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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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Theme
Year
  • Anti-corruption Research and Education Centre

    2019
    $55,000
    Description

    to support a certification program on corruption studies, and organize a regional workshop on cooperation between universities that host similar anti-corruption academic courses

    Theme

    Economic Equity & Justice

    Referring Program

    Eurasia Program

    Term

    1 year

    Region

    Europe

  • Association Green Alternative

    2019
    $50,000
    Description

    to 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

    Theme

    Economic Equity & Justice
    Human Rights Movements & Institutions

    Referring Program

    Eurasia Program

    Term

    1 year

    Region

    Eurasia

  • Bank Information Center

    2019
    $20,000
    Description

    to support the Grantee’s work on the third-party facilitation of asset restitution

    Theme

    Economic Equity & Justice

    Referring Program

    Eurasia Program

    Term

    13 months

    Region

    Eurasia

    Funder

    Open Society Policy Center Inc.

  • Central and East European Law Initiative Institute

    2019
    $50,000
    Description

    to train Eurasian anti-corruption practitioners in forensic financial investigation and develop a concept for a regional database of Politically Exposed Persons

    Theme

    Economic Equity & Justice

    Referring Program

    Eurasia Program

    Term

    15 months

    Region

    Eurasia

  • Central and East European Law Initiative Institute

    2019
    $29,460
    Description

    to build the investigative capacities and professional skills of public officials and representatives of civil society organizations in Eurasia tasked with addressing corruption

    Theme

    Economic Equity & Justice

    Referring Program

    Eurasia Program

    Term

    5 months

    Region

    Eurasia

  • Central Asian Research Institute on Corruption and Money Laundering

    2019
    $24,906
    Description

    to organize a five-day summer school on anti-corruption for young people in Kyrgyzstan

    Theme

    Economic Equity & Justice

    Referring Program

    Eurasia Program

    Term

    8 months

    Region

    Eurasia

  • Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI)

    2019
    $210,835
    Description

    to promote free access to state archives, transparent and accountable public procurement in Eurasia, and establish and run anti-corruption academic courses in Georgia

    Theme

    Democratic Practice
    Economic Equity & Justice

    Referring Program

    Eurasia Program

    Term

    20 months

    Region

    Eurasia

  • The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

    2019
    $318,000
    Description

    to expose, through investigative journalism, the role of London's professional services industry in facilitating money laundering

    Theme

    Democratic Practice
    Economic Equity & Justice
    Journalism

    Referring Program

    Economic Justice Program
    Eurasia Program
    Open Society Initiative for Europe

    Term

    2 years

    Region

    Eurasia
    Europe

  • The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF)

    2019
    $125,000
    Description

    to support the Black Sea Trust's regranting program to empower and inform communities in the South Caucasus

    Theme

    Democratic Practice
    Economic Equity & Justice

    Referring Program

    Eurasia Program

    Term

    1 year

    Region

    Eurasia

    Funder

    Foundation to Promote Open Society

  • Transparency International (UK)

    2019
    $130,373
    Description

    to ensure that tools introduced by the 2017 Criminal Finances Act are applied against corrupt officials from Eurasia, despite lack of regional expertise in the UK law enforcement

    Theme

    Democratic Practice
    Economic Equity & Justice

    Referring Program

    Economic Justice Program
    Eurasia Program
    Open Society Initiative for Europe

    Term

    17 months

    Region

    Eurasia
    Europe

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