OSI-Baltimore grantee, the Bridges Coalition will host “Seeking Safety in a War Zone: A Community Conversation” on Monday August 28 and Wednesday August 30. Community members are invited to share stories and ideas to address issues like over-incarceration and the overdose epidemic in Baltimore and to come together to promote community health and healing. On […]
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OSI Fellow’s project to showcase writers from Baltimore City schools
Monday, August 07, 2017This Friday, 36 Baltimore City middle and high school students participating in Baltimore Schools Young Writers’ Summer Studio will share new fiction, poetry and non-fiction work from their week at camp. The Summer Studio is a program of Writers in Baltimore Schools, a project started by 2008 OSI Community Fellow Patrice Hutton. The reading will take place […]
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Two Consent Decree community forums announced for August
Friday, August 04, 2017Two community forums regarding the Department of Justice consent decree are scheduled for this month. The first will be held on Tuesday, August 15 at the Baltimore City Community College’s Fine Arts Auditorium. The second will be on Wednesday, August 16, at Morgan State University’s Student Center. Both forums will be held from 6-8pm. Additional […]
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Coalition for a Safe and Just Maryland members renew fight for bail reform
Friday, August 04, 2017Members of the OSI-Baltimore-funded Coalition for a Safe and Just Maryland (CSJM) have made series of media appearances in recent weeks, renewing the fight for bail reform months after the state legislature turned back an attempt by the bail industry to roll back the unanimous state appeals court ruling requiring judges to consider non-financial pretrial conditions […]
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CityLab talks about strategies to tackle Baltimore’s toughest problems
Thursday, August 03, 2017Yesterday, civic leaders from Baltimore and around the country came to North Avenue’s Parkway Theater to discuss pressing urban policy issues including blight and drug addiction as part of The Atlantic’s CityLab Baltimore conference. OSI-Baltimore was a proud underwriter of the event. Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a Johns Hopkins grad, opened up the […]
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OSI harm reduction grantee BRIDGES Coalition featured on WMAR
Wednesday, August 02, 2017Recently, members of the OSI-funded BRIDGES Coalition were featured on WMAR to advocate for keeping treatment clinics in Baltimore City. Members of the coalition, responding to Mayor Pugh’s suggestion earlier this summer that treatment centers are the source of neighborhood violence, argue that taking treatment centers out of the neighborhoods that need them most would […]
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OSI Fellow partners with City Paper to help young writers
Tuesday, August 01, 2017Tonight, 36 Baltimore City students participating in the Baltimore Young Writers’ Summer Studio will gather at the Impact Hub to interview politicians, artists, writers, entrepreneurs, and others to write profiles that will be published in a September issue of City Paper. The Summer Studio is a program of Writers in Baltimore Schools, a project started by […]
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Baltimore Sun highlights OSI’s Fellowships program on its 20th anniversary
Monday, July 31, 2017This week, the Baltimore Sun featured a great article on the OSI-Baltimore Community Fellowships program. “Sparks for change: Open Society fellows have tested new ideas for Baltimore for 20 years,” highlights how deeply woven into the fabric of Baltimore the fellows have become in the two-decade history of the program. “When we think about the […]
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OSI Fellow organizes journalism master class for city youth
Monday, July 31, 20172014 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Shawn Burnett and his organization, Walks of ART, will collaborate with author D. Watkins and photographer Devin Allen to bring a two-day journalism master class to Baltimore City youth on August 15 and 16. Young people from Baltimore City age 14 to 18 can send a photo with a story (no more than […]
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OSI’s Webber visits Hungary to talk about educating marginalized populations
Thursday, July 27, 2017Karen Webber, director of OSI’s Education and Youth Development program, recently returned from Budapest, where she attended a week-long course at Central European University on inclusion of marginalized student populations. Representatives from more than 20 countries, including Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Turkey, Georgia, Mongolia, South Africa, Kenya, India, Nepal, and Spain, participated in the course. Participants discussed the […]
