About This Initiative
The Strategic Opportunities Fund was set up to respond more rapidly and flexibly to emerging challenges in the United States, utilizing a more coherent thematic strategy that may often be driven by current opportunities to impact specific open society issues.  more

OSI Grantees Featured in Book on New Orleans, Before and After Katrina
May 3, 2007
City Adrift, a new book on what went wrong and why during and after the Katrina catastrophe, features reporting by two OSI fellows. more

Academic Freedom
OSI's Strategic Opportunity Fund is offering preliminary funding in the area of academic freedom, while continuing to explore and discuss a more comprehensive strategy. more

Technical Assistance
OSI provides support to grantee organizations within areas such as communications, board development, strategic planning, fundraising, leadership training, and technology. more

Politicization of Science
OSI offers grants designed to train and encourage scientists to speak up, as well as to expose political, religious and corporate interference in policymaking. more