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 through fellowships offered across a number of different programs.
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New Venture Fund
2020$20,000Descriptionto support the Social and Economic Justice Leaders, a project of the Grantee, in creating scenario planning exercises that will engage the donor community in considering the issues facing their grantees in 2021-2022
Term3 months
RegionUnited States
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
New Venture Fund
2020$150,000Descriptionto support the Grantee’s fiscally sponsored program, Climate Interactive, to provide research and analysis on climate change mitigation
Term6 months
RegionGlobal
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
New Venture Fund
2020$500,000Descriptionto support the Social and Economic Justice Leaders planning group to advance social justice goals and civic engagement
Term1 year
RegionUnited States
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
New Venture Fund
2020$250,000Descriptionto support the Media Democracy Fund, a project of the Grantee, to educate the public about disinformation that threatens democracy and to develop shared approaches and solutions
Term14 months
RegionUnited States
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
New Venture Fund
2020$3,080,000Descriptionto support Governing for Impact, a project of the Grantee that conducts research and develops thought leadership around priority public policy issues
Term1 year
RegionUnited States
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
New Venture Fund
2020$2,000,000Descriptionto create the Community Resource Hub for Safety and Accountability's Budgeting Academy program, a year-long fellowship to train community safety advocates in how to advocate around their local municipal budgets
Term19 months
RegionUnited States
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
New Venture Fund
2020$400,000Descriptionto support the Grantee's non-partisan Fair Representation in Redistricting project, which seeks to ensure fair, transparent redistricting at the state level
Term1 year
RegionUnited States
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
New Venture Fund
2020$80,000Descriptionto support the Grantee’s fiscally sponsored program, Ohio Transformation Fund, working to reform Ohio’s criminal punishment system, and to improve the health and well-being of the community, including in response to the overdose crisis
Term9 months
RegionUnited States
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
New Venture Fund
2020$50,000Descriptionto support the Grantee's Climate Justice Resilience Fund to support vulnerable communities to conduct transnational climate justice campaigns
Term1 year
RegionGlobal
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
New Venture Fund
2020$50,000Descriptionto advocate for open access to research articles to accelerate progress in the fight against COVID-19
Term8 months
RegionGlobal
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
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