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On Saturday, senior students from Baltimore Dance Crews Project, an after-school dance program created by 2015 Open Society Institute Community Fellow Brian Gerardo, will present “Call on Me,” an original hip-hop dance performance inspired by Baltimore Ceasefire, at the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA). Gerardo planned the event in collaboration with another 2015 Open Society Fellow, Dave […]

Last night, the Enoch Pratt Free Library and OSI-Baltimore co-sponsored an event with author Peter Edelman and professor Lester Spence at North Baltimore’s Church of the Redeemer as part of OSI’s Talking About Race series and the Pratt’s Writer’s LIVE series. Edelman discussed his new book, Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty […]

Open Society Institute-Baltimore is proud to announce that our Drug Addiction Treatment program will be identified as the Addiction and Health Equity program going forward. In the 20 years since OSI created the Drug Addiction Treatment program, the healthcare landscape around drug use and addiction has shifted in important ways, leading us to take a […]

On Thursday night, while Farajii Muhammad moderated a panel after a screening of Anna Deavere Smith’s HBO film, “Notes from the Field” at the Charles Theatre (OSI hosted a staged performance of the work in 2015), 2016 OSI Community Fellow Lamarr Shields (center) filled in as host of Muhammad’s WEAA show, “For the Culture.” For the […]

On Wednesday night, OSI joined Jewish community group Charm City Tribe at Max’s Taphouse for its first-ever “Beit Midrash” (House of Study) event, on the subject of “Opioids in Our Communities.” Rabbi Jessy Gross, the director of Charm City Tribe, began the event by sharing texts from the Jewish tradition with relevance to the conversation, including […]

CONTACT: Evan Serpick, Open Society Institute-Baltimore evan.serpick@opensocietyfoundations.org; 410-234-1091 We are grateful to the federal investigators and prosecutors for their work bringing members of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force to justice after their outrageous criminal activities. Trial testimony implicated officers beyond members of the task force and, combined with citizen reports of misconduct […]

CONTACT: Evan Serpick, Open Society Institute-Baltimore evan.serpick@opensocietyfoundations.org; 410-234-1091 BALTIMORE—Today, Open Society Institute-Baltimore releases a new report, “Young, Gifted, and Underfunded: Strengthening the Relationship Between Philanthropy and Youth-Led Movements,” as part of a multi-step effort to build and strengthen connections between local funders and youth-led organizations that drive essential change in our region. Based on focus […]

The February issue of Baltimore magazine, which went online today, profiles 30 Baltimore “Visionaries,” described as “change-makers who are shaping the future of our city.” Among the 30 are two OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows: 2017 Fellow Shantell Roberts, founder of Touching Young Lives, Inc., and 2015 Fellow Gianna Rodriguez, founder of Baltimore Youth Arts. Among the other […]

This Wednesday, Feb.7th, OSI-Baltimore will join Charm City Tribe for a special event as part of its “Beit Midrash” (house of study) learning series, on “Opiates in our Communities,” a discussion of how the opioid crisis affects the Jewish community and Baltimore communities overall. Michael Walter, a program specialist in OSI’s Addiction and Health Equity program […]

Last Tuesday, OSI and City Schools held a reception to officially launch the rollout of CEO Sonja Santelises’ “Blueprint for Success.” As part of the blueprint, 55 schools were designated “intensive learning sites,” including 15 where OSI will help implement restorative practices (see Fox 45 coverage). Over the next five years, OSI and city schools […]