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THE REPORT OF THE CONNECTION BETWEEN
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NATIONAL ENDOWMENT of DEMOCRACY (NED)
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NED
: THE STORY
•NED
makes more than 1000 grants each year to nongovernmental groups in more than 90
countries. Behind each grant is a story about people who share a common desire
to live in a world that is free and democratic, and who are willing to dedicate
and often risk their lives to achieve that goal.
•Read
and listen to the compelling stories of a few outstanding NED grantees as they
talk about their daily struggles to advance freedom and democracy in their
countries.
•“If
the culture survives, then so too does the nation,” is the motto of Prague’s Kampa Museum, where the
exhibition “Archive of Freedom,” opened on September 20, 2011. The exhibit,
which runs through Nov. 6, 2011, celebrates the 25th anniversary of legendary
NED grantee Czechoslovak Documentation Center, “one of the most important exile institutions of the
second half of the 20th century.” :: MORE
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•The
Burmese government's brutal crackdown on the monk-led “Saffron Revolution”
sought to silence opposition voices. But the Democratic Voice of Burma is
risking everything to make sure new ideas are heard through independent media. :: MORE
•The Yuri Levada Analytical Center, a NED partner since
2009, documents trends in public opinion in Russia. Named for its founder, a
well-known Russian sociologist who was stripped of his professorship in 1969
for “ideological mistakes,” provides timely insight on pressing sociopolitical issues. :: MORE
•The Al-Khatim Adlan Centre for Enlightenment and Human
Development (KACE),
a NED partner in Sudan since 2007, was founded in memory Al-Khatim Adlan, one of Sudan’s
great progressive political thinkers. KACE is committed to finding democratic
answers to Sudan’s long-entrenched conflicts and testing the limits of the
greater political openness envisioned by Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement. :: MORE
•Olang Sana of Citizens
Against Violence describes how his organization was formed to stop political
and electoral violence in Kenya. :: MORE
•NED
grantee Rescue Alternatives Liberia (RAL) is partnering with Liberian
legislators to bring anti-torture legislation into law as Liberia moves beyond
war atrocities and blood diamonds.
:: MORE
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•Fifteen
years after the genocide at Srebrenica, NED grantees Nataša Kandić of the Humanitarian
Law Center in Belgrade and Anisa Sućeska-Vekić of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Sarajevo
speak to Democracy Digest about growing tensions in Bosnia, and the importance
of truth and transitional justice in the Balkans. :: MORE
•Adnan Hajizade is in jail for a
YouTube satire, but his work continues to inspire young Azerbaijanis who long
for democracy. :: MORE
•Roya and Ladan Boroumand describe how they honor their family's
legacy and continue their father's fight for Iranian democracy from outside the
country. :: MORE
•Democracy
Stories producer Joe Rubin follows up with Fondation Espoir director Hans Tippenhauer to talk about the
impact of the January earthquake. Tippenhauer shares on both a personal and professional level the
challenges posed by the devastation, and how he and his colleagues are coping
and starting to rebuild. :: MORE
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additional infos’ : About Open Society Foundations.
Open Society Foundations
Founded by George Soros
http://www.soros.org
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ABOUT US
Mission & Values
Our Mission
The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant societies whose governments are accountable and open to the participation of all people.
We seek to strengthen the rule of law; respect for human rights, minorities, and a diversity of opinions; democratically elected governments; and a civil society that helps keep government power in check.
We help to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights.
We implement initiatives to advance justice, education, public health, and independent media.
We build alliances across borders and continents on issues such as corruption and freedom of information.
Working in every part of the world, the Open Society Foundations place a high priority on protecting and improving the lives of people in marginalized communities.
Our Values
We believe in fundamental human rights, dignity, and the rule of law.
We believe in a society where all people are free to participate fully in civic, economic, and cultural life.
We believe in addressing inequalities that cut across multiple lines, including race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and citizenship.
We believe in holding those in power accountable for their actions and in increasing the power of historically excluded groups.
We believe in helping people and communities press for change on their own behalf.
We believe in responding quickly and flexibly to the most critical threats to open society.
We believe in taking on controversial issues and supporting bold, innovative solutions that address root causes and advance systemic change.
We believe in encouraging critical debate and respecting diverse opinions.
http://www.soros.org
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OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATION - The founder
George
Soros
Founder
/ Chairman
•George Soros came of
age in Hungary at a time when it was a battleground in the decades-long
conflict between fascism and communism, the two great totalitarian ideologies
of the 20th century. A personal experience of this conflict—including the
violence, foreign occupation, anti-Semitism, and other forms of intolerance
that went with it—as well as a personal fascination with philosophy shaped
Soros’s thinking in later years and influenced his successful strategies in
both finance and philanthropy.
•Born in Budapest in
1930, Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary during World War II as well
as the postwar imposition of
Stalinism in his homeland. Soros fled Communist-dominated Hungary in 1947 and
made his way to England. Before graduating from the London School of Economics
in 1952, Soros studied Karl Popper’s work in the philosophy of science as well
as his critique of totalitarianism, The Open Society and Its Enemies, which maintains
that no philosophy or ideology has the final word on the truth and that
societies can only flourish when they allow for democratic governance, freedom
of expression, a diverse range of opinion, and respect for individual rights.
•Later, while working
as a financial analyst and trader in New York, Soros adapted Popper’s thinking
in developing his own application of the social theory of “reflexivity,” a set
of ideas that seeks to explain how a feedback mechanism can skew how participants
in a market value assets on that market. After concluding that he had more
talent for trading than for philosophy, Soros began to apply his ideas on
reflexivity to investing, using it to predict, among other things, the
emergence of financial bubbles. In 1967, he helped establish an offshore
investment fund. In 1973, he set up a private investment firm that eventually
evolved into the Quantum Fund, one of the first hedge funds.
•Soros’s memories of
anti-Semitism in wartime Hungary prompted him, in 1979, to begin providing
financial support for black students at the University of Cape Town in
apartheid South Africa. In 1984, Soros created an education and culture
foundation in Hungary. He later supported dissident movements in Eastern
Europe’s other Communist countries, helping people to organize themselves at a
time when popular organizations were banned, to voice their opinions when
dissonant opinions were considered anti-state propaganda, and to promote
tolerance, democratic governance, human rights, and the rule of law when a
one-party dictatorship exercised a monopoly on power.
•As the East bloc
crumbled during the late 1980s and the Soviet empire collapsed in the early
1990s, Soros expanded his funding in an effort to help create open societies in
all of the region’s countries. He demonstrated his commitment to critical
thinking and democratic political development by establishing Central European
University in 1991. In 1993, he founded the Open Society Institute. Over the
past three decades, Soros’s philanthropy has spawned a network of foundations
dedicated to promoting development of open societies in Africa, Asia, Europe,
Latin America, and the United States. To date, Soros has given over $8 billion
to support human rights, freedom of expression, and access to public health and
education in more than 100 countries.
•Soros's most recent
book is Financial Turmoil in Europe and the United States:
Essays (2012).
His other books include The Soros Lectures: At the Central
European University (2010); The
Crash of 2008 and What it Means: The New Paradigm for Finance Markets (2009); The
Age of Fallibility: Consequences of The War on Terror (2006); The
Bubble of American Supremacy (2005); George Soros on Globalization(2002); Open
Society: Reforming Global Capitalism (2000); The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open
Society Endangered (1998); Soros
on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve (1995); Underwriting Democracy(1991); Opening
the Soviet System (1990);
and The
Alchemy of Finance (1987).
His essays on politics, society, and economics appear frequently in major
periodicals around the world.
•For more information
about George Soros's activities that are separate from the Open Society
Foundations, visit www.georgesoros.com.
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GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
The Open Society Foundations award grants, scholarships, and fellowships throughout the year. Start with the form at left to explore our published grant opportunities and view eligibility requirements and application guidelines.
FEATURED GRANTS
•The Open Society
Campaign for Black Male Achievement aims to create hope and opportunities for
black men and boys who are significantly marginalized from U.S. economic,
social, and political life.
•The Open Society
Foundations seek to empower LGBTI communities to promote and defend their human
rights.
•The Arts &
Culture Program invites proposals for projects that aim to promote the cultural
inclusion of Roma in Central and Eastern Europe.
•Funds are available
in programmatic areas including human rights, labour migration, transparency and consumer protection, and
transparency of Western military and security cooperation.
•The Burma
Project/Southeast Asia Initiative focuses on open society issues throughout
Southeast Asia, particularly in Burma but also in other countries where
essential freedoms are threatened.
•The Open Society
Initiative for Eastern Africa invites applications from pro-democracy
organizations in the region.
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Grant
Requirement & Criteria
Grantmaking
•In 2010, the Open
Society Foundations, through its New York, Budapest, and London offices alone,
awarded more than 4,500 grants in the amount of $612 million.
•Many Open Society
Foundations programs engage proactively to identify organizations whose efforts
closely correspond to our strategies. While we predominantly fund
preselected organizations, some programs encourage submission of letters of
inquiry or publish funding guidelines for grant seekers. Our scholarship and fellowship programs in
particular actively solicit applications from individuals who satisfy the
defined selection criteria.
•If you are interested
in seeking a grant from the Open Society Foundations, we encourage you to
explore this website to determine whether any of our programs or foundations correspond to
the work you are pursuing. The Foundations do not award grants outside of
our targeted thematic and geographic areas of interest.
•
•Southeast Asia:
Beyond Borders
•Application
Deadline
- Ongoing
Southeast
Asia:
Beyond Borders
•Southeast Asia:
Beyond Borders is a grantgiving and operational
program of the Southeast Asia Initiative and the East East Beyond Borders
Program of the Open Society Foundations.
•The mandate of the
Southeast Asia: Beyond Borders grantgiving and operational program derives from the East East Beyond Borders
Program, which was created in 1991 in Central and Eastern Europe and Central
Asia, specifically in the context of post-socialist transition. Today, the East
East Beyond Borders
Program works to support exchanges among civil society and nongovernmental
organizations to share experiences and create new knowledge to advance
principles of open society internationally.
•Southeast Asia:
Beyond Borders supports multinational initiatives of civil society and
nongovernmental organizations in Southeast Asia, and the participation of these
organizations in regional and global exchanges, to share best practices and
lessons learned in the realization of practices of open society.
•Examples of
initiatives supported by Southeast Asia: Beyond Borders include:
•Exposing and
Challenging Undemocratic Displacement in Asia: Video Advocacy
•Campaign to End the
Use of Child Soldiers in ASEAN Member States
•Crossover: From Civil
Society to Civil Service
•Multimedia Training
for Youth Affected by the Asian Tsunami
•Democratization
Assessment and Grassroots Empowerment in Southeast Asia
•Transforming Asian
Leadership: Globalization, Regional Integration and Cultural Diversity
•Linking
Philanthropies in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia through Peer Learning
•Ineligibility
Criteria
•Southeast Asia:
Beyond Borders does not support world congresses/annual conferences; artistic
productions; individual travel/conference participation; consultancies; higher
education research; translation/publishing; hard science; or,
business/commercial/for-profit activities.
•Guidelines
•For information and
application guidelines, please contact:
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The
Functions
•Police
Need a New Professionalism (Fortunately, It’s Already Hiding Inside Many
Agencies)
•In
cities across the United States, violent crime rates are at record lows as are
the numbers of civilians killed by police action. Yet police agencies are
facing a spike in hostile protests over stop-and-frisk tactics and racial
profiling. In South Africa, crime rates have been falling for years and the
technical sophistication of the Police Service has never been higher, yet
public respect for the police is in the toilet. In Turkey, police corruption,
once flagrant, is now rare, and the use of physical force has virtually
disappeared from interrogations; yet fear of the police is growing. In Rio de
Janeiro, a widely praised police unit that occupies the slums once controlled
by violent gangs has made many of them safer than they have been in a generation,
but the results of a survey of officers working in those slums released this
week reveals that the residents are growing increasingly hostile toward the
police there. Why?
•Why—when
crime is falling, corruption receding, technical mastery growing, torture
disappearing, and safety rising—are the residents of all these places
distrustful of, or outright angry at, the police?
•Police
are still chasing a false image of their own professionalism, conceived a half
century ago. The professionalism of the 1950s and 1960s, made popular in
American television shows like Dragnet,Starsky and Hutch, and S.W.A.T. held out a
promise that following the law, mastering sophisticated weaponry, and pledging
loyalty to the organization would bring professional discipline and, with it,
public respect. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
•By
the 1990s, political leaders and reform-minded police executives had recognized
the problem. The so-called “professional model” of policing was distancing
police from citizens and squelching their ingenuity. In the competition for the
most rapid
response, police departments
lost sight of the right response to a call for help.
•Community
policing—collaborative partnerships between law enforcement and the individuals
and groups they serve—became the new creed: professional policing out,
community policing in. Bill Clinton built a big part of his 1992 presidential
campaign around his pledge to add a hundred thousand community police officers
nationwide, and the African National Congress enshrined community policing in
the 1996 constitution of the new South Africa.
•But
community policing was no match for the allure of professionalism. Community
policing became a specialized unit, a vague philosophy, and a funding stream
from Washington or London, but most of what police agencies around the world
did everyday still looked a lot like the old, professional model. The real
investments were made in new computers, vehicles of every sort, weapons, and
surveillance. Yes, police almost everywhere became more adept at following the
law, and most made gestures toward community policing. These were
meaningful—but not sufficient—achievements.
•Only
a new professionalism can replace the old professionalism. Community policing
is an invaluable foundation for a new professionalism, but it is not—and never
was—a complete package, able to guide detectives as well as patrol officers,
and able to inspire police dealing with financial fraud, gun running, or
political corruption.
•What
is that new professionalism? In an article last year
Jeremy Travis and I suggested that police professionalism requires four
commitments: to accountability, to legitimacy, to innovation, and to national
and global coherence. Professional police are accountable for the cost of
policing, the level of crime, and the conduct of the police themselves.
Professional police attend not just to the legality of their actions, but to
the public perception of those actions as legitimate. Professional police
cultivate innovation and learning throughout their agencies. Professional
policing is nurtured coherently in national, regional, and global networks.
Building that new professional culture of policing will take time and effort,
and it will also take money.
•Last
year, my predecessor at Open Society, Aryeh Neier, began an effort to
create a new, global program on police reform to support more professional,
rights-respecting policing. I encouraged that effort as a member of two Open
Society advisory boards, and now we are bringing those plans to fruition. Of
course, the Open Society Foundations will continue to support human rights
advocates documenting misconduct and pressing for reform and our efforts to
expand the information about crime and policing available from governments and
in media of all kind will continue. But we will also increase support to NGOs,
academics, and police organizations themselves willing to define a new
professionalism in practice.
•The
answers are already in the police agencies. I’ve seen them in the genius of
police officers I’ve worked with in Brazil, Jamaica, the Netherlands, Nigeria,
South Africa, Turkey, and the United States. The answers are also in society,
in organizations like Nigeria’s CLEEN Foundation and the Brazilian Forum for
Public Security, whose conference I attended this week. Most promising of all,
the answers lie in partnerships between police agencies aspiring to a new
professionalism and the people they police.
•There
will always be a certain degree of force in policing. What matters is whether
policing—when it asserts its authority—makes democratic progress possible or
impedes it. Professional policing enhances democratic progress when it accounts
for what it does, achieves public support, learns through innovation, and
transcends parochialism.
•Learn
More:
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The
Events
•The Open Society Foundations early childhood programs
advance a holistic approach to teaching, while our advocacy and debate
initiatives strive to ensure that young people of different backgrounds have
equal access to education and individual expression.
•FEATURED
WORK
•REPORT
•VOICES
•Instead of investing millions of dollars to build a new
jail, state officials should end the practice of automatically charging youth
as adults.
•VOICES
•Obama's new Initiative on Educational Excellence for
African Americans is a significant game changer for millions of black students.
•OPEN SOCIETY
VOICES
•September 18, 2012 by Monique DixonInstead of investing
millions of dollars to build a new jail, state officials should end the
practice of automatically charging youth as adults.
•September 18, 2012 by Andrea Csanadi 1
•A DVD collection of Central Asian cinema looks at Soviet
and post-Soviet cinema in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and
Uzbekistan.
•September 17, 2012 by Katherine LaphamWhy providing access to
high-quality education is a good place to try to right the wrongs of twenty
years of turmoil in the South Caucasus.
•NEWS
•GRANTEE
SPOTLIGHT
•VOICES
•EXPERTS
•Senior Advisor, Pakistan / Lead Education Economist and
Researcher, South Asia
•Education Support Program
•Director, Education and Youth Development Program
•Open Society Institute–Baltimore
•Campaign Manager, Campaign for Black Male Achievement
•U.S. Programs
•UPCOMING
EVENTS
•OCT 12
•This conference is designed to bring together a range of
institutions and representatives to critically debate the effects of
privatization on education quality, equity, effectiveness, and efficiency.
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THE
PROFESSIONALS
Jane Sundius is the Education and Youth Development Program director at the Open Society Institute–Baltimore. She is responsible for the development and implementation of a grantmaking, advocacy, and technical assistance program that works to enhance access to high quality learning opportunities for all of Baltimore’s youth, both in and out of school.
Recent major initiatives include efforts to increase the quality and quantity of after-school and summer learning opportunities for Baltimore’s children, to reduce suspensions, expulsions, and arrests in public schools and to improve student attendance. She serves on several advisory groups working to improve outcomes for children, including the executive committee of the Baltimore Education Research Consortium and the advisory committee of the Maryland Out-of-School-Time Network.
Prior to her work at the Open Society Foundations, she worked as a research and evaluation consultant to local foundations and nonprofit organizations and was the administrator of a graduate program in public policy. She also served as a senior research associate on a longitudinal study of Baltimore City Public School children that analyzed the effects of poverty and family characteristics on school performance and tracked children’s school year and summer learning trajectories. She holds a PhD in sociology and an MA in public policy from the Johns Hopkins University.
Jane Sundius is the Education and Youth Development Program director at the Open Society Institute–Baltimore. She is responsible for the development and implementation of a grantmaking, advocacy, and technical assistance program that works to enhance access to high quality learning opportunities for all of Baltimore’s youth, both in and out of school.
Recent major initiatives include efforts to increase the quality and quantity of after-school and summer learning opportunities for Baltimore’s children, to reduce suspensions, expulsions, and arrests in public schools and to improve student attendance. She serves on several advisory groups working to improve outcomes for children, including the executive committee of the Baltimore Education Research Consortium and the advisory committee of the Maryland Out-of-School-Time Network.
Prior to her work at the Open Society Foundations, she worked as a research and evaluation consultant to local foundations and nonprofit organizations and was the administrator of a graduate program in public policy. She also served as a senior research associate on a longitudinal study of Baltimore City Public School children that analyzed the effects of poverty and family characteristics on school performance and tracked children’s school year and summer learning trajectories. She holds a PhD in sociology and an MA in public policy from the Johns Hopkins University.
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Faisal
Bari is senior advisor for Pakistan with the Central Eurasia Project and lead
education economist and researcher for South Asia for the Education Support
Program. He is also associate professor of economics at Lahore University of
Management Sciences.
Bari has been a teacher and researcher in the field of development and education in Pakistan for over 12 years.
Bari has been a teacher and researcher in the field of development and education in Pakistan for over 12 years.
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THE
MAN BEHIND
FOUNDER/CHAIRMAN
GEORGE SOROS
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THE
PRESIDENT of OSF
Christopher Stone is
the president of the Open Society Foundations. He is an international expert on
criminal justice reform and on the leadership and governance of nonprofits.
Prior to joining Open
Society as president in July 2012, he was the
Guggenheim Professor of the
Practice of Criminal Justice at Harvard
University’s John F. Kennedy School of
Government and director of the
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. Before that, Stone spent a
decade as
director of the Vera Institute of Justice. He founded the
Neighborhood Defender Service of
Harlem and served as a founding
director of the New York State Capital Defender
Office and of the Altus Global Alliance.
Stone received his BA
from Harvard, an MPhil in criminology from the
University of Cambridge, and his
JD from Yale Law School. He was awarded
an honorary Order of the British Empire
for his contributions to criminal justice reform in the United Kingdom.
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