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Open Society Foundations

international grantmaking network founded by business magnate George Soros
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Open Society Foundations is a foundation.[1] It was founded in April 1993.

Its headquarters are in New York City. George Soros is its founder..

Key Facts

  • Member of: Open Research Funders Group[3], Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy[4], DataCite[5], Philanthropy Europe Association[6], C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group[7]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: New York City[8]
  • Country: United States[9]
  • Instance of: charitable organization[10]
  • Founder: George Soros[11]
  • Named after: George Soros[12]
  • Headquarters location: New York City[13], 224 West 57th Street[14]
  • Location: Next Entertainment World[15]
  • Commons category: Open Society Foundations[16]
  • Archives at: Blinken Open Society Archives[17]
  • Chairperson: George Soros[18]
  • Has part(s): Open Society Fund Praha[19]
  • Inception: April 1993[20]
  • Official website: https://opensocietyfoundations.org[21]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Open Society Foundations[22]
  • Political ideology: open society[23]
  • Legal form: nonprofit organization[24]
  • Short name: OSI[25]
  • Owner of: Radio 101.2[26]
  • Partnership with: International Fund for Agricultural Development[27]
  • Has goal: Sustainable Development Goal 1[28], Sustainable Development Goal 10[29]
  • Funder: European Climate Foundation[30], C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group[31]
  • Social media followers: 594,775[32], 598,018[33], 24,900[34], 590,673[35]

Why It Matters

Open Society Foundations has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] It is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

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Addis Ababa University American University of Central Asia Barcelona Institute for Global Health Birzeit University Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas CES University charitable organization Clarkson University CMI – Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa Coventry University Danish Institute for International Studies Data & Society Research Institute Duke University Eastern Africa Centre for Constitutional Development El Colegio de la Frontera Norte El Colegio de México Escola de Comunicação da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Ethiopian Economic Association European Network of Corporate Observatories European University Institute French Institute of International Relations George Soros Goldsmiths, University of London Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy Institute for Women's Policy Research Institute of Advanced Studies in Administration Institute of Economic Research Foundation Institute of Human Sciences Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  7. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [15] ↑ . COURAGE Knowledge Graph. wikidata.org.
  9. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [3] ↑ . orfg.org. Retrieved . orfg.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [4] ↑ . epip.org. Retrieved . epip.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [6] ↑ . philea.eu. Retrieved . philea.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [7] ↑ . c40.org. c40.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  25. [27] ↑ . International Fund for Agricultural Development. Retrieved . ifad.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . uia.org. Retrieved . uia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . uia.org. Retrieved . uia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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