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Some organizations Funded Directly by George Soros and his Open Society Institute

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/orgsfundeddirectly%20.html

By Discover The Networks
July 2007

(6.479 gramts were given by Soros in 2008. )
2008 Assets: $1,928,806,825
2007 Income: $542,536,108

Ron Arnold's Left Tracking Library

Open Society Institute
and Soros Foundations Network

2008 Assets: $1,928,806,825
2007 Income: $542,536,108
EIN: 13-7029285
Founded 1993
Exempt since November 1994

Self-Description: The Open Society Institute works to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. To achieve its mission, OSI seeks to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to advance justice, education, public health, and independent media. At the same time, OSI builds alliances across borders and continents on issues such as corruption and freedom of information. OSI places a high priority on protecting and improving the lives of people in marginalized communities.

Actual: A global network of dozens of Soros entities that have paid millions to overthrow governments in the Soviet Union, Serbia, Georgia, and the United States. The American agenda of Soros foundations has little system and is more a hodge-podge of Soros' personal interests, which tend to be leftist provocations more than steady programs. His personal attitudes about America are very negative and he regards capitalism to be the major threat to the world, as he once regarded communism to be. Soros makes no secret of his beliefs: he has written several books including "The Bubble of American Supremacy" and "Reforming Global Capitalism." The man who made it big because of America and capitalism now hates both and seeks to destroy them.
Soros foundations consist of national foundations in 29 countries, foundations in Kosovo and Montenegro, and two regional foundations, the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) and the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA). OSISA and OSIWA, make grants in a total of 27 African countries. In 2003, Soros said that removing President George W. Bush from office was one of his main priorities. During the 2004 campaign, he donated $23 million to various groups dedicated to defeating the president. He was less enthusiastic about helping Barack Obama in 2008, contributing only $4,400 directly, and $126,790 to all campaigns.

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Origin of the Wealth: George Soros is the founder of one of the first offshore hedge funds, the Quantum Fund, through which he accumulated vast wealth. Extreme leverage is a George Soros character trait. Most readers of the financial pages know about the spectacularly leveraged coup that earned him a billion dollars overnight in a giant gamble in 1992: He bet $10 billion—most of it borrowed money—that by selling enough sterling short he could force the Bank of England to devalue the British pound and make a killing.

Soros, with a keen grasp of money and politics, had calculated that bankers in the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (EERM), pegged to the German mark, would refuse to uphold the overvalued pound because at the time Germany had its own problems paying for reunification. They did refuse, so Britain pulled out of the EERM and tried to prop up its sinking currency by itself. Prime Minister John Major and Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont spent billions of the government’s foreign reserves buying back pounds, trying desperately to shore up the value of sterling in the face of the daunting speculative tsunami that Soros started.

They ran out of foreign reserves. The pound crashed. On a day known thereafter as Black Wednesday, September 16, 1992, British subjects woke up to find their money worth about 20 percent less than the day before when compared to American dollars, German marks or even French francs. Soros’ daring short position paid off—big.
Had he lost that bet, nobody would know his name today.

Almost nobody outside the financial markets knew his name then, or how he got the clout to pull it off, but the investment world knew it very well. In 1967, George Soros had been an arbitrage trader at a small New York City investment bank—just another drone—when he talked his employers into letting him start an offshore fund called First Eagle, long positions only, with $250,000 of his own money and $6 million of other peoples’. It went well, and two years later he launched Double Eagle, a hedge fund that would later become the Quantum Fund. He was 39.

His hedge fund was registered in Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles, a Caribbean tax haven beyond U.S. regulation. All of its investors were also beyond U.S. regulation: very rich non-U.S. citizens, mostly European. Soros, who stayed in New York, was only its "investment advisor" collecting a management fee and a 15% incentive fee.
Like most hedge funds, Quantum specialized in high risk, short term speculation on stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, stock options and derivatives, taking long and short positions and large leveraged positions. Soros took huge risks, spending mostly borrowed money and selling stocks the fund did not yet own. His success was astonishing: throughout the dismal bear markets of the 1970s, when most investors lost money, Quantum was profitable every year, sometimes paying double-digit returns.
In 1981, Institutional Investor magazine put him on the cover as "the world’s greatest money manager."

The name of his fund came from quantum physics, especially the indeterminacy principle of Werner Heisenberg. Soros liked "Quantum" as a symbol of the impossibility of accurately determining the future movement of markets as well as subatomic particles. He had developed his own theory that individual biases (e.g., the trend-following habits of speculators) introduce disequilibrium into an economy, so conventional "efficient market" theory doesn’t work. Soros extends his theory to just about everything, giving it the clunky name "reflexivity."

In finance, he uses it to explain "boom-bust cycles." He goes further, arguing that when any social enterprise begins to rise, whether a market, a business, a movement, or a nation, the biases of individuals (investors, executives, movement leaders, or statesmen) create instability. They build a bandwagon effect, overvaluing or overreaching, which creates an artificial "bubble" that eventually bursts.
Soros has attributed his hedge fund success—including the Bank of England episode—to his reflexivity theory. Others call it luck.

But there were thorns in the hedge: critics called him a "bandit" for his Southeast Asian currency raids. Others accused him of calculated hit-and-run tactics: quietly buying into a market—gold, for example, as he did in 1993—deliberately leaking his "secret," watching the bandwagon stampede drive the price up, then bailing out before the bubble bursts.

Quantum had only one losing year in its first two decades and George Soros got very rich. Even though he failed to predict the stock market crash of ’87 and took a $300 million hit, Quantum was actually up 14 percent for the calendar year—and his personal compensation of $75 million made him the second-highest-paid man on Wall Street.
1993, it earned him $1.1 billion. George Soros was the top earner on Wall Street, making more than the gross national product of 42 nations. He was no longer just a drone on the cusp of fame.

The money brought access and influence through his charities. From then on, he mixed with chiefs of state as if he were one of them. He even leveraged heads of state: in that same year he told a packed press conference in Romania that he had snubbed an invitation from the country’s president, Ion Iliescu, "for lack of time." He raced to the airport where his rented jet took him to the next country. He dined with the heads of Moldova and Bulgaria in a single day and told his travel companion, journalist Michael Lewis: "You see, I have one president for breakfast and another for dinner."

With tongue only slightly in cheek, he told Lewis of the influence his philanthropy had bought him in the former Soviet Union, "The Soviet Empire is now known as the Soros Empire." Yet this same man was known to have his chauffeur wait at the curb in Washington while he dashed in to the National Gallery of Art to admire a Vermeer, then get to the next appointment right on time. --From Ron Arnold's Freezing in the Dark: Money, Power, People and The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy

Soros playing God with public policy:
Criminal Justice: Soros personally believes that the American criminal justice system is racist, and that prison is an inappropriate punishment for most lawbreakers. For example: (a) OSI has established a “U.S. Justice Fund” to “diminish the role of prisons ... and to pave the way for the creation of a larger system of public health and social supports.” (b) In a related measure, the Institute created an “After Prison Initiative” focusing on “supporting the successful reentry of prisoners to their communities.” (c) OSI helps finance the Sentencing Project, which claims that prison sentencing patterns are racially discriminatory, and advocates in favor of granting voting rights to convicted felons. (d) OSI funds the Southern Center for Human Rights, which recruits lawyers to represent death row inmates and aims to reduce America’s alleged over-reliance on incarceration. (e) The Institute supports Critical Resistance, a program that impugns the “Prison Industrial Complex” for fostering the delusion that “caging and controlling people makes us safe.”

Open Society Institute
Officers, Trustees, Foundation Managers 2008

Name	Title	Compensation
GEORGE SOROS	TRUSTEE/CHAIR	$0
ARYEH NEIER	TRUSTEE/PRESIDENT, CEO	$461,963
LEON BOTSTEIN	TRUSTEE	$0
JONATHAN SOROS	TRUSTEE	$0
STEWART PAPERIN	EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, TREASURER	$289,670
RICARDO CASTRO	GENERAL COUNSEL, SECRETARY	$245,991
ANNETTE LABOREY	VICE PRESIDENT	$0
MAIJA ARBOLINO	CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER	$241,729
STEPHEN GUTMANN	ASSISTANT TREASURER	$106,288

Five Highest Paid Employees 2008

Name	Title	Compensation
HERBERT STURZ	SENIOR ADVISOR	$248,371
ANN BEESON	EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF US PROGRAM	$247,250
STEPHANIE BEHRENS	DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RELATIONS	$242,201
YALAN TENG	CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER	$240,638
GEORGE VICKERS	DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS	$215,000

Five Highest Paid Independent Contractors 2008

Name	Type of Service	Compensation
LAUFER GREEN ISAAC LLC	PROGRAM STRATEGY	$409,965
GIVING WORKS	OSI SURVEY ANALYSIS	$409,012
AGENDALESS CONSULTING INC	IT SUPPORT	$215,854
ISTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITY	PROGRAM SUPPORT	$193,801
ROBERT SCOTT HORTON	PROGRAM CONSULTANT	$173,750

Open Society Institute Sample Grants

Grant Total:

Number of Grants:

Recipient Name	Amount	Year	Grant Description
DUCKS UNLIMITED Memphis Tennessee	$4,500	2006
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE New York	$9,630	2006	To purchase computer equipment for the group of refuges from Andijan Uzbekistan
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE New York	$25,000	2006	To provide general support
NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY New York	$35,000	2006	To host a two day public conference on crime and punishment in the United States
YALE UNIVERSITY New Haven Connecticut	$21,051	2006
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY New York	$6,450	2006
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY New York	$450,130	2006	To support the symposium entitled Hannah Arendt right new
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY Baltimore Maryland	$25,000	2006	To institute summer learning program for all Baltimore city Public School system student
BELL FOUNDATION Dorchester Massachusetts	$75,000	2006	To support the launch of its summer program for students in Baltimore city Public schools
UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY New York	$20,000	2006	To support the symposium nexus between concern trated poverty ty incarceration re-entry and employment
FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS Washington DC	$25,000	2006	To support the project on government secretary
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH New York	$9,000	2006
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH New York	$50,000	2006	To support the US Programs criminal justice work
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH New York	$100,000	2006	To support work on the human rights implication of domestic anti terrorism measures
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT Washington DC	$100,000	2006	To support the science and engineering whistleblower campaign
NEW ISRAEL FUND Washington DC	$9,000	2006
NEW ISRAEL FUND Washington DC	$9,000	2006
EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER Newton Massachusetts	$200,000	2006	To Launch a youth media learning network
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE Beverly Hills California	$75,000	2006	To support the re design and expansion of the Sundance documentary about the wrongful conviction and exoneration of Darry hunt
PROTEUS FUND Amherst Massachusetts	$200,000	2006	To support a donor collaborative for Collaborative grantmaking in the media policy arena
PROTEUS FUND Amherst Massachusetts	$250,000	2006	To provide funding for the civil marriage collaborative fund
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS Cambridge Massachusetts	$200,000	2006	To provide project support for the scientific integrity program
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Cambridge Massachusetts	$46,021	2006	To support a project entitled pubic education on the human costs of the war in Iraq
PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS Boston Massachusetts	$50,000	2006	To support medical evaluations for individuals who have been detained by the United States
ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE FOR CHIAPAS MEDIA PROJECT Washington DC	$50,000	2006	To support the United students against sweat ships leadership development program
HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL Little Rock Arkansas	$7,019	2006
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES Washington DC	$225,000	2006	To provide general support
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Washington DC	$250,000	2006	General support
UNITED STATES STUDENT ASSOCIATION Washington DC	$59,000	2006	General support
UNITED STATES STUDENT ASSOCIATION Washington DC	$300,000	2006	To support training materials & networking opportunities for state-wide student association
MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN New York	$6,825	2006
URBAN JUSTICE CENTER New York	$46,000	2006	To line the debate on sex work & trafficking to a struggle for sexual and economic rights
EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE San Francisco California	$300,000	2006	To support the campus climate challenge
CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES Washington DC	$750,000	2006	General support
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA New York	$200,000	2006	To support an organization campaign around the federal judiciary
AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE New York	$15,000	2006
HOWARD UNIVERSITY Washington DC	$5,000	2006	To provide general support the national African American Drug Policy coalition
SYNERGOS INSTITUTE New York	$10,000	2006	To provide general support
EARTHJUSTICE Oakland California	$150,000	2006	To support the judging the environment project
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN Washington DC	$150,000	2006	To support the Federal Judiciary public education project
WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE Washington DC	$100,000	2006	To support the Chief Executive Director climate change initiative
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE Washington DC	$25,000	2006	To support the fair immigration reform movement citizenship schools project
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE Washington DC	$100,000	2006	To support comprehensive immigration reform related action coalition building and media outreach
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE Washington DC	$100,000	2006	To develop the optimal management structure for the generation change leadership initiative
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE Washington DC	$100,000	2006	To support the no more circus tents project
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE Washington DC	$300,000	2006	To support the fair immigration reform movement network
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE Washington DC	$300,000	2006	To support the Community voting project
GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL Washington DC	$30,000	2006
GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL Washington DC	$25,000	2006
MARET SCHOOL Washington DC	$7,500	2006
AMERICAN SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION New York	$5,000	2006	General support
NEW WORLD FOUNDATION New York	$10,000	2006	To support the social justice infrastructure funders project
NEW WORLD FOUNDATION New York	$20,000	2006	To support an intergenerational convening of activists of color and their ensuring campaign
NEW WORLD FOUNDATION New York	$50,000	2006	To support the Alston Bennerman Fellowship Program
CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH Boston Massachusetts	$100,000	2006	To support the student empowerment training state student association organization project
SOUTHERN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS Atlanta Georgia	$7,500	2006
SOUTHERN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS Atlanta Georgia	$250,000	2006	General support
EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS Washington DC	$750,000	2006
EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS Washington DC	$875,000	2006	To support the class of 2005 fellowships
FREEDOM FROM HUNGER Davis California	$6,906	2006
SHELTER OUR SISTERS Hackensack New Jersey	$7,011	2006	To provide additional support to study at Assumption University
ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES Washington DC	$16,000	2006	To develop areas of potential transatlantic cooperation
ASPEN INSTITUTE Washington DC	$195,000	2006	To rethink the dominant perspectives on Crime and Punishment in the US
ASSOCIATION OF BALTIMORE AREA GRANTMAKERS Baltimore Maryland	$5,500	2006	General support
ASSOCIATION OF BALTIMORE AREA GRANTMAKERS Baltimore Maryland	$10,000	2006	To provide staff support for the education funders affinity group
GODS LOVE WE DELIVER New York	$5,000	2006	General support
NATION INSTITUTE New York	$10,000	2006	To provide general support
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY Bronx New York	$14,500	2006	To support rethinking judicial selection
NEW YORK LAWYERS FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST New York	$215,700	2006	To provide renewal support for the national campaign to restore civil rights
NEW YORK LAWYERS FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST New York	$12,000	2006	To provide add on support for the national campaign to restore civil rights
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK New York	$200,000	2006	To support the creation of the center on the Media crime and justice
FIDELITY INVESTMENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND Boston Massachusetts	$44,250	2006
ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE Washington DC	$400,000	2006	To provide general support
FOUNDATION CENTER New York	$20,000	2006	To provide general support
FOUNDATION CENTER New York	$20,000	2006	To provide general support
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Washington DC	$15,000	2006	To support a Libyan delegation to discuses political and economic issues
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN AAUW Washington DC	$150,000	2006	To craft a policy statement to college and University regarding inviting outside speakers
ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE Washington DC	$100,000	2006	To provide support for a lecture series in honor of professor Herman Schwartz
ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSEY Newark New Jersey	$50,000	2006	To renew support for participation in the state fiscal analysis initiative
ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSEY Newark New Jersey	$50,000	2006	To renew support for participation in the state fiscal analysis initiative
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES Washington DC	$11,100	2006
CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE Washington DC	$9,800	2006	To support Georgian Ossetia civic dialogue
CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE Washington DC	$16,850	2006	To support the think tank network on alternative solution stop the transnistria conflict
CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE Washington DC	$124,038	2006	To support the East partnership beyond borders program at Carnegie Moscow center
CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY San Francisco California	$7,500	2006
CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY San Francisco California	$9,000	2006
CENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY Washington DC	$7,500	2006
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE CARE Atlanta Georgia	$7,500	2006
CORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING New York	$100,000	2006	To create re entry supportive housing
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INSTITUTE Washington DC	$150,000	2006	To provide support for the endangered environmental Law project
INDEPENDENT MEDIA INSTITUTE San Francisco California	$40,000	2006	To support sire tap magazine
INDEPENDENT MEDIA INSTITUTE San Francisco California	$100,000	2006	General support
INTER FAITH EDUCATION FUND Austin Texas	$250,000	2006	To increase civic participation
LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM New York	$4,750	2006	To enable South Africa Constitutional Court to Commission works form artists
MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE GROUP Washington DC	$50,000	2006	To advance technical assistance efforts to leading national advocacy organization
MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE Washington DC	$21,300	2006	To support the migration learning Community
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF LA RAZA Washington DC	$100,000	2006	To support the we are America Alliance
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF LA RAZA Washington DC	$300,000	2006	To support the immigration unit and the immigrants rights project
NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY Washington DC	$25,000	2006	To build organization

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Organizations that, in recent years, have received direct funding and assistance from George Soros and his Open Society Institute (OSI) include the following. (Comprehensive profiles of each are available in the "Groups" section of DiscoverTheNetworks.org):

· Alliance for Justice: Best known for its activism vis a vis the appointment of federal judges, this group consistently depicts Republican judicial nominees as “extremists.”

· America Coming Together: Soros played a major role in creating this group, whose purpose was to coordinate and organize pro-Democrat voter-mobilization programs.

· America Votes: Soros also played a major role in creating this group, whose get-out-the-vote campaigns targeted likely Democratic voters.

· American Civil Liberties Union: This group opposes virtually all post-9/11 national security measures enacted by U.S. government. It supports open borders, has rushed to the defense of suspected terrorists and their abetters, and appointed former New Left terrorist Bernardine Dohrn to its Advisory Board.

· American Constitution Society for Law and Policy: This Washington, DC-based think tank seeks to move American jurisprudence to the left by recruiting, indoctrinating, and mobilizing young law students, helping them acquire positions of power. It also provides leftist Democrats with a bully pulpit from which to denounce their political adversaries.

· American Family Voices: This group creates and coordinates media campaigns charging Republicans with wrongdoing.

· American Friends Service Committee: This group views the United States as the principal cause of human suffering around the world. As such, it favors America’s unilateral disarmament, the dissolution of American borders, amnesty for illegal aliens, the abolition of the death penalty, and the repeal of the Patriot Act.

· American Immigration Law Foundation: This group supports amnesty for illegal aliens, on whose behalf it litigates against the U.S. government.

· American Library Association: This group has been an outspoken critic of the Bush administration’s War on Terror -- most particularly, Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, which it calls “a present danger to the constitutional rights and privacy rights of library users.”

· The American Prospect, Inc.: This corporation trains and mentors young leftwing journalists, and organizes strategy meetings for leftist leaders.

· Amnesty International: This organization directs a grossly disproportionate share of its criticism for human rights violations at the United States and Israel.

· Arab American Institute Foundation: The Arab American Institute denounces the purportedly widespread civil liberties violations directed against Arab Americans in the post-9/11 period, and characterizes Israel as a brutal oppressor of the Palestinian people.

· Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now: This group conducts voter mobilization drives on behalf of leftist Democrats. These initiatives have been notoriously marred by fraud and corruption.

· Bill of Rights Defense Committee: This group provides a detailed blueprint for activists interested in getting their local towns, cities, and even college campuses to publicly declare their opposition to the Patriot Act, and to designate themselves "Civil Liberties Safe Zones." The organization also came to the defense of self-described radical attorney Lynne Stewart, who was convicted in 2005 of providing material support for terrorism.

· Brennan Center for Justice: This think tank/legal activist group generates scholarly studies, mounts media campaigns, files amicus briefs, gives pro bono support to activists, and litigates test cases in pursuit of radical "change."

· Brookings Institution: This organization has been involved with a variety of internationalist and state-sponsored programs, including one that aspires to facilitate the establishment of a U.N.-dominated world government. Brookings Fellows have also called for additional global collaboration on trade and banking; the expansion of the Kyoto Protocol; and nationalized health insurance for children. Nine Brookings economists signed a petition opposing President Bush's tax cuts in 2003.

· Campaign for America's Future: This group supports tax hikes, socialized medicine, and a dramatic expansion of social welfare programs.

· Campus Progress: A project of the Soros-bankrolled Center for American Progress, this group seeks to “strengthen progressive voices on college and university campuses, counter the growing influence of right-wing groups on campus, and empower new generations of progressive leaders.”

· Catholics for a Free Choice: This nominally Catholic organization supports women's right to abortion-on-demand.

· Center for American Progress: This leftist think tank is headed by former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta, works closely with Hillary Clinton, and employs numerous former Clinton administration staffers. It is committed to “developing a long-term vision of a progressive America” and “providing a forum to generate new progressive ideas and policy proposals.”

· Center for Community Change: This group recruits and trains activists to spearhead leftist “political issue campaigns.” Promoting increased funding for social welfare programs by bringing “attention to major national issues related to poverty,” the Center bases its training programs on the techniques taught by the famed radical organizer Saul Alinsky.

· Center for Constitutional Rights: This pro-Castro organization is a core member of the open borders lobby, has opposed virtually all post-9/11 anti-terrorism measures by the U.S. government, and alleges that American injustice provokes acts of international terrorism.

· Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Reasoning from the premise that tax cuts generally help only the wealthy, this organization advocates greater tax expenditures on social welfare programs for low earners.

· Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: This group litigates and brings ethics charges against “government officials who sacrifice the common good to special interests” and “betray the public trust.” Almost all of its targets are Republicans.

· Coalition for an International Criminal Court: This group seeks to subordinate American criminal-justice procedures to those of an international court.

· Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund: Defenders of Wildlife opposes oil exploration in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It condemns logging, ranching, mining, and even the use of recreational motorized vehicles as activities that are destructive to the environment.

· Democracy Alliance: This self-described "liberal organization" aims to raise $200 million to develop a funding clearinghouse for leftist groups. Soros is a major donor to this group.

· Democracy 21: This group is a staunch supporter of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, also known as the McCain-Feingold Act.

· Democratic Party: Soros’ funding activities are devoted largely to helping the Democratic Party solidify its power base. In a November 2003 interview, Soros stated that defeating President Bush in 2004 "is the central focus of my life" … "a matter of life and death." He pledged to raise $75 million to defeat Bush, and personally donated nearly a third of that amount to anti-Bush organizations. "America under Bush," he said, "is a danger to the world, and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is." Claiming that "the Republican party has been captured by a bunch of extremists," Soros accuses the Bush administration of following a "supremacist ideology" in whose rhetoric he claims to hear echoes of "Nazi slogans."

· Earthjustice: This group seeks to place severe restrictions on how U.S. land and waterways may be used. It opposes most mining and logging initiatives, commercial fishing businesses, and the use of motorized vehicles in undeveloped areas.

· EMILY's List: This political network raises money for Democratic female political candidates who support unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.

· Feminist Majority: Characterizing the United States as an inherently sexist nation, this group focuses on “advancing the legal, social and political equality of women with men, countering the backlash to women's advancement, and recruiting and training young feminists to encourage future leadership for the feminist movement in the United States.”

· Free Press: This “media reform” organization has worked closely with many notable leftists and such organizations as Media Matters for America, Air America Radio, Global Exchange, Code Pink, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, the Revolutionary Communist Party, Mother Jones magazine, and Pacifica Radio.

· Funding Exchange: Dedicated to the concept of philanthropy as a vehicle for social change, this organization pairs leftist donors and foundations with likeminded groups and activists who are dedicated to bringing about their own version of “progressive” change and social justice. Many of these grantees assume that American society is rife with racism, discrimination, exploitation, and inequity and needs to be overhauled via sustained education, activism, and social agitation.

· Gamaliel Foundation: Modeling its tactics on those of the radical Sixties activist Saul Alinsky, this group takes a strong stand against current homeland security measures and immigration restrictions.

· Human Rights First: This group supports open borders and the rights of illegal immigrants; charges that the Patriot Act severely erodes Americans’ civil liberties; has filed amicus curiae briefs on behalf of terror suspect Jose Padilla; and deplores the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities.

· Human Rights Watch: This group directs a disproportionate share of its criticism at the United States and Israel. It opposes the death penalty in all cases, and supports open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens.

· Immigrant Legal Resource Center: This group claims to have helped gain amnesty for some three million illegal immigrants in the U.S., and in the 1980s was part of the sanctuary movement which sought to grant asylum to refugees from the failed Communist states of Central America.

· Independent Media Institute: This group provides leftist organizations with “strategic communications consulting, training, coaching, networking opportunities and concrete tools” to help them “achieve their social justice goals.”

· Institute for Policy Studies: This think tank has long supported Communist and anti-American causes around the world. Viewing capitalism as a breeding ground for “unrestrained greed,” IPS seeks to provide a corrective to “unrestrained markets and individualism.” Professing an unquestioning faith in the righteousness of the United Nations, it aims to bring American foreign policy under UN control.

· Institute for Women’s Policy Research: This group views the U.S. as a nation rife with discrimination against women, and publishes research to draw attention to this alleged state of affairs. It also advocates unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, stating that “access to abortion is essential to the economic well-being of women and girls.”

· International Crisis Group: One of this organization’s leading figures is its Mideast Director, Robert Malley, who was a President Bill Clinton's Special Assistant for Arab-Israeli Affairs. His analysis of the Mideast conflict is markedly pro-Palestinian.

· Joint Victory Campaign 2004: Founded by George Soros and Harold Ickes, this group was a major fundraising entity for Democrats during the 2004 election cycle. It collected contributions (including large amounts from Soros personally) and disbursed them to two other groups, America Coming Together and the Media Fund, which also worked on behalf of Democrats.

· Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: This group views America as an unremittingly racist nation; uses the courts to mandate race-based affirmative action preferences in business and academia; has filed briefs against the Department of Homeland Security's efforts to limit the wholesale granting of green cards and to identify potential terrorists; condemns the Patriot Act; and calls on Americans to “recognize the contribution” of illegal immigrants.

· League of United Latin American Citizens: This group views America as a nation plagued by “an alarming increase in xenophobia and anti-Hispanic sentiment”; favors racial preferences; supports the legalization of illegal Hispanic immigrants; opposes military surveillance of U.S. borders; opposes making English America's official language; favors open borders; and rejects anti-terrorism legislation like the Patriot Act.

· League of Women Voters Education Fund: The League supports taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; supports “motor-voter” registration, which allows anyone with a driver’s license to become a voter, regardless of citizenship status; and supports tax hikes and socialized medicine.

· Lynne Stewart Defense Committee: IRS records indicate that Soros’s Open Society Institute made a September 2002 grant of $20,000 to this organization. Stewart was the criminal-defense attorney who was later convicted for abetting her client, the “blind sheik” Omar Abdel Rahman, in terrorist activities connected with his Islamic Group.

· MADRE: This international women’s organization deems America the world’s foremost violator of human rights. As such, it seeks to “communicat[e] the real-life impact of U.S. policies on women and families confronting violence, poverty and repression around the world,” and to “demand alternatives to destructive U.S. policies.” It also advocates unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.

· Malcolm X Grassroots Movement: This group views the U.S. as a nation replete with racism and discrimination against blacks; seeks to establish an independent black nation in the southeastern United States; and demands reparations for slavery.

· Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition: This group calls for the expansion of civil rights and liberties for illegal aliens; laments that illegal aliens in America are commonly subjected to “worker exploitation”; supports tuition-assistance programs for illegals attending college; and characterizes the Patriot Act as a “very troubling” assault on civil liberties.

· Media Fund: Soros played a major role in creating this group, whose purpose was to conceptualize, produce, and place political ads on television, radio, print, and the Internet.

· Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund: This group advocates open borders, free college tuition for illegal immigrants, lowered educational standards to accommodate Hispanics, and voting rights for criminals. In MALDEF’s view, supporters of making English the official language of the United States are “motivated by racism and anti-immigrant sentiments,” while advocates of sanctions against employers reliant on illegal labor seek to discriminate against “brown-skinned people.”

· Meyer, Suozzi, English and Klein, PC: This influential defender of Big Labor is headed by Democrat operative Harold Ickes.

· Midwest Academy: This entity trains radical activists in the tactics of direct action, targeting, confrontation, and intimidation.

· Migration Policy Institute: This group seeks to create “a North America with gradually disappearing border controls ... with permanent migration remaining at moderate levels.”

· Military Families Speak Out: This group ascribes the U.S. invasion of Iraq to American imperialism and lust for oil.

· MoveOn.org: This Web-based organization supports Democratic political candidates through fundraising, advertising, and get-out-the-vote drives.

· Ms. Foundation for Women: This group laments what it views as the widespread and enduring flaws of American society: racism, sexism, homophobia, and the violation of civil rights and liberties. It focuses its philanthropy on groups that promote affirmative action for women, unfettered access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and big government generally.

· NARAL Pro-Choice America: This group supports taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, and works to elect pro-abortion Democrats.

· NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund: The NAACP supports racial preferences in employment and education, as well as the racial gerrymandering of voting districts. Underpinning its support for race preferences is the fervent belief that white racism in the United States remains an intractable, largely undiminished, phenomenon.

· The Nation Institute: This nonprofit entity sponsors leftist conferences, fellowships, awards for radical activists, and journalism internships.

· National Abortion Federation: This group opposes any restrictions on abortion at either the state or federal levels, and champions the introduction of unrestricted abortion into developing regions of the world.

· National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy: This group depicts the United States as a nation in need of dramatic structural change financed by philanthropic organizations. It overwhelmingly promotes grant-makers and grantees with leftist agendas, while criticizing their conservative counterparts.

· National Council for Research on Women: This group supports big government, high taxes, military spending cuts, increased social welfare spending, and the unrestricted right to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.

· National Council of La Raza: This group lobbies for racial preferences, bilingual education, stricter hate-crime laws, mass immigration, and amnesty for illegal aliens.

· National Council of Women’s Organizations: This group views the United States as a nation rife with injustice against girls and women. It advocates high levels of spending for social welfare programs, and supports race and gender preferences for minorities and women in business and academia.

· National Immigration Forum: Opposing the enforcement of present immigration laws, this organization urges the American government to “legalize” en masse all illegal aliens currently in the United States who have no criminal records, and to dramatically increase the number of visas available for those wishing to migrate to the U.S. The Forum is particularly committed to opening the borders to unskilled, low-income workers, and immediately making them eligible for welfare and social service programs.

· National Immigration Law Center: This group seeks to win unrestricted access to government-funded social welfare programs for illegal aliens.

· National Lawyers Guild: This group promotes open borders; seeks to weaken America’s intelligence-gathering agencies; condemns the Patriot Act as an assault on civil liberties; rejects capitalism as an unviable economic system; has rushed to the defense of convicted terrorists and their abetters; and generally opposes all U.S. foreign policy positions, just as it did during the Cold War when it sided with the Soviets.

· National Organization for Women: This group advocates the unfettered right to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; seeks to “eradicate racism, sexism and homophobia” from American society; attacks Christianity and traditional religious values; and supports gender-based preferences for women.

· National Priorities Project: This group supports government-mandated redistribution of wealth -- through higher taxes and greater expenditures on social welfare programs. NPP exhorts the government to redirect a significant portion of its military funding toward public education, universal health insurance, environmentalist projects, and welfare programs.

· National Security Archive Fund: This group collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act to a degree that compromises American national security and the safety of intelligence agents.

· National Women’s Law Center: This group supports taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; lobbies against conservative judicial appointees; advocates increased welfare spending to help low-income mothers; and favors higher taxes for the purpose of generating more funds for such government programs as Medicaid, food stamps, welfare, foster care, health care, child-support enforcement, and student loans.

· Natural Resources Defense Council: One of the most influential environmentalist lobbying groups in the United States, the Council claims a membership of one million people.

· Pacifica Foundation: This entity owns and operates Pacifica Radio, awash from its birth with the socialist-Marxist rhetoric of class warfare and hatred for capitalism.

· Peace and Security Funders Group: This is an association of more than 50 foundations that give money to leftist anti-war and environmentalist causes. Its members tend to depict America as the world's chief source of international conflict, environmental destruction, and economic inequalities.

· People for the American Way: This group opposes the Patriot Act, anti-terrorism measures generally, and the allegedly growing influence of the “religious right.”

· Physicians for Human Rights: This group is selectively and disproportionately critical of the United States and Israel in its condemnations of human rights violations.

· Physicians for Social Responsibility: This is an anti-U.S.-military organization that also embraces the tenets of radical environmentalism.

· Planned Parenthood: This group is the largest abortion provider in the United States and advocates taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.

· Ploughshares Fund: This public grantmaking foundation opposes America’s development of a missile defense system, and contributes to many organizations that are highly critical of U.S. foreign policies and military ventures.

· Prison Moratorium Project: This initiative was created in 1995 for the express purpose of working for the elimination of all prisons in the United States and the release of all inmates. Reasoning from the premise that incarceration is never an appropriate means of dealing with crime, it deems American society’s inherent inequities the root of all criminal behavior.

· Project Vote: This is the voter-mobilization arm of the Soros-funded ACORN. A persistent pattern of lawlessness and corruption has followed ACORN/Project Vote activities over the years.

· Proteus Fund: This foundation directs its philanthropy toward a number of radical leftwing organizations.

· Public Citizen Foundation: Public Citizen seeks increased government intervention and litigation against corporations -- a practice founded on the notion that American corporations, like the capitalist system of which they are a part, are inherently inclined toward corruption.

· Sentencing Project: Asserting that prison sentencing patterns are racially discriminatory, this initiative advocates voting rights for felons.

· Sojourners: This evangelical Christian ministry preaches radical leftwing politics. During the 1980s it championed Communist revolution in Central America and chastised U.S. policy-makers for their tendency "to assume the very worst about their Soviet counterparts." More recently, Sojourners has taken up the cause of environmental activism, opposed welfare reform as a "mean-spirited Republican agenda," and mounted a defense of affirmative action.

· Thunder Road Group: This political consultancy, in whose creation Soros had a hand, coordinates strategy for the Media Fund, America Coming Together, and America Votes.

· Tides Foundation and Tides Center: Tides is a major funder of the radical Left.

· Urban Institute: This research organization favors socialized medicine, expansion of the federal welfare bureaucracy, and tax hikes for higher income-earners.

· USAction Education Fund: USAction lists its priorities as: "fighting the right wing agenda"; "building grassroots political power"; winning "social, racial and economic justice for all"; supporting a system of taxpayer-funded socialized medicine; reversing "reckless tax cuts for millionaires and corporations" which shield the "wealthy" from paying their "fair share"; advocating for "pro-consumer and environmental regulation of corporate abuse"; "strengthening progressive voices on local, state and national issues”; and working to "register, educate and get out the vote … [to] help progressives get elected at all levels of government."

·YWCA World Office, Switzerland: The YWCA opposes abstinence education; supports universal access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; and opposes school vouchers.

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Major Introductory Resources:

"Charitable" Foundations: ATMs for the Left
By Ben Johnson
March 2, 2004

Guide to the George Soros Network
By Discover The Networks
July 2007

Organizations Funded Directly by George Soros and his Open Society Institute
By Discover The Networks
July 2007

"Secondary" or "Indirect" Affiliates of the George Soros Network
By Discover The Networks
July 2007

Open Society Institute & Soros Foundations Network
By Ron Arnold
March 12, 2009

How Obama Revolution Came to America
By Robert Chandler
April 6, 2009

Additional Resources:

Soros Money Financed Communist Van Jones
By Cliff Kincaid
September 15, 2009

The Anti-Incarceration Movement: A Crisis Not Wasted (pdf)
By Joseph Lawler
May 2009

Soros Show Trials
By Matthew Vadum
April 28, 2009

Soros Invades Pentagon
By Rowan Scarborough
April 21, 2009

George Soros Funds Catholic Left
By NewsMax.com
October 26, 2008

NGO "Lawfare": Exploitation of Courts in the Israeli-Arab Conflict
By NGO Monitor
October 8, 2008

Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
By James Simpson
September 28, 2008

The Softer Side of Schools?
By Michelle Malkin
August 22, 2008

Democratic Platform's Hidden Soros Slush Fund
By Michelle Malkin
August 20, 2008

George Soros, Movie Mogul (pdf)
By Rondi Adamson
March 2008

Democracy Alliance: Billionaires for Big Government
By Matthew Vadum and James Dellinger
January 2008

Soros Gets Money from US Govt, Palestinians?
By Steve Gilbert
September 27, 2007

The Soros Threat To Democracy
By Investor's Business Daily
September 24, 2007

Soros' Man in Britain
By John Gizzi
July 6, 2007

The Other Brown
By Nile Gardiner
July 2, 2007

Khalil Gibran Moral Equivalency
By William Mayer and Beila Rabinowitz
June 22, 2007

Lawyers for Terror
By New York Post
September 19, 2006

Spawn of Soros: Funding a New Generation of Think Tanks
By Robert Huberty
March 2006

Kofi Annan: Hamas? Terrorist?
By Joseph Klein
February 6, 2006

Open Minds Need Not Apply
The New Editor
February 1, 2006

The Plot to Shush Rush and O’Reilly
By Brian C. Anderson
Winter 2006

Emperor Soros
By Ron Arnold
August 2005

George Soros' $30M Welfare Check
By Jeff Johnson
April 26, 2005

George Soros, Lynne Stewart, and the Open Society Institute
By The Capital Research Center
March 2005

Funding Terror Foundationally
By David Hogberg
February 25, 2005

Soros Funded Stewart Defense
By Byron York
February 17, 2005

The Open Borders Lobby and the Nation’s Security After 9/11, Part Two
By William Hawkins and Erin Anderson
January 22, 2004

George Soros: Billionaire of the Left
By Lowell Ponte
November 13, 2003

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Assets: $858,935,162 (2005)
Grants Received: $377,413,561 (2005)
Grants Awarded: $65,934,588 (2005)

Established in 1993, the Open Society Institute (OSI) is the most prominent of the numerous foundations belonging to the international billionaire financier George Soros, its founder and Chairman. Claiming to be “a nonpartisan, nonpolitical entity” whose funding agendas are “wholly separate” from “George Soros’s private political activities,” OSI describes itself as “a private operating and grantmaking foundation [that] "aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform; … implements a range of initiatives to support the rule of law, education, public health, and independent media; [and] works to build alliances across borders and continents on issues such as combating corruption and rights abuses.”

OSI’s Director of U.S. Advocacy is Morton Halperin (President of John Podesta’s Center for American Progress, and a longtime affiliate of the Institute for Policy Studies and the National Lawyers Guild).

The President of OSI and the Soros Foundation Network is Aryeh Neier, who worked for the American Civil Liberties Union from 1963 to 1978, serving as its Director for the last eight of those years. Then, from 1978 to 1990, he was the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch.

PBS broadcaster and Schumann Center for Media and Democracy President Bill Moyers is a former trustee of the Open Society Institute.

Another noteworthy former OSI trustee is Lani Guinier, who served on the OSI board until the end of 2007. Guinier is best known as President Bill Clinton's 1993 nominee for the post of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Derided by some critics as "Clinton's Quota Queen" because she favored proportional representation (based on race and ethnicity) in local political elections, Guinier ultimately failed to impress the Senate and her nomination was withdrawn by Clinton.

OSI supports a wide array of leftist organizations, including: the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy; the Tides Foundation; the Tides Center; the National Organization for Women; Feminist Majority; the American Civil Liberties Union; People for the American Way; Alliance for Justice; NARAL Pro-Choice America; America Coming Together; the Center for American Progress; Campaign for America’s Future; Amnesty International; the Sentencing Project; the Center for Community Change; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund; the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN); Campus Progress; Free Exchange on Campus; Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington; Democracy 21; Human Rights Watch; the Prison Moratorium Project; the Immigrant Funders' Collaborative; the Moving Ideas Network; the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement; the No Peace Without Justice International Committee; the National Lawyers Guild; the Center for Constitutional Rights; the Coalition for an International Criminal Court; the Abortion Access Project; People of Color In Crisis; The American Prospect; MoveOn.org; the Gay Straight Alliance Network; the Youth Law Center; Planned Parenthood; the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy; the Institute for Policy Studies; Joint Victory Campaign 2004; the Midwest Academy; Jews for Racial and Economic Justice; Project Syndicate (an international association of newspapers that publish anti-American propaganda); the Rocky Mountain Peace Center; the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission; Earth Rights International; the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force; the Nation Institute; the Violence Policy Center; Gun Violence Prevention; Critical Resistance - Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex; the Center for Investigative Reporting; the Million Mom March; Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation; the Death Penalty Information Center, the Death Penalty Mobilization Fund; the Drug Policy Alliance; the Brennan Center for Justice; the Project On Death in America; the Death with Dignity National Center; the Ms. Foundation for Women; the National Security Archive Fund; the Pacifica Foundation; Physicians for Human Rights; the Proteus Fund; the Public Citizen Foundation; the Urban Institute; the American Friends Service Committee; Catholics for a Free Choice; Human Rights First; the Independent Media Institute; and MADRE.

A key funder of the open borders movement, OSI also supports the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund; the Immigrant Legal Resource Center; the National Immigration Law Center; the National Immigration Forum; the National Council of La Raza; and the American Immigration Law Foundation.

Internal Revenue Service records indicate that OSI made a September 2002 grant of $20,000 to the Lynne Stewart Defense Committee. Stewart was the criminal-defense attorney who was later convicted for abetting her client, the "blind sheik" Omar Abdel Rahman, in terrorist activities connected with his Islamic Group.

The Capital Research Center has published a list of additional organizations to which OSI has recently donated money, groups that according to CRC “advocate higher taxes and more government spending, oppose social security reform, litigate against property rights, oppose the death penalty, oppose tough criminal incarceration policies, oppose Bush judicial nominees, and promote balkanizing racial agendas.” These donees include the following:

We Interrupt This Message portrays America as a nation rife with racism and economic injustice; seeks to radicalize minority youth; aims to help the “disenfranchised” and the “marginalized” to overcome negative media stereotypes; and encourages acts of rebellion against America’s alleged injustices, as evidenced by its characterization of the 1992 Los Angeles riots as a “civil uprising.”
The Independent Media Institute publishes a number of regularly updated websites that offer news and opinion from a far left perspective; its Executive Director Don Hazen is a former publisher of Mother Jones magazine.
The Community Rights Counsel provides legal assistance to state and local governments seeking to restrict individual property rights in the name of “community interest.”
Equal Justice Works encourages young people to pursue careers as public interest lawyers -- focusing on the areas of workers’ rights, birth control and abortion issues, consumers’ rights, disability issues, children’s rights, the death penalty, and prisoners’ rights -- by funding student fellowships and helping students pay back their school loans.
The Legal Action Center is a public interest law firm that litigates to force health-care insurers to provide coverage for people with histories of addiction to alcohol and drugs. It also opposes community efforts to block the placement of alcohol- and drug-treatment facilities in or near residential neighborhoods.
Population Services International promotes wider access to birth control and abortion services in more than 60 countries worldwide.
The Western States Center aims to build a “progressive movement for social, economic, racial and environmental justice in … eight Western states.”
The Esperanza Center strives to build a political movement drawing on “women, people of color, lesbians and gay men, the working class and poor” -- groups it considers “wounded by domination and inequality” in American political life.
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy believes that wealthy Americans pay less than their fair share of taxes; it publishes op-eds and studies that urge states to raise taxes on higher income-earners.
The Network for a Progressive Texas is a coalition of "Texans who are committed to economic, social, and environmental justice ... engaging in collective action, and building power to affect progressive change.”
The Center for Law and Social Policy promotes government welfare entitlements under the heading of “economic security”; the Center’s Board of Directors includes attorney Peter Edelman, husband of Children’s Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman.
The Center for Policy Alternatives is a “progressive public policy and leadership development center serving state legislators, state policy organizations, and state grassroots leaders.”
The Economic Policy Institute opposes social security privatization and free trade agreements such as NAFTA; it was founded in 1986 by journalist Robert Kuttner, Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich, and economist Lester Thurow.
The State Strategies Fund works to create a coalition of activists to support its agenda of campaign finance reform, progressive tax policy, and government-funded health care.
DEMOS believes that America’s social and economic ills stem largely from “the values of extreme laissez faire ideology that have deeply permeated our society,” and from the fact that “[w]e’ve been told that government is the problem, not the solution.”

A strong supporter of anti-war and environmentalist organizations, OSI is a member of the Peace and Security Funders Group. It is also a member of the International Human Rights Funders Group, a network of more than six-dozen grant-makers dedicated to bankrolling leftist organizations and causes.

OSI endorsed a 2000 document called the Earth Charter, which blames capitalism for many of the world's environmental, social, and economic problems. According to the Charter, “the dominant patterns of production and consumption are causing environmental devastation, the depletion of resources, and a massive extinction of species.” “The benefits of development,” adds the Charter, “are not shared equitably and the gap between rich and poor is widening."

In the vanguard of the U.S. drug decriminalization movement, OSI in 1994 pledged $4 million to fund the establishment of the Lindesmith Center, which supports the legalization of marijuana. In 2002 OSI gave $3 million to the Tides Foundation, earmarking the money for a group called Fund for Drug Policy Reform, which opposes the War on Drugs.

OSI was a signatory to a November 1, 2001 document characterizing the 9/11 attacks as a legal matter to be addressed by criminal-justice procedures rather than military retribution. Suggesting that the hijackers were motivated chiefly by a desire to point out global injustices perpetrated by the United States, this document explained that similar future calamities could be averted only if America would finally begin to “promote fundamental rights around the world.”

OSI endorsed the Civil Liberties Restoration Act (CLRA) of 2004, which was designed to roll back, in the name of protecting civil liberties, vital national-security policies that had been adopted after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Numerous OSI funding initiatives reflect the Institute’s view that the American criminal-justice system is infested with racism, and that incarceration is an inappropriate punishment for most lawbreakers. For example: (a) OSI has established a “U.S. Justice Fund” to “diminish the role of prisons ... and to pave the way for the creation of a larger system of public health and social supports.” (b) In a related measure, the Institute created an “After Prison Initiative” focusing on “supporting the successful reentry of prisoners to their communities.” (c) OSI helps finance the Sentencing Project, which claims that prison sentencing patterns are racially discriminatory, and advocates in favor of granting voting rights to convicted felons. (d) OSI funds the Southern Center for Human Rights, which recruits lawyers to represent death row inmates and aims to reduce America’s alleged over-reliance on incarceration. (e) The Institute supports Critical Resistance, a program that impugns the “Prison Industrial Complex” for fostering the delusion that “caging and controlling people makes us safe.”

A strong advocate of gun control, OSI funds the Network on Small Arms, which has lobbied the United Nations to pass a measure outlawing private gun ownership and effectively overturning the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment.

OSI funded the multi-year United Nations Millennium Development Project -- commissioned by the UN Secretary-General in 2002 “to develop a concrete action plan for the world to … reverse the grinding poverty, hunger and disease affecting billions of people. In 2005 this Project culminated in a recommendation for a massive wealth-redistribution, foreign-aid program whose provisions, if adopted, would impose more than $150 billion in annual costs on Americans.

Each year, OSI sponsors a number of fellowships, among them, the Soros Justice Fellowship which is awarded to "outstanding individuals" who will implement projects aimed at reforming the American criminal-justice system. Most notably, OSI seeks to end "the over-reliance on incarceration and harsh punishment, and the lack of equal justice—especially for people of color and the poor." One of the more infamous recipients of this fellowship was the radical communist Linda Evans, a former member of the Weather Underground. In the 1970s, Evans and accomplice Susan Rosenberg took part in the deadly Brinks armored-car robbery in Nyack, New York, where two security guards and two police officers were shot, three of them fatally. Three years later, the women were finally apprehended. At the time, they had 740 pounds of explosives (which they admitted were earmarked for bombings) in their possession. Rosenberg was sentenced to 58 years in prison, Evans to 40 years. (She was later paroned by President Bill Clinton in January 2001.) According to FBI files, Evans, during a 1969 trip to Hanoi, was shown an anti-aircraft gun, cradled it in her arms, and said, "[I wish] an American plane would fly over." Her OSI award was intended to aid her efforts to "increase civic participation of former prisoners."

On August 16, 2005, OSI (in collaboration with the Center for American Progress, the AFL-CIO, the Service Employees International Union, AFSCME, and the United Steelworkers Union) launched a new organization called the Progressive Legislative Action Network (PLAN). Led by Democratic activists David Sirota and Steve Doherty, PLAN’s mission is to seed state legislatures with prewritten "model" legislation reflecting leftist visions of justice.

Between 1998 and 2003, OSI received more than $30 million from U.S. government agencies. Various State Department documents indicate that OSI has been paid to run what the Department describes as "democratization programs" in a number of countries, including Uzbekistan, Burma, and regions of Central Asia.

In an effort to present itself in the most positive light to the American people, OSI uses the services of the public relations firm Fenton Communications.

In October 2010, OSI announced that it was donating $1.8 million to National Public Radio, in order to enable NPR to add 100 journalists at its affiliate radio stations across the United States.

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http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/secondaryorindirectaffi.html

"Secondary" or "Indirect" Affiliates of the George Soros Network

By Discover The Networks
July 2007

In addition to those organizations (“primary” or “direct” affiliates) that are funded directly by George Soros and his Open Society Institute (OSI), there are also numerous “secondary” or “indirect” affiliates of the Soros network. These include organizations which do not receive direct funding from Soros and OSI, but which are funded by one or more organizations that do. These secondary affiliates also include organizations that work collaboratively or synergistically with Soros-funded groups. Among these secondary affiliates are the following:

· Air America Radio: Funded by Democracy Alliance, which is heavily bankrolled by Soros, this radio station was created to advance the cause of the Democratic Party and the political Left.

· Catalist: Headed by Soros ally Harold Ickes, this political consultancy seeks “to help progressive organizations realize measurable increases in civic participation and electoral success by building and operating a robust national voter database of every voting-age American.” Toward this end, it helps leftist organizations conduct more effective get-out-the-vote drives and targeted political advertising.

· Center for Progressive Leadership: Funded by the Soros-bankrolled Democracy Alliance, this anti-capitalist organization is dedicated to training future leftist political leaders.

· Media Matters for America: Seeking to "systematically monitor [the media] for conservative misinformation" and to discredit anything that "forwards the conservative agenda," this group, which has intimate ties to Hillary Clinton, works very closely with the Soros-backed Center for American Progress. It is heavily funded by Democracy Alliance, of which Soros is a major financier.

· Moving Ideas Network: This coalition of more than 250 leftwing activist groups is a partner organization of the Soros-backed Center for American Progress. Promoting the candidacy of leftwing politicians, MIN was originally a project of the Soros-backed American Prospect and, as such, received indirect funding from the Open Society Institute. In early 2006, The American Prospect relinquished control of MIN.

· New Organizing Institute: Created by the Soros-funded MoveOn.org, this group “trains young, technology-enabled political organizers to work for progressive campaigns and organizations.”

· Schumann Center for Media and Democracy: PBS broadcaster and Schumann Center President Bill Moyers is a trustee of the Open Society Institute’s Board of Directors. The Schumann Center shares many of OSI’s agendas.

· Service Employees International Union: The current President of SEIU is the former New Leftist Andrew Stern, who sat on the Executive Committee of the Soros-created America Coming Together.

· Sierra Club: This organization’s Executive Director, Carl Pope, co founded America Coming Together, in whose creation Soros played a major role.

· Think Progress: This “project” of the American Progress Action Fund, which is a “sister advocacy organization” of the Soros-funded Center for American Progress and Campus Progress, seeks to transform “progressive ideas into policy through rapid response communications, legislative action, grassroots organizing and advocacy, and partnerships with other progressive leaders throughout the country and the world.” Think Progress promotes an agenda identical to that of the left wing of the Democratic Party.

· Vote for Change: Coordinated by the political action committee of the Soros-funded MoveOn.org, Vote for Change was a group of 41 musicians and bands that performed concerts in several key election “battleground” states during October 2004, to raise money in support of Democrat John Kerry’s presidential bid.

· Working Families Party: Created in 1998 to help push the Democratic Party toward the left, this front group for the Soros-funded ACORN functions as a political party that promotes ACORN-friendly candidates.