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This week Baltimore City Public Schools unveiled five newly-renovated school buildings under the 21st Century Schools program. With this initiative, the ACLU of Maryland, with help from OSI planning and implementation grants, worked tirelessly for years – along with Baltimore Education Coalition (another OSI-Baltimore grantee), BUILD, Strong City Baltimore and many other groups – advocating […]

This week, Baltimore Fishbowl reported on OSI-Baltimore’s grant to the Baltimore City Health Department to purchase testing strips that detect the presence of fentanyl in street-purchased drugs, distribute them at mobile syringe and needle exchanges, and study their effectiveness at reducing overdoses in the region. The Board of Estimates was scheduled to review the expense this […]

This week, 2016 OSI Community Fellow Melissa Badeker was featured on WYPR’s On the Record, talking about how the Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap, the program she co-founded, has grown. The program is an exchange that provides much-needed school supplies to the educators who need them. As Badeker describes, the Swap gave away $20,000 worth of […]

This week, NPR’s Morning Edition featured 2016 OSI Community Fellow Melissa Badeker talking about the Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap, the program she co-founded. The swap allows for educators to both donate any unused supplies they’ve collected and shop for classroom materials at little or no cost. Last year, Badeker says, they gave away more than […]

Next Friday, August 10, young writers from the 7th annual Writers in Baltimore Schools Young Writers’ Studio will share work from their time at writing camp.  Middle and high school students from 9 Baltimore City schools will showcase their new fiction, poetry, and non-fiction at the West Bay of the Show Room at the Motor […]

This week, 2016 OSI Community Fellow LaMarr Shields speaks to singer and activist Ayanna Gregory on his “SoundBalming” podcast. Sheilds — who developed the Teacher Exchange, an innovative strategy to engage young people in their own education by having them act as coaches to new teachers as part of his fellowship – began the social […]

This Friday, Open Society Institute Advisory Board member Alicia Wilson, Vice President of Community Affairs and Legal Advisor to Sagamore Development Company, will be part of the Baltimore Business Journal’s “Enterprising Women” panel. The event will feature women who have overcome obstacles in their careers and achieved success. More information here.

The Baltimore City Health Department (BCHD) was named the 2018 Local Health Department of the Year by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). The annual award recognizes local health departments for outstanding achievements in innovative public health and safety improvements. BCHD’s work on the opioid epidemic in Baltimore City was among the […]