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This week, OSI Advisory Board member Alicia Wilson was selected to a national list of influential young executives, according to the Baltimore Business Journal. Wilson, who is the vice president of community affairs and legal advisor for Sagamore Development was selected out of more than 1000 executives as one of the Business Journals’ Influencers: Rising […]

Last Wednesday, OSI Baltimore Community Fellows, including 2017 Fellow Jackie Bello (above, left) and 2010 Fellow Koli Tengella (above, right) joined Business Volunteers of Maryland’s (BVM) GIVE Fellows in a special skillCONNECT event. At the event, OSI presented concrete problem their projects were facing and working with teams of GIVE Fellows to conceive new ideas and […]

Last week, the MacArthur Foundation announced that its Safety and Justice Challenge – an effort to reduce the misuse and overuse of jails nationwide – would expand to 12 new jurisdictions, including Baltimore City. With its $50,000 grant award, the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, which operates the Baltimore City jail, will create […]

Last night at the final event in Open Society Institute - Baltimore's 20th Anniversary Speaker Series, OSI Advisory Board members Veronica Cool and James DeGraffenreidt, Jr. - both of whom served on the Fellows Selection Committee - announced the 2018 cohort of OSI Community Fellows. The 10 new Fellows bring the OSI Community Fellowships Network [...]

This morning Open Society Foundations (OSF) President Patrick Gaspard appeared on MSNBC to talk about the bomb found at the residence of George Soros, the philanthropist and founder of OSF, of which OSI-Baltimore is the only U.S. field office.  “George Soros has been saying for quite some time now that language can be weaponized and the […]

Open Society Foundations (OSF) co-sponsored the 12th National Harm Reduction Conference in New Orleans last week and several Open Society staff members and OSI-Baltimore grantees spoke and participated in panel discussions. OSI-Baltimore is OSF’s only US field office. Daniel Wolfe, director of OSF’s International Harm Reduction Development Program and Roxanne Saucier, a researcher and analyst with […]

The Campaign for Justice, Safety, and Jobs, an OSI-supported coalition including the ACLU of Maryland, CASA, and the No Boundaries Coalition, will host a People’s Town Hall on local police reform efforts. The event takes place at Archbishop Boarders School, 3500 Foster Ave., at 6 p.m., Tuesday, October 23rd. On the agenda for the event, which promises […]

The 2017 cohort of OSI Community Fellows and other members of the Fellowships Network gathered today at Church of the Guardian Angel in Remington for their monthly session, where Fellows Eric Jackson and Ryan Flanigan shared updates on their projects. As part of his Fellowship, Jackson, who leads the Black Yield Institute, is organizing a community-controlled […]

This week, Karen Webber, director of OSI’s Education and Youth Development program published an article in the Unified Family Court Connection Fall newsletter on the implementation of restorative practices in Baltimore City Public Schools.   The newsletter also features “Restorative Justice: Transforming Escalating Conflict into a Positive Outcome,” written by Maryland Representative John Sarbanes. Both […]