Archive

This week, the Baltimore Sun reported that the Maryland Historical Trust will use a $50,000 grant from the National Park Service to document stories of Baltimore’s Indigenous populations. The project will include materials and archives from forthcoming Ashley Minner Collection at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, named for a 2008 OSI Community fellow whose […]

Baltimore’s AFRO newspaper named Alicia Wilson, Vice President for Economic Development for Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health System and and a member of OSI-Baltimore’s Advisory Board, one of two Baltimore Newsmakers of the Year for 2021. Among Wilson’s many accomplishments, the paper noted her dedication to mentoring Baltimore’s youth and paying forward the […]

A new report highlights the work of the Equity-First Vaccination Initiative, which aims to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 vaccination rates in the United States and, over the longer term, strengthen the public health system to achieve more-equitable outcomes. The initiative focused on five demonstration cities, Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, Newark, and Oakland, to […]

In December, the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement announced that they will devote more than $1 millon in American Rescue Plan Act money into implementation of the OSI- supported Healing City Act, which aims to address the causes of trauma in Baltimore City by helping government support the health of children and families, […]

Jaisal Noor, a senior producer at the Baltimore-based Real News Network, wrote a story for YES! Media about the food sovereignty work of Black Yield Institute, founded by 2017 OSI Community Fellow Eric Jackson, in South Baltimore’s Cherry Hill neighborhood and community efforts to prevent city officials from evicting the organization from its farm.

On Tuesday evening, longtime OSI partner Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS) hosted a conversation about community reinvestment as part of its series looking at potential implication of cannabin legalization in Maryland. LBS Director of Public Policy moderated the conversation with OSI Director Danielle Torain and Kindred Wellness Founder Shawna Murray Browne. Watch the full […]

On November 18th, the Pratt Library hosted a conversation with Sheryll Cashin, author of “White Space, Black Hood,” moderated by 2020 OSI Community Fellow Bree Jones. Watch the full event below. 

WBAL-TV featured 2020 OSI Community Fellow Ateira Griffin and her organization, Building Our Nations Daughters (BOND), in its story about organizations supporting families in need over Thanksgiving. BOND, an organization focused on cultivating strong relationships between mothers and daughters, specifically in single-parent homes. is providing full Thanksgiving dinners to more than 300 families. “We have […]

As part of its recent Virtual Youth Development Forum, the Baltimore City Youth Foundation hosted a Funders Panel, including OSI-Baltimore Director Danielle Torain and other local philanthropic leaders. Watch the full panel discussion below.