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Last night at the final event in Open Society Institute - Baltimore's 20th Anniversary Speaker Series, OSI Advisory Board members Veronica Cool and James DeGraffenreidt, Jr. - both of whom served on the Fellows Selection Committee - announced the 2018 cohort of OSI Community Fellows. The 10 new Fellows bring the OSI Community Fellowships Network [...]

This morning Open Society Foundations (OSF) President Patrick Gaspard appeared on MSNBC to talk about the bomb found at the residence of George Soros, the philanthropist and founder of OSF, of which OSI-Baltimore is the only U.S. field office.  “George Soros has been saying for quite some time now that language can be weaponized and the […]

Open Society Foundations (OSF) co-sponsored the 12th National Harm Reduction Conference in New Orleans last week and several Open Society staff members and OSI-Baltimore grantees spoke and participated in panel discussions. OSI-Baltimore is OSF’s only US field office. Daniel Wolfe, director of OSF’s International Harm Reduction Development Program and Roxanne Saucier, a researcher and analyst with […]

The Campaign for Justice, Safety, and Jobs, an OSI-supported coalition including the ACLU of Maryland, CASA, and the No Boundaries Coalition, will host a People’s Town Hall on local police reform efforts. The event takes place at Archbishop Boarders School, 3500 Foster Ave., at 6 p.m., Tuesday, October 23rd. On the agenda for the event, which promises […]

The 2017 cohort of OSI Community Fellows and other members of the Fellowships Network gathered today at Church of the Guardian Angel in Remington for their monthly session, where Fellows Eric Jackson and Ryan Flanigan shared updates on their projects. As part of his Fellowship, Jackson, who leads the Black Yield Institute, is organizing a community-controlled […]

Last week, Open Society Foundations announced that Tom Perriello, a former member of the U.S. Congress, diplomat, educator, and activist, will be the new executive director of U.S. Programs. OSI-Baltimore is Open Society Foundations’ only U.S. field office and the work done here is meant to inform the priorities and strategies of the national work. In […]

Charm City, a film that features OSI Community Fellows Clayton Guyton (2000, pictured above, in a still from the film), founder of the Rose Street Community Center, and Alex Long (2017), who works at Safe Streets and founded the McElderry Youth Redemption Boxing Program as part of his Fellowship, opened on Friday at the Parkway Theatre and is now playing. Meryam Bouadjemi, a […]

Black Yield Institute, directed by 2017 OSI Community Fellow Eric Jackson, and the Farm Alliance of Baltimore co-host End-Dependence Day tomorrow, Tuesday, October 16th, at 2640 Space. The event will include a community meal and a workshop on organizing for food sovereignty. Register here. Through his Fellowship, Jackson is organizing two community-controlled cooperative food ventures in Cherry […]

Last night, Mayor Catherine Pugh joined Catalina Rodriguez-Lima (above right), director of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MIMA) and a member of OSI-Baltimore’s Leadership Council, at the Southeast Anchor Library for a public forum to discuss Safe City Baltimore, the immigrant legal defense funded founded in collaboration between the city and OSI. OSI and […]

Morgan State University Professor Dr. Lawrence Brown, a 2012 OSI Community Fellow and recent honoree, was included in the “Root 100,” The Root’s annual list of the 100 most influential African-Americans aged 25 to 45, at number 61. Among other locals on the list are artist Amy Sherald (number 35) and gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous […]