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This week, 2016 OSI Community Fellow Deborah Ramsey’s Unified Efforts was featured on WMAR as the organization opened a new youth center in Penn North. Ramsey, a retired Baltimore City police officer, founded Unified Efforts as a way to broaden the horizons of young people in Penn North through after-school and summer programming. Ramsey also […]

On July 17, a building that 2018 OSI Community Fellow Shelley Halstead, founder and executive director of Black Women Build Baltimore, purchased to develop into a live/work space for artists near the Black Arts District was severely damaged in a fire. Unfortunately, Shelley was unable to purchase insurance for the building until it was stabilized, […]

Earlier this week, 2014 OSI Community Fellow Van Brooks, who founded  SAFE (Safe Alternative Foundation for Education) to help young people from the Franklin Square neighborhood where he grew up by promoting education and life skills, visited the White House to celebrate the 31st Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. He was also reappointed […]

This week, 2018 OSI Community Fellow Brittany Young was featured on WYPR’s Midday with Tom Hall to talk about B-360, the organization she founded that uses dirt bike culture to teach Baltimore City youth about STEM fields. She also spoke of her recent Fund for New Leadership grant, which will allow the organization to expand […]

Two OSI Community Fellows, Brittany Young (2018) and Bree Jones (2020) will be part of the inaugural cohort of Fund for New Leadership fellows, a national program, according to the Baltimore Business Journal. They will each receive $75,000 in unrestricted grant funding annually for three years, along with mentorship, leadership training, and peer coaching. Jones, […]

Last year, when the pandemic forced Writers in Baltimore Schools (WBS), founded by 2008 OSI Community Fellow Patrice Hutton, to take its annual summer camp virtual, students stepped up to the creative plate, creating the 2020 Studio Anthology. This year, WBS is holding a fundraiser so that camp can be in-person again, with 30 Baltimore City […]

This Saturday, July 3, the Black Yield Institute will host a solidarity march at 3:30pm to support the Cherry Hill Urban Community Garden, a project started by 2017 OSI Community Fellow Eric Jackson through the Black Yield Institute to address the many food deserts in the city.  Earlier this week, the Housing Authority of Baltimore […]

This Sunday, June 27, B360 Baltimore, the organization founded by 2018 OSI Community Fellow Brittany Young, will host an event celebrating their partnership with the R&O Railroad Museum. The organization uses dirt bike culture to teach STEM skills as well as dirt bike riding safety for young people in Baltimore. The organization trains former street […]

The Intercultural Counseling Connection, founded by 2012 OSI Community Fellow Lauren Goodsmith, has been selected to receive an American Psychiatric Association Foundation 2021 Award for Advancing Minority Mental Health, which includes a $5,000 financial contribution, an award plaque, a featured in the July APA PsychNews, and an invitation for a representative from the Connection to […]

This week, 2019 OSI Community Fellow Marvin Hayes was featured in a WBAL segment about the Baltimore Compost Collective, a youth-empowered food scrap collection service that he currently runs. The Collective collects food scraps from residences in the Curtis Bay, Federal Hill, Riverside Park, Locust Point, and Mount Washington neighborhoods and composts the material at […]