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This week, 2019 OSI Community Fellow Damien Haussling was featured on WBAL talking about Baltimore Furniture Bank, the organization he founded which helps connect those who are coming out of homelessness, or are struggling with other barriers like illness, dealing with domestic violence and the like with home goods and furnishings. Currently, the organization is […]

OSI Advisory Board Chair Jamar Brown was recently honored by the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law’s Black Law Students Association (BLSA) as “Practitioner of the Year.” Brown is partner at Rosenberg Martin Greenberg. The virtual ceremony took place on February 25 and honored BLSA students and community members, focusing on the […]

Last night, Candy Kerr and Ricky Morris, Sr., members of the OSI-supported BRIDGES Coalition, appeared on WEAA’s For the Culture, hosted by Farajii Muhammad, to talk about the prospect of opening Overdose Prevention Sites (OPS) in Maryland. You can listen to the segment here – it starts at the 30:50 mark of the Hour 2 […]

After finding out that some of their founders’ had ties to slavery, Bolton Hill’s Memorial Episcopal Church pledged $500,000 in reparations to Black-led justice-seeking organizations in Baltimore over the next five years. Among the recipients were projects started by OSI Community Fellows, including Black Women Build Baltimore, founded by 2018 OSI Community Fellow Shelley Halstead, […]

This week, CLIA, (Community Law in Action) a nonprofit organization that aims to help young people become effective problem solvers, critical thinkers and advocates for positive change, announced it has merged with The Intersection, an organization dedicated to training students in leadership and organizing. The combined entity will operate under the CLIA name, and efforts […]

Last week, OSI-Baltimore and The Enoch Pratt Free Library presented a joint Writer’s LIVE/Talking About Race event with OSI alumni Fellow, Dr. Lawrence T. Brown, author of The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America. Dr. Brown spoke with Dr. Jean Accius, Senior Vice President of AARP’s Global Thought Leadership.  You […]

Today, Mayor Brandon Scott selected 2020 OSI Community Fellow Ateira Griffin for the Baltimore City Schools Board of Commissioners.  Griffin, a former teacher at Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, founded Building Our Nation’s Daughters (BOND), a nonprofit that works to build effective communication strategies for single mothers and their daughters. Ateira will be the […]

This week, the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute announced its 2021 cohort of Bunting Neighborhood Leadership Fellows, which includes Atiya Wells, a 2020 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow and Lamontre Randall, a member of the B’More Invested Grant Advisory Team. Wells runs The Baltimore Living in Sustainable Simplicity (BLISS) Meadows project, a nature center and educational space […]

David Miller, a 1999 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow and a member of the Fellows Advisory Board, has just released a new children’s book Chef Toussaint, about a 9-year-old master chef who turns his grandmother’s recipes into award-winning dishes. He is the author of several other children’s books, including Khalil’s Way; Brooklyn’s Finest: The Green Family Farm; […]