Grants and open calls
Rights-based funding across justice, migration, health and democratic practice in many countries, including research done with movements rather than only about them.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)Both organisational support and project grants, across very different scales by region.
- Timing
- Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Open calls posted intermittently; much of the portfolio is invited.
- Who can apply
- Any faculty rank, Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Global. Read the geographic scope of each call — most are restricted to named regions or countries.
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- human rights · movement research · migration · democratic practice
- Apply at
- https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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