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
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
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 Transparencia e Integridade
2019$425,000Descriptionto provide Associacao Transparencia e Integridade with general support for 2 years
ThemeDemocratic Practice
Economic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Latin America Program
Term2 years
RegionLatin America and The Caribbean
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
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