On Friday, Karen Webber, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Education and Youth Development program, testified on behalf of the Open Society Policy Center, the advocacy arm of Open Society Foundations, to support Senate Bill 918, which would create a statewide commission on trauma-informed care. I am excited to announce that @jillpcarter and I are partnering to bring […]
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OSI’s Karen Webber testifies in support of statewide commission on trauma-informed care
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OSI Fellows Director Pamela King recognized by Daily Record, Featherstone Foundation
Sunday, March 08, 2020This week, Pamela King, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Community Fellowships program, was recognized by the Maryland Daily Record as one of “Maryland’s Top 100 Women” and recognized by the Featherstone Foundation, founded by 2013 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Lanaea Featherstone, with its first-ever “Changemaker Award.” King, who been leading OSI’s Community Fellowships program since its founding over […]
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Baltimore magazine profiles OSI Fellow’s “Wakanda of South Baltimore”
Sunday, March 08, 2020The March issue of Baltimore magazine features the Baltimore Compost Collective, a South Baltimore service managed by 2019 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Marvin Hayes that collects organic waste to create compost and fertilize the Curtis Bay community garden. “We call the garden the Wakanda of South Baltimore,” Hayes, who first learned about urban composting at the […]
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OSI’s Scott Nolen testifies in favor of Overdose Prevention Services
Monday, March 02, 2020Scott Nolen, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Addiction and Health Equity program, testified Friday on behalf of the Open Society Policy Center, the advocacy arm of Open Society Foundations, to support HB 464, a bill that would create a program to pilot Overdose Prevention Sites around the state of Maryland. Nolen criticized Maryland leadership’s lack of urgency […]
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Learn, Don’t Burn: The Baltimore Compost Collective digs into South Baltimore
Sunday, March 01, 2020By Kaitlyn Pacheco When Kenneth Moss was 6 years old, he grew his first tomato at the Filbert Street Community Garden. Now, a decade later, the Benjamin Franklin High student, pictured right, gives back to the soil with the Baltimore Compost Collective, a local service that collects food scraps from South Baltimore neighborhoods to create [...] -
WBAL highlights success of OSI Fellow-founded Pivot program
Friday, February 21, 2020A recent report by WBAL highlighted the success of Pivot, a re-entry program for women co-founded by 2019 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Emily Thompson. As the story points out, one in four women released from jail experiences homelessness and 70% re-offend. For women who have had access to a reentry program that helps with the basics, […]
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Request for Proposals: Fifth Anniversary of the Baltimore Uprising
Friday, February 21, 2020It’s been nearly five years since April, 2015, when Freddie Gray died of injuries sustained in police custody, sparking weeks of protests punctuated by spasms of violence and an emerging movement of activists looking to address the systemic racism and disinvestment that shaped the life of Freddie Gray and thousands of other Baltimore residents. Open […]
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PIVOT helping women thrive post-incarceration
Monday, February 17, 2020By Lisa Robinson I-Team Reporter BALTIMORE — Incarceration interrupts one's life. Once a person has served their time and is released, it's easy to enter a downward spiral. One organization is helping women released from prison find their way back. PIVOT is designed specifically for women who have been incarcerated and need help to get [...] -
Global Campaign for Education publishes post on recent OSI visit
Thursday, February 13, 2020In October, OSI-Baltimore’s Education and Youth Development program hosted education advocates from the Global Campaign for Education – United States and the UN Special Repporteur, who wanted to learn more about the work OSI has been doing to integrate restorative practices in Baltimore City Schools. Our guests from GCE-US thoughtfully reflected on the visit, which […]
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OSI director joins discussion of structural racism in Baltimore
Thursday, February 13, 2020Yesterday, the Maryland Philanthropy Network hosted a screening of “Baltimore: A History of Structural Racism,” a film created by Associated Black Charities that chronicles the intentional building of structural racism in Baltimore. It was followed by a discussion of how philanthropy contributed to that process and how Baltimore’s philanthropic community can help create a more equitable […]
