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Featured Grants

Call for Proposals: Challenging and Changing Negative Attitudes Toward Roma
Deadline: August 10, 2011. The Open Society Roma Initiatives invites proposals for projects that aim to challenge and change negative attitudes toward the Roma population in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Serbia, and Slovakia.

Call for Applications: European Commission Internships for Young Roma Graduates
Deadline: August 4, 2011 In conjunction with the European Commission, the Open Society Roma Initiatives offer internships for young Roma university graduates from all new EU member states (excluding Cyprus and Malta), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia.

Call for Proposals: Romani Women's Empowerment Grants
Deadline: August 8, 2011. The Open Society Foundations invite proposals from NGOs led by Romani women in Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Spain.

Call for Applications: Soros Justice Fellowships
Deadline: October 12, 2011 The Open Society Foundations seek applications from individuals to undertake projects that advance efforts to reform the U.S. criminal justice system.

Call for Proposals: Peer Learning, Exchange and Cooperation for Think Tanks
Deadline: September 30, 2011 The Think Tank Fund and the East East: Partnership Beyond Borders Program of the Open Society Foundations invite grant proposals for bilateral partnerships between think tanks in Central and Eastern Europe/former Soviet Union and Southeast Asia, and between think tanks in Central and Eastern Europe/former Soviet Union and Latin America.

Call for Proposals: Strengthening Civil Society Through Arts & Culture
Deadline: December 31, 2012 The aim of this grant is to strengthen alternative and autonomous cultural infrastructures and innovative arts initiatives, to raise professional standards, and to promote reform in the arena of cultural policy.

Call for Proposals: Advancing Roma Inclusion Through Arts & Culture
Deadline: December 31, 2012 The Arts & Culture Program invites proposals for projects that aim to promote the cultural inclusion of Roma in Central and Eastern Europe.

Call for Proposals: Protection of Minorities and Media Freedom in Italy
Deadline: August 1, 2011 The Open Society Foundations invites proposals for funding work in Italy in two areas: protection of minorities, including Roma and other groups including migrants, refugees, and stateless people; and freedom of the media.

Call for Proposals: Open Society Fellowship
Deadline: ongoing The Open Society Fellowship supports individuals seeking innovative and unconventional approaches to fundamental open society challenges.

Call for Applications: Open Society Human Rights Internship
Deadline: July/September 2011 The Open Society Foundations offer an internship program designed to give recent graduates in the social sciences, law, and humanities first-hand research experience in a human rights organization in Central/Eastern Europe or the former Soviet Union.

Call for Proposals: Working Together for Tolerance in Europe
Deadline: Ongoing The Open Society Think Tank Fund offers support for joint initiatives of EU think tanks combining comparative research, advocacy, and communication efforts to tackle various forms of intolerance.

Call for Proposals: Central Eurasia Project
Deadline: Ongoing Funds are available in programmatic areas including human rights, labor migration, transparency and consumer protection, and transparency of Western military and security cooperation.

Call for Proposals: Open Society New Response Projects
Deadline: ongoing The Open Society Think Tank Fund offers support to independent policy research centers in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia to promote effective and accountable democratic governance.

Call for Applications: HESP Mobility Program
Deadline: ongoing The International Higher Education Support Program is accepting applications for the HESP Mobility Program.

Call for Proposals: Core and Institutional Support to Policy Research Centers
Deadline: ongoing The Open Society Foundations request proposals from independent, nonpartisan multi-issue public policy centers working in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo, and Ukraine to promote inclusive policy change.

Call for Papers: Building Open Society in Central Asia & the South Caucasus
Deadline: ongoing The Central Eurasia Project seeks authors for a new series of papers exploring under-researched issues and trends related to democracy and accountability in Central Asia and the South Caucasus.

Call for Proposals: Central Eurasia Project
Deadline: ongoing The Central Eurasia Project invites letters of inquiry from organizations active in the areas of labor migration, electricity and hydropower governance, and social, economic, and human rights. Letters of inquiry for projects under $25,000 are accepted on a rolling basis throughout the year.

Call for Proposals: Middle East & North Africa Initiative
Deadline: ongoing The Open Society Institute Middle East & North Africa Initiative welcomes grant proposal outlines or concept notes on a rolling basis throughout the year.

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