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On Tuesday, October 30th, 1999 OSI Community Fellow David Miller will facilitate “Keys to Recruiting Men as Mentors.” The training will be held from 10am to 12pm at Miller’s Court on North Howard Street. Find additional information and register here. As part of his fellowship, Miller created the Dare to be King Curriculum as a comprehensive system […]

Last week, Open Society Foundations announced that Tom Perriello, a former member of the U.S. Congress, diplomat, educator, and activist, will be the new executive director of U.S. Programs. OSI-Baltimore is Open Society Foundations’ only U.S. field office and the work done here is meant to inform the priorities and strategies of the national work. In […]

Charm City, a film that features OSI Community Fellows Clayton Guyton (2000, pictured above, in a still from the film), founder of the Rose Street Community Center, and Alex Long (2017), who works at Safe Streets and founded the McElderry Youth Redemption Boxing Program as part of his Fellowship, opened on Friday at the Parkway Theatre and is now playing. Meryam Bouadjemi, a […]

Black Yield Institute, directed by 2017 OSI Community Fellow Eric Jackson, and the Farm Alliance of Baltimore co-host End-Dependence Day tomorrow, Tuesday, October 16th, at 2640 Space. The event will include a community meal and a workshop on organizing for food sovereignty. Register here. Through his Fellowship, Jackson is organizing two community-controlled cooperative food ventures in Cherry […]

Last night, Mayor Catherine Pugh joined Catalina Rodriguez-Lima (above right), director of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MIMA) and a member of OSI-Baltimore’s Leadership Council, at the Southeast Anchor Library for a public forum to discuss Safe City Baltimore, the immigrant legal defense funded founded in collaboration between the city and OSI. OSI and […]

The Daily Record recently announced its list of Leading Women in Baltimore, and it includes two Open Society Institute Community Fellows, Lanaea Featherstone (2013) and Shantell Roberts (2017).  Featherstone developed her fellowship, “Empowering Latinos One ‘Click’ at a Time,” to teach Latino immigrants basic computer skills and is now president and CEO of the Featherstone […]

Morgan State University Professor Dr. Lawrence Brown, a 2012 OSI Community Fellow and recent honoree, was included in the “Root 100,” The Root’s annual list of the 100 most influential African-Americans aged 25 to 45, at number 61. Among other locals on the list are artist Amy Sherald (number 35) and gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous […]

Last week, Maryland’s Court of Appeals ruled that two defendants were wrongfully assessed bail in amounts that exceeded their ability to pay, the Daily Record reports. This bail rule which went into effect July 1, 2017, requires judges to consider non-financial pretrial conditions before setting bail. In 2016, Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh sent a […]

The Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MIMA) will host a forum about the OSI-supported Safe City Baltimore initiative at the Southeast Anchor Library on October 11th, giving Baltimore resident a chance “to learn how Safe City works, what it’s accomplished, and how you or your immigrant neighbors can access critical legal services in Baltimore City.” […]