Community Organizations

Resource List

Note: Per the MICA community’s request, the Office of Community Engagement has compiled this list of public events and resources. Please be aware that these are not official MICA events.

Community Organizations

No Boundaries Coalition:The No Boundaries Coalition is a resident-led initiative dedicated to deconstructing boundaries and reconstructing community. The No Boundaries Coalition brings Bolton Hill, Druid Heights, Madison Park, Reservoir Hill, Upton, and Sandtown together across race, class, and neighborhood lines to build a more unified and empowered Central West Baltimore. Contact: Rebecca Nagle – 443.722.0929

Leaders of A Beautiful Struggle (LBS): Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS) is a grassroots think-tank which advances the public policy interest of Black people, in Baltimore, through: youth leadership development, political advocacy, and autonomous intellectual innovation. Contact:

Baltimore United for Change (BUC): BUC isa coalition of concerned citizens and organizations working for justice in Baltimore City. We are working toward sustainable solutions to end police brutality in Baltimore.

Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute (UHI) Student Outreach Resource Center (SOURCE): Johns Hopkins is working with community partners to identify community-led initiatives for community engagement. In particular, UHI and SOURCE, are working together to share opportunities for volunteers, events for healings, and continuing needs in the community.

The Holistic Life Foundation teaches yoga, meditation and helps kid with homework after school. Sign up to give kids hugs after school, do yoga with them, help with crafts and homework. The Holistic Life Foundation is a Baltimore-based 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization committed to nurturing the wellness of children and adults in underserved communities. Through a comprehensive approach which helps children develop their inner lives through yoga, mindfulness, and self-care HLF demonstrates deep commitment to learning, community, and stewardship of the environment. HLF is also committed to developing high-quality evidence based programs and curriculum to improve community well-being.

Baltimore United Viewfinders is a youth driven organization using the arts to explore their own definition of self and place. The Baltimore United Viewfinders‬ meet at MICA Place.Their mission is to foster the leadership potential of young people as social entrepreneurs producing multimedia arts for community action and income.

MICA Place: 814 North Collington Ave, Baltimore

The WINGS Collective‬is a group of amazing young women who will be completing a documentary about the importance of mentorship in our city. For more information please email Kirsten D’Andrea Hollander at or visit their website at

CASA de Maryland: Their mission is to create a more just society by building power and improving the quality of life in low-income immigrant communities. Their vision is a future with diverse and thriving communities living free from discrimination and fear, working together with mutual respect to achieve full human rights for all.

Baltimore’s Latino Community Marches for Justice and Prays for Peace

Baltimore Racial Justice Action:

Baltimore Racial Justice Action (BRJA) is a network of Maryland individuals committed to social and economic transformation with an emphasis on racial equity.

BRJA is an action-based organization grounded in collective analysis of structural racism and white privilege. Organizing across the Baltimore metropolitan area, BRJA seeks to make Baltimore recognized as the leading city in the nation intentionally working for racial equity.

Achieving racial equity requires working to create a society in which the distribution of resources, opportunity, societal benefits and protection is equitable and all members are physically and psychologically safe and secure.

We attempt to influence and guide respectful and just thinking and actions. We strive to support people and organizations to see themselves as world residents or leaders or change agents by acknowledging our linked fate and encouraging responsibility for our choices, decisions and actions to collectively build an equitable world for all.

Informational Sources

Baltimore Uprising:

BALTIMORE: WHERE IS HELP NEEDED?

This is a spreadsheet of organizations throughout the city that are looking for help.

Organizations that are sharing information on social media and their websites:

●Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance

●Baltimore Magazine

●City Paper

Community Meetings and Events

TODAY Wednesday (April 29th)

Student Lead March

College student march scheduled to start at 5:45pm from Penn Station

Creative Alliance:

Free Event this afternoon / evening:

WED APR 29

4-7:30pm | FREE!

Creative Alliance

Gather with us to make peace art projects at Creative Alliance! Yummy food provided by The Marquee Lounge. Neighbors, families & friends welcome!

Thursday (April 30th)

#BlackLivesMatter: The Intersections of Race and Sexual Assault

5 - 7pm 1400 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD 21202

The Black Lives Matter Movement began as an internet hashtag and blended into a social movement. As part of the Sexual Assault Response Team (SART)'s event series for Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we present: BlackLivesMatter: The Intersections of Race and Sexual Assault." During this panel we will attempt to answer questions surrounding how the movement can be more supportive to survivors of sexual assault/abuse and domestic violence.

Saturday (May 2nd)

Youth Resiliency Institute

BLACK YOUTH IN BALTIMORE ARE NOT THUGS! "Providing outlets for our youth is a responsibility of adults in order to protect our youth." ~Fanon Hill

An answer to violence through the arts. Join us......

WHEN: Saturday, May 2, beginning at 12:30 p.m.

WHERE: Area 405, 405 E. Oliver St., Baltimore, MD 21202

Tuesday (May 5th)

5/5 Public Safety Committee Hearing on Tyrone West

Baltimore City Hall 100 Holliday St, Baltimore, Maryland 21202

The Baltimore City Council's Public Safety Committee will finally reconvene the hearing on the in-custody killing of Tyrone West, who was beaten to death by 10+ Baltimore Police and Morgan State University officers back on July 18, 2013.

The hearing will be the first since both the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office and the Baltimore Police Department completed their investigations on Tyrone's killing (and decided not to charge or discipline any of the officers involved.)

Come and speak out, along with the victims of police terror, their families, and other community members. Address your concerns and questions directly to your elected city councilmembers and police command staff.

May 5, 2015 - 4:00pm - Baltimore City Hall (4th floor)

Wednesday (May 8th)

Gallery 788: 3602 Hickory Ave, Baltimore, Maryland 21211

In light of the protests and riots around the city this April, Baltimore artists are donating 100% of the proceeds from the sales of their work to support community centers that serve our most at-risk youth. (specific organization TBA).

More details to come, including a list of contributing artists, performers at the opening on May 8th. Donation requirements: Art drop-off is May 4th and 5th from 1-7pm at Gallery 788. Please fill out a release form at the gallery and don't forget to specify your starting bid (NO greater than $125) and your buy-it-now price. Please tape a tag to the back of your work with your name and title to help out these frazzled, last-minute volunteers! There is no limit on the number of pieces or size of work that you can submit, but we kindly ask that you keep the nature of your work POSITIVE and understand that we reserve the right to pick and choose from multiples in case space fills up. We want to represent as many artists as possible! Thank you for your donation!!

-McKenzie, Matt, Robert, and Eduardo

Wednesday (May 20th)

Be More Benefit: A night of music to aid the rebuilding of our city @ Metro Gallery 5/20

Metro Gallery 1700 N Charles St, Baltimore, Maryland 21201

In response to the recent events in Baltimore, a group of artists have banded together to host a night of music and fundraising to support the rebuilding and rebirth of our city. All proceeds will be given to The Baltimore Community Foundation's Fund For Rebuilding Baltimore. Help us heal our home.

Artists:

Eze Jackson -

Wing Dam -

Blacksage -

Joy Classic -

Call for Participants

Elements Course Project:

Dear MICA community,

We are foundation students in Allison Yasukawa’s Elements class and are writing because we feel upset for Freddie Gray, his family and friends, and our community. We think that we should be together as a group to express our feelings and concerns because we are a part of Baltimore. We are planning to make a video related to this situation and to send it directly to mayor’s office. We would like for you to participate if you want to express any opinions. All of your opinions will remain anonymous unless you want to include your name.

You can send us your video (it doesn’t have to include your face) or comments to or you can comment directly on this post.

We are seeking responses to the following questions:

1) How do you feel? (Your reaction of this situation)

2) What do you want the Mayor to do about this situation?

3) Is there anything you want to tell our community?

We appreciate your comments and participation.

Thank you and be safe.

Baltimore Art + Justice Project:

Kalima Young and the Baltimore Art + Justice Project are creating an archive of the cultural production efforts that are amidst this week’s demonstrations and collective community actions. Please send images of t-shirts, signs, clothing, art making, stencil images -- anything reflective of people's responses -- to or to the Office of Community Engagement via facebook. Got photos, videos, installations you'd like to share? Please share The final results will live on the BA+JP blog for us to revisit, use as research, and hold space. Thank you!

The Baltimore Book, edited by Elizabeth Fee, Linda Shopes and Linda Zeidman

Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City, by Antero Pietila.

Baltimore '68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City,

by Jessica Elfenbein (Editor), Elizabeth Nix (Editor), Thomas Hollowak (Editor)

Root Shock, Mindy Fullilove