Call for Applications: Soros Justice Fellowships

Date:

July 23, 2009

The Soros Justice Fellowships fund outstanding individuals to implement innovative projects that advance the Open Society Institute’s efforts to reform the U.S. criminal justice system. OSI’s strategy takes aim at two overarching ills: the over-reliance on incarceration and harsh punishment, and the lack of equal justice—especially for people of color and the poor.

Fellows receive funding through the following two programs:

Advocacy

Soros Justice Advocacy Fellowships fund outstanding individuals—including lawyers, advocates, grassroots organizers, activist academics, and others with important perspectives—to initiate innovative policy advocacy projects at the local, state, and national levels that will have a measurable impact on one or more of OSI’s U.S. criminal justice priorities.

View the Advocacy Fellowship guidelines.

Media

Soros Justice Media Fellowships support writers, print and broadcast journalists, filmmakers, and other individuals with distinctive voices proposing to complete media projects for local, regional, and national markets.

View the Media Fellowship guidelines.

Deadline

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 (11:59 p.m. EST)