Open Society Institute-Baltimore is the only US field office of

Open Society Foundations Open Society Foundations (OSF), formerly the Open Society Institute, is a Grant (money), grantmaking network founded and chaired by business magnate George Soros. Open Society Foundations financially supports civil society groups around the wo ...

. It was founded in 1998. Th
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are based in Baltimore and all of its activities are focused locally. OSI-Baltimore has three program areas: Criminal and Juvenile Justice, Drug Addiction Treatment, and Youth and Education Development. It also sponsors the Community Fellows Network, a corps of social innovators working in Baltimore's underserved communities.

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