Sentences with phrase «open society foundations»

Soros, who created the Open Society Foundations to support democracy and human rights in countries around the world, said that social media companies deliberately engineer addiction to the services they provide.

«Immi was created by the Immigration Advocates Network and Pro Bono Net, who are dedicated to increasing access to justice for low - income immigrants and other vulnerable populations through innovative and effective technology, with support from Open Society Foundations, the MacArthur Foundation, and other donors.»

Vandenberg established HT Legal (formerly HT Pro Bono) in 2012 with generous support from the Open Society Foundations (OSF) Fellowship Program.

The Legal Aid Society hosted our 41st Annual Awards Dinner last night at Cipriani 42nd Street where we presented Richard J. Davis, Chair of Legal Aid's Board of Directors, and Herb Sturz, Senior Advisor to the Open Society Foundations, with the Servant of Justice Award in recognition of their extraordinary accomplishments and contributions to the advancement of justice and equality.

On Tuesday, Breitbart London reported that Soros's progressive grantmaking Open Society Foundations is closing its Budapest office and will relocate to Germany in response to the government's «repressive» crackdown on foreign - funded pressure groups.

IRIN has now completed a reporting project — conducted with support from the Open Society Foundations — to outline the challenges that global warming is triggering, and to explore what local communities are doing to adapt and reduce their vulnerability.

It clearly states that we're funded in part by the Open Society Foundations, which was founded by Soros — as are hundreds of other human rights organisations including Human Rights Watch.

Mr. Soros, who heads the Open Society Foundations, contributed over $ 36 million between 2000 and 2014 to 18 of the 55 organizations on the march's steering committee, according to an analysis released Friday by the conservative Media Research Center.

IRIN has undertaken a project with the Open Society Foundations to explore the challenges that global warming is triggering, and what local communities are doing to adapt, to reduce their vulnerability.

Selected projects will be featured in the next installment of our ongoing Moving Walls exhibition series, opening in September 2018 at the Open Society Foundations — New York.

His work is included in multiple private collections in Europe, Asia and the United States and in the permanent collections of the Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art and the Open Society Foundations.

His residency is made possilble by Open Society Foundations, NY and the Arts Council of Mongolia.

• Rashida Bumbray: Independent curator and choreographer; Senior Program Manager, the Arts Exchange, Open Society Foundations; New York, USA.

Rashida Bumbray: Independent curator and choreographer; Senior Program Manager, the Arts Exchange, Open Society Foundations

Slave Rebellion Reenactment is / has been supported in part by: A Blade of Grass Foundation, Socially Engaged Artist Fellowship; Antenna; Art Matters; The Givens Foundation for African American Literature; The Kindle Project; The Joan Mitchel Center; The MAP Fund / Creative Capital; The McColl Center for Art + Innovation; Open Society Foundations; Smack Mellon as well as generous contributions from individual donors.

REBECCA COONEY Features Photo Editor, Newsday SEAN CORCORAN Curator of Photographs, Museum of the City of New York IVAR DAMERON Photo Editor, The Wall Street Journal SHAMINDER DULAI Director of Photography, Newsweek JAMES ESTRIN Co-Editor of New York Times Lens Blog NOELLE FLORES THEARD Program Associate, Magnum Foundation GENEVIEVE FUSSELL Senior Photo Editor, The New Yorker ADREES LATIF Editor in Charge, U.S. Pictures, Reuters BRENT LEWIS Senior Editor, ESPN KAREN MARKS Gallery Director, Howard Greenberg Gallery SABINE MEYERS Photography Director, National Audubon Society PAUL MOAKLEY Deputy Director of Photography and Visual Enterprise, TIME Magazine GRAHAM MORRISON Managing Editor for Visual Media, Bloomberg CHRISTINE NESBITT Senior Photography Editor, UNICEF AZU NWAGBOGU Director, African Artists» Foundation and LagosPhoto Festival KIRA POLLACK Director of Photography and Visual Enterprise, TIME Magazine SIOBHAN RIORDAN Exhibition Associate, Documentary Photography Project, Open Society Foundations GLENN RUGA Executive Editor, ZEKE Magazine BRENDAN WATTENBERG Managing Editor, Aperture Magazine JAMIE WELLFORD Senior Photo Editor, National Geographic DAMON WINTER Staff Photographer, The New York Times

He is a 2017 recipient of the Open Society Foundations» Soros Equality Fellowship, awarded to practitioners from a variety fields to support work that advances racial justice.

He is the recipient of awards including the Fulbright Scholarship (2013); the Arts Council of Mongolia / Open Society Foundations (2012); Helen L.Bing Fellowship (2012) and the Karin - Abt - Straubinger Foundation (2009, 2011) and others.

He is a 2017 recipient of the Open Society Foundations» Soros Equality Fellowship awarded to practitioners from a variety of fields to support work that advances racial justice.

We are grateful to Representative Scott for hosting the hearing, to the Open Society Foundations and Atlantic Philanthropies for their support, and for the collaboration of all participants, who contributed powerful and diverse statements about the imperative to continue to develop and implement policies and practices that lead to more equitable, restorative, and supportive systems of school discipline.

With the support of the Open Society Foundations, Professor Forman is currently writing a book about African - American attitudes towards crime and punishment in the age of mass incarceration.

Tala Manassah, Morningside Center's deputy executive director, joined speakers from the Open Society Foundations, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and the UFT to help address the question.

This issue includes pieces from organizers like Kesi Foster (Urban Youth Collaborative) and Maisie Chin (CADRE), philanthropic leaders like Allison Brown (Open Society Foundations) and Kavitha Mediratta (The Atlantic Philanthropies), along with teachers, administrators and community leaders from across the country.

You may have heard some buzz about the «Why Open Education Matters» video contest, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Creative Commons, and Open Society Foundations.

The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program is made possible by founding support from Open Society Foundations.

Speakers actress Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures), Megan Smith (Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. under Obama), producer Christine Vachon (Boys Don't Cry, many others), Patrick Gaspard (Open Society Foundations), and TV producer / writer Issa Rae (Insecure), was moderated by Sarah Ellison (Washington Post media writer), from left.

Funded by MacArthur, Oak and Open Society Foundations, SITU has undertaken collaborations with a diverse range of partners, including the International Criminal Court, the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B'tselem, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), as well as projects with international legal teams, award - winning journalists and leading academic institutions such as Carnegie Mellon and Princeton Universities.

The Brooklyn Conference received «generous support» from liberal billionaire George Soros's Open Society Foundations.

Honoree Andrea Batista Schlesinger, deputy director of US Programs at the Open Society Foundations.

Open Society Foundations, «Soros Economic Development Fund, Omidyar Network, and Google.org Launch Small to Medium Enterprise Investment Company for India,» Feb. 19, 2008

George Soros, the hedge fund manager and Democratic donor, has moved the bulk of his wealth to Open Society Foundations, which promotes democracy and human rights around the world.

Politicians from areas as far - flung as Denver, Austin and Chicago had converged on Borough of Manhattan Community College to attend City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito «s two - day conference on combatting President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration enforcement agenda, a meeting in part through billionaire George Soros's Open Society Foundations.

And in response to criticism from the likes of Oxfam, Global Witness, and the Open Society Foundations, they instituted some limited governance reforms that increased, albeit marginally, the transparency around opaque oil dealings.

Anat delivers her findings packed in snark at venues such as the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Centre for Australian Progress, Irish Migrant Centre, Open Society Foundations, Ford Foundation and LUSH International.

George Soros has transferred the bulk of his wealth to his Open Society Foundations.

Billionaire investor George Soros has transferred «the bulk of his wealth» to the Open Society Foundations, the nonprofit organization said.

They will likely see the Harvard / MIT study data as confirming that belief — not to mention the fact that the study was financed by the Open Society Foundations.

Not exact matches

Created by Soros in 1979, Open Society is a grant - making foundation with branches and partners around the world and focuses on supporting democracies and combating issues of injustice and discrimination, among other causes.

A June 2010 conference sponsored by the Open Society Institute, a foundation founded by liberal investor George Soros, focused mainly on human rights law.

Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....

In fact, Farrow's list of fundamental truths points eloquently to the basic ontological foundations for human reproduction and the ethical education of children in society, and from these he reasonably draws a normative social claim: Heterosexual marriage open to the transmission of life is the morally normative context of human sexuality.

It is in the name of equality, of open - mindedness, of being progressive and right - thinking that we are asked to accept this challenge to the foundations of our society.

It is finally in the name of equality, open - mindedness, of being progressive and right - thinking, that we are asked to accept this challenge to the foundations of our society.

The exhibits along the path, which opened last month, include a boardwalk that zigzags over a wetland, a Native American wigwam, the foundation of a prairie sod home and a garden filled with flowers hybridized by a priest from the nearby Society of the Divine Word.

Knowledge - based schooling puts the emphasis of early education on teaching and learning an enabling core of broadly shared knowledge — enabling because it builds strong foundations for later learning and opens doors to effective participation and mutual understanding in the wider society.

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She left the Bush administration before his second term ended and has since researched and written about the goals of «reform» that parents and teachers and societies may disagree with — get rid of or render toothless any unions, punish teachers for any failure of a student or a school, close as many public schools as possible in order to open private, for - profit schools run by foundations whose motives and agendas are not fully visible.

It is a project undertaken by both the V&A and China Merchants Shekou Holdings (CMSK) in an effort to create a solid, non-profit foundation upon which the Design Society, opening in Shenzhen in 2017, will be built.