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On Friday, May 11, the newly-relaunched BMA Outpost will co-host “100 Plus,” an event with the Cherry Hill Town Center to celebrate the community which has gone more than 100 days without a shooting. The event will recognize the many groups and individuals who have contributed to the reduction of violence in the neighborhood. The […]

Yesterday’s edition of WYPR’s show Life in the Balance featured Open Society Institute’s Pamela King, who has directed the Community Fellows program since it began 20 years ago, and Evan Serpick, OSI’s director of strategic communications. Listen to the full program here. Host Aaron Henkin asked King and Serpick about OSI’s work generally and, in […]

Earlier this week, the Baltimore Sun reported on Baltimore hospitals’ stepped-up efforts to fight the opioid epidemic, including screening patients for addiction, connecting them to rehabilitation services, and distributing overdose reversal drug Naloxone. Two of the hospitals mentioned, Bon Secours and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, are part of an OSI-supported program to develop models for emergency […]

On May 9, OSI grantee, Public Justice Center, will co-host “Movies that Matter,” an evening of films by young filmmakers from Wide Angle Youth Media, an organization founded by 2001 OSI Community Fellow, Gin Ferrara, and also a current OSI grantee. The three films, Void; Violence in Baltimore: A Community in Chaos; and Why Black Lives […]

The 2016 cohort of OSI Community Fellows gathered at Nancy by SNAC in Station North last night to mark the end of their 18 month Fellowship and discuss their progress as they rotate into the Community Fellows Network. Each of the 10 Fellows briefly presented on their Fellowship and their plans moving forward, and then […]

Open Society Institute-Baltimore Community Fellows played a big part in Charm City, a documentary about Baltimore that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this week. The film follows several people over the course of three years, including 2000 Fellow Clayton Guyton (pictured above, in a still from the film), founder of the Rose Street Community Center, […]

As part of last week’s Labs at Light City, Open Society Institute and our grantee, Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition, constructed and hosted tours of a pop-up safe consumption site, where visitors can see how such a site allows drug users to use in a safe environment, access medical care, and, if they’re ready for it, […]

This week, Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts announced they are planning to introduce legislation that would require $10 billion a year in federal funding to combat the opioid crisis. The program, similar to the Ryan White Act of 1990, which provided federal money to fight the AIDS epidemic, would send […]