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Join OSI and the Enoch Pratt Free Library on March 8th for a talk with Peter Edelman and Lester Spence at the Church of the Redeemer. Edelman, the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy and the faculty director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown University Law Center will be discussing his book, […]

This week, NPR’s Marketplace interviewed OSI Advisory Board Vice Chair Joe Jones about the Black unemployment rate. Jones, who is the founder and CEO of the Center for Urban Families, an organization focusing on jobs and leadership training for urban communities, spoke of the barriers formerly incarcerated people face while looking for employment. “When we think […]

Recently, the Jewish Times featured 2009 OSI Community Fellow Ras Tre Subira and Olam Ubuntu, the youth group for Jewish and African-American teens, which he co-founded with Gabe Pickus. Olam Ubuntu, which combines the Hebrew word for world, “Olam,” and the Nguni-Bantu word, “Ubuntu,” which means “I am because we are,” works with Beth Am Synagogue […]

City officials in Philadelphia announced they would encourage the development of safe consumption sites (SCSs, also referred to as safe injection sites, or SIFs) that would oversee medically-supervised drug consumption and provide other services. While Vancouver, Canada, has operated two sites for more than 10 years, there are currently no SIFs operating in the US; […]

This Friday, 2016 OSI Community Fellow Jermaine Bell will be the speaker for this month’s CreativeMornings, a breakfast lecture series aimed at the creative community. Bell will talk to CreativeMorning’s Baltimore host Will Walker about anxiety. Register here for the event at Cedar & Cotton. As part of his fellowship, Bell works with Exit the Apple, a […]

The children attending Unified Efforts‘s week-long Winter Break Camp spent time at Clayworks in Mt Washington creating clay pots and painted tiles to raise money for the Burundi Project, which funds a full-time doctor for the Kamenge clinic in Burundi. The students worked with artist Sam Wallace to create the “table full of love.” The […]

Recently, OSI grantee, Behavioral Health System Baltimore (BHSB) has been working with Maryland Public Television on a digital television series that features the OSI-funded Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program. This three-part series will be released over the next several weeks. Part one is on MTP’s website now. BHSB also highlighted the work of Baltimore Police […]

Recently, 2013 OSI Community Fellow Lanaea Featherstone announced that her foundation, The William & Lanaea C. Featherstone Foundation along with the Consular Section of the Embassy of Mexico in Washington, D.C. will debut the Featherstone College Scholarships, an innovative $20,000 fund designated to increase Baltimore’s Latino enrollment and promote higher education. Ten Latinx students will […]

Do you know an awesome Baltimore City Public Schools Principal? Nominate them for the Heart of the School Awards. It only takes a few minutes. The Heart of the School Awards, managed by OSI grantee Fund for Educational Excellence in collaboration with Baltimore City Public Schools, is a community-wide celebration of the dedication, innovation, and leadership of the […]