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Rabbi Jill Jacobs, executive director of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, is coming to Baltimore the weekend of May 11-12 as a Scholar-in Residence at Beth Am Synagogue in Reservoir Hill to talk about “Human Rights in Judaism.” The program is co-sponsored by OSI-Baltimore, Jews United for Justice, and Hinenu: The Baltimore Justice […]

On Thursday, May 10th, from 7 to 9 p.m., Open Society Institute-Baltimore, in collaboration with Baltimore Ceasefire and the University of Baltimore College of Public Affairs, will host the next Talking About Race event, “Mothers of the Movement Speak,” a town hall discussion led by mothers who have lost children to police and gun violence, at the […]

On May 3rd, Open Society Institute hosts a special advance screening of “RBG,” the highly anticipated documentary about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. This is the first event in a series celebrating OSI-Baltimore’s 20th Anniversary. Before the film, Justice Ginsburg will offer a video greeting congratulating OSI on our 20th Anniversary. Other events will […]

On Thursday, April 19th at Light City’s HealthLab, Scott Nolen, director of Open Society Institute’s Addiction and Health Equity program, will discuss innovations in opioid addiction in a talk entitled, “A Safer and Healthier Baltimore: The Role of Safe Consumption.” In addition, OSI and our grantee, Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition, will set up a “Safe […]

On Wednesday, Open Society Institute-Baltimore and the University of Baltimore co-hosted the 10th annual Urban Child Symposium on Restorative Practices and the Urban Child: Rethinking School Discipline (full video; agenda). At the Symposium, OSI and Baltimore City Schools officially released the Restorative Practices Report, which outlines the necessary steps to implement restorative practices in all city […]

BALTIMORE—On Wednesday, Baltimore City Schools and Open Society Institute-Baltimore will officially release the comprehensive Restorative Practices Report, which outlines the necessary steps to implement restorative practices in all city schools and make Baltimore City Public Schools a Restorative District over the next five years. Read the full report; Read a one-page summary; See OSI’s Restorative Practices Web Portal; […]

On Thursday night, Baltimore’s Parkway Theatre hosted an advance screening of the HBO documentary “King in the Wilderness,” which tells the story of the last three years of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s life, from 1965 to 1968. The film debuts on HBO tonight, April 2nd. Taylor Branch, the eminent King historian and an OSI-Baltimore […]

On Saturday Open Society Institute-Baltimore and Baltimore Corps co-hosted Johns Hopkins University Social Innovation Lab’s 5th Impact Bootcamp, A free, full-day workshop for community members and students to build connections and gain skills to move their ideas and ventures forward. As part of the agenda, OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Brian Gerardo, above left (see out recent photo […]

On March 10, 2018, the 105th anniversary of Harriet Tubman’s death, the City of Baltimore and Friends of the Wyman Park Dell held a ceremony to rename a portion of the dell “Harriet Tubman Grove” in honor of the American hero and Maryland native. In August of 2017, the city removed confederate monuments in the […]

On Friday, OSI Community Fellows gathered at the Safe Streets hub in East Baltimore to hear from 2017 Fellows Alex Long (right), who is a violence interrupter and runs his McElderry Youth Redemption Boxing Program there, and Munib Lohrasbi, whose State Correctional Facilities Oversight Committee Project works with Disability Rights Maryland to improve conditions for […]