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This week, 2016 OSI Community Fellow LaMarr Shields speaks to singer and activist Ayanna Gregory on his “SoundBalming” podcast. Sheilds — who developed the Teacher Exchange, an innovative strategy to engage young people in their own education by having them act as coaches to new teachers as part of his fellowship – began the social […]

This Friday, Open Society Institute Advisory Board member Alicia Wilson, Vice President of Community Affairs and Legal Advisor to Sagamore Development Company, will be part of the Baltimore Business Journal’s “Enterprising Women” panel. The event will feature women who have overcome obstacles in their careers and achieved success. More information here.

Last week, Baltimore City Public Schools released the results of a survey of students’ feelings about school police. The survey, conducted by Youth As Resources and Baltimore Algebra Project (an OSI grantee), found that 84% of students feel that school police are respectful to students; 80% of students feel that school police are approachable; and 81% of […]

This morning, Scott Nolen (right), director of OSI-Baltimore’s Addiction and Health Equity program, and OSI Advisory Board member Joe Jones participated in a roundtable discussion at Healthcare for the Homeless to talk about efforts to combat the opioid epidemic, and in particular, the Comprehensive Addiction Resources Emergency (CARE) Act that Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative […]

I am Autumn Stevenson, a 16-year-old rising junior at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. This is the third summer that I have participated in Youthworks, a Baltimore City summer job program that helps youth from ages 14 to 21 get a five-week job experience. Working at the Open Society Institute this summer has been very different than […]

On Thursday, Mayor Catherine Pugh announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) had awarded Baltimore a Choice Neighborhoods Initiative grant of $30 million to tear down and redevelop the Perkins Homes housing project, as well as several nearby institutions including City Springs Elementary/Middle School, a longtime partner of Open Society Institute. As […]

Baltimore Homecoming, the October event that aims to connect Baltimore’s most accomplished natives and alumni from around the U.S. and the world with local community leaders, has announced the 11 nominees for its Homecoming Hero awards. They include an Open Society Institute Community Fellow and two OSI grantees. One of the nominees, Clayton “Mr. C” Guyton, is […]

The Baltimore City Health Department (BCHD) was named the 2018 Local Health Department of the Year by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). The annual award recognizes local health departments for outstanding achievements in innovative public health and safety improvements. BCHD’s work on the opioid epidemic in Baltimore City was among the […]

Today, Open Society Institute is proud to launch the new osibaltimore.org! Besides being beautiful, with bigger, brighter pictures, and better organized, with a new, more intuitive structure, our redesigned website includes several specific upgrades and new features that make it easier to use and more helpful, including the following:  Grants Database – For the first […]