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Recently, NBC News posted a terrific video profile of 2014 OSI Community Fellow Van Brooks, who was paralyzed during a football game when he was 16 years old. He started the Safe Alternative Foundation for Education (SAFE) in 2012 to help as many kids as possible. The organization emphasizes to youth the need to get a […]

Recently, 2014 OSI Community Fellow, Matt Hanna was featured in a SHIFT Talk discussing his fellowship, Next One Up, a project that aims to help young men in Baltimore City by supporting and advancing their academic, athletic and social development. SHIFT Talks, a project of SHIFT Baltimore, are designed to let local entrepreneurs tell their […]

Tomorrow, as part of their “13th of the Month” series, Baltimore Racial Justice Action (BRJA) will hold “Talking to Children about Race,” a discussion with parents, caretakers and teachers on ways to engage in constructive conversations with children about race. The event starts at 6:30pm at the American Brewery Building. This free series is designed […]

The cover story in this week’s City Paper is a collaboration between the paper and students in 2009 OSI Community Fellow Patrice Hutton‘s Writers in Schools Summer Studio program. Earlier this summer, 36 students in the program interviewed local people to write profiles for this special issue of City Paper, then spent a week at […]

Through her work as program director of Baltimore’s ShareBaby Baby Pantry, 2016 OSI Community Fellow Eliseba Osore has spearheaded efforts to collect diapers and other needed items to victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas. As WJZ reported this week, ShareBaby partnered with Wee Chic Baby Boutique in Lutherville, which also donated 10 percent of its […]

Open Society Institute-Baltimore is proud to share its 2016 Impact Report. The new report aims to tell the stories behind some of OSI-Baltimore’s work, including an update on our first Community Fellow, Lauren Abramson, founder of Community Conferencing Center (the cover features Bernard Williams, who worked with Community Conferencing to meet the man who killed […]

Yesterday, August 31st, OSI-Baltimore joined the Baltimore City Health Department and other local organizations and residents in marking International Overdose Awareness Day. Over the course of the day, more than 670 Baltimore residents learned how to recognize and respond to an opioid overdose In the morning, OSI staff joined the Health Department and Behavioral Health […]

This week, the Youth Empowered Society, (YES Drop-In Center), an organization started by 2011 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Lara Law, announced M. Blair Franklin would be taking over Law’s position as Executive Director on September 18. Franklin is a former Program Assistant with OSI’s Community Fellowships & Initiatives. The YES Drop-In Center was designed to be […]

This week, the Baltimore Business Journal featured an interview with Alicia Wilson, vice president for community affairs at Sagamore Development and a recent addition to OSI-Baltimore’s Advisory Board. Wilson, who is overseeing the establishment of a new training program for hospitality jobs at the new Rye Street Tavern in Port Covington, said she is committed […]