As part of its ongoing series of profiles of OSI-Baltimore’s 2016 cohort of Community Fellows, WYPR’s “On the Record,” hosted by Sheilah Kast, profiled Isa Olufemi and Katie Miller on today’s show. As part of his Fellowship, Olufemi is founding the Poet Pride Run Club at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. The running club combines physical fitness […]
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The Votes Are In: The Solutions Summit Action Plan is Here
Monday, December 12, 2016On Saturday, more than 700 people came to the War Memorial Building to listen, talk, debate, and vote on a policy plan for Baltimore’s new mayor and City Council as part of OSI’s Solutions Summit. If you missed it, check out the recaps in the Baltimore Sun and City Paper or watch the whole thing on […]
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Just Posted: Agenda for Saturday’s Solutions Summit
Thursday, December 08, 2016In case you haven’t heard, this Saturday, December 10th, is the Solutions Summit, a free, all-day event where residents from all over Baltimore will come together to discuss and vote on priorities for the new mayor and City Council. Mayor Catherine Pugh, former Mayor Kurt Schmoke (a Solutions Summit co-chair), and Sherrilyn Ifill, president-counsel of […]
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Congratulations Mayor Pugh – See You Saturday at Solutions Summit
Wednesday, December 07, 2016Yesterday, after being sworn in as mayor of Baltimore, Catherine Pugh promised to work to lift up communities throughout the city, not just downtown. “We understand that downtowns are really important, but so are uptowns and neighborhoods from east to west, north to south,” she said. “Every neighborhood deserves to be the greatest.” Pugh will join […]
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Solutions Summit to Present Pugh With Community-Driven Recommendations
Tuesday, November 22, 2016On December 10, Mayor-Elect Catherine Pugh will welcome an expected crowd of 800 to 1,000 people at Open Society Institute-Baltimore’s Solutions Summit, a free, full-day celebration of civic participation where city residents will vote on the priorities they want to see the new mayor and City Council focus on over the next 12 to 18 […]
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Teacher’s behavior highlights disturbing trend, as racists feel empowered
Thursday, November 17, 2016The disturbing video of a Baltimore City Public School teacher verbally abusing her students has reverberated widely today. We applaud the school district for taking swift and decisive action in this situation by firing the teacher. The district demonstrated that some behaviors are wholly unacceptable and that teachers who cross lines of decency will be […]
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New Survey: Marylanders Want to End the Cash Bail System
Wednesday, November 16, 2016Likely voters overwhelmingly support decisions based on risk assessment instead of economic status BALTIMORE – A new survey prepared by the Pretrial Justice Institute, with funding from Open Society Institute-Baltimore finds that 70 percent of likely voters favor using risk assessments as the determining factor for keeping someone in jail before trial, rather than their ability to […]
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City Paper “100 Solutions” Issue Features Solutions Summit, OSI Staff
Friday, November 11, 2016This week’s City Paper, which came out the day after Election Day, includes 100-word suggestions from 100 Baltimoreans for solutions they’d like to see Mayor-elect Catherine Pugh and the new city council address in theit first 100 days in office (“100 Citizens, 100 Words, 100 Solutions,” Nov. 8). The introduction to the cover-story connects it […]
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OSI Announces New Community Fellows, Releases Network Analysis
Wednesday, November 09, 2016This morning, OSI-Baltimore announced its 19th cohort of Community Fellows. The new Fellows will each receive $60,000 over 18 months to support local projects they designed to address problems in Baltimore’s underserved communities. The 10 new Fellows include established activists, educators, and artists, and the proposed projects focus on a wide range of issues, including […]
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Marc Steiner previews Solutions Summit Jobs Forum
Friday, October 28, 2016On Wednesday, the Marc Steiner Show hosted two members of the Solutions Summit Jobs Planning group, Elisabeth Sachs, Executive Director of Job Opportunities Task Force and Elizabeth Alex, Regional Director of CASA Maryland. to talk about tomorrow’s Jobs Forum at the War Memorial Building (free registration here). At the forum, we’ll explore solutions dealing with a […]
