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A recent study by the Maryland State Education Association found 94 percent of Maryland teachers spend their own money on school supplies. While education advocates, including many OSI grantees, work to ensure that schools receive adequate funding so that teachers don’t have to provide their own supplies, 2016 OSI Community Fellow Melissa Badeker is helping […]

On Thursday, August 29th, OSI-Baltimore, the Baltimore City Healthy Department, and OSI grantee Bmore Power will mark International Overdose Awareness Day with Naloxone trainings and public awareness campaigns throughout Baltimore City. At each of these locations, one of the powerful posters created by illustrator Alex Fine, like the one above, will be on display.  

In 2016, Open Society Foundations partnered with the Center for Working Families to start a Board and Commission Leadership Institute in Baltimore to increase the diversity of community members sitting on city boards and commission. On Monday, Durryle Brooks, from the inaugural class of the Institute, was sworn in to the Baltimore City School Board. […]

The collages above were created by OSI-Baltimore YouthWorks summer intern Celia Jackson. By Celia Jackson The crime in Baltimore is bad. Kids aren’t getting the right knowledge they need. People in Baltimore are showing a lot of hatred towards each other. Kids and adults are losing their lives due to street violence going on here […]

In it’s August Best of Baltimore issue, Baltimore magazine awarded Morgan State University Professor and 2012 OSI Community Fellow Lawrence Brown Best Twitter Feed. Last year, at OSI-Baltimore’s first 20th Anniversary Event, Dr. Brown was awarded the “Bold Thinker” award for his powerful analysis of structural racism in Baltimore City.

Today at City Hall, Mayor Jack Young announced that the city would commit $150,000 to continuing the Safe City Baltimore initiative, which provides representation and other support for immigrants facing deportation proceedings. OSI-Baltimore and the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs co-founded the initiative in 2017 to protect the due process of Baltimore immigrants threatened by […]

On Friday and Saturday, OSI-Baltimore’s Addiction and Health Equity program hosts its fifth Advocacy and Leadership Training cohort (pictured) in Elkton, Maryland. The trainings are designed to bring together groups of people around the state with lived experience with addiction and help them connect to local, statewide, and national advocacy efforts around drugs and addiction. […]

On November 7th, the Women’s Law Center of Maryland will honor OSI-Baltimore Acting Director Tracy Brown, along with Erricka Bridgeford of Baltimore Ceasefire and Community Mediation Maryland, and The Honorable Diane Orlick Leasure, as “exceptional leaders in women’s rights, family law, and access to justice” at the organization’s Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony. Brown was […]

Evan Serpick, OSI-Baltimore’s director of strategic communications, was interviewed by Los Angeles radio station KNX about President Donald Trump’s attacks on Baltimore. “I think most people in Baltimore see it as part of a racist pattern of demonizing people of color, demonizing opponents, really anyone, like Rep. Elijah Cummings, who has challenged him and challenged […]