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This weekend, OSI-Baltimore’s Addiction and Health Equity Program hosted its fourth Advocacy and Leadership Training convening, this time in Salisbury, Maryland. The convenings are intended to help build the field of advocates around the state and increase the representation of people with lived experience with addiction in policy conversations. Scott Nolen, director of OSI’s Addiction […]

This week, in “The Radical Teachers’ Movement Comes to Baltimore,” The Nation tells the story behind the Baltimore Movement of Rank-and-File Educators (BMORE), the social justice-oriented caucus of teachers that surprised many when its leader, Diamonté Brown, defeated nine-time incumbent Marrietta English in an election to determine who would lead the Baltimore Teachers Union. As […]

Patrick Gaspard, the president of Open Society Foundations, was a guest on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday. Gaspard, seated next to former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, urged action to address climate shifts in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador that are driving migrants north to Mexico and the U.S. border. Watch the […]

Over the weekend, people from all over the country came to the National Mall in Washington D.C. to see the Monument Quilt, a collection of 3,000 stories from survivors of rape and abuse. “By stitching our stories together, we are creating and demanding public space to heal,” reads the text on the Monument Quilt’s website. […]

Tomorrow, Baltimore-based group FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, an organization co-founded by 2015 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Hannah Brancato, will blanket the National Mall with 3,000 stories from survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence. Open Society Foundations is proud to be the premier sponsor for the Monument Quilt.  The Washington Post has an extensive story about the […]

Ava Pipitone, a 2018 OSI Community Fellow and founder of HostHome, is featured in Baltimore magazine’s June cover story on the “Faces of Pride.” HostHome is an emergency LGBTQ housing network. “Trans people have been doing the work,” she says in the magazine. “The legal support, the jail support, the emotional community support. And it’s […]

Last week, the 2018 cohort of OSI Community Fellows held their monthly gathering to share the progress of their projects and gather feedback and collective wisdom. For the gathering, at the Parks and People Foundation Stone House, 2018 Fellow Ciera Daniel offered an update on her program, the Young Kings’ Leadership Academy, and gained insight […]

Last Thursday, OSI’s Addiction and Health Equity and Criminal and Juvenile Justice programs hosted a forum on Building Power Within a Statewide Coalition with DaMareo Cooper of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, which led the effort to pass “Ohio Issue 1,” a ballot initiative to reduce drug possession offenses to misdemeanors and reallocate criminal justice savings to […]

From May 31 to June 2, FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, an organization co-founded by 2015 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Hannah Brancato, will blanket the National Mall with 3,000 stories from survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence. Open Society Foundations is proud to be the premier sponsor for the Monument Quilt. Please come out to bear […]

On Thursday, OSI’s Karen Webber and Emily Faxon joined OSI grantees, including staff of the Positive Schools Center and Advocates for Children and Youth, and representatives from schools districts throughout the state at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law’s Center for Dispute Resolution’s  Maryland School Restorative Approaches Roundtable. At the event, OSI and […]