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Conservative Activist O’Keefe Targets Liberal Foundations, Foiled By Open Society Program Staff

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05/23/2016

Amateurish spies like James O’Keefe III attempt to sway the 2016 campaign.

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Open Society Foundations Tackles the Challenge of Prisoner Reentry

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04/26/2016

Project New Opportunity is aimed at assisting a few of the thousands of inmates who were charged with drug violations and are being released by order of the U.S. Sentencing Commission under revised guidelines approved in 2014.

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Open Society Foundations' 6-Month Paid Paternity Leave Leads Generous-Parental-Leave Club

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03/30/2016

Open Society Foundations, one of the largest nonprofit organizations in the world, are leaders in the recent paternity-leave movement gaining momentum at corporations large and small, giving 6-month paid paternal leaves for employees.

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20 Apr 2016

Strategy, Struggle and Participation: Three Questions to Improve Your Social-Change Stories

Wednesday, April 20, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

Storytelling helps social-change groups do better at everything that they do—enlist members, raise funds, take the pulse of their communities, change policy and behavior.

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Ford, Rockefeller, OSF and NY Women’s Foundation Leaders Appointed to Commission on NYC Justice Reform

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03/18/2016

Former chief judge Jonathan Lippman has announced the members of the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform.

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Open Society Foundations Supports International Online Journalism Event

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02/24/2016

The Knight Center for Journalism has released its program for the 17th International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ), an annual conference attracting media executives, journalists and scholars from around the world.

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Communications/Media

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Ford, Open Society and Others Join in Support of Public Interest Tech

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02/17/2016

A group of five national foundations - Ford, MacArthur, Knight, Open Society and Mozilla foundations - are working to promote the use of the Internet for social good, and has announced grants totaling $18 million to strengthen the emerging field of...

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Technology

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Open Society, Tow and Other Foundations Release Blueprint for Youth Justice Reform

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01/12/2016

The Youth Transition Funders Group updated its seminal Blueprint for Youth Justice Reform -- providing concrete policy recommendations aimed at improving the well-being and life outcomes for at-risk young people.

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The Tow Foundation

15 Jan 2016

The Drug War, Mass Incarceration and Racial Justice: Lessons from the Campaign to End the Racially Biased Marijuana Arrest Crusade in NYC

Friday, January 15, 2016 -

8:30am to 11:30am

In 1977, New York decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana. Yet between 1995 and 2010, the NYPD made more than 530,000 arrests for low-level possession, including 50,000 in 2010 alone.

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Russia Bans Soros-Backed Foundations as Security 'Threat'

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12/02/2015

Russian authorities have barred the pro-democracy charity network founded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros from the country, saying its work undermined state security, Reuters and CNBC report.

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Open Society Foundation-funded Report Finds Bias Warps the Way African-American Girls are Treated at School

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11/06/2015

A new report highlights how race and gender biases held by educators and school administrators impact the educational experiences of African-American girls.

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Education

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Crain’s Top 15 List of Foundations Is a Showcase of PNY Members

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10/21/2015

The top 15 foundations on Crain's list have grown 14.3% compared with last year.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

18 Nov 2015

Policing Reform: Building on NYC Successes for a National Reform Movement

Wednesday, November 18, 2015 -

1:45pm to 3:30pm

In the past two years, Communities United for Policing Reform (CPR) has played a critical role in leading a campaign to pass landmark police accountability legislation in New York City and partnering with families of New Yorkers killed by police to...

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OSF and Ford Help Address the 'Accountability Gap'

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08/13/2015

The accountability gap is defined as the disconnect between what citizens expect and what governments do.

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OSF to Continue Grantmaking in Russia

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08/10/2015

Even after being placed on a "patriotic stop list," Open Society Foundations will still support grantees located in Russia.

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Open Society and MacArthur Foundations to be Banned by Russia Along with Many Others

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07/14/2015

Russia has instituted a campaign to expose foreign influences that are deemed "threatening."

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