OSI-Baltimore is co-sponsoring a training event with Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland and others on Friday, March 8 from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Representing Asylum-Seekers: Model Hearing Edition will include sessions focusing on how to represent children and families applying for asylum while in removal […]
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OSI Advisory Board member Alicia Wilson featured in Forbes
Tuesday, January 29, 2019This week, Forbes featured OSI-Baltimore Advisory Board member Alicia Wilson, who is the senior vice president of impact investments and senior legal counsel for Port Covington Impact Investments. The piece profiled not only Wilson’s work mentoring Baltimore City youth but also her position as a black, female attorney, and how that informs her desire to make […]
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OSI’s Karen Webber touts impact of restorative practices at Educating the Whole Child forum
Friday, January 25, 2019Friday afternoon, Karen Webber, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Education and Youth Development program, presented as a part of the Baltimore Curriculum Project’s annual Leading Minds forum. The topic this year was “Educating the Whole Child” and the other speakers were Kirwin Commission Chair Brit Kirwan and Mark Gaither, principal of Wolfe Street Academy, a pioneering community […]
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OSI publishes cost-benefit analysis of releasing aging prisoners
Friday, January 25, 2019Today, Open Society Institute-Baltimore released a new report, “Building on the Unger Experience: A cost-benefit analysis of releasing aging prisoners.” The new report follows the Justice Policy Institute report, “The Ungers: Five Years and Counting,” which detailed OSI’s five-year investment to provide reentry services for aging prisoners in the “Unger Group,” who were returning to […]
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Baltimore Grantmakers discuss local work to support threatened immigrants and refugees
Friday, January 25, 2019Yesterday, the Association of Baltimore-Area Grantmakers (ABAG) hosted a forum to discuss recent initiatives focused on protecting Baltimore’s immigrant and refugee communities. OSI-Baltimore Deputy Director Tracy Brown opened the forum by discussing the Safe City Baltimore initiative, which OSI and the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MIMA) launched in response to stepped up ICE immigration […]
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Baltimore Sun: “Cut the act, Gov. Hogan. You know Baltimore schools are being shortchanged”
Friday, January 25, 2019Today, the Baltimore Sun Editorial Board called “bull” (their word) on Governor Larry Hogan’s feigned ignorance about why OSI grantees the ACLU of Maryland the NAACP Legal Defense Fund sent him a letter demanding adequate funding for Baltimore City schools. As the Editorial Board writes say in today’s staff editorial: “[W]e are quite certain [Governor […]
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After advocate outcry, School Board unanimously rejects arming school police
Wednesday, January 23, 2019After hearing fierce opposition from members of the OSI-supported Coalition to Reform School Discipline, including the student-led Baltimore Algebra Project and the ACLU of Maryland, the Baltimore City school voted unanimously to oppose HB31, a bill sponsored by Del. Cheryl Glenn (D, 45th District) that would have allowed school police to carry guns inside school […]
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NAACP Legal Defense Fund and ACLU of Maryland ask Hogan to increase funding for city schools
Tuesday, January 22, 2019In a letter sent to Governor Larry Hogan a week after he announced his budget for fiscal year 2020, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the ACLU of Maryland, both grantees of OSI-Baltimore’s Education and Youth Development program, “ask that the State’s budget and any legislation on school facilities incorporate funding to remediate both the […]
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OSI’s Scott Nolen to be featured as a Comcast Newsmaker
Tuesday, January 22, 2019Scott Nolen, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Addiction and Health Equity program, was interviewed last week by Comcast Newsmakers and will be featured in February as part of a Black History Month series of African-American leaders discussing issues confronting African-American communities. Nolen, pictured on the set with host Tetiana Anderson, discussed the ways OSI-Baltimore is working to […]
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OSI Fellow’s Baltimore Youth Arts to hold Studio Apprentice Program
Friday, January 18, 2019Baltimore Youth Arts (BYA), a program founded by 2016 OSI Community Fellow Gianna Rodriguez, is seeking applicants for its Studio Apprentice Program, now in its third year. The program is a creative entrepreneurship and job training program that provides artistic and professional opportunities to young people, ages 14-22, with a focus on those in contact with […]
