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The front page of Monday’s Baltimore Sun featured a feature story on the Blueprint for Baltimore project, which includes a survey of 10 to 12,000 Baltimore residents to identify their preferred priorities for Baltimore City leadership in advance of 2020 mayor and City Council elections. In addition, OSI’s Evan Serpick, Black Leaders Organizing for Change’s […]

At a City Hall ceremony this morning, 2017 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Shantell Roberts, founder of Touching Young Lives, Inc., was sworn in as the newest member of the Baltimore City Schools Board of Commissioners. Roberts replaces Muriel Berkeley, a member of OSI-Baltimore’s Advisory Board, who is stepping down. 

On Wednesday, November 13, ShareBaby, an organization that provides diapers, clothing, and other basic goods to organizations that work with families in need founded by 2016 OSI Community Fellow Eliseba Osore, will host Bingo For a Cause at the Charles Theater.  Additional information here. Proceeds to benefit ShareBaby. 

This week the Baltimore Beat published a story, “The solution to Baltimore’s overdose crisis—safe consumption sites,” that lays out much of the research and advocacy promoting the establishment of Overdose Prevention Sites (OPS), also called Safe Consumption Spaces or Safe Injection Facilities, in Maryland. The latest development cited in the story is the release of […]

OSI-Baltimore’s Addiction and Health Equity team and several OSI grantees attended the Drug Policy Alliance Reform Conference in St. Louis last week. At the conference, OSI hosted a Maryland Meet-Up organized by Zach Kosinski of with the Maryland Harm Reduction Action Network and Sam Kerr (pictured) and Tricia Christensen of OSI grantees Baltimore Harm Reduction […]

Last night, at the Women’s Law Center of Maryland’s Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony, the advocacy organization present OSI-Baltimore Acting Director Tracy Brown with its Deborah Beatty Memorial Award for “Significant contribution to the advancement of women’s legal rights.” Before joining OSI-Baltimore, Tracy was executive director of the Women’s Law Center of Maryland for 13 […]

Unified Efforts, an organization founded by 2016 OSI Community Fellow Debbie Ramsey to address summer learning loss for Baltimore City students, recently released their fall 2019 issue of I Belong Magazine. The magazine offers a forum for young people in Baltimore to “engage with one another through written expression without judgement from adults.” The magazine […]

Wide Angle Youth Media, an OSI-Baltimore grantee founded by 2001 OSI Community Fellow Gin Ferrara, will hold its annual exhibition and screening, Listen. Amplify. Repeat. at Maryland Institute College of Art on Thursday, November 14. The event will include an exhibition of photographs and design projects, premier new films and commentary from youth presenters as […]