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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Accountability Counsel
2019$100,000Descriptionto provide project support to strengthen accountability and improve civic engagement at the World Bank Group
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term6 months
RegionGlobal
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Accountability Lab
2019$15,000Descriptionto facilitate a two-way learning and ideas exchange across topics including creating a learning culture, communicating impacts, and indicator development
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term15 months
RegionGlobal
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Accountability Lab
2019$25,000Descriptionto provide leadership development for five organizational leaders who oversee the organizational Lab mission of supporting young people who have ideas and initiatives around integrity and accountability to solve social problems in their countries, through the uses of technology, arts, and culture
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term1 year
RegionGlobal
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
African Union
2019$500,000Descriptionto strengthen the capacity of the Grantee’s Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture and Regional Economic Communities to advance intra-Africa Trade in Agricultural commodities and Services through the Africa free Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA)
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term2 years
RegionAfrica
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
African Women's Development and Communications Network - FEMNET
2019$180,000Descriptionto provide general support
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term18 months
RegionAfrica
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
American Jewish World Service, Inc.
2019$200,000Descriptionto support promoting economic justice in Thailand with a special focus on the promotion and defense of land & natural resource rights for local communities
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramAsia Pacific Regional Office
Term2 years
RegionAsia Pacific
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Amnesty International Limited
2019$540,000Descriptionto support the Grantee to engage and empower rights-holders in and from the global south and Central Asia to hold East Asia countries’ activities in their regions accountable, through research, community awareness raising and education
ThemeHuman Rights Movements & Institutions
Referring ProgramAsia Pacific Regional Office
Eurasia Program
Term2 years
RegionAsia Pacific
Eurasia
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Anti-Corruption Action Center (AntAC)
2019$28,000Descriptionto support the Anti-Corruption Action Center on internal leadership development, development of a revenue generation model, and external communications capacity
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term17 months
RegionEurope
FunderOpen Society Policy Center Inc.
Aquacultural Association of Kenya
2019$155,000Descriptionto provide relief and advancement of smallholder aquaculture farmers in Kenya who are typically poor / low income because they are producing at subsistence level. This would be accomplished by improving the infrastructure of AAK, the only smallholder producer-owned aquaculture organization in Kenya exclusively representing, supporting and advocating on behalf of smallholder producers. Supporting AAK will lead to improved gains for smallholder farmers, increased local production of fish and reduced importation of same with a view to supporting businesses owned by poor / low income individuals and/or creating job opportunities for poor / low income individuals.
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term2 years
RegionAfrica
ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights
2019$266,338Descriptionto provide organizational support to the grantee
ThemeDemocratic Practice
Referring ProgramAsia Pacific Regional Office
Term3 years
RegionAsia Pacific
FunderOpen Society Policy Center Inc.
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