This issue highlights the Open Places Initiative, a new place-based program building on OSI-Baltimore’s example. Scott Nolen writes about the rise of heroin use and we interviewed William Baker and Mary Louise Preis.
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NASBE Names OSI-Baltimore the 2014 “Friend of Education”
Monday, July 28, 2014Open Society Institute-Baltimore and its director Diana Morris are being honored this year by the National Association of State Boards of Education with the organization’s 2014 Friend of Education Award.
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The Right to a Fair Trial: Coming Home
Wednesday, June 04, 2014Kareem Hasan and Jeffrey Kersey were released as a result of Unger v. State, a decision that found that flawed instructions to jurors created unfair trials in certain cases. Read their stories.
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Taking the Next Steps to Sustainability
Friday, May 30, 2014How do you take a good idea and make it grow to its full potential? And how, in this time of diminishing resources, can you make a grassroots project into a sustainable program?
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Scott Nolen joins OSI-Baltimore as Director of Drug Addiction Treatment
Wednesday, May 14, 2014Scott Nolen has been named Director of the Drug Addiction Treatment program at the Open Society Institute-Baltimore. Nolen is an attorney who has worked on health disparity issues at the National Institutes of Health and holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.
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Audacious Thinking: Spring 2014
Wednesday, April 30, 2014This issue features the Unger v. State decision, Diana Morris writes about the levers of change, Jane Sundius writes about school discipline reform, and we cover two alumni fellows who are working to make their organizations sustainable.
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2013 Grants and Donors List
Thursday, April 24, 2014We know it can happen. We see progress every day. We use a broad set of tools—grantmaking, education, advocacy, technical assistance, and investment—to take promising solutions to scale. See our 2013 highlights, grants, and donors.
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White House expands opportunity for young men of color—we’ve already started
Thursday, February 27, 2014President Obama’s new initiative, My Brother’s Keeper, signifies an important commitment from the nation’s highest levels of government, business and philanthropic leadership to boost opportunities for young men of color. We’re so pleased to be part of the Open Society Foundations, one of the ten foundations that are involved in this initiative.
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A Call For Applicants: 2014 Baltimore Community Fellowships
Tuesday, January 07, 2014The Open Society Institute-Baltimore launched the Community Fellowships program in 1998. It is now a corps of social innovators over 140 strong…
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New class of Community Fellows announced; projects aimed at making Baltimore a stronger city
Tuesday, November 12, 2013OSI-Baltimore announced its 16th annual class of Community Fellows and dedicated $720,000 to support this diverse group of social entrepreneurs.
