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About OSI-Baltimore
The Open Society Institute-Baltimore focuses on three intertwined problems: untreated drug addiction, overreliance on incarceration, and obstacles that impede youth from succeeding inside and outside the classroom. We also support the Community Fellows, a corps of social innovators who work to revitalize underserved communities.
Eight Innovative Individuals Awarded Coveted OSI-Baltimore Fellowships to Serve as Catalysts for Change
Press Release
November 1, 2011
This year’s Baltimore Community Fellowships include a free, community-based health clinic for extremely low-income people; a drop-in resource center for homeless youth; an alliance to help urban farmers gain access to information and resources; a program to provide legal help for detained non-citizens; a soccer, tutoring and mentoring program for refugees and immigrants; and an education program that uses therapy dogs to teach empathy and nonaggressive conflict resolution to young children.
How a Debate League Changes Young Lives
Debra Rubino
July 29, 2011
 BLOG
A high school teacher suggested that because of his "mouth and attitude," Jarrell Anderson might do well to join the Baltimore Urban Debate League. So he tried debate—and was forever changed.
ACLU, Open Society Foundations Ask State Board of Education to Address High Rates of Suspension
Press Release
May 25, 2011
Concerned about the continuing high, and disproportionate, level of suspensions in Maryland public schools and the lack of significant action to address the problem, the ACLU of Maryland and the Open Society Institute-Baltimore have written to Maryland State School Superintendent Nancy Grasmick and the Maryland State Board of Education seeking reform.
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Addressing Challenges to Indigent Defense at Bail Hearings
OSI-Baltimore
May 16, 2012
Paul DeWolfe, Maryland’s public defender, and Norman Reimer, executive director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, will present at this event, the second in the "Burden of Bail" series.
Slavery by Another Name
MICA Brown Center, 1301 W Mt. Royal Avenue, Baltimore, MD
May 22, 2012
Join us for a screening and discussion of the film Slavery by Another Name, which tells how even as slavery came to an end in the South in 1865, thousands of African Americans were pulled back into forced labor with shocking brutality.
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