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Letter from the Director
When I joined OSI-Baltimore in January 2020, I had no idea that my first year with the organization would be as challenging—nor, ultimately, as rewarding and transformati… -
Addiction and Health Equity Program
OSI-Baltimore’s Addiction and Health Equity Program seeks to generate and promote innovative ideas that improve health equity and lower the threshold to high-quality beha… -
Criminal and Juvenile Justice Program
OSI-Baltimore’s Criminal and Juvenile Justice Program seeks to reduce the use of incarceration and its social and economic costs without compromising public safety, and p… -
Education and Youth Development Program
OSI-Baltimore’s Education and Youth Development Program seeks to ensure that all student groups are fully included in schooling and other opportunities that prepare them… -
2020 Community Fellows
TEHYA JENAE FAULK Tehya is establishing Orphan We, which will use digital spaces to collect and archive stories of people on the edge of society — primarily those with in… -
COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Program
OSI-Baltimore invested nearly $2 million in direct response to the COVID-19 and its economic fallout. This included $1 million in direct financial and other emergency sup… -
OSI Fellows’ Support for Impacted Workers
OSI-Baltimore tapped the following organizations founded by OSI Community Fellows to provide community education and direct support for community members most impacted by… -
Rapid-Response Funding for At-Risk Populations
OSI-Baltimore’s Addiction and Health Equity and Criminal and Juvenile Justice programs collaborated on a request for proposals to distribute more than $700,000 in rapid r… -
Election 2020
OSI-Baltimore responded to the unprecedented pivot to a vote-by-mail election in 2020 by supporting local advocates’ innovative efforts to educate and promote voting in m… -
Open Society – U.S. Cities Initiative
Open Society Foundations invested $21 million in eight cities, including Baltimore, to reimagine public safety and create transformative models of safe, healthy, and raci… -
Accelerating Decarceration in Maryland
In partnership with a national campaign supported by Open Society-U.S., OSI-Baltimore invested in efforts to reduce the number of people who are currently incarcerated fo… -
Special Opportunities Fund
Maryland Philanthropy Network+ $59,000 over two years to provide support for the Grantee's Education Funders Affinity Group and for the effort to analyze and strengthen t… -
Semester of Justice
In response national reckoning after the death of George Floyd, Open Society-U.S. established the Semester of Justice initiative to support newer or younger activists dur… -
Thank You Donors
OSI-Baltimore is thankful to our community of supporters who enable us to bring real solutions to the problems facing the people of Baltimore. Their gifts inspire us and… -
Where Our Money Went in 2020
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Open Society Institute – Baltimore
Open Society Institute (OSI) – Baltimore : Audacious Thinking For Lasting Change
