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The Baltimore Business Journal (BBJ) recently announced its 2017 40 Under 40 honorees. Among them are one of OSI-Baltimore’s newest Advisory Board members, Alicia Wilson, and 2009 Community Fellow, Sarah Hemminger. Wilson, who is Vice President of Community Affairs and Legal Advisor to Sagamore Development Company, joined the Board earlier this year. Hemminger’s organization, Thread, […]

OSI-Baltimore grantee, the Bridges Coalition will host “Seeking Safety in a War Zone: A Community Conversation” on Monday August 28 and Wednesday August 30. Community members are invited to share stories and ideas to address issues like over-incarceration and the overdose epidemic in Baltimore and to come together to promote community health and healing. On […]

This Friday, 36 Baltimore City middle and high school students participating in Baltimore Schools Young Writers’ Summer Studio will share new fiction, poetry and non-fiction work from their week at camp. The Summer Studio is a program of Writers in Baltimore Schools, a project started by 2008 OSI Community Fellow Patrice Hutton. The reading will take place […]

This week, the Baltimore Sun featured a great article on the OSI-Baltimore Community Fellowships program. “Sparks for change: Open Society fellows have tested new ideas for Baltimore for 20 years,” highlights how deeply woven into the fabric of Baltimore the fellows have become in the two-decade history of the program. “When we think about the […]

Photo from the Baltimore Sun gallery.   Next Friday, July 28, Art@Work, a summer mural program for young people enrolled in the Baltimore City YouthWorks program, will unveil the completed murals. The program, now in its third year, is produced by the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts (BOPA) in partnership with Jubilee Arts […]

Last night at Coppin State University, nearly two dozen representatives for the teams applying to be Consent Decree monitors answered questions about their qualifications and proposed strategies in front of a standing room only crowd of community members. Before the start of the town hall, hosted by OSI-Baltimore grantee, the Campaign for Jobs, Safety and […]

This week, WMAR Baltimore featured ShareBaby, an organization that provides clothing, diapers, strollers, toys, and other basic goods to organizations that work with families in need. 2016 OSI-Community Fellow, Eliseba Osore’s developed her project, Baltimore Baby Pantry as part of ShareBaby to focus mostly on collecting and distributing diapers, which is the primary need for […]

This week, the Baltimore Brew featured the Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap, a project co-founded by  2016 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Melissa Badeker. Badeker and co-founder Kathleen Williams were inspired to start the swap after realizing they were not the only teachers who had unused and leftover supplies that they no longer wanted or could no longer […]

Yesterday, as a preview to OSI-Baltimore’s next Talking About Race event, Harm Reduction and Communities of Color, Marc Steiner spoke to panelists Kassandra Frederique, New York State Director at the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) and Dr. Samuel Roberts, Associate Professor of History and Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, and Scott Nolen, director […]