Baltimore Community Wealth Collaborative Selects Eight Social Ventures for Funding
Partnership involving several Baltimore-area nonprofits launches first round of focused technical support. more

Maryland Can't Afford to Keep Locking Up Addicts
Diana Morris
Jan. 20, 2004
Maryland's corrections officials recently shifted their focus toward rehabilitating drug-addicted inmates rather than merely incarcerating them. Diana Morris, OSI-Baltimore's director, argues in an op-ed that although this is an important advance, it does not go far enough.  more

OSI Announces 2004 Baltimore Community Fellowships Competition
OSI-Baltimore will provide up to 10 awards to individuals who wish to work in Baltimore, Maryland in public or community service. Application deadline: March 8, 2004 more

Steps to Success: The Baltimore Drug and Alcohol Treatment Outcomes Study
Steps to Success is the largest and most rigorously conducted drug treatment outcomes study that focuses on a single city. more

OSI Forum: Zero Tolerance School Discipline Policies
OSI-Baltimore
May. 12, 2004
Bernardine Dohrn, the director of the Children and Family Justice Center, will discuss "zero tolerance" school discipline policies implemented in the wake of the Colombine school shooting and the adverse effects of these policies on young people and the community.  more

OSI Forum: Alternatives to Zero Tolerance School Discipline Policies
OSI-Baltimore
Apr. 21, 2004
Pedro Noguera, a professor of communities and schools at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, will discuss specific strategies schools may utilize as an alternative to zero-tolerance discipline policies.  more

OSI Forum: Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives
OSI-Baltimore
Mar. 10, 2004
John H. Laub, a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, will present data on crime and social development related to one of the world's longest (it began in the 1940s) longitudinal studies of age, crime, and development in the world. more