Catalyzing change through impact investing
The Soros Economic Development Fund is the impact investment arm of the Open Society Foundations. We make private-sector investments to advance the Foundations’ enduring commitments of equity, expression, and justice.
Deployed as of January 2024:
$400M+
Invested in fragile, frontier, and emerging market countries:
92%
Countries we’ve invested in:
60+
Who We Are
We work globally to support the programmatic strategies of the Open Society Foundations across regions and themes.
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We harness the power of private capital to pursue rights-respecting, justice-enhancing, systemic change.
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We prioritize a range of themes, including: access to medicines, climate justice, the care economy, independent media, racial justice, and other issues central to advancing open society values.
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