Next week, OSI-Baltimore grantee Baltimore Action Legal Team (BALT) will host a community education workshop for residents to discuss they can be involved in selecting the monitor for the consent decree. Under the terms of the consent decree, which Baltimore City entered into with the Department of Justice after the DOJ’s investigation of the Baltimore Police Department, […]
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As Hopkins announces Agora Institute, OSI’s Diana Morris weighs in on importance of civic engagement
Friday, June 23, 2017This week, Johns Hopkins University announced a $150 million gift from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to establish an interdisciplinary center for public discourse and the exchange of ideas. In ancient Greece, the agora was the center of civic life; likewise, Hopkins hopes the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute will serve a similar purpose—to foster civic […]
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OSI Hosts Soft Skills Training Workshop
Tuesday, June 20, 2017Today, OSI-Baltimore’s Education and Youth Development program hosted a soft skills training workshop for educators. The workshop, led by Jennifer Penn-Feliciano and Vanessa Proetto, two educators from East Baltimore’s Achievement Academy High School, provided curriculum materials to help facilitators teach high-school-aged people in Baltimore City the skills necessary to get and keep a job. Soft […]
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Baltimore Brew Profiles OSI Fellow’s Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap
Wednesday, June 14, 2017This week, the Baltimore Brew featured the Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap, a project co-founded by 2016 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Melissa Badeker. Badeker and co-founder Kathleen Williams were inspired to start the swap after realizing they were not the only teachers who had unused and leftover supplies that they no longer wanted or could no longer […]
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Panelists discuss the role of race in drug policy at Talking About Race forum
Friday, June 09, 2017Last night, OSI-Baltimore co-hosted the latest in our Talking About Race series, Harm Reduction and Communities of Color with the University of Baltimore’s College of Public Affairs (CPA). After a welcome by CPA dean Roger E. Hartley, panelists Kassandra Frederique, New York State Director at the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), Samuel Roberts, Associate Professor of History at […]
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OSI Fellow leads Pretrial Justice Clinic through its first year
Friday, June 09, 2017The University of Baltimore Law School’s Pretrial Justice Clinic (PTJC), led by 2014 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Zina Makar, recently published a report detailing findings and recommendations from its inaugural year. Makar, who was also on OSI’s Solutions Summit Justice planning group, was tapped as co-director of the clinic when it was established in August 2016. PTJC works with […]
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Talking About Race panelists appear on Marc Steiner Show
Wednesday, June 07, 2017Yesterday, as a preview to OSI-Baltimore’s next Talking About Race event, Harm Reduction and Communities of Color, Marc Steiner spoke to panelists Kassandra Frederique, New York State Director at the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) and Dr. Samuel Roberts, Associate Professor of History and Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, and Scott Nolen, director […]
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OSI Fellow’s BYKE project featured in Baltimore Sun, WJZ
Wednesday, June 07, 2017Rhodes with shop regular, Anthony Curbeam. This week, the Baltimore Sun featured a story on the Baltimore Youth Kinetic Energy Collective (BYKE), a project started by 2015 OSI Community Fellow, Chavi Rhodes. WJZ also ran a feature on Rhodes and her project. Rhodes noticed many of the young people who were trying to use DIY […]
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2016 Fellow’s Project, Unified Efforts, Inc. Announces Free Summer Youth Violence Prevention Program
Tuesday, June 06, 2017Unified Efforts, Inc. a violence prevention project started by 2016 Community Fellow Debbie Ramsey,recently announced its summer youth violence prevention program in the Penn-North Community. The program, which focuses on out-of-school time, will provide free summer activities for West Baltimore/Penn North students, including free indoor swimming lessons, cooking for nutrition classes, art, music, introduction to […]
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Seeking Solutions: Audacious Thinking Spring 2017
Friday, June 02, 2017Read the Spring 2017 issue of OSI-Baltimore’s newsletter, Audacious Thinking. “Seeking Solutions” recaps the 2016 Solutions Summit, introduces readers to OSI’s youngest donor and celebrates 20 years of Community Fellowships. Check out the new issue here.
