On May 9, OSI grantee, Public Justice Center, will co-host “Movies that Matter,” an evening of films by young filmmakers from Wide Angle Youth Media, an organization founded by 2001 OSI Community Fellow, Gin Ferrara, and also a current OSI grantee. The three films, Void; Violence in Baltimore: A Community in Chaos; and Why Black Lives […]
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OSI grantee Public Justice Center co-hosts screening of Wide Angle Youth Media films
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Community Fellows gather to celebrate their work and enter the Fellows Network
Friday, April 27, 2018The 2016 cohort of OSI Community Fellows gathered at Nancy by SNAC in Station North last night to mark the end of their 18 month Fellowship and discuss their progress as they rotate into the Community Fellows Network. Each of the 10 Fellows briefly presented on their Fellowship and their plans moving forward, and then […]
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Film featuring OSI Fellows Premiers at Tribeca, Comes to Maryland Film Festival
Thursday, April 26, 2018Open Society Institute-Baltimore Community Fellows played a big part in Charm City, a documentary about Baltimore that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this week. The film follows several people over the course of three years, including 2000 Fellow Clayton Guyton (pictured above, in a still from the film), founder of the Rose Street Community Center, […]
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Community Fellow’s Writers in Baltimore Schools to host showcase
Monday, April 23, 2018Students from Writers in Baltimore Schools (WBS), the program 2008 OSI Community Fellow Patrice Hutton founded, worked with Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars in this semester’s Fiction & Social Engagement course to explore how disparate life experiences can inspire and inform our fiction. Students will showcase their work at a reading tonight, Monday, April 23 at Bird in […]
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OSI, BHRC host pop-up safe consumption site at Light City
Monday, April 23, 2018As part of last week’s Labs at Light City, Open Society Institute and our grantee, Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition, constructed and hosted tours of a pop-up safe consumption site, where visitors can see how such a site allows drug users to use in a safe environment, access medical care, and, if they’re ready for it, […]
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Cummings and Warren pitch CARE Act to combat opioid addiction
Sunday, April 22, 2018This week, Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts announced they are planning to introduce legislation that would require $10 billion a year in federal funding to combat the opioid crisis. The program, similar to the Ryan White Act of 1990, which provided federal money to fight the AIDS epidemic, would send […]
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OSI Fellow weighs in on East Baltimore redevelopment in Guardian article
Sunday, April 22, 2018This week, the Guardian published a great article about Baltimore, “Gentrify or die? Inside a university’s controversial plan for Baltimore,” which examines the redevelopment work being done by Johns Hopkins University in and around the medical campus in the neighborhood formerly known as “Middle East.” In it, 2012 Community Fellow, Lawrence Brown, who is currently […]
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OSI Staff, Board recognized as “Leaders in Diversity”
Wednesday, April 18, 2018Pamela King, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Community Fellowships program, will be recognized by Baltimore Business Journal as a “Leaders in Diversity” honoree at a July 7th ceremony. Also among the honorees are OSI-Baltimore Advisory Board members Eddie Brown and Veronica Cool. The newspaper says the event “seeks to honor executives, business owners and nonprofit leaders who […]
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Rabbi Jill Jacobs of human rights group T’ruah comes to Baltimore
Wednesday, April 18, 2018Rabbi Jill Jacobs, executive director of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, is coming to Baltimore the weekend of May 11-12 as a Scholar-in Residence at Beth Am Synagogue in Reservoir Hill to talk about “Human Rights in Judaism.” The program is co-sponsored by OSI-Baltimore, Jews United for Justice, and Hinenu: The Baltimore Justice […]
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2016 Fellow’s ShareBaby Baby Pantry gets new, larger home
Tuesday, April 17, 2018This week, ShareBaby Baby Pantry, the program 2016 Community Fellow Eliseba Osore expanded as part of her fellowship, recently moved to a larger space in the Woodberry neighborhood. Osore (right) and ShareBaby Executive Director Amino Ross are pictured here at opening of the new space, which will allow the program to expand its efforts. ShareBaby, an established Maryland […]
