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In order to address gun violence, we must talk about how gun violence impacts the communities that fall victim to it. With support from OSI-Baltimore, the No Boundaries Coalition is conducting a listening campaign with 21217 residents and community stakeholders to identify a community-centered understanding of gun violence in Baltimore. The “Creating a New Narrative” […]

On Wednesday, July 14th, Mayor Brandon Scott, Baltimore City Health Commissioner Dr. Letitia Dzirasa, OSI’s Dr. Scott Nolen, and other public and private officials will participate in Baltimore: State of Vaccination, a virtual event designed to provide the latest update on vaccination progress from city leaders, recognize Baltimore COVID-19 Community Champions, and highlight local vaccination-related […]

Two OSI Community Fellows, Brittany Young (2018) and Bree Jones (2020) will be part of the inaugural cohort of Fund for New Leadership fellows, a national program, according to the Baltimore Business Journal. They will each receive $75,000 in unrestricted grant funding annually for three years, along with mentorship, leadership training, and peer coaching. Jones, […]

Last year, when the pandemic forced Writers in Baltimore Schools (WBS), founded by 2008 OSI Community Fellow Patrice Hutton, to take its annual summer camp virtual, students stepped up to the creative plate, creating the 2020 Studio Anthology. This year, WBS is holding a fundraiser so that camp can be in-person again, with 30 Baltimore City […]

This Saturday, July 3, the Black Yield Institute will host a solidarity march at 3:30pm to support the Cherry Hill Urban Community Garden, a project started by 2017 OSI Community Fellow Eric Jackson through the Black Yield Institute to address the many food deserts in the city.  Earlier this week, the Housing Authority of Baltimore […]

This Sunday, June 27, B360 Baltimore, the organization founded by 2018 OSI Community Fellow Brittany Young, will host an event celebrating their partnership with the R&O Railroad Museum. The organization uses dirt bike culture to teach STEM skills as well as dirt bike riding safety for young people in Baltimore. The organization trains former street […]

On Saturday, Rabbi Daniel Burg of Baltimore’s Beth Am Synagogue, located in Reservoir Hill, gave a sermon on the 50th anniversary of the War on Drugs as part of Open Society Foundations’ and Faith in Harm Reduction’s Sermon Series on the subject.  “At its core, the problem with the War on Drugs is that it […]

Herbert Sturz, the onetime deputy mayor of New York City who founded the Vera Institute of Justice and relentlessly sought to reshape the criminal justice system, died last week at 90. Sturz was an early member of OSI-Baltimore’s Advisory Board and served as a liaison with colleagues in New York. “Herb was an incredible man,” […]

The Intercultural Counseling Connection, founded by 2012 OSI Community Fellow Lauren Goodsmith, has been selected to receive an American Psychiatric Association Foundation 2021 Award for Advancing Minority Mental Health, which includes a $5,000 financial contribution, an award plaque, a featured in the July APA PsychNews, and an invitation for a representative from the Connection to […]

Last week, Technical.ly Baltimore identified “7 Baltimore initiatives formed since the summer of protests that are working to create a more equitable innovation economy,” including B’More Invested, the initiative anchored by OSI-Baltimore and Baltimore’s Promise that announced its first 10 grantees last month. The B’More Invested entry reads as follows: Open Society Institute-Baltimore and Baltimore’s Promise joined together […]