Baltimore
OSI-Baltimore uses an integrated approach to reverse the negative dynamics caused by failing schools, pervasive drug addiction, and a broken criminal justice system.

Black Male Achievement
The Campaign for Black Male Achievement was launched in 2008 as a three-year, cross-program campaign to provide expanded resources to address, and help reverse, the ways in which African American boys and men are stigmatized, criminalized, and excluded from the U.S. economic and political mainstream.

Criminal Justice
Through its programming and grantmaking the Criminal Justice Fund supports efforts to end the over-reliance on incarceration and harsh punishment in the United States.

Democracy and Power
The Democracy and Power Fund supports organizations that inspire public participation and civic engagement from underrepresented communities, develop new leaders, and generate solutions to address threats to democracy and advance social justice and a more open society.

Equality and Opportunity
The Equality and Opportunity Fund includes grantmaking and other initiatives to ensure justice and equality, to prohibit arbitrary and discriminatory government action, and to lift barriers that prevent people from participating fully in economic, social, and political life.

Fellowships
OSI is committed to offering individual fellowships to support the research and work of open society leaders and visionaries who engage passion, ingenuity, and dynamism to effect change

National Security and Human Rights
OSI's National Security and Human Rights Campaign is designed to help dismantle the flawed paradigms used to justify destructive national security policies, and to promote progressive policies that respect human rights and the rule of law.

Special Initiatives
The Open Society Institute U.S. Programs occasionally undertakes special initiatives to take advantage of emerging opportunities or address particular challenges in the United States.

Strategic Opportunities
The Strategic Opportunities Fund provides rapid flexible funding to respond to new opportunities and urgent situations and also supports grant strategy research and development.

Transparency and Integrity
The Transparency and Integrity Fund supports efforts to ensure transparency and effective government oversight and protect the integrity of government institutions.