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This weekend’s misinformed, racist tirades made it clear that Donald Trump doesn’t consider Baltimore part of his America. The Baltimore President Trump sees is a racist caricature of urban blight. It is useful only as fuel for 240-character grenades lobbed at public servants who dare to call him out. The Baltimore we see is something […]

This week, Open Society Institute-Baltimore welcomed a delegation of professors, program directors, program officers, and project coordinators from Mexico who were looking to learn more about OSI’s approach to addressing the needs of underserved and at-risk youth in a visit sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. Karen Webber, director of OSI’s Education and Youth […]

OSI-Baltimore Advisory Board member Alicia Wilson has been included in Savoy magazine’s list of the 100 Most Influential Women in Corporate America. Wilson recently joined Johns Hopkins as vice president for economic development, moving on from her previous position as vice president of community affairs and legal advisor for Sagamore Development Company. Wilson is also […]

This morning, Baltimore Police Department (BPD) Commissioner Michael Harrison unveiled his new crime plan (see the full plan), which includes several OSI-funded initiatives, including a refinement of the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program and a move toward community-based micro-policing. OSI-Baltimore worked with the BPD and the State’s Attorney’s Office to establish the LEAD program, which […]

This morning the 2018 cohort of OSI Community Fellows met with Business Volunteers Maryland’s GIVE Fellows to share skills and discuss potential collaboration. GIVE Fellows are employees at companies like T. Rowe Price, Under Armour, and BGE who spend nine months learning how to lend their skills to Baltimore non-profits. Among the seven core projects GIVE […]

OSI Community Fellows Van Brooks, executive director of Safe Alternative Foundation for Education (SAFE) and Shantell Roberts, founder and executive director of Touching Young Lives, Inc., and former OSI-Baltimore staffer Blair Franklin, executive director of YES Youth Drop-In Center (founded by OSI Community Fellow Lara Law), are among the 10 semifinalists for Homecoming Hero Awards. […]

Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby signed onto a legal brief supporting the establishment of safe injection facilities (SIFs), which provide medical supervision for those using heroin and other drugs and have been proven to reduce overdoses around the world. “This is a great development,” says Michael Camlin, a program specialist in OSI-Baltimore’s Addiction and […]

David Miller, a 1999 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow and a member of the Fellows Advisory Board, has just released a new children’s book, Gabe & His Green Thumb, about a boy who discovers the power of growing food. Miller created the Dare to Be King curriculum, a comprehensive system for adolescent African American males that addresses […]

Over the last few days, five OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows working on projects related to the criminal justice system joined Soros Justice Fellows from around the country in Atlanta to share knowledge and develop connections as part of the annual Soros Justice Fellowships Conference. The Fellows, left to the right in the above photo, are Jennay […]