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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EDGE Funders Alliance
2019$75,000Descriptionto provide general support
ThemeDemocratic Practice
Health & Rights
Referring ProgramInternational Migration Initiative
Open Society Initiative for Europe
Open Society-U.S.
Public Health Program
Women's Rights Program
Term1 year
RegionEurope
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Education Fund of the American Center for International Labor Solidarity
2019$485,000Descriptionto support the Grantee’s work to support worker organizing to improve labor rights and standards in Central America and Mexico, and for the founding conference of the International Lawyers Assisting Workers network
ThemeDemocratic Practice
Economic Equity & Justice
Human Rights Movements & Institutions
Referring ProgramAsia Pacific Regional Office
Economic Justice Program
International Migration Initiative
Latin America Program
Open Society Justice Initiative
Open Society-U.S.
Roma Initiatives
Term20 months
RegionGlobal
Latin America and The Caribbean
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB)
2019$130,000Descriptionto support the Grantee’s work on transnational organizing strategies for app-based drivers
ThemeDemocratic Practice
Referring ProgramInternational Migration Initiative
Open Society Initiative for Europe
Term16 months
RegionGlobal
FunderOpen Society Policy Center Inc.
International Domestic Workers Federation
2019$325,000Descriptionto support the Grantee’s work on promoting decent work for domestic workers in Latin America
ThemeDemocratic Practice
Referring ProgramInternational Migration Initiative
Latin America Program
Women's Rights Program
Term18 months
RegionLatin America and The Caribbean
FunderOpen Society Policy Center Inc.
International Domestic Workers Federation
2019$245,000Descriptionto support the Grantee’s work to develop a federation-level plan for sustainability at the international and regional affiliate levels
ThemeDemocratic Practice
Early Childhood & Education
Economic Equity & Justice
Referring ProgramEarly Childhood Program
Economic Justice Program
International Migration Initiative
Open Society-U.S.
Women's Rights Program
Term18 months
RegionGlobal
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
International Trade Union Confederation
2019$650,000Descriptionto support the Grantee’s work to strengthen women’s leadership in the labor movement, and to enable trade union engagement in important processes related to migrant worker rights and climate change.
ThemeDemocratic Practice
Early Childhood & Education
Referring ProgramEarly Childhood Program
Education Support Program
International Migration Initiative
Open Society Fellowship
Women's Rights Program
Term27 months
RegionGlobal
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Komons Collective SLL
2019$1,161,954DescriptionTo support the establishment and cover the pilot phase of the Communications Hub, during which a capacity building (training) program will be set up in Spain for pro-democracy groups to improve their knowledge of public opinion, the media landscape and their ability to communicate with various attitudinal segments of the population.
ThemeDemocratic Practice
Health & Rights
Human Rights Movements & Institutions
Referring ProgramEurasia Program
Human Rights Initiative
International Migration Initiative
Open Society Initiative for Europe
Public Health Program
Roma Initiatives
Women's Rights Program
Term23 months
RegionEurasia
Europe
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2019$1,500,000Descriptionto provide general support
ThemeDemocratic Practice
Human Rights Movements & Institutions
Referring ProgramInternational Migration Initiative
Open Society Initiative for Europe
Open Society-U.S.
Term2 years
RegionEurope
Global
United States
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
Platform Info Exchange Ltd.
2019$150,000DescriptionTo enable Worker Info Exchange to develop its mission to help platform workers access and leverage their personal data at work to more effectively take collective action to demand better terms and conditions and greater regulatory protection.
ThemeDemocratic Practice
Information & Digital Rights
Referring ProgramInformation Program
International Migration Initiative
Open Society Initiative for Europe
Term15 months
RegionEurope
Global
Rutgers University Foundation
2019$160,000Descriptionto undertake landscape analysis on promising approaches to transformative leadership for the labor movement, and to convene key stakeholders to share learnings and inform a collective perspective to enable to vibrant and inclusive labor movement for the 21st Century
ThemeDemocratic Practice
Early Childhood & Education
Referring ProgramEarly Childhood Program
Education Support Program
International Migration Initiative
Open Society Fellowship
Women's Rights Program
Term18 months
RegionGlobal
FunderFoundation to Promote Open Society
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