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Open Society Institute: all 2,134 grants

Largest first · $637.6M across 2022–2024 · back to the overview

$50,300
N Allen-Lee · New York, NY · 2024
To spearhead a national dinner and conversation event series for justice-impacted black and brown queer women, femmes, trans, and gender-expansive individuals to create a platform for dialogue, healing, community buildi… read allTo spearhead a national dinner and conversation event series for justice-impacted black and brown queer women, femmes, trans, and gender-expansive individuals to create a platform for dialogue, healing, community building, and transformative justice spaces less
$50,300
T O Eaton · New York, NY · 2024
To educate and support formerly incarcerated people through the deep excavation process of their stories and put them on equal footing with other writers approaching the publishing industry with professional book propos… read allTo educate and support formerly incarcerated people through the deep excavation process of their stories and put them on equal footing with other writers approaching the publishing industry with professional book proposals less
$50,184
Ahmed Hamed Ahmed Mohamed Aly · 2022
To enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or r… read allTo enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
$50,000
Bridges Across Borders Southeast Asia Community Le · Port Washington, NY · 2024
To provide general support
$50,000
D Small · New York, NY · 2024
To recognize past achievements in the advancement of education around racial injustice and contributions towards the elimination of prejudice and discrimination
$50,000
Living Arts International · Bronx, NY · 2024
To provide general support
$50,000
Perkumpulan Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Masyarakat (Lbhm · 2024
To provide general support
$50,000
Religion Media Centre · 2024
To provide general support
$50,000
Cliff Albright · Atlanta, GA · 2023
To create a framework and an accompanying toolkit to educate racial justice advocates about how to understand and measure power in order to articulate their goals and strategize to affect social change in marginalized c… read allTo create a framework and an accompanying toolkit to educate racial justice advocates about how to understand and measure power in order to articulate their goals and strategize to affect social change in marginalized communities less
$50,000
Deborah Small · Richmond, CA · 2023
To recognize past achievements in the advancement of education around racial injustice and contributions towards the elimination of prejudice and discrimination
$50,000
Khaled Beydoun · Dearborn, MI · 2023
To develop an islamophobia curriculum for black and brown high school students in detroit
$50,000
Novact - International Institute for Nonviolent Ac · 2023
To provide general support
$50,000
Perkumpulan Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Masyarakat (Lbhm · 2023
To provide general support
$50,000
Raci Canada · 2023
To provide general support
$50,000
Zebras Unite · Portland, OR · 2023
To provide general support
$50,000
Comparative and International Education Society · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
To provide general support
$50,000
Deborah Small · Richmond, CA · 2022
To recognize past achievements in the advancement of education around racial injustice and contributions towards the elimination of prejudice and discrimination
$50,000
Future Forum · 2022
To provide general support
$50,000
Global Dialogue · 2022
To provide support for the international education funders group
$50,000
Living Arts International · Bronx, NY · 2022
To provide general support
$49,996
Ahmed Hassan Aly · 2022
To enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or r… read allTo enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
$49,978
Ashley Torres Carrasquillo · Framingham, MA · 2022
To create an anti-violence leadership development program for young public housing residents in puerto rico
$49,792
Getahun Adane Ejamo · 2022
To enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or r… read allTo enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
$49,211
University of Amsterdam · 2022
To support research on the digital service act
$48,296
E S · St Louis, MO · 2022
To enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or r… read allTo enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
$47,500
Kilroy Watkins · Harvey, IL · 2022
To establish an educational and support project that helps survivors of police torture and long-term incarceration in their quest to overcome the harms of their experiences and productively make their way in free society
$47,216
E S · New York, NY · 2024
To enable you to pursue a masters degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or re… read allTo enable you to pursue a masters degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
$46,675
Rachel Gilmer · Miami, FL · 2023
To educate the public and build a united front of survivors and healthcare providers toward creating non-carceral solutions that address the root causes of violence in our communities
$46,080
The Royal Institution of Great Britain · 2022
To help combat the proliferation of harmful pseudoscientific ideas and ideologies in academia, the media and online
$46,062
Lisa Maria Rhodes · New Orleans, LA · 2022
To train educators to connect undocumented students with legal representation and to write letters to judges for students with charges to be in school instead of in jail pre-trial
$46,000
Ashley Rojas · Fresno, CA · 2023
To educate movement leaders and to cultivate the relationship between the movement for #policefreeschools and the broader culture of abolitionist organizing efforts to end harm/punishment in bipoc communities
$46,000
Cheryl Jacqueline Fairbanks · Cedar Crest, NM · 2023
To educate native indigenous people and strengthen concepts of justice through an indigenous peacemaking lens
$46,000
Talila a Lewis · Baltimore, ME · 2023
To educate the public and create media/art to help society and social justice engineers to understand ableism as the force that informs and drives racism, anti-blackness, capitalism, and all other oppression, violence, … read allTo educate the public and create media/art to help society and social justice engineers to understand ableism as the force that informs and drives racism, anti-blackness, capitalism, and all other oppression, violence, and inequity by increasing the availability of and space for anti-ableist knowledge production and cultivation, resource creation and distribution less
$46,000
Wilhelmina M Burney-Scott · Durham, NC · 2023
To curate a multidisciplinary initiative and educate the public on reproductive justice, radical black feminism, gender liberation and pathways to normalizing menopause and aging for marginalized black populations
$45,700
Virginia Rogers · Jackson, MS · 2022
To train, educate and organize incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals and their families about the family reunification process that is currently in place across the state of mississippi to influence change … read allTo train, educate and organize incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals and their families about the family reunification process that is currently in place across the state of mississippi to influence change to the child welfare system less
$45,500
T a Lewis · New York, NY · 2024
To educate the public and create media/art to help society and social justice engineers to understand ableism as the force that informs and drives racism, anti-blackness, capitalism, and all other oppression, violence, … read allTo educate the public and create media/art to help society and social justice engineers to understand ableism as the force that informs and drives racism, anti-blackness, capitalism, and all other oppression, violence, and inequity by increasing the availability of and space for anti-ableist knowledge production and cultivation, resource creation and distribution less
$45,500
Christina Hollenback · Syracuse, NY · 2022
To educate the public and grow a cohort of capital investors to stop prison financing and build investment vehicles to fund community-controlled public safety and vital infrastructure
$45,000
Atifa D B a Masjidi Hazarat-I- Abubakr Immigrants · Flushing, NY · 2024
Matching gift program
$45,000
Center for Nuleadership On Urban Solutions · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Matching gift program
$45,000
Life City Church International · Waldorf, MD · 2024
Matching gift program
$45,000
Atifa D B a Masjidi Hazarat-I- Abubakr Immigrants · Flushing, NY · 2023
Matching gift program
$45,000
Center for Nuleadership On Urban Solutions · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Matching gift program
$45,000
Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Charlottesville, VA · 2023
Matching gift program
$45,000
Alliance Citoyenne · 2022
To provide general support
$45,000
Atifa D B a Masjidi Hazarat-I- Abubakr Immigrants · Old Bethpage, NY · 2022
Matching gift program
$45,000
European Digital Rights Aisbl · 2022
To provide general support
$45,000
Guy Regis · 2022
To challenge socially accepted norms and shift perceptions around violence against children in haitian society and thwart legitimate risks of violence that exist for children in the streets and public spaces of port-au-… read allTo challenge socially accepted norms and shift perceptions around violence against children in haitian society and thwart legitimate risks of violence that exist for children in the streets and public spaces of port-au-prince through the promotion of "urban poetry" less
$45,000
Islamic Relief USA · Alexandria, VA · 2022
Matching gift program
$45,000
Mukono Foundation · Columbia, MD · 2022
Matching gift program
$44,836
A P P a · Syracuse, NY · 2022
To enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or r… read allTo enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
$44,659
Yuliia Sachuk · 2022
To obtain an llm
$43,500
Tanisha Wakuni Douglas · Miami, FL · 2022
To support a project that will conduct a movement ethnography to research and educate the public about cutting-edge healing justice trends and tools within the movement to end mass incarceration
$43,207
Emile Deweaver · Oakland, CA · 2022
To educate the public and to write a book which will examine the often-invisible assumptions beneath the "norms" that undermine the movement to end racial oppression in the criminal legal system and offer counter narrat… read allTo educate the public and to write a book which will examine the often-invisible assumptions beneath the "norms" that undermine the movement to end racial oppression in the criminal legal system and offer counter narratives, frameworks, and strategies for movement building less
$43,178
Zachary Siegel · Chicago, IL · 2022
To educate the public and to produce a series of journalistic articles and narrative audio stories that highlight public health and harm reduction approaches to overdose deaths where punishment, incarceration, and racis… read allTo educate the public and to produce a series of journalistic articles and narrative audio stories that highlight public health and harm reduction approaches to overdose deaths where punishment, incarceration, and racist policing has failed for decades less
$43,000
International Center for Transitional Justice · New York, NY · 2022
To finalize and translate a report on reparations to develop further knowledge among state actors, lawyers, civil society and the general public on role of the judiciary in addressing past human rights violations to ens… read allTo finalize and translate a report on reparations to develop further knowledge among state actors, lawyers, civil society and the general public on role of the judiciary in addressing past human rights violations to ensure they do not happen again less
$42,675
R Gilmer · New York, NY · 2024
To educate the public and build a united front of survivors and healthcare providers toward creating non-carceral solutions that address the root causes of violence in our communities
$42,463
Nizar Hassan · 2022
To create an online video platform in colloquial arabic in order to education the public about economics and the power struggles that take place around the accumulation of wealth in the middle east
$42,150
Center for Nuleadership On Urban Solutions · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Matching gift program
$42,023
Emile Deweaver · Des Moines, WA · 2023
To educate the public and to write a book which will examine the often-invisible assumptions beneath the norms that undermine the movement to end racial oppression in the criminal legal system and offer counter narrativ… read allTo educate the public and to write a book which will examine the often-invisible assumptions beneath the norms that undermine the movement to end racial oppression in the criminal legal system and offer counter narratives, frameworks, and strategies for movement building less
$42,000
Zachary Siegel · Chicago, IL · 2023
To educate the public and to produce a series of journalistic articles and narrative audio stories that highlight public health and harm reduction approaches to overdose deaths where punishment, incarceration, and racis… read allTo educate the public and to produce a series of journalistic articles and narrative audio stories that highlight public health and harm reduction approaches to overdose deaths where punishment, incarceration, and racist policing has failed for decades less
$42,000
European Digital Rights Aisbl · 2022
To provide general support
$41,903
Abdelhalim Hisham Mohamed Abdelhali · 2022
To enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or r… read allTo enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
$41,210
Fatima Muradi · Washington Dc, DC · 2022
To enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or r… read allTo enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
$41,010
American University of Central Asia · 2023
To provide support for a new scholarship fund supporting students whose studies center on human and women's rights
$40,983
Fatma Othman Mobarak Awadalla · 2023
To enable you to pursue a masters degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or re… read allTo enable you to pursue a masters degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
$40,753
Meta Kong · 2022
To enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or r… read allTo enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
$40,240
Ruth Castel-Branco · 2022
To research and analyze land and labor in mozambique in order to educate the public and reframe the global debate on inequality and popularize broader ideas of redistribution
$40,000
Veronica Torres · Tucson, AZ · 2023
To help people incarcerated in arizona prisons with their parole eligibility and clemency petitions and to educate the public and impacted family members about the states harsh sentencing policies and practices
$40,000
Yihong Julie Mao · Washington, DC · 2023
To support a project to research surveillance technologies used in migrant prosecutions, develop strategies to challenge the use of these technologies by federal and local police, and engage in storytelling that centers… read allTo support a project to research surveillance technologies used in migrant prosecutions, develop strategies to challenge the use of these technologies by federal and local police, and engage in storytelling that centers the voices of immigrants in federal prison to show the harm of state surveillance less
$40,000
Council for the Development of Social Science Rese · 2022
To examine the manifestations and impact of how issues of state capacity impact on the democratization processes in africa
$40,000
Global Dialogue · 2022
To enhance research capacity for initiatives related to rule of law issues in south asia
$40,000
The George Washington University · Washington, DC · 2022
To support the institute for european, russian and eurasian studies' fellowship to one eurasia journalist to receive professional development and training in order to build up their public policy expertise, research abi… read allTo support the institute for european, russian and eurasian studies' fellowship to one eurasia journalist to receive professional development and training in order to build up their public policy expertise, research ability, and communications skills less
$40,000
Veronica Torres · Tucson, AZ · 2022
To help people incarcerated in arizona prisons with their parole eligibility and clemency petitions and to educate the public and impacted family members about the state's harsh sentencing policies and practices
$39,983
Dawit Oticho Oro · 2022
To obtain an llm
$39,940
Wesen Tekletsadik · 2022
To obtain an llm
$39,216
Nada Mohamed Ahmed Shafik Bahgat · 2023
To enable you to pursue a masters degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or re… read allTo enable you to pursue a masters degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
$39,069
Samuel Kabagale Batumike · 2022
To enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or r… read allTo enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
$38,848
Eilaf Mukhtar · 2022
To enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or r… read allTo enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
$38,701
Akello Susan Lupwonya Alunyo · 2022
To enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or r… read allTo enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
$38,701
Gashaw George Gebreidia · 2022
To enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or r… read allTo enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
$38,500
Lis-Marie Alvarado · Miami, FL · 2023
To conduct community organizing work to end child immigrant detention and to provide art healing workshops to children who have been impacted by detention and are still living with the threat of deportation
$38,400
Center for Nuleadership On Urban Solutions · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Matching gift program
$37,553
T H · Syracuse, NY · 2022
To enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or r… read allTo enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
$37,500
Sujatha Baliga · Berkeley, CA · 2023
To provide training to organizations to cultivate safe, effective non-criminalized community based restorative justice approaches to intimate partner violence, domestic violence, and sexual violence
$37,000
Bank Information Center · Washington, DC · 2024
To provide general support
$36,911
Mohammad Ali Khorsand · Athens, OH · 2022
To enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or r… read allTo enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
$36,785
Hanaan Marwah · 2023
To research a book and present a series of seminars that will analyze how state owned enterprises (seos) in sub-saharan africa have evolved over time and what implications they have on inequality.
$36,500
Willette Benford · Chicago, IL · 2022
To develop black women, to lead criminal justice reform work
$36,250
Virgilio Bravo · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To develop the strategy for a knowledge gathering convening of landback and climate change organizers across the united state, mexico, and puerto rico
$36,000
Xochtil Larios · Oakland, CA · 2022
To support a project to provide community organizing training, communication skills, and creative writing workshops to promote collaboration, self-confidence, and healing for detained and systems impacted youth to enabl… read allTo support a project to provide community organizing training, communication skills, and creative writing workshops to promote collaboration, self-confidence, and healing for detained and systems impacted youth to enable them to become community leaders and agents of change less
$35,256
Mwayaona Safari · Syracuse, NY · 2022
To enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or r… read allTo enable you to pursue a master's degree in social sciences or humanities, and to apply the knowledge and skills gained in your role as a civil society leader to bolster positive social change in your home country or region less
$35,030
Kerwin Pittman · Raleigh, NC · 2022
To educate the public and develop a toolkit that will empower people directly impacted by incarceration to dismantle racism in north carolina's criminal justice system
$35,000
H Blout · New York, NY · 2024
To provide executive coaching and capacity building support in order to scale up efforts to reduce the prison population
$35,000
M Cody · New York, NY · 2024
To participate in a course on indigenous spiritual knowledge and to develop a podcast that focuses on healing for those on the frontlines of social justice work
$35,000
Nordic Ukraine Forum · 2024
To provide general support
$35,000
P Nayan Shah · New York, NY · 2024
To participate in well-being programs in order to enhance leadership skills and to educate the field of movement lawyering
$35,000
R Austria · New York, NY · 2024
To plan for a leadership transition and to coach bipoc grassroots leaders advocating for the closure of youth prisons
$35,000
The Royal Institution of Great Britain · 2022
To address the scientific dimension of disinformation by organizing an in-person conference and assessing different approaches to managing the spread of misinformation on social media platforms
$34,776
A Alexander · New York, NY · 2024
To support the grantees participation in a program to develop leadership capacity for social justice work and to co-author a book about movement lawyering
$34,669
Shakeer Rahman · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
To educate the public and dismantle "data-driven" policing programs that are exacerbating the homelessness crisis in los angeles