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OSI-Baltimore’s Addiction and Health Equity team and several OSI grantees attended the Drug Policy Alliance Reform Conference in St. Louis last week. At the conference, OSI hosted a Maryland Meet-Up organized by Zach Kosinski of with the Maryland Harm Reduction Action Network and Sam Kerr (pictured) and Tricia Christensen of OSI grantees Baltimore Harm Reduction […]

Last night, at the Women’s Law Center of Maryland’s Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony, the advocacy organization present OSI-Baltimore Acting Director Tracy Brown with its Deborah Beatty Memorial Award for “Significant contribution to the advancement of women’s legal rights.” Before joining OSI-Baltimore, Tracy was executive director of the Women’s Law Center of Maryland for 13 […]

Next Saturday, Karen Webber, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Education and Youth Development program will join a panel discussion about restorative justice at the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project’s conference, Lynching in Maryland: The Journey from Truth to Reconciliation. The conference, at Morgan State University from 9am to 12:30pm, costs $16.19 per ticket and is free for Morgan […]

This week, the website Civil Eats posted a story, “Baltimore is at the Vanguard of a National Black Vegan Movement,” highlighting the work of several OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows and others working on urban agriculture, food rescue, food sovereignty, and related projects. Among those mentioned are 2017 Fellow Eric Jackson, “servant-director” of the Black Yield Institute […]

BALTIMORE—This week, Community Data Fellows from Black Leaders Organizing for Change, CASA, Baltimore Votes, and the No Boundaries Coalition began a city-wide effort to survey 10,000 to 12,000 Baltimore City residents as part of a collaborative project spearheaded by Open Society Institute-Baltimore (OSI) called Blueprint for Baltimore:2020 and Beyond. The survey, available online at osibaltimore.org/blueprint, […]

Last week, OSI-Baltimore’s Education and Youth Development program hosted Open Society Foundations education advocates from around the world and the UN Special Rapporteur, who were looking to learn more about OSI’s work integrating Restorative Practices and mindfulness into the Baltimore City Public School system and the dramatic results of doing so. In addition to discussions […]

On Monday, OSI-Baltimore hosted a delegation of Nicaraguan human rights advocates who were looking to learn more about OSI’s work to increase civic engagement, including the Blueprint for Baltimore project as part of the Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program. Among those in attendance were representatives from the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy, Building […]

On Saturday, about 40 community members from CASA, Black Leaders Organizing for Change, the No Boundaries Coalition, and Baltimore Votes came together at the University of Maryland-Baltimore campus for training to become Data Fellows who will administer the Blueprint for Baltimore survey. This week, these Data Fellows will begin administering  the survey by canvassing door-to-door, […]

Earlier this month, Inside Philanthropy published a lengthy story looking at the 20-year history of OSI-Baltimore, titled “Soros in Baltimore: Lessons from 20 Years of Place-Based Giving.” The article is only available to Inside Philanthropy subscribers. Here is an excerpt of the opening: Place-based giving has long been a cornerstone of the American philanthropic tradition. […]