The Daily Record recently announced its list of 2017 Innovators of the Year. Among the two dozen winners is Thread, the project started by 2009 OSI-Baltimore Fellow, Sarah Hemminger. Hemminger started Thread as a way to engage underperforming high school students who are faced with significant barriers outside of the classroom by providing each one […]
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OSI Community Fellow, Board Member named as Daily Record Innovators of the Year
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Reginald F. Lewis Museum to host “Monuments and Statues Really Do Matter” discussion
Thursday, August 17, 2017This Saturday, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture will hold a panel presentation and community discussion about the impact and meaning of the violence in Charlottesville; the rise of white supremacy and white nationalism; and what the removal of our four Confederate statues means for Baltimore. Dr. Karsonya (Kaye) […]
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OSI-supported LEAD program featured on WYPR
Wednesday, August 16, 2017This week, the OSI-Baltimore-supported Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program was featured on WYPR’s On the Record with Sheilah Kast. Baltimore Police Department (BPD) Captain James Rhoden and Crista Taylor, CEO of Behavioral Health System Baltimore (BSHB), discussed the program, which re-directs people who would otherwise be booked for low-level drug offenses to treatment and […]
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OSI Community Fellows take part in Red Bull Amaphiko Academy
Tuesday, August 15, 20172016 OSI Community Fellow, Jermaine Bell recently had the opportunity to work with the organizers of the Red Bull Amaphiko Academy, a 10-day event providing mentorship and skills training for social entrepreneurs to allow them to develop and expand their projects. Bell, whose fellowship at Exit the Apple helps to create programming for the unsupported–primarily African- […]
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OSI Fellow’s Teacher Supply Swap Featured in Baltimore Sun
Tuesday, August 15, 2017This week, 2016 OSI Community Fellow, Melissa Badeker and her project, Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap, was featured in the Baltimore Sun. Badeker and co-founder Kathleen Williams started the swap in part because they had so many unused supplies at the end of each school year that were wasted. “We’re getting supplies that are excess and […]
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Baltimore magazine highlights OSI Fellows and partners
Saturday, August 12, 2017Baltimore magazine’s annual Best of Baltimore issue recently came out and OSI-Baltimore was so pleased to find so many members of the OSI family recognized. Four different OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows and/or their projects were recognized: 2012 Fellow and Morgan State University professor Lawrence Brown was recognized as founder of one of the “Best Political Facebook […]
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OSI Fellow’s Teacher Supply Swap featured on WBAL
Friday, August 11, 2017Last night, 2016 OSI Community Fellow, Melissa Badeker and the project she co-founded, Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap were featured on WBAL. Badeker and co-founder Kathleen Williams started the swap as a way to collect the unused supplies that teachers have and get them into the hands of teachers who can use them. “We’re just kind […]
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OSI-Baltimore funds two new Baltimore Police Department positions
Friday, August 11, 2017Contact: Evan Serpick, OSI-Baltimore, 410-234-1091 T.J. Smith, BPD, 410-396-2012 Organizational Development Advisor and Social Justice and Equity Advisor will help examine and reform department culture BALTIMORE – The Open Society Institute-Baltimore (OSI) has provided a grant of $300,000 for the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) to establish two new staff positions that respond to Commissioner Kevin […]
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Baltimore City Schools creates Restorative Practices portal
Monday, August 07, 2017Baltimore City Schools CEO Sonja Santelises and her staff have been working with OSI-Baltimore on a plan to introduce restorative practices (RP) to all Baltimore City Public Schools over the next 5 years. As district officials prepare to begin the roll out of restorative practices during the 2017-18 academic year, they have created a web […]
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OSI grantee Bridges Coalition hosts community events
Monday, August 07, 2017OSI-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 […]
