September is, appropriately enough, Attendance Awareness Month and a good time to talk about how attendance is a portal to many other issues involving Baltimore City students, families and schools. Nearly 85% of our students qualify for free and reduced meals, which is an indicator for poverty; and we can’t discount the attendant barriers and burdens that accompany modern poverty in America.
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OSI-Baltimore announces first round of Baltimore Justice Fund grants
Thursday, September 17, 2015Thirteen grants, totaling $337,500, aim to improve police accountability and increase racial justice and opportunity for Baltimore residents in the wake of the Baltimore Uprising.
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Media Bias and Black Communities
Monday, September 14, 2015As part of the Open Society Institute-Baltimore series “Talking About Race,” author and civil rights leader Rashad Robinson and journalist Stacey Patton will dissect the ways that television, newspaper and radio news can shape stories in ways that distort the reality of black lives—and reinforce negative stereotypes.
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Request for Proposals for Post-Release Reentry Services
Wednesday, September 09, 2015The Criminal and Juvenile Justice Program of Open Society Institute-Baltimore seeks proposals from organizations able to provide high quality post-release reentry and reintegration services to individuals who have been granted clemency by the President of the United States for federal drug-related sentences and will be returning to Maryland, beginning November 2015.
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Baltimore police equipped with life-saving Naloxone thanks to OSI grant
Tuesday, September 01, 2015Pilot program focuses on areas hardest hit by heroin addiction Media Advisory Evan Serpick, Open Society Institute 410.234.1091 This week, 500 Baltimore police officers will be equipped with the life-saving drug Naloxone, which reverses opioid overdoses upon ingestion. The cost of the drug was covered by a Open Society Institute grant to Behavioral Health Systems of […]
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WYPR series “On the Watch” examines the practices and culture of policing in Baltimore
Tuesday, September 01, 2015Tomorrow morning at 5:51 a.m. and 7:51 a.m., during Morning Edition, WYPR will air the third installment of its year-long series, “On the Watch: Fixing the Fractured Relationship Between Baltimore’s Police and Its Communities.” The series is funded by the Open Society Institute’s Baltimore Justice Fund.
