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Last week, Delegate Marlon Amprey presented Gina Worthey and Sarah Matthews from Baltimore Corps with a citation for their work leading six Community Hubs as part of our Baltimore Equitable Vaccination Initiative (BEVI). Baltimore Corps has been a key partner of OSI in the work to reduce in racial disparities in vaccine distribution. The Community […]

On Thursday, March 3, Open Society Foundations and Baltimore City hosted the “Baltimore and Beyond” day of the annual Healing City Summit session (agenda and more information here). Watch the full day of conversations below. Healing City Summit 2022 – Baltimore & Beyond from Healing City Baltimore on Vimeo.

On Thursday, OSI and Business Volunteers Maryland held the fourth event in the “Business in Community” discussion series, this one focused on transportation and accessibility. Jamar Brown, a partner at Rosenberg Martin Greenberg, LLP and chair of the OSI-Baltimore Advisory Board, facilitated the event, which included Del. Robbyn Lewis of District 46 and Elisabeth Sachs […]

This week, Open Society Foundations announced the 15 winners of its “Justice Rising Awards,” celebrating Black Leadership in racial justice work. OSI-Baltimore’s Tara Huffman and OSF’s Adam Culbreath led the effort to conceive the awards and identify awardees. Huffman, Culbreath, and several awardees discussed their purpose in a video on the Justice Rising Awards website, […]

The 2022 Healing City Summit, a free five-day event bringing together a wide range of Baltimore residents doing healing and trauma-responsive work in Baltimore will take place Feb. 28th to March 5th, with a hybrid of virtual and in-person event. Registration is now open. Open Society Foundations is sponsoring the Summit programming on March 3rd, […]

Last week, the BRIDGES Coalition and Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition hosted a virtual briefing with members of the Legislative Black and Latino Caucuses to increase awareness about the life-saving possibilities of overdose prevention sites and other proven harm reduction tactics as part of the 5th Annual Harm Reduction Advocacy Days. Among the guests was Terrell […]

Last week, Baltimore City youth led a training for 450 staff members of the Enoch Pratt Library System, to, in the words of one trainer, “help youth within their healing process.” The session was one of a series of trainings as part of a broader collaboration between Baltimore City, OSI-Baltimore, and many other partners to […]

Last week, OSI-Baltimore’s Director of Strategic Communications Evan Serpick participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Rockefeller Foundation on “Equity in Communications: How the Hyperlocal Approach Increases Vaccine Equity.” Serpick discussed OSI and its partners’ communications efforts as part of the Baltimore Equitable Vaccination Initiative, including the Bmore Vaxxed website, the #HowIKnew video series, […]

Today, the Maryland Daily Record posted the latest edition of its interview series, “Off the Record with Sloane Browne,” with OSI-Baltimore Director Danielle Torain. Torain talks about the challenges of starting her role at OSI just a couple months before the COVID pandemic hit and how she and OSI staff have shifted to address both […]