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
Asociacion Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia
2019$15,000DescriptionTo ensure people with disabilities (PWD) in Argentina are able to realize their right to health by co-developing a pilot online solution with PWD to address access to justice barriers.
Referring ProgramOpen Society Justice Initiative
Term10 months
RegionLatin America and The Caribbean
Associacao Direitos Humanos em Rede
2019$40,200Descriptionto strengthen the human rights movement in Brazil and foster a wider repetoire of action to fight setbacks by convening a learning exchange for Brazilian civil society with activists from other countries undergoing populist authoritarian regimes
Referring ProgramOpen Society Justice Initiative
Term1 year
RegionLatin America and The Caribbean
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
Awen Amenca z.s.
2019$185,000Descriptionto provide support for the consolidation of the work of Awen Amenca to empower Roma parents to challenge discrimination in education in the Czech Republic
ThemeEarly Childhood & Education
Referring ProgramEarly Childhood Program
Human Rights Initiative
Open Society Justice Initiative
Term2 years
RegionEurope
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
2019$120,000Descriptionto develop the first publicly accessible hub on the nature and scale of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) across the world, in order to stop the use of SLAPPs as a tool to limit civic activism
ThemeDemocratic Practice
Human Rights Movements & Institutions
Referring ProgramAfrica Regional Office
Human Rights Initiative
Term2 years
RegionGlobal
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Center for International Policy
2019$360,000Descriptionto partially support the Grantee’s charitable operations and to partially support the Grantee’s work on a database of foreign government think tanks contributions
ThemeDemocratic Practice
Referring ProgramAfrica Regional Office
Middle East and North Africa Program
Term1 year
RegionAfrica
Latin America and The Caribbean
United States
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Center for Intersectional Justice e.V.
2019$13,804Descriptionto support a local platform of civil society groups and activists in their effort to develop a communications campaign and materials to promote an inclusive and pluralist society.
Referring ProgramOpen Society Justice Initiative
Term5 months
RegionEurope
Central European University
2019$103,370Descriptionto support the 5th Annual Legal Empowerment Leadership Course that will encourage, support and cultivate a global cadre of government and civil society leaders who have a common understanding of legal empowerment, particularly of the poor.
Referring ProgramMiddle East and North Africa Program
Open Society Justice Initiative
Open Society-U.S.
Public Health Program
Term9 months
RegionGlobal
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