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The following OSI initiatives, listed alphabetically, support at least one program or organization active in the United States.

Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap

This national program is designed to create awareness of—and increase resources to close—an alarming gap in the availability of drug and alcohol addiction treatment for Americans who need it. more

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Documentary Photography Project

Through grantmaking, exhibitions, and training workshops, the Documentary Photography Project supports photographers whose work addresses social justice and human rights issues that coincide with OSI’s mission. more

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Open Society Fellowship

The Open Society Fellowship enables innovative professionals—including journalists, activists, academics, and practitioners—to work on projects that inspire meaningful public debate, shape public policy, and generate intellectual ferment within the Open Society Institute. more

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OSI-Baltimore

OSI-Baltimore seeks to foster debate, empower marginalized groups to help shape and monitor public policy, and strengthen communities and families in the Baltimore, Maryland area through the development of fair, rational, and responsive public systems. more

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OSI-Washington, D.C.

OSI-Washington, D.C. focuses on civil liberties in the United States as well as other domestic and international policy issues, including globalization, criminal justice reform, human rights, and women's rights. more

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U.S. Programs

OSI's U.S. Programs aims to address core threats to open society, including increasingly punitive national security policies, decreasing government transparency, entrenched structural racism, and growing incarceration rates. more

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Overview

Serious challenges to the U.S. system of justice—the crackdown on immigrants, detention without due process of thousands at Guantanamo Bay, and expansion of government surveillance powers—have emerged in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Read an overview of OSI's activities in the United States.

news & announcements

OSI-Baltimore Tenth Anniversary
OSI-Baltimore
May 13, 2008
 AUDIO
At the OSI-Baltimore Tenth Anniversary Celebration, Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey, gave the keynote address to a crowd of more than 400 leaders in the Baltimore metropolitan area.  more

KatrinaMedia.org Wins Webby Award
May 6, 2008
Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster was named the best nonprofit website of the year in the 12th Annual Webby Awards.  more

Multimedia

Audacious Ideas: Changing Baltimore
 VIDEO  
After ten years, OSI-Baltimore celebrates a decade of implementing audacious ideas to create social justice. Watch the video that talks about how OSI-Baltimore works to create lasting change.  more

Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster
 INTERACTIVE  
Designed to spark continuing national discussion of the social and economic impact of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, this multimedia website features the work of OSI's Katrina Media Fellows.  more

Moving Walls 14
 SLIDESHOW  
The photographers in this OSI exhibition document issues including the devastating consequences of oil production in Nigeria, survivors of sex-trafficking in Moldova, the effect of rapid modernization on Turkey’s national psyche, the continued impact of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, and the aftermath of rape and genocide in Rwanda.  more

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