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Ateira Griffin Has Become a Local Champion for Single Mothers
Wednesday, February 09, 2022By Alice Shapin In 2016, Griffin founded Building Our Nation’s Daughters to work on effective communication between Black single mothers and their daughters. Ateira Griffin knows all about single mothers. She was raised by her mom and grandmother, both single. “Growing up, I had a very close relationship with them and there was always a [...] -
Off the Record with Sloane Brown: Danielle Torain, Open Society Institute Baltimore
Tuesday, February 01, 2022Danielle Torain joins Sloane Brown to talk about her first two years as director of Open Society Institute Baltimore, and how COVID-19, issues of racial equity and new motherhood have affected that role.
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Battleground Baltimore: An attack on ‘The Block’
Friday, January 21, 2022BY BRANDON SODERBERG AND JAISAL NOOR In this week’s round-up of local news, Baltimore Starbucks workers are unionizing, advocates push for drug decriminalization, the Mosbys go on the defensive, and more. Last month, Battleground Baltimore called attention to Democrats in the Maryland state house refusing to ensure that paraphernalia used for injecting drugs was decriminalized. State Senate President Bill Ferguson [...] -
MD People’s Commission Lists Legislative Priorities for 2022
Thursday, January 20, 2022By Emily Scott, Producer As Gov. Larry Hogan revealed his proposed Fiscal Year 2023 budget in Annapolis yesterday, the People's Commission to Decriminalize Maryland announced its legislative priorities for the 2022 legislative session. The commission is made up of representatives of 28 advocacy groups mostly based in Maryland. Christopher Dews, senior policy advocate for the [...] -
The Baltimore Sun’s 25 Women to Watch 2021: Best in advocacy, business and health
Wednesday, October 20, 2021OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows Brittany Young (2018) and Brion Gill (2015) named among Baltimore Sun’s 25 Women to Watch By Baltimore Sun Staff Meet the Baltimore area’s leading voices in business, activism, research and more. Look for the 25 Women to Watch in a special magazine supplement in some editions of The Sun on Sunday, Oct. [...] -
Can Defund Work in Baltimore?
Monday, October 18, 2021Ray Kelly has made defunding the police his life’s mission. He knows it’s an uphill battle. By J. Brian Charles Ray Kelly worried that the sound system wasn’t going to work. If the speakers failed, he was less likely to draw people to the park to build support for Baltimore’s movement to defund the police—to [...] -
Restorative Practices Roundup: 5 Leaders, 5 Stories
Wednesday, October 06, 2021Gates Foundation Highlights OSI’s Karen Webber and Restorative Practices VOICES FROM THE #PRINCIPALPROJECT COMMUNITY by Baltimore City Public Schools Over the past several years, Baltimore City Public Schools has been working to transform schools and communities by fully implementing restorative practices (RP). As leader Karen Webber puts it, RP has been a primary tool in [...] -
‘Development without displacement’: How Parity seeks to preserve and grow homeownership in West Baltimore
Friday, October 01, 20212020 OSI Community Fellow Bree Jones featured in Baltimore Sun By Hallie Miller When Bree Jones was a financial analyst in New York City, her visits home to nearby New Rochelle, New York, distressed her. Neighborhoods were changing fast, displacing many who had lived there for decades, Jones said. Luxury apartment buildings were popping up [...] -
2002 OSI Community Fellow Avis Ransom honored by Baltimore Children and Youth Fund
Tuesday, September 21, 2021BCYF launches new pilot program for youth leadership development BCYF Inc. has launched a new pilot program for youth leadership development in Baltimore City. The program, The Avis Ransom Institute (ARI), will train young people to be effective leaders and representatives in their community in Baltimore civic life. The program will launch in October 2021 [...] -
OSI Community Fellows on WYPR
Tuesday, September 14, 2021This week, two OSI Baltimore Community Fellows, Janet Glover-Kerkvliet (2019) and Deborah Ramsey (2016) were featured on WYPR shows. First, Janet Glover-Kervliet is the founder of the Baltimore Job Hunters Support group, which offers support and free career counseling to Baltimore job seekers. She spoke to Sheilah Kast on On the Record about how the [...]
Open Society Institute – Baltimore
Open Society Institute (OSI) – Baltimore : Audacious Thinking For Lasting Change
