OSI-Baltimore recently added four new members to its Advisory Board: Ava Lias-Booker, Jamar Brown, Nupur P. Flynn, and Larry Moscow. Ava Lias-Booker is a partner, heads the Baltimore litigation practice group, and is co-chair of the Consumer and Retail Banking Industry Team at McGuireWoods. Jamar Brown is an associate in the Litigation group at Rosenberg Martin […]
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OSI Community Fellow Ausar Daniels on WYPR’s Life in the Balance
Tuesday, November 13, 2018Recently 2017 OSI Community Fellow, Ausar Daniels was featured on WYPR’s Life in the Balance to talk about helping communities in Baltimore through urban agriculture and other health initiatives. Daniels founded the Greater Mondawmin Empowerment Project (GMEP) to combat food insecurity and the negative effects associated with limited or no access to healthy, affordable food. […]
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OSI Community Fellows Strategic Advisory Group hosts first peer coaching training
Tuesday, November 13, 2018In 2017, the OSI-Baltimore Community Fellowships program launched the Community Fellows Network Strategic Advisory Group, which aims to strengthen connections among the 200 Fellows, discover and address shared needs, and explore ways to collaborate. The group formed five committees to advance its work: Skill Sharing, Healing, and Storytelling; public relations and Marketing; Thought Leadership; Mentorship […]
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OSIs Addiction and Health Equity program hosts Advocacy and Leadership training
Tuesday, November 13, 2018On Friday and Saturday, OSI’s Addiction and Health Equity program held the first of its Advocacy and Leadership training sessions, intended to help build the field of advocates around the state and increase the representation of people with lived experience with addiction in policy conversations. The training, held in Frederick, Maryland, included a welcome from […]
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OSI’s 2017 Impact Report is now online
Thursday, November 08, 2018The 2017 Impact Report, which summarize OSI-Baltimore’s work and impact last year, is now online. The report includes stories on OSI’s work on bail reform, school re-engagement, the history of our work introducing and expanding use of Buprenorphine to treat addiction, and the Community Fellows Strategic Advisory Group. It also lists all 2017 grants by […]
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OSI Community Fellow’s Baltimore Green Space negotiates protections for Fairwood Forest
Wednesday, November 07, 2018Recently, Baltimore Green Space, an organization started by 2007 OSI Community Fellow Miriam Avins, joined with Fairwood Forest and Glenham-Belhar Community Association to preserve Fairwood Forest, the first community forest to be preserved in Baltimore City. Baltimore Green Space was able to negotiate protections for the area in a land trust. Learn more here. Avins […]
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OSI Board Member on National Influencers: Rising Starts list
Wednesday, November 07, 2018This week, OSI Advisory Board member Alicia Wilson was selected to a national list of influential young executives, according to the Baltimore Business Journal. Wilson, who is the vice president of community affairs and legal advisor for Sagamore Development was selected out of more than 1000 executives as one of the Business Journals’ Influencers: Rising […]
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OSI Fellows connect with Business Volunteers of Maryland
Thursday, November 01, 2018Last Wednesday, OSI Baltimore Community Fellows, including 2017 Fellow Jackie Bello (above, left) and 2010 Fellow Koli Tengella (above, right) joined Business Volunteers of Maryland’s (BVM) GIVE Fellows in a special skillCONNECT event. At the event, OSI presented concrete problem their projects were facing and working with teams of GIVE Fellows to conceive new ideas and […]
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Baltimore joins MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge
Thursday, November 01, 2018Last week, the MacArthur Foundation announced that its Safety and Justice Challenge – an effort to reduce the misuse and overuse of jails nationwide – would expand to 12 new jurisdictions, including Baltimore City. With its $50,000 grant award, the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, which operates the Baltimore City jail, will create […]
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Introducing OSI’s 2018 Community Fellows!
Wednesday, October 31, 2018Last night at the final event in Open Society Institute - Baltimore's 20th Anniversary Speaker Series, OSI Advisory Board members Veronica Cool and James DeGraffenreidt, Jr. - both of whom served on the Fellows Selection Committee - announced the 2018 cohort of OSI Community Fellows. The 10 new Fellows bring the OSI Community Fellowships Network [...]
