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How Graham Coreil-Allen Uses Public Art to Slow Down Cars
Wednesday, September 01, 2021By Ethan McLeod In Reservoir Hill, a prismatic display has erupted over the asphalt and sidewalks. Last spring, Graham Coreil-Allen gathered neighbors to help paint the intersection at Whitelock Street and Brookfield Avenue with a carefully placed rainbow of literal street art, bolstered by flex posts and fresh crosswalk lines that, together, urge approaching drivers [...] -
Local Control Advisory Board created to potentially return police department under City control
Thursday, August 26, 2021By Tre Ward-Team Reporter BALTIMORE —Baltimore is moving forward with steps to potentially place the police force back under the city's control. Six community members were sworn in this evening as part of the first-ever Local Control Advisory Board. Baltimore City has the only local government in Maryland that doesn't have control over its police [...] -
Hogan vetoed a bill decriminalizing drug paraphernalia – lawmakers should override him
Sunday, August 22, 2021By Rajani Gudlavalleti What this governor, who claims to be a champion against overdoses, shot down would protect Maryland drug users from harm and encourage them to seek life-saving treatment [OP-ED]. This past spring, a Baltimore resident was arrested and jailed in Anne Arundel County for attempting to bring items considered drug paraphernalia to a [...] -
Baltimore developer, STEM program leader named to national fellowship program
Tuesday, July 06, 2021By Alicia Diaz – Editorial Intern, Baltimore Business Journal The leaders of two Baltimore organizations have received three-year grants to help support their mission. Two Baltimore changemakers will be able to put themselves on payroll and bring on more staff thanks to a hefty grant from a national fellowship program. Brittany Young, founder of B-360, and [...] -
When neighbors in Brooklyn need help with homework or Latino housing rights, this Baltimore teacher’s aide steps in
Tuesday, June 22, 2021By Stephanie García Stepping in to translate between landlords and tenants, Kendra Summers saw that her Latino neighbors needed an advocate. The teacher’s aide at Brooklyn’s Maree Garnett Farring Elementary School created Casa Amable — which translates to “Kind Home” — a program that teaches residents new to the U.S. about tenant rights and the [...] -
Many in Baltimore’s struggling Cherry Hill enclave could have gone hungry amid COVID. But a small band of neighborhood activists stepped up.
Friday, June 18, 20212017 OSI Community Fellow Eric Jackson featured By Isabella Gomes On a cold March Saturday afternoon last year, three community activists showed up one by one to the empty school in Cherry Hill. They’d been called by an elder of their historically Black neighborhood in South Baltimore. For several weeks, Michael Middleton had been tracking [...] -
7 Baltimore initiatives formed since the summer of protests that are working to create a more equitable innovation economy
Friday, June 04, 2021By Donte Kirby The tech and entrepreneurship community got organized after last summer's protests. Here's a look at the organizations that got started since. It’s been a year since the summer of protests that followed the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and too many others. Following the protests and rekindled Black Lives Matter movement in June 2020, tech [...] -
B’More Invested, a collaboration between Baltimore foundations, announces first grant recipients
Friday, May 14, 2021By Holden Wilen – Reporter, Baltimore Business Journal A new collaboration between some of Baltimore's most well-known foundations aims to flip the traditional grantmaking model on its head. Organizations typically receive grants from funders who determine how they want the money to be used. With B'More Invested, community members get the primary say in determining [...] -
Healing Maryland’s Trauma Act passed
Wednesday, April 28, 2021BALTIMORE — Maryland is taking a different approach to trauma. By WMAR Lawmakers announced the passage of the Healing Maryland's Trauma Act Wednesday. The legislation takes Baltimore's Elijah Cummings Healing City Act and the Healing City movement to the state level. It establishes the Commission on Trauma-Informed Care and calls for a statewide healing framework. [...] -
OSI welcomes new Advisory Board members Catalina Rodriguez-Lima and Kenneth Jones
Thursday, April 08, 2021This week, the OSI-Baltimore Advisory Board officially added two new members, Catalina Rodriguez-Lima and Kenneth Jones. Catalina Rodriguez Lima is the Founding Director of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MIMA) in Baltimore City and a longstanding member of OSI’s Leadership Council. As Director of MIMA, Catalina is responsible for promoting community well-being, economic development, […]
Open Society Institute – Baltimore
Open Society Institute (OSI) – Baltimore : Audacious Thinking For Lasting Change
