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On Thursday, OSI and Business Volunteers Maryland hosted the third conversation in the Business in Community Discussion Series, focused on Violence Prevention and Safety. Watch the full event here (Passcode: $j2tkHTK). Dr. Seema Iyer of the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance opened the session with some to data to set the stage, and she does with […]

On Thursday, the United Way of Central Maryland Changemaker Challenge event, where local changemakers presented their ideas and many were selected to received grants to support their work. Several OSI Community Fellows were among the grant recipients, including: B-360, founded by 2018 OSI Fellow Brittany Young ($25,000) Safe Alternative Foundation for Education, Inc., founded by […]

Last week, Baltimore Furniture Bank, the organization founded by 2019 OSI Community Fellow Damien Haussling, was featured in the Baltimore Sun. The organization works to connect low-income individuals and families and those who are coming out of homelessness to much needed gently used furniture and household items.

Dinorah Olmos, a 2019 OSI Community Fellow, was named to the the Daily Record’s Power 30 Higher Education. Olmos, the founding President and Executive Director of Latino Education Advancement Fund, started La Escuela, sus Hijos y Usted (School, your Children, and You), an educational program to help Spanish-speaking Latino parents engage in the parent-school community.

Black Women Build Baltimore (BWBB), founded by 2018 OSI Community Fellow Shelley Halstead, recently hosted its second Open House, with visitors from the community, including city officials and donors. The organization trains Black women in carpentry, electrical, and plumbing and helps trainees through the process to eventually own the houses they work on. BWBB now […]

Longtime OSI-Baltimore partner and grantees Wide Angle Youth Media (WAYM), founded by 2001 OSI Community Fellow Gin Ferrara, is featured in this month’s Baltimore Magazine. WAYM provides free and accessible creative education resources to Baltimore City youth. Read the full article here.

On Sunday night, Jews United for Justice (JUFJ), a longtime partner and grantee of OSI-Baltimore, honored OSI’s Tara Huffman with a Heschel Vision Award for her tireless work to transform the criminal and juvenile justice system in Maryland. The segment honoring Huffman included comments from OSI Director Danielle Torain, NAACP-LDF President and Director Counsel (and […]

This week, the Baltimore Sun published its annual list of 25 Women to Watch, including OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows Brittany Young and Brion Gill. Brittany Young, a 2018 fellow, started B-360, an organization that uses dirt bike culture to teach Baltimore City youth about STEM fields. Brittany and B-360 have been featured on the Kelly Clarkson […]