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When neighbors in Brooklyn need help with homework or Latino housing rights, this Baltimore teacher’s aide steps in
Tuesday, June 22, 2021By Stephanie García Stepping in to translate between landlords and tenants, Kendra Summers saw that her Latino neighbors needed an advocate. The teacher’s aide at Brooklyn’s Maree Garnett Farring Elementary School created Casa Amable — which translates to “Kind Home” — a program that teaches residents new to the U.S. about tenant rights and the [...] -
Many in Baltimore’s struggling Cherry Hill enclave could have gone hungry amid COVID. But a small band of neighborhood activists stepped up.
Friday, June 18, 20212017 OSI Community Fellow Eric Jackson featured By Isabella Gomes On a cold March Saturday afternoon last year, three community activists showed up one by one to the empty school in Cherry Hill. They’d been called by an elder of their historically Black neighborhood in South Baltimore. For several weeks, Michael Middleton had been tracking [...] -
7 Baltimore initiatives formed since the summer of protests that are working to create a more equitable innovation economy
Friday, June 04, 2021By Donte Kirby The tech and entrepreneurship community got organized after last summer's protests. Here's a look at the organizations that got started since. It’s been a year since the summer of protests that followed the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and too many others. Following the protests and rekindled Black Lives Matter movement in June 2020, tech [...] -
B’More Invested, a collaboration between Baltimore foundations, announces first grant recipients
Friday, May 14, 2021By Holden Wilen – Reporter, Baltimore Business Journal A new collaboration between some of Baltimore's most well-known foundations aims to flip the traditional grantmaking model on its head. Organizations typically receive grants from funders who determine how they want the money to be used. With B'More Invested, community members get the primary say in determining [...] -
Healing Maryland’s Trauma Act passed
Wednesday, April 28, 2021BALTIMORE — Maryland is taking a different approach to trauma. By WMAR Lawmakers announced the passage of the Healing Maryland's Trauma Act Wednesday. The legislation takes Baltimore's Elijah Cummings Healing City Act and the Healing City movement to the state level. It establishes the Commission on Trauma-Informed Care and calls for a statewide healing framework. [...] -
My Travels as a Tourist in My Hometown of Baltimore
Wednesday, March 10, 2021Unable to venture abroad, I approached my city as a new destination — and discovered a place of culinary wonders By Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson Last spring I was supposed to travel to the west coast of Ireland for work, and while there I planned to return to one of the Aran Islands, Inis Mór, a [...] -
How Maryland Cut Prison Population, Repeat Crime
Friday, March 05, 2021Arizona State University - Crime and Justice News Maryland has succeeded in reducing its prisoner count and its crime rate simultaneously, while also cutting the rate of repeat imprisonment of former inmates, says a new report from the Open Society Institute-Baltimore and JFA Institute. The state's model is based on an incentive-based system that encourages inmates to [...] -
She’s Got Next: Meet 30 Women Shaping Baltimore’s Future
Sunday, February 21, 2021EDITED BY MAX WEISS WRITTEN BY RON CASSIE, LAUREN COHEN, JANELLE ERLICHMAN DIAMOND, KEN IGLEHART, CHRISTINE JACKSON, JANE MARION, MAX WEISS, AND LYDIA WOOLEVER "There are so many amazing women in Baltimore who are doing great things and working together for a cause,” says our cover model, Black Girls Vote founder and CEO Nykidra “Nyki” [...] -
Baltimore to restart COVID relief program, distributing debit cards to 15,000 households
Wednesday, February 10, 2021By Emily Opilo After a failed start under a previous administration, Baltimore is again kicking off a $6 million program to distribute debit cards to city residents affected economically by COVID-19. The initiative, dubbed the COVID Emergency Assistance Program, is funded by the city and administered by the Open Society Institute-Baltimore. It is expected to [...] -
Want to reduce overdoses? Give people a safe place to do drugs. | COMMENTARY
Friday, January 29, 2021By BALTIMORE SUN EDITORIAL BOARD The COVID-19 pandemic gives more reason for why the state should finally approve legislation creating overdose prevention sites, where people can use drugs in a safe setting staffed with medical professionals. Advocates of such sites, which already exist in 12 countries around the world, have tried for around half a [...]
Open Society Institute – Baltimore
Open Society Institute (OSI) – Baltimore : Audacious Thinking For Lasting Change
