On May 14, OSI grantee, Community Law In Action (CLIA) will honor Alicia Wilson, senior vice president of impact investments and senior legal counsel for Port Covington Impact Investments LLC and an OSI Advisory Board member at its annual luncheon “Inspiring Voices.” CLIA is a nonprofit organization that aims to help young people become effective […]
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2018 Community Fellow in Toyota #makeup2mud campaign
Wednesday, April 03, 20192018 OSI Community Fellow Brittany Young was recently featured in a Toyota “#makeup2mud” video talking about her project, B-360, an organization that uses dirt bike culture as a way to introduce young people to educational and career opportunities in STEM fields. Young, who is a chemical engineer, wants to use the program to give young […]
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Technical.ly Baltimore covers 2018 OSI Fellow’s tech response to homelessness in the trans community
Wednesday, April 03, 2019Technical.ly Baltimore recently featured 2018 OSI Community Fellow Ava Pipitone and her fellowship program, HostHome. The project, which is still in its early stages, will use technology to connect people in the transgender community to emergency housing. Pipitone’s initial pilot program was able to sign up for hosts who housed 21 guests. She’s hoping to […]
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Graduation rates in Baltimore City rise while those around the state drop
Wednesday, April 03, 2019Last week the Baltimore Sun reported that graduation rates in Baltimore City increased across all demographic groups in 2018, according to data just released by the Maryland Department of Education. Of the 5,195 students in the city’s 2018 graduating class, 72.2 percent graduated in four years — an increase of 1.5 percentage points from the […]
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Charm City gets national TV debut on PBS
Wednesday, April 03, 2019Charm City, a film that features OSI Community Fellows Clayton Guyton (2000), founder of the Rose Street Community Center, and Alex Long (2017), who works at Safe Streets and founded the McElderry Youth Redemption Boxing Program as part of his Fellowship, will be broadcast nationally on PBS series Independent Lens on April 22. In 2018, and with support from OSI-Baltimore, the film’s […]
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OSI Community Fellow wins NASW-MD Social Worker of the Year award
Tuesday, April 02, 2019Last week, 2017 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Eric Jackson received the 2019 National Association of Social Workers-Maryland (NASW-MD) Social Worker of the Year award. The awards honor NASW-MD members, student members, and a local citizen who have made outstanding contributions to the social work field or to the community.
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Inside the Wide Angle Youth Media Design Team
Friday, March 29, 2019Check out the great blog post and pictures on Wide Angle Youth Media’s website offering a behind-the-scenes look at the work of the group’s Design Team, a cohort of young people who designed, printed, and distributed beautiful, impactful signs for the ACLU of Maryland’s recent March For Our Schools in Annapolis. OSI provided funding for […]
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WATCH: Beverly Tatum, Sonja Santelises discuss race, identity, and youth in wide ranging Talking About Race event
Tuesday, March 26, 2019Dr. Beverly Tatum, author of the landmark book, “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race,” recently released in an expanded 20th Anniversary Edition, talked about the importance of discussing race from an early age in a wide-range conversation with Baltimore City Schools CEO Dr. Sonja Santelises as […]
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2018 OSI Community Fellow Brittany Young featured on Mashable
Friday, March 22, 2019Recently, online media platform Mashable featured an interview with 2018 OSI Community Fellow Brittany Young as part of its ongoing series, The Women Fixing STEM. In Ride On: How urban dirt biking is getting black youth into STEM, Young talks about her Fellowship project, B-360, an organization that uses dirt bike culture to introduce young […]
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OSI Community Fellows in full force at 2nd Grassroots DesignFest
Thursday, March 21, 2019The OSI Baltimore Community Fellows network made a strong showing at the 2nd Grassroots DesignFest, held on Saturday, March 2, sponsored by MICA and the T. Rowe Price Foundation. A daylong hackathon-style event, DesignFest 2019 paired 21 grassroots nonprofits with teams of student and professional designers to create innovative design solutions. Projects included everything from […]
