This week, the Daily Record published a commentary written by 2014 OSI Community Fellow, Renita Seabrook, the program director for Nonprofit Management and Community Leadership at the University of Baltimore’s College of Public Affairs and an associate professor at the University of Baltimore School of Criminal Justice. Seabrook argues that the residents of Baltimore can and […]
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OSI board member, grantees receive awards
Friday, October 20, 2017This week, OSI board member Veronica Cool, CEO and Hispanic Strategist for Cool and Associates LLC and founder of the Latino Innovators Pitch, was named one of the Daily Record’s 2017 Innovators of the Year. The Daily Record’s yearly list recognizes individuals and companies in Maryland who have made innovative contributions to Maryland have a […]
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OSI Fellows gather to discuss challenges and successes of fellowship
Thursday, October 19, 2017Today, members of the 2016 cohort of OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows gathered to hear from two current fellows, Deborah Ramsey and LaMarr Shields. Ramsey, whose program, Unified Efforts, focuses on out-of-school time violence and bullying prevention, brought two of her students, LaMontez and Tayshawn,” to the gathering. LaMontez said Unified Efforts was his second home, and […]
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OSI Fellow featured on Mike Rowe’s Returning the Favor
Tuesday, October 17, 2017This week, 2016 OSI Community Fellow, Melissa Badeker and her program, Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap were featured in a great episode of Returning the Favor, a web series developed by Baltimore native Mike Rowe. In the series, which is streamed on Facebook, Rowe travels the country seeking people who are making a difference in their […]
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OSI’s Tara Huffman talks to AP about reduction in juveniles in adult jails
Monday, October 16, 2017An Associated Press story about the sharp reduction in Baltimore juveniles being held in adult detention facilities quotes OSI-Baltimore Criminal and Juvenile Justice Director Tara Huffman and Christina Williams, director of public policy for OSI grantee Community Law In Action (CLIA), which was founded by 1999 OSI Community Fellow Terry Hickey, who is now director of […]
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OSI organizes restorative practices training for educators working with immigrants
Wednesday, October 11, 2017Yesterday, OSI-Baltimore hosted a train-the-trainer session on restorative practices for English Learner (EL) students, organized with the City Schools’ Office of Differentiation. On October 19th, the trainers will offer a half-day training on restorative practices for all 150 EL teachers in the district. Restorative practices, in particular restorative circles, help lift up student voices and build […]
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OSI Fellow helps create Forest of Hope to honor people in recovery
Tuesday, October 10, 2017Recently, as part of the Nikki Perlow Foundation’s Forest of Hope project, artist and 2004 OSI Community Fellow Jay Wolf Schlossberg-Cohen led a group of more than 1,000 people who created an outdoor art installation honoring those in recovery from addiction. Teams of people led by people in recovery painted the trunks of 52 trees at […]
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2016 Fellow launches bullying prevention campaign
Tuesday, October 10, 2017Unified Efforts, the program started by 2016 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow, Deborah Ramsey, will hold several violence reduction and bullying prevention activities with K-12 students as part of the organizations “24/7 Bullying Prevention Awareness Campaign.” As part of her fellowship, Ramsey, who is a retired police officer, established the Penn North Violence Prevention Youth Center in […]
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OSI Fellow honored at ABC’s 2017 Women on the Move
Tuesday, October 10, 2017On Thursday at Associated Black Charities’ (ABC) 2017 Women on the Move event, 2013 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Lanaea Featherstone‘s organization, The William & Lanaea C. Featherstone Foundation, was honored as an “Organization Making a Difference for Women.” OSI-Baltimore Advisory Board member Alicia Wilson, who also serves on the ABC Board, co-chaired the event and fellow […]
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Local leaders, OSI’s Diana Morris get ready to rumble
Thursday, October 05, 2017Last night, the Campaign for Black Male Achievement opened the first Rumble Young Man Rumble event in Baltimore at City Hall. Mayor Catherine Pugh welcomed the event, which connects young African-American men, “flyweights,” to older counterparts, “heavyweights,” to foster mentoring relationships and try to improve outcomes and build power for young men of color in […]
