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Last month the Baltimore Sun profiled Baltimore City Schools’ Re-Engagement Center, which was created with Open Society Institute funding. The center, now in its third year, works to get students back into school after they have dropped out or been incarcerated or otherwise derailed by violence or trauma. The Sun reports that last year, about 540 […]

On Thursday, the New York Times Editorial Board weighed in on rising drug prices, citing the experience of Baltimore City Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen in trying to broaden distribution of the life-saving overdose reversal drug Naloxone. In Baltimore, the health commissioner, Dr. Leana Wen, uses a need-based algorithm to decide which emergency rooms, needle-exchange vans, E.M.T.s […]

On Tuesday, the Baltimore City School Board unanimously passed a new policy for school police. Such a policy has been under discussion for three years. Open Society Institute grantees in the Coalition to Reform School Discipline have been advocating for such a policy for years, although they were disappointed that their push for a youth-friendly […]

Recently, Scott Nolen, director of Open Society Institute’s Addiction and Health Equity program, appeared on “The Baltimore Guys” podcast to talk about the work AHE does, the importance of the language used around addiction, healthcare, and reducing stigma. Listen to the entire podcast here.

On Wednesday night, Open Society Institute-Baltimore held the first of three events in its 20th Anniversary Speaker Series. The keynote conversation, “Bold Thinking on Racial Justice in America,” featured Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, talking to Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and OSI Advisory Board member Taylor Branch. (See […]

At a ceremony this morning at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, the Baltimore Business Journal recognized (above, left to right) Open Society Institute Advisory Board members Veronica Cool and Eddie Brown, and Community Fellowships Director Pamela King among 11 Baltimore-area “Leaders in Diversity.” Fenimore Fisher, vice provost and chief diversity officer at Johns Hopkins University, gave […]

A recent episode of WYPR’s Life in the Balance featured 2017 OSI Community Fellow Alex Long’s Team Redemption Boxing Gym program. Long, a member of Safe Streets, a violence prevention program in McElderry Park, started the boxing program for youth ages 10-15 in 2015 but was able to expand and strengthen with his fellowship. The gym, he […]

On Sunday, Patrick Gaspard, the president of Open Society Foundations, appeared as a panelist on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” Gaspard, who is a former senior aide to President Obama and U.S. ambassador to South Africa, along with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, ABC’s chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl and others, discussed the Mueller […]

Recently, the Real News Network featured a story on Open Society Institute’s latest Talking About Race event, “Mothers of the Movement Speak.” The event, co-sponsored by the University of Baltimore College of Public Affairs and Baltimore Ceasefire, included Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir Rice; Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner; Marion Gray-Hopkins, mother of Gary Albert […]

This week Morgan State University Professor and 2012 OSI Community Fellow Lawrence Brown launches the Baltimore Equity Toolkit and Power Mapping website. The Powermap, an analytical tool that can be used to both understand the impact of redlining and change the trajectory of redlined communities, was originally developed by Brown in 2016-2017 with the help […]