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The New York office is Open Society’s main grant-giving center, as well as the base for many global initiatives and thematic and regional programs. The office is the primary home to the organization’s operational and administrative departments. Open Society Foundations. 224 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019 United States
The Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa opened its doors in Nairobi in 2005, after Kenya held multiparty elections in 2002. In 2022, the separate regional foundations merged into a single regional entity: Open Society–Africa with offices in Dakar, Nairobi, and Johannesburg.
Open Society comenzó a apoyar a grupos de la sociedad civil en América Latina y el Caribe en la década de 1990. Tenemos oficinas en Río de Janeiro, Ciudad de México y Bogotá. En 2022, nuestra fundación de Haití, FOKAL, fundada en 1995, se convirtió en una entidad totalmente independiente.
The Open Society Foundations and George Soros. The Open Society Foundations were founded by George Soros, one of the world’s foremost philanthropists, who since 1984 has given to the Foundations over $32 billion of a personal fortune made in the financial markets. Fact sheet October 9, 2023.
Open society ( French: société ouverte) is a term coined by French philosopher Henri Bergson in 1932, [1] [2] and describes a dynamic system inclined to moral universalism. [3] Bergson contrasted an open society with what he called a closed society, a closed system of law, morality or religion. Bergson suggests that if all traces of ...
Every year, the Open Society Foundations give grants to a diverse array of groups and individuals who promote our values—through a unique network that is guided by local voices and global expertise. $21B Total expenditures. Over the past three decades, our giving has focused on supporting people who are trying to make their communities fairer ...
Since 2015, the Open Society Foundations have increased our support for groups in Europe that work to ensure the safety of newly arrived migrants and refugees, and to ease the challenges of integration. Our work has included supporting aid efforts by local groups in Greece, Italy, and the Balkans, as well as human rights groups that ensure that ...
