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Pamela King, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Community Fellowships program, will be recognized by Baltimore Business Journal as a “Leaders in Diversity” honoree at a July 7th ceremony. Also among the honorees are OSI-Baltimore Advisory Board members Eddie Brown and Veronica Cool. The newspaper says the event “seeks to honor executives, business owners and nonprofit leaders who […]

Rabbi Jill Jacobs, executive director of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, is coming to Baltimore the weekend of May 11-12 as a Scholar-in Residence at Beth Am Synagogue in Reservoir Hill to talk about “Human Rights in Judaism.” The program is co-sponsored by OSI-Baltimore, Jews United for Justice, and Hinenu: The Baltimore Justice […]

This week, ShareBaby Baby Pantry, the program 2016 Community Fellow Eliseba Osore expanded as part of her fellowship, recently moved to a larger space in the Woodberry neighborhood. Osore (right) and ShareBaby Executive Director Amino Ross are pictured here at opening of the new space, which will allow the program to expand its efforts. ShareBaby, an established Maryland […]

2017 OSI Community Fellow Shantell Roberts was recently named one of the United Way of Central Maryland’s “Philanthropic Five” award winners. The awards are given to “five young professional leaders who have created meaningful change in central Maryland through an extraordinary commitment to volunteerism in one or more of the following areas: education, housing, employment or […]

On Thursday, May 10th, from 7 to 9 p.m., Open Society Institute-Baltimore, in collaboration with Baltimore Ceasefire and the University of Baltimore College of Public Affairs, will host the next Talking About Race event, “Mothers of the Movement Speak,” a town hall discussion led by mothers who have lost children to police and gun violence, at the […]

Last week, the Baltimore Sun published a list of 10 “change-makers working to improve the Baltimore area with their courage, innovative thinking, and leadership.” Among those listed are Catalina Rodriguez-Lima, director of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant and Multicultural Affairs (MIMA). Rodriguez-Lima, a member of Open Society Institute’s Leadership Council, partnered with OSI to create the […]

On Tuesday, April 10th, Baltimore Dance Crews Project, the organization co-founded by 2015 OSI Community Fellow Brian Gerardo, held a family and community night at OpenWorks Baltimore to premiere their first dance video below. The video, set to Fleur East’s Sax, showcases the work of the dancers and offers a glimpse into the program’s mentorship program, which […]

On May 3rd, Open Society Institute hosts a special advance screening of “RBG,” the highly anticipated documentary about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. This is the first event in a series celebrating OSI-Baltimore’s 20th Anniversary. Before the film, Justice Ginsburg will offer a video greeting congratulating OSI on our 20th Anniversary. Other events will […]

On Thursday, April 19th at Light City’s HealthLab, Scott Nolen, director of Open Society Institute’s Addiction and Health Equity program, will discuss innovations in opioid addiction in a talk entitled, “A Safer and Healthier Baltimore: The Role of Safe Consumption.” In addition, OSI and our grantee, Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition, will set up a “Safe […]