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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Aman Saulyk public foundation
2019$24,712Descriptionto advocate for implementation of the Istanbul Protocol standards on documenting torture and ill-treatment by medical institutions in Kazakhstan and address Covid-19 challenges related to activists protection
ThemeHuman Rights Movements & Institutions
Referring ProgramEurasia Program
Term8 months
RegionEurasia
American Jewish World Service, Inc.
2019$140,000Descriptionto support policy advocacy on sexual health and rights
ThemeHealth & Rights
Referring ProgramPublic Health Program
Women's Rights Program
Term2 years
RegionGlobal
FunderOpen Society Policy Center Inc.
American University
2019$200,000Descriptionto support faculty from universities in the global south in preparing and launching graduate courses on gender analysis in economics in their home universities
ThemeDemocratic Practice
Referring ProgramWomen's Rights Program
Term2 years
RegionGlobal
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 Research and Education Centre
2019$55,000Descriptionto support a certification program on corruption studies, and organize a regional workshop on cooperation between universities that host similar anti-corruption academic courses
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEurasia Program
Term1 year
RegionEurope
Anti-Discrimination Center Memorial Brussels
2019$200,000Descriptionto oppose discrimination through litigation, mentoring and by exchange of experience in successful legal cases combined with advocacy action.
ThemeHuman Rights Movements & Institutions
Referring ProgramEurasia Program
Term25 months
RegionEurasia
Associação Azmina
2019$75,000Descriptionto provide flexible organizational support to AzMina, a young Brazilian feminist media organization working to educate the public and change cultural norms around gender inequality in Brazil
ThemeHuman Rights Movements & Institutions
Referring ProgramWomen's Rights Program
Term30 months
RegionLatin America and The Caribbean
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Association Green Alternative
2019$50,000Descriptionto review the planned and ongoing development, infrastructure, and investment projects in the energy, transport, and mining sectors of Georgia in order to highlight risks of corruption and noncompliance with EU environmental standards and empower and strengthen the capacities of local communities and civil society groups to protect their social, land, and environmental rights
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Human Rights Movements & Institutions
Referring ProgramEurasia Program
Term1 year
RegionEurasia
Astraea Foundation Inc.
2019$100,000Descriptionto support the Global Philanthropy Project's cross-movement responses to anti-rights agendas
Referring ProgramWomen's Rights Program
Term1 year
RegionGlobal
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Bank Information Center
2019$20,000Descriptionto support the Grantee’s work on the third-party facilitation of asset restitution
ThemeEconomic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEurasia Program
Term13 months
RegionEurasia
FunderOpen Society Policy Center Inc.
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