Soros Justice Fellow Named "CNN Hero"
February 19, 2010
 VIDEO  
Soros Justice Fellow Susan Burton is founder of a grassroots, nonprofit home for formerly incarcerated women in South Los Angeles.

Open Society Institute Announces Small Donor Development and Diversification Grant Recipients
January 13, 2010
The New World Foundation, Open Society Institute, and Stoneman Foundation Collaborative awarded $510,000 to eight grassroots groups to support the development of new models for small-donor fundraising.

Soros Justice Fellow's Work Featured on This American Life
January 11, 2010
A story produced by 2009 Soros Justice Fellow Nancy Mullane follows a man who has served 27 years in a California prison and must await the governor's approval before being granted parole.

Democracy and Power Fund to Support Efforts in North Carolina and Texas
January 8, 2010
The Democracy and Power Fund will supplement its national grantmaking with a state-based strategy in Texas and North Carolina.

When Corporations Become People
Thomas Hilbink
February 3, 2010
 BLOG  
Doug Kendall of the Constitutional Accountability Center and Susan Liss of the Brennan Center for Justice discuss the implications of the Citizens United ruling.

"Beyond the Bricks" Broadcasts America’s Education Crisis for Black Boys
Shawn Dove
December 5, 2009
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The current education crisis is like a slow-drip Katrina; the likes of a category 5 hurricane that steadily erodes not only the schooling conditions of Black boys, but too many low-income students of every gender and all races attending under-resourced schools across the country.

Celebrating 30 Years of Grassroots Leadership
OSI-New York
March 10, 2010
Speakers at this event will reflect upon the organization's decades of work as a multiracial community organizing effort focusing on ending private prisons and immigrant family detention.

One Year and Counting: When and How Will Guantánamo Close?
New York City
January 22, 2010
This panel, sponsored by the Open Society Institute, the Consitution Project, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, marks President Obama's self-imposed deadline for closing the Guantánamo Bay detention facility.