On Friday, May 11, the newly-relaunched BMA Outpost will co-host “100 Plus,” an event with the Cherry Hill Town Center to celebrate the community which has gone more than 100 days without a shooting. The event will recognize the many groups and individuals who have contributed to the reduction of violence in the neighborhood. The […]
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OSI helps city hospitals combat opioid epidemic
Wednesday, May 02, 2018Earlier this week, the Baltimore Sun reported on Baltimore hospitals’ stepped-up efforts to fight the opioid epidemic, including screening patients for addiction, connecting them to rehabilitation services, and distributing overdose reversal drug Naloxone. Two of the hospitals mentioned, Bon Secours and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, are part of an OSI-supported program to develop models for emergency […]
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OSI grantee Public Justice Center co-hosts screening of Wide Angle Youth Media films
Sunday, April 29, 2018On 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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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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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 […]
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Open Society Fellow named among United Way of MD’s “Philanthropic Five”
Tuesday, April 17, 20182017 OSI Community Fellow Shantell Roberts was recently named one of the United Way of Central Maryland’s “Philanthropic Five” award winners. The awards are given to “five young professional leaders who have created meaningful change in central Maryland through an extraordinary commitment to volunteerism in one or more of the following areas: education, housing, employment or […]
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OSI staff, Fellows, board members, grantees take part in Labs@Light City
Tuesday, April 17, 2018This week, the Labs@Light City will host a series of innovation convenings focused on health, education, art, the environment, food, and the maker movement. Tomorrow, EduLab kicks off with Karen Webber, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Education and Youth Development program moderating a panel on “Restorative Practices in Schools.” The panelists include Atman and Ali Smith, of Holistic Life Foundation, […]
