Open Society Institute-Baltimore announced yesterday the 2020 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows. Each fellow will receive $60,000 over 18 months to support local projects designed to address problems in Baltimore’s underserved communities.

OSI’s Community Fellowships Network, which launched in 1997, now includes 210 fellows including the founders of Wide Angle Youth Media, B-360, Community Law in Action, Thread, Gather, Bikemore, Youth Empowered Society (YES), and many others.

More than 150 people applied for the 14 fellowships. The selection process included project proposals and budgets, identification of collaborators, a site visit, and multiple interviews, including with the selection committee. The selection committee included OSI Advisory Board members Jamar Brown, Andre Davis, and Nupur Parekh Flynn, along with Carol Dunston Reckling, Margaret Footner, and Kevin Lindamood.

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