal Drug Policy Program
Term10 months
RegionLatin America and The Caribbean
Elementa DDHH A.C.
2019$50,000Descriptionto generate data about people in prison for drug possession in Mexico City for policy reform advocacy
Referring ProgramGlobal Drug Policy Program
Term19 months
RegionLatin America and The Caribbean
EQUIS Justicia para las Mujeres A.C.
2019$40,000Descriptionto support the Grantee’s work on consolidating the capacity of women growers from the state of Guerrero, Mexico
Referring ProgramGlobal Drug Policy Program
Term18 months
RegionLatin America and The Caribbean
FunderOpen Society Policy Center Inc.
Fair Share Housing Center
2019$29,975Descriptionto support Salvation and Social Justice, a fiscally sponsored project of the Grantee, educational campaign work to promote decriminalization among its congregation in New Jersey
Referring ProgramGlobal Drug Policy Program
Term11 months
RegionUnited States
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Fondation pour l'Institut de hautes etudes internationales et du developpement
2019$25,104Descriptionto organize an Executive Course on the subject “Drug Policy, Diplomacy and Public Health” from the 28th to 30th of October, 2019.
Referring ProgramGlobal Drug Policy Program
Term7 months
RegionGlobal
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