Open Society Institute: 2008 Selected Stories

The Open Society Institute and the Soros foundations network have given away nearly $7 billion over the last 25 years to build open, democratic societies. In 2008, the network spent approximately $500 million to help people around the world. The Open Society Institute’s priorities in 2008 included advancing international justice and strengthening domestic justice systems, monitoring and supporting reforms in public health, advocating for transparency and the fair distribution of natural resource riches, improving the lives and securing the human rights of the Roma, and protecting the rights of other marginalized groups such as the developmentally disabled and injecting drug users.

The following brochure features selected stories from 2008. Some stories are about the efforts of Open Society Institute grantees. Other stories are about larger issues and policies the Open Society Institute is trying to improve. Together these accounts represent just a small fraction of the work the Open Society Institute and the Soros foundations accomplished in 2008.