Anonymous ID: 13b4fe April 16, 2020, 12:35 p.m. No.8815495   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/working-with-our-grantees-in-a-time-of-crisis

 

First, we would like to reassure all our grantees that the Open Society Foundations are in a stable financial situation. There is no reason for you to be concerned that we will be unable to meet our obligations to you.

Second, Open Society will defer to its grantees to make their own risk-based assessments about whether and how to alter activities in response to COVID-19. The Foundations do not want to place any more burdens on grantees whose work has been adversely impacted by the pandemic. In the coming weeks and months, we will reach out to better understand the impact of the public health crisis on your work.

Third, on a case-by-case basis, our program officers and directors are prepared to consider sympathetically any requests you make for adjustments to allow you to use funds to cover unanticipated costs related to preparedness, response, or risk mitigation associated with this health emergency, or to cover other penalties incurred, as a result of cancelled activities.

If grantees find that it is more costly to implement an Open Society grant due to the coronavirus health emergency, they should work with their program officers to assess whether there is funding to cover these unforeseen costs.