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 behavioral health services, reduce stigma, and support community engagement to improve public health in Baltimore.
Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition
$257,000 over two years to support Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition to provide harm reduction programming, advocate for harm reduction policies, and reduce stigma related to drug use, partially funded as part of Open Society Foundations’ Overdose in America Collaborative.
Behavioral Health Leadership Institute
$135,000 over six months to provide general support.
Baltimore Safe Haven
$100,000 over two years to provide general support.
Communities United
$50,000 over six months to strengthen its organizing movements in Maryland and support leadership development and capacity building.
Daniel Torsch Foundation
$70,000 over 18 months to provide general support.
Legal Action Center
$100,000 over six months to provide general support.
Maryland Peer Advisory Council
$100,000 over one year to provide support to identify and train new peer support specialists to become advocates for drug policy reform.
Mental Health Association Maryland
$100,000 over six months to provide general support.
National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependency – Maryland Chapter, Inc.
$170,000 over one year to provide general support.
Power Inside
$50,000 over one year to provide general support.
Progressive Maryland Education Fund*
$100,000 over one year to provide general support.
Turnaround Tuesday
$50,000 over one year to provide general support.
St. Luke’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
$50,000 over two years to provide meals and harm reduction services to residents of Hampden and educate community members on the importance of engaging people who use drugs in a supportive and non-judgmental space, partially funded as part of Open Society Foundations’ Overdose in America Collaborative.
Voices of Hope, Inc.
$100,000 over two years to provide general support, funded as part of Open Society Foundations’ Overdose in America Collaborative.
* Co-funded with Criminal and Juvenile Justice Program.
