Open Society Institute-Baltimore Seeks Applicants for 2010 Community Fellowships
BALTIMORE—The Open Society Institute-Baltimore is accepting applications for its 2010 class of Community Fellows. OSI-Baltimore will award up to 10 fellowships to individuals committed to improving the circumstances of Baltimore's underserved communities. Fellows will receive $48,750 over 18 months. For more information or to receive an application, call OSI at 1-410-234-1091 or visit www.osi-baltimore.org. Applications are due by 5 p.m. on March 15, 2010, and fellowships will begin in the fall.
Through its Community Fellowships Program, OSI-Baltimore hopes to encourage more entrepreneurial individuals to join the public and community service fields and to promote initiatives that will empower struggling communities to improve the quality of life for residents. Since 1998, more than 100 Community Fellows have applied their educational and professional experiences in innovative projects serving underserved communities in Baltimore. Past fellows have made exceptional accomplishments in a wide variety of areas such as HIV awareness, community-managed open spaces, youth outreach, community art, and juvenile justice.
Interested individuals either may apply for a fellowship to work under the auspice of a non-profit organization or apply for a fellowship to work independently.
Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to attend a 1.5-hour orientation session. Call 1-410-234-1091 to reserve a spot in an information session.
Sessions will take place:
- Wednesday, January 27
- Thursday, January 28
- Wednesday, February 3
- Thursday, February 4
- Wednesday, February 10
- Thursday, February 18
The Baltimore Community Fellowships Program is supported by The William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund, The Lois and Irving Blum Foundation Inc., The Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Cohen Opportunity Fund, The Commonweal Foundation, the Goldseker Foundation, The Hoffberger Foundation, the Gloria B. and Herbert M. Katzenberg Charitable Fund, The Marion I. & Henry J. Knott Foundation, The Foundation for Maryland's Future, the John Meyerhoff and Lenel Srochi Meyerhoff Fund, the Moser Family Philanthropic Fund, the PNC Foundation, and the Alison and Arnold Richman Fund.
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OSI-Baltimore was started in 1998 by philanthropist George Soros as a laboratory to better understand and solve the most intractable problems facing urban America. OSI-Baltimore is a private operating foundation that focuses its work exclusively on the root causes of three intertwined problems—drug addiction, an overreliance on incarceration, and the obstacles that keep youth from succeeding inside and outside of the classroom. OSI-Baltimore also sponsors the Baltimore Community Fellows, now over 100 members strong, who work to create opportunity and bring justice to people in the city's most underserved neighborhoods.