Deadline: Ongoing
The Open Society Foundations is seeking applications from U.S.-based organizations to provide grants for its “National Security and Human Rights Campaign” with an aim to promote progressive national security policies that respect human rights, civil liberties, and the rule of law.
The campaign prioritizes promoting new thinking, engaging new voices and constituencies, and strengthening capacity of and collaboration among organizations engaged in national security issues.
Objectives
- Strengthen the rule of law; respect for human rights, minorities, and a diversity of opinions; democratically elected governments; and a civil society that helps keep government power in check.
- Help shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights.
- Implement initiatives to advance justice, education, public health, and independent media.
- Build alliances across borders and continents on issues such as corruption and freedom of information.
- To work in every part of the world, place a high priority on protecting and improving the lives of people in marginalized communities.
Grantmaking Goals
The campaign’s grant making supports efforts to advance the following five policy goals:
- in the case of terrorism suspects, ending indefinite detention, torture, and extraordinary rendition; ensuring fair trials; and maintaining the availability of Article III courts as a forum for criminal trials
- reforming surveillance policies and practices at the federal, state, and local levels to restore personal privacy, and protecting the right to dissent
- challenging the profiling of and discrimination against, and building the voices of, Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian individuals and communities in the United States
- in matters of national security, curbing excessive government secrecy and expanding government oversight, and holding government officials and private actors to account for abuses committed in the name of national security
- promoting national security and counterterrorism policies that respect human rights, civil liberties, and the rule of law.
Eligibility Criteria
- The National Security and Human Rights Campaign will consider letters of inquiry from 501(c)(3) organizations such as advocacy groups, community groups, and scholarly or research institutions.
- The campaign provides funding for projects that address one or more of the above policy goals through at least one of the following strategies:
- policy advocacy
- grassroots organizing and field building
- mobilization of new voices and constituencies
- scholarship and research
- communications
- litigation
How to Apply
Interested applicants can apply via given website.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, visit Open Society National Security and Human Rights Campaign.