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On Thursday night, while Farajii Muhammad moderated a panel after a screening of Anna Deavere Smith’s HBO film, “Notes from the Field” at the Charles Theatre (OSI hosted a staged performance of the work in 2015), 2016 OSI Community Fellow Lamarr Shields (center) filled in as host of Muhammad’s WEAA show, “For the Culture.” For the […]

Last week, the “Only in Your State” blog featured the Book Thing of Baltimore, which was founded by 2000 Community Fellow, Russell Wattenberg. Wattenberg established the Book Thing to be a book distribution network system to provide used and remainder books to non-profit organizations and individuals throughout Baltimore City.

On Wednesday night, OSI joined Jewish community group Charm City Tribe at Max’s Taphouse for its first-ever “Beit Midrash” (House of Study) event, on the subject of “Opioids in Our Communities.” Rabbi Jessy Gross, the director of Charm City Tribe, began the event by sharing texts from the Jewish tradition with relevance to the conversation, including […]

This week, the Baltimore Police Monitoring Team, which was put in place as part of the Consent Decree, issued a Request for Applications (RFA) for neighborhood liaisons. Neighborhood liaisons will facilitate the Monitoring Team’s community engagement efforts by providing localized points of access to the Monitoring Team across the City. The Monitoring Team will hire up […]

Recently, 2017 OSI Community Fellow Shantell Roberts was a guest on the podcast The Last Advocate, a forum that focuses on advocates and the work they are doing to better their communities. Roberts spoke to host Marche Templeton about her beginnings as an advocate, as well as how she started Touching Young Lives, Inc., a […]

On March 24 OSI-Baltimore and Baltimore Corps are co-sponsoring the Johns Hopkins University’s Social Innovation Lab’s Impact Bootcamp. The Bootcamp, which is a one-day, condensed version of Social Innovation Lab’s application-based program, is designed for people who want to gain or enhance the skills essential for launching and leading a community project, nonprofit, or mission-driven […]

Above: Interior of Insite, Vancouver This week, an amended version of Senate Bill 288 was approved by the Maryland Senate Finance Committee, and is expected to go to the Senate floor for a vote within the next week. Introduced by Senator Brian Feldman (D-Montgomery County), the bill will prevent overdose deaths in Maryland by allowing […]

Recently, the Baltimore Sun published an op-ed by Maurice Vann, juvenile justice policy director at Advocates for Children and Youth (ACY), an OSI grantee, in which he expressed his organization’s concern that the recent increase in crimes will lead to the harsher, “broken windows” policing of the past and a “crack down” on youth crime. […]

On February 26, OSI Baltimore and University of Maryland, Baltimore are co-sponsoring “Story Circle Gathering: Long Day’s Journey into Night,” in partnership with OSI grantee the BRIDGES Coalition. In this free community event, participants will share first-person stories involving addiction that draws on themes and topics from the Eugene O’Neill play Long Day’s Journey into Night. The goal […]

On April 4, OSI-Baltimore and the University of Baltimore Law School’s Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts (CFCC) present the 10th annual Urban Child Symposium, “Restorative Practices and the Urban Child: Rethinking School Discipline.” The free (registration required) one-day symposium will examine alternatives to the punitive and adversarial practices that are […]