“What would Baltimore be like if…” begins an op-ed published today in the Baltimore Sun from President and CEO of the Center for Urban Families and OSI board member, Joseph T. Jones, Jr. In a series of thought-provoking questions, Jones wonders what Baltimore would be like if it “had what it really needs most?” From […]
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OSI Community Fellow pens op-ed for New York Times
Tuesday, June 28, 2016Morgan State professor Lawrence Brown (pictured, left), a 2012 OSI Community Fellow and a 2015 Justice Fund grantee for his project, You’re the Quarterback, published an op-ed in the New York Times last week: In “More Injustice in Baltimore,” Brown voiced concerns about the recent acquittal of Officer Caesar Goodson in the death of Freddie Gray, the third […]
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OSI Community Fellows Speak Out, Break Ground, Win Prizes
Thursday, June 23, 2016As usual, OSI Baltimore Community Fellows have been making waves lately. Today, The Baltimore Sun posted current Fellow Meryam Bouadjemi‘s powerful essay about the families left behind when people go to jail, like her dad did: As a society, we have trained our institutions to remember the crime and punishment, yet we forget the collateral devastation […]
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Panelists Preview Tomorrow’s Talking About Race Event on Islamophobia
Wednesday, June 22, 2016Deepa Iyer, senior fellow at the Center for Social Inclusion, and Amardeep Singh, program officer in Open Society Foundation’s National Security and Human Rights Campaign called in to the Marc Steiner Show Tuesday to preview tomorrow’s Talking About Race event, Confronting the New Islamophobia. Listen to the entire podcast here, and join us for the event, where […]
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Crossing boundaries, Kindling aims to spark conversations
Wednesday, June 15, 2016On June 25, 2016, OSI Baltimore will co-host the second of three Kindling events, along with OneBaltimore, Innovation Village, consulting group Generosity, Jean Hill Studios and Light City Baltimore at the New Metropolitan Baptist Church, 1501 McCulloh Street, Baltimore. Kindling, a series of events that creates guided, two-person conversations between participants, was developed on the […]
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Lester Spence Talks Class, Race, and Neoliberal Politics
Wednesday, June 08, 2016(Left to right) Bret McCabe and Lester Spence After taking a moment of silence to mark Prince’s birthday, Johns Hopkins University political science professor Lester Spence kicked off last night’s Talking About Race event, “Neoliberalism and Black Politics,” by quoting Jay-Z: “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man.” The hip-hop encapsulation of the neoliberal ethic helped […]
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OSI Education and Youth Development director on WYPR’s Midday
Wednesday, June 08, 2016Karen Webber, director of OSI’s Education and Youth Development Program recently appeared on WYPR’s Midday discussing the importance of soft skills in the professional world. Soft skills, also called “emotional intelligence” or “character” can include a range of abilities, from leadership or problem solving abilities to written and oral communication skills. Soft skills can also […]
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OSI’s Tara Huffman appointed to Maryland State Advisory Committee on Civil Rights
Wednesday, June 08, 2016Recently, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights announced the appointment of 16 members of the Maryland State Advisory Committee which included Tara Huffman, director of OSI’s Criminal and Juvenile Justice Program. The committee serves a vital role as protectors of civil rights at the state level, advising the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights about discrimination […]
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2015 Grants and Donors
Tuesday, June 07, 2016Our beloved Baltimore is a vital American city with a grand history and a wonderfully diverse population. But it faces tremendous challenges. The Baltimore uprising that began in April 2015 brought many of the city’s deeply rooted problems to the surface and created a unique opportunity to address them and bring meaningful, lasting change. We believe in a renewed Baltimore, where opportunity is abundant and all […]
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OSI Community Fellows Network gathers for summit
Tuesday, May 31, 2016By Emily Smith Last week, OSI invited connectors from our OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows Network to a two and a half day Fellows Network Summit at the Tidewater Inn in Easton, Maryland. The connectors were identified through the network analysis process undertaken last year and span every cohort year from 1998-2015. The Summit, crafted with input […]
