The Project on Death in America (PDIA), an Open Society Institute initiative, has closed. From 1994 to 2003, PDIA worked to understand and transform the culture and experience of dying and bereavement. Over the course of nine years, PDIA created funding initiatives in professional and public education, the arts, research, clinical care, and public policy. PDIA and its grantees have helped build and shape this important and growing field, and have helped place improved care for the dying on the public agenda.

Although PDIA is no longer making grants, the Open Society Institute's International Palliative Care Inititiative will continue its work in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and South Africa. Part of the OSI Public Health Program, these international initiatives exemplify the Open Society Institute's continued committment to advocate for palliative care as a public health issue. These global issues are an important part of the legacy of the Project on Death in America. Find out more about OSI's International Palliative Care Initiative.

Open Society Institute Examines Impact of $45 Million Press Release OSI's Project on Death in America published a special report, Transforming the Culture of Dying, which reviews nine years and $45 million devoted to improving care available to patients and their families at all stages of serious illness. more Project on Death in America: January 2001–December 2003 Report of Activities This final three-year report describes the 2001–2003 grantmaking program of OSI's Project on Death in America.  more more publications

About This Initiative The Project on Death in America completed all grantmaking in December 2003, having distributed $45 million to organizations and individuals working to improve care for dying patients and their families. PDIA's mission was to understand and transform the culture and experience of dying and bereavement.  more International Palliative Care Initiatives International Palliative Care Initiatives focus on enhancing hospice and palliative care programs in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.  more more focus areas