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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Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity
2019$50,000Descriptionto provide general support
ThemeDemocratic Practice
Referring ProgramAfrica Regional Office
Term1 year
RegionAfrica
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Arab Council for the Social Sciences
2019$500,000DescriptionTo incubate a new generation of social scientists capable of, and committed to, conducting research for social change, developing and teaching critical approaches to social issues and building new institutions and infrastructures for knowledge production in the MENA region.
ThemeHigher Education
Referring ProgramHigher Education Support Program
Term30 months
RegionMiddle East and North Africa
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Associacao Observatorio de Politicas Publicas da Perpectiva de Genero
2019$75,000Descriptionto support the Grantee’s work on defending the African Commission of Human and Peoples Rights
ThemeDemocratic Practice
Referring ProgramAfrica Regional Office
Term14 months
RegionAfrica
FunderOpen Society Policy Center Inc.
Association des jeunes pour la citoyennete active et la democratie
2019$60,000Descriptionto promote vibrant youth participation in electoral processes and promote peer learning among West African youth
ThemeDemocratic Practice
Referring ProgramAfrica Regional Office
Term18 months
RegionAfrica
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Bard College
2019$925,000Descriptionto provide operating support for Al-Quds Bard College for Arts and Sciences in the academic year of 2019-2020
ThemeHigher Education
Referring ProgramHigher Education Support Program
Term1 year
RegionMiddle East and North Africa
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Bard College
2019$925,000Descriptionto provide operating support for Al-Quds Bard College for Arts and Sciences in the academic year of 2018/19
ThemeHigher Education
Referring ProgramHigher Education Support Program
Term10 months
RegionMiddle East and North Africa
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Bard College
2019$250,000Descriptionto support the network of undergraduate partner institutions through the development of liberal arts and civic engagement programs
ThemeHigher Education
Referring ProgramHigher Education Support Program
Term15 months
RegionGlobal
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Bard College Berlin A Liberal Arts University GGMBH
2019$314,218Descriptionto support the Open Learning Initiative (OLIve) at Bard College Berlin
ThemeHigher Education
Referring ProgramHigher Education Support Program
Term2 years
RegionEurope
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Birkbeck College, University of London
2019$25,000DescriptionTo support Birkbeck, University of London in commissioning a documentary film to explore the transformative effect of access to higher education for forced migrants.
ThemeHigher Education
Referring ProgramHigher Education Support Program
Term20 months
RegionGlobal
Birzeit University
2019$600,000Descriptionto provide support for the expansion and consolidation of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in the social sciences at Birzeit University
ThemeHigher Education
Referring ProgramHigher Education Support Program
Term3 years
RegionMiddle East and North Africa
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
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