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WYPR’s On the Record recently wrapped up its profiles of the 2017 Community Fellows cohort with segments on Eric Jackson, Jackie Bello, and Alex Long. Eric Jackson, working through the Black Yield Institute, is creating the “Building Black Land and Food Sovereignty Practice” in the Cherry Hill and Poppleton neighborhoods. He’ll organize community-driven cooperative food ventures […]

Recently, 2002 OSI Community Fellow Jacqueline Robarge, who founded Power Inside, an organization that serves survivors of gender-based violence, was quoted in an article appearing on the Think Progress website, “Police sexual abuse isn’t just the case of a few ‘bad apples’ — it’s systemic” Robarge, who has worked with people who have been harassed or […]

This week, WMAR ABC 2 news reported that 2016 OSI Community Fellow Eliseba Osore’s project, ShareBaby Baby Pantry received a donation of 250,000 diapers from Huggies. Osore’s Baby Pantry is part of the established Maryland nonprofit ShareBaby, which provides diapers, clothing and other basic goods to organizations such as House of Ruth, Sarah’s Hope and the […]

Recently, 2014 OSI Community Fellow Shawn Burnett participated in a learning exchange, Opportunity Youth: A Cross-Border Dialogue, hosted by the International Youth Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The meeting brought together participants from RWJF’s (Re)Connecting Youth learning exchange between three Baltimore City agencies (The Baltimore City Public […]

Governing Magazine recently published its list of Public Officials of the Year, which included Baltimore Health Commissioner, Dr. Leana Wen. From the publication, “Every year since 1994, Governing has honored individual state and local government officials for outstanding accomplishment by naming them Public Officials of the Year.” Wen, the profile noted, who took office only […]

This week, the Baltimore Sun has a great feature on the Youth Empowered Society (YES Drop-In Center), an organization started by 2011 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Lara Law and currently led by Blair Franklin, a former program associate with OSI’s Community Fellowships & Initiatives. The article also quotes Terry Hickey, the director of the Mayor’s Office […]

WYPR’s On the Record with Sheliah Kast continued the tradition of featuring the latest cohort of OSI Community Fellows. The first three 2017 Fellows were featured this week starting with Ryan Flanigan, whose project, the Remington Community Land Trust, aims to create affordable home-buying access for low-income residents. Listen here. Kim Loper started Youth in […]

OSI Baltimore’s Education and Youth Development (EYD) team recently participated in Open Society Foundations National and Regional Education Strategy Meeting in Paris, France. The conference, which brought together national and regional foundations from all over the OSF network and grew out of a week-long course at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest on inclusion of […]

Last week, during its 20th anniversary celebration, OSI-Baltimore grantee Justice Policy Institute (JPI) honored Greg Carpenter, a 2015 OSI Community Fellow and, Walter Lomax, founder of the OSI-grantee Maryland Restorative Justice Initiative. Both Carpenter and Lomax received JPI’s Justice Champion Award for their work promoting the work of the Institute. Carpenter developed and operated his […]

CBS News recently ran a great piece on the “Ungers” a group of people convicted of crimes in Maryland who, because of incorrect – and unconstitutional – instructions judges gave juries, were denied due process. They were granted new trials and released, and as of this writing, none of the more than 159 released have […]