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This week, Baltimore City Health Commissioner Leana Wen signed a new standing order to allow residents to get naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal drug, without getting trained first. Wen’s order addresses the Heroin and Opioid Prevention Effort (HOPE) and Treatment Act of 2017, which included the Overdose Prevention Act, enabling all citizens to access naloxone, […]

Bard student Jahsol Drummond. Photo courtesy of the Baltimore Sun.   This week,Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) in East Baltimore celebrates its first graduating class since opening two years ago. Established with the help of an OSI-Baltimore grant to the Fund for Educational Excellence, BHSEC allows Baltimore City students to graduate in four years with both […]

Photo above: Artwork by Morrell Park Elementary student created during a lesson on Pablo Picasso.    Today, 2001 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Marshall Clarke’s organization Access Art holds the Final Spring Exhibition of its Elementary and Middle/High School programs from 5 to 7pm at Morrell Park. Additional information here. In 2001, Clarke used his fellowship to establish Youthlight […]

This week, CityBizList ran a three-part interview with OSI-Baltimore’s director, Diana Morris. In the series, Morris spoke to Veronica Cool, CEO of Cool and Associates, LLC and OSI-Baltimore advisory board member about her career beginnings as a legal advisor in the Refugee Bureau of the State Department as well as leading Open Society Foundations’ first […]

This week, National Public Radio’s Code Switch featured a story on Safe City Baltimore, the immigrant education and defense fund established by OSI-Baltimore in collaboration with the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant and Multicultural Affairs (MIMA). OSI-Baltimore director Diana Morris and MIMA director Catalina Rodriguez-Lima, who is also a member of OSI’s Leadership Council, were interviewed about the importance of […]

This Saturday, 2013 OSI Community Fellow, Lanaea Featherstone’s William & Lanaea C. Featherstone Foundation and the Consular Section of the Mexican Embassy will present a free financial empowerment conference at the University of Baltimore. “Mi Dinero, Mi Destino” is designed to provide the Latino community with practical skills to help shape personal financial decisions including […]

This week, in the spirit of Bike to Work Day on May 19, On the Record with Sheilah Kast featured two biking projects started by OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows. First, she spoke to Liz Cornish, executive director of Bikemore, which was founded by 2012 Fellow, Chris Merriam, about the bikeability of Baltimore and what challenges cycling […]

FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, an organization co-founded by 2015 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow and current leadership council member, Hannah Brancato, will host two upcoming events as part of a series to bring attention to the criminalization of black women and transgender/gender non-conforming (TGNC) folks who are survivors of domestic or sexual violence. Saida Agostini, Chief Operation Officer […]

About 2,000 people in Maryland died of drug overdoses last year and the governor has declared a “State of Emergency.” In the coming weeks, OSI-Baltimore will host two important discussions about how to reduce the public health impact of this crisis, particularly on communities of color. Next Thursday, May 18th, OSI and the New Day […]