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Good Business Works, a project of Civic Works’ Baltimore Center for Green Careers that brings together Baltimore business leaders, workforce experts, and nonprofit and community partners to expand quality jobs, equitable and inclusive workplaces, and family-sustaining career pathways for all Baltimoreans, will have its official launch on Thursday, October 24. OSI-Baltimore’s Criminal and Juvenile Justice […]

In June, a stunning exhibit, “Slavery, The Prison Industrial Complex: Photographs by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick,” opened at the Baltimore Museum of Art. On Thursday, September 5, OSI-Baltimore and the BMA invite the public to join the artists for a panel discussion on issues surrounding mass incarceration with prison rights advocate Norris Henderson, founder […]

Brittany Young, a 2018 OSI Community Fellow and founder of B-360, has been named among the Baltimore Business Journal’s “2019 40 Under 40” honorees.  B-360, which uses dirt bike culture as a way to introduce young people to STEM educational and career opportunities, has been featured on CBS Evening News, Mashable, the Baltimore Sun, and Forbes […]

A recent study by the Maryland State Education Association found 94 percent of Maryland teachers spend their own money on school supplies. While education advocates, including many OSI grantees, work to ensure that schools receive adequate funding so that teachers don’t have to provide their own supplies, 2016 OSI Community Fellow Melissa Badeker is helping […]

On Thursday, August 29th, OSI-Baltimore, the Baltimore City Healthy Department, and OSI grantee Bmore Power will mark International Overdose Awareness Day with Naloxone trainings and public awareness campaigns throughout Baltimore City. At each of these locations, one of the powerful posters created by illustrator Alex Fine, like the one above, will be on display.  

In 2016, Open Society Foundations partnered with the Center for Working Families to start a Board and Commission Leadership Institute in Baltimore to increase the diversity of community members sitting on city boards and commission. On Monday, Durryle Brooks, from the inaugural class of the Institute, was sworn in to the Baltimore City School Board. […]

The collages above were created by OSI-Baltimore YouthWorks summer intern Celia Jackson. By Celia Jackson The crime in Baltimore is bad. Kids aren’t getting the right knowledge they need. People in Baltimore are showing a lot of hatred towards each other. Kids and adults are losing their lives due to street violence going on here […]

On Monday, representatives from Cleveland schools and Youth Engagement, Capital Planning, and Innovation departments came to Baltimore to learn more about STEAM programs in Baltimore. The city of Cleveland is building a dirt bike park and, as part of the officials’ trip, they met with 2018 OSI Baltimore Community Fellow Brittany Young and other representatives […]

If you see a problem or injustice, you can be the one to fix it. Self-discipline means loving yourself, pushing yourself, staying on track and doing what’s right. While it might seem counterintuitive, failing motivates me. I have failed plenty of times, not one time did I stop grinding. Failing made me the woman I […]