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At the end of his life he was working closely with George Soros' Open Society Institute, and was instrumental in the early stages of founding the International Crisis Group, which seeks to institutionalize the knowledge base of relief experts.
2001-2005 - local Ukrainian head of board of directors at the International Renaissance Foundation, which is a part of the Open Society Institute of the American financier and philanthropist George Soros.
A 2008 article in the National Journal revealed for the first time that the Lancet survey was funded in part by George Soros' Open Society Institute.
Grinker has been exhibited and published internationally, garnering many awards, including a World Press Photo Foundation Prize, an Open Society Institute Distribution grant, the Ernst Hass Grant, a W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund fellowship, The Santa Fe Center for Photography Project Grant, and a Hasselblad Foundation Grant, among others.
His work has been exhibited on four continents and in 2007 he received a grant from the Open Society Institute to exhibit his work from the Ecuadoran Amazon in the communities in Ecuador most affected by the contamination left in the region as a result of Texaco's oil extraction practices.
Funders of MDIF's Loan/Investment Pool include: Bank Vontobel, Calvert Social Investment Foundation, DOEN Foundation, Dreilinden gGmbH, Foundation for Democracy and Media, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Open Society Institute, Oxfam Novib, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Alexej Fulmek.
He worked as a diplomat 1992–1993, as a research and teaching assistant at Brandeis University 1993–1997, as Director of Programs at the Open Society Fund Lithuania 1997–2001, as Deputy Director of the Center for Stateless Cultures at Vilnius University 1998–2000, as Assistant Professor of History at Vilnius University 1999–2000, and as Miles Lerman Research Fellow of the Center for the Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2001–2002.
This venture got the support of the George Soros-funded Open Society Institute, and US peace activist Eric Bachman, living in Europe since 1969, together with the Dutch peace activist Wam Kat (who wrote his daily "Zagreb Dairy" on Zamir), set up an electronic network between peace groups in the region.
Budapest Open Access Initiative, conference convened by the Open Society Institute in 2001
She became involved in the Open Society Institute of George Soros and in 1996 won a seat on Skopje City Council, which she held until she was elected to the Macedonian parliament in 1998.