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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Center for American Progress
2019$150,000Descriptionto write a report on existing trade regime and its impact on domestic social policy
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term18 months
RegionGlobal
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Centre for Local Economic Strategies
2019$150,000Descriptionto enable the growth of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) Community Wealth Building Centre of Excellence to catalyse a national shift in the practice of local economic development, towards the growth of locally owned and controlled local economies, with an explicit focus on new ownership models for low-income workers, and target economically deprived areas of the UK.
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term13 months
RegionEurope
Centre for Local Economic Strategies
2019$9,750Descriptionto support CLES hold its second annual UK Community Wealth Building Summit, with the aim of expanding and deepening UK’s community wealth building activity in key areas including the National Health Service (NHS), worker ownership, higher education and social housing
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term1 month
RegionEurope
Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Oxford
2019$62,249Descriptionto support the Grantee’s work on building the capacity of Ugandan researchers, university lecturers and young professional to use food systems conceptual frameworks and develop a food systems curriculum for local universities
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term11 months
RegionAfrica
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative (CUCI)
2019$7,500Descriptionto support an educational symposium on developing union co-ops
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term1 month
RegionUnited States
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Co-operatives UK Ltd
2019$159,183Descriptionto develop a form of seed funding to help platform co-operatives in the UK to start and grow, offering a worker ownership model that may help address economic inequality and labor rights.
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term23 months
RegionEurope
CommonWise Education Inc.
2019$300,000Descriptionto leverage Bronx assets to build collective ownership and wealth at scale for low-income communities of color
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term18 months
RegionUnited States
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Corporacion Transparencia por Colombia
2019$231,266Descriptionto support the Grantee's work on accountability for extractive industry royalties
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term21 months
RegionLatin America and The Caribbean
FunderOpen Society Policy Center Inc.
Corporate Europe Observatory
2019$330,000Descriptionto support Corporate Europe Observatory in its work to challenge corporate capture of decision-making at the EU and member State level
ThemeDemocratic Practice
Economic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Open Society Initiative for Europe
Term2 years
RegionEurope
Corruption Watch
2019$110,000Descriptionto support the Grantee in a public education campaign and to pursue accountability for State Capture cases in South Africa
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEconomic Justice Program
Term15 months
RegionGlobal
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
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