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Six Open Society Institute – Baltimore Community Fellows joined Open Society Foundations’ 2018 Soros Justice Fellows and alumni Fellows in New Orleans for a conference to showcase the work of the Soros Fellows past and present, participate in a series of presentations and tours related to justice work in New Orleans and around the country, and […]

Last week, Baltimore City Public Schools released the results of a survey of students’ feelings about school police. The survey, conducted by Youth As Resources and Baltimore Algebra Project (an OSI grantee), found that 84% of students feel that school police are respectful to students; 80% of students feel that school police are approachable; and 81% of […]

This morning, Scott Nolen (right), director of OSI-Baltimore’s Addiction and Health Equity program, and OSI Advisory Board member Joe Jones participated in a roundtable discussion at Healthcare for the Homeless to talk about efforts to combat the opioid epidemic, and in particular, the Comprehensive Addiction Resources Emergency (CARE) Act that Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative […]

I am Autumn Stevenson, a 16-year-old rising junior at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. This is the third summer that I have participated in Youthworks, a Baltimore City summer job program that helps youth from ages 14 to 21 get a five-week job experience. Working at the Open Society Institute this summer has been very different than […]

On Thursday, Mayor Catherine Pugh announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) had awarded Baltimore a Choice Neighborhoods Initiative grant of $30 million to tear down and redevelop the Perkins Homes housing project, as well as several nearby institutions including City Springs Elementary/Middle School, a longtime partner of Open Society Institute. As […]

Baltimore Homecoming, the October event that aims to connect Baltimore’s most accomplished natives and alumni from around the U.S. and the world with local community leaders, has announced the 11 nominees for its Homecoming Hero awards. They include an Open Society Institute Community Fellow and two OSI grantees. One of the nominees, Clayton “Mr. C” Guyton, is […]

Today, Open Society Institute is proud to launch the new osibaltimore.org! Besides being beautiful, with bigger, brighter pictures, and better organized, with a new, more intuitive structure, our redesigned website includes several specific upgrades and new features that make it easier to use and more helpful, including the following:  Grants Database – For the first […]

On Friday, more than a dozen Baltimore City high school students who are part of Community Law in Action (CLIA)’s youth leadership program visited the WBAL-TV studios to learn about broadcast journalism. WBAL reporter Jayne Miller took this picture of the students listening to news anchor Jason Newton. OSI Community Fellow Terry Hickey founded CLIA, […]

On Thursday evening at West Baltimore’s Union Baptist Church, the OSI-funded Campaign for Justice, Safety, and Jobs hosted a People’s Town Hall to discuss the progress of implementing the Consent Decree and what community members would like to see in a new police commissioner, among other topics. After small-group discussions, some participants suggested that the […]

Yesterday, Catalina Rodriguez-Lima, director of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant and Multicultural Affairs (MIMA) hosted the second quarterly meeting of partners in the Safe City Baltimore legal defense and education fund at City Hall. The Safe City Baltimore initiative, launched in April 2017, is a collaboration between MIMA and Open Society Institute to educate immigrant communities […]