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On Tuesday, the Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap, which was co-founded by 2016 Open Society Community Fellow Melissa Badeker (pictured), officially opened its new headquarters at 1794 Union Avenue in Woodberry. The Supply Swap collects unused supplies that sit in teachers’ homes and school supply closets and gets them into the hands of teachers who can use them. […]

Today, several staff members from Open Society Institute met with about 20 representatives from Baltimore’s Latino community to talk about OSI’s program areas and Safe City Baltimore initiative, and listen to the representatives’ thoughts on what is most needed in their communities. Open Society Advisory Board member Veronica Cool (speaking in the photo above), arranged […]

2016 Open Society Institute Community Fellow JC Faulk hosted a conversation with Chelsea Manning, the activist and former Army intelligence analyst who served seven years in prison for leaking classified documents related to U.S. military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The facilitated conversation, part of Faulk’s An End to Ignorance-Circle of Voices series, focused on […]

The 2017 cohort of OSI Community Fellows gathered at the Jubilee Arts building in West Baltimore yesterday morning for their monthly gathering to learn more about each others’ projects and share ideas on issues and challenges that arise. At each of the monthly gatherings, all ten Fellows in the cohort offer and update and two […]

Last week, members of the Horticultural Society of Maryland (HSM) donated a pickup truck-load of plants and gardening tools and related items to the Cherry Hill Urban Garden (CHUG), led by OSI Community Fellow Eric Jackson, pictured here, right, with OSI Advisory Board member John Meyerhoff. OSI Leadership Council member Lenel Srochi-Meyerhoff, chair of HSM’s Community […]

Last night about 150 community members gathered at the University of Baltimore’s Learning Commons for Open Society and Baltimore Ceasefire’s Talking About Race event, Mothers of the Movement Speak. Open Society Director Diana Morris opened the program, talking about OSI’s work on police accountability and the need for deep, systemic reform of the Baltimore Police […]

Yesterday’s edition of WYPR’s show Life in the Balance featured Open Society Institute’s Pamela King, who has directed the Community Fellows program since it began 20 years ago, and Evan Serpick, OSI’s director of strategic communications. Listen to the full program here. Host Aaron Henkin asked King and Serpick about OSI’s work generally and, in […]

The 2016 cohort of OSI Community Fellows gathered at Nancy by SNAC in Station North last night to mark the end of their 18 month Fellowship and discuss their progress as they rotate into the Community Fellows Network. Each of the 10 Fellows briefly presented on their Fellowship and their plans moving forward, and then […]

Open Society Institute-Baltimore Community Fellows played a big part in Charm City, a documentary about Baltimore that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this week. The film follows several people over the course of three years, including 2000 Fellow Clayton Guyton (pictured above, in a still from the film), founder of the Rose Street Community Center, […]

Pamela King, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Community Fellowships program, will be recognized by Baltimore Business Journal as a “Leaders in Diversity” honoree at a July 7th ceremony. Also among the honorees are OSI-Baltimore Advisory Board members Eddie Brown and Veronica Cool. The newspaper says the event “seeks to honor executives, business owners and nonprofit leaders who […]