General Overview
The Baltimore Wisdom Project (BWP) is the Baltimore division and headquarters of Wisdom Projects, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to building peace through community education and community healing.
Click here to read about the BWP's current programs.
Click here to read about the BWP's values and practices.
Click here for to donate to support our work.
We work in partnership with community centers, recreation centers, and schools within under-resourced urban neighborhoods to prevent, reduce, and eliminate incidents of violence by building movements and organizing communities for peace, healing, justice, dignity, and holistic learning.
Our mission is to reimagine education and reimagine the world by enhancing the lives of youth and adults with peace-building, holistic education, intercultural understanding, and anti-oppressive, liberationist thought leadership.
Our trauma-informed educational and healing services empower youth and families who live in low-income housing "projects" to become neighborhood peace advocates, ambassadors, and leaders. We do this through the following practices:
Wisdom Projects, Inc. is the result of the 2019 merger of both divisions into one nonprofit organization. The Chicago Wisdom Project was founded in 2010 and is focused on thought leadership. The Baltimore Wisdom Project was founded in 2013 is focused on direct community organizing.
More About Direct Community Education and Community Healing
Within the greater Baltimore City area, through our unique giving-service model, the Baltimore Wisdom Project organizes and builds communities undergoing socio-economic challenges and significant patterns of violence by offering the following:
The Baltimore Wisdom Project has offered high quality educational and health services in some of the epicenters of neighborhood violence in Baltimore City in partnership with community centers like the former Penn North Kids Safe Zone/Harambee Center in the West Baltimore neighborhood of Sandtown-Winchester and the 29th Street Community Center in Greenmount East. We have also offered in-school restorative justice and mindfulness programs at institutions like Towson High School. We continue to offer these services in daily, deep collaboration with the McKim Center in East Baltimore.
More About Thought Leadership
The Chicago Wisdom Project offers thought leadership through the Reimagining Magazine and the Reimagining Podcast on anti-oppressive education and healing. The Chicago division previously offered ground-breaking out-of-school-time and summer holistic-educational and rite-of-passage programming for youth primarily from the South Side of Chicago. The Chicago Wisdom Project also trained practitioners in a unique course for holistic educators.
Wisdom Projects, Inc. is grounded in the Wisdom Education movement. To learn more about this movement, please obtain and read Dr. Theodore Richards' Creatively Maladjusted: The Wisdom Education Movement Manifesto (Homebound Publications, 2013).
Wisdom Projects, Inc. is grounded in the Wisdom Education Movement. To learn more about this movement, please obtain and read Dr. Richards' Creatively Maladjusted: The Wisdom Education Movement Manifesto (Homebound Publications, 2013).
Other pages of our website can be accessed via the drop-down menu under the "about" page and in the menu at the top of each web page.
Join our movement for radically-caring, deeply anti-oppressive healing and learning by becoming a monthly Patron on Patreon for just the cost of a few cups of coffee by visiting https://www.patreon.com/wisdomcommunity today.
The Baltimore Wisdom Project (BWP) is the Baltimore division and headquarters of Wisdom Projects, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to building peace through community education and community healing.
Click here to read about the BWP's current programs.
Click here to read about the BWP's values and practices.
Click here for to donate to support our work.
We work in partnership with community centers, recreation centers, and schools within under-resourced urban neighborhoods to prevent, reduce, and eliminate incidents of violence by building movements and organizing communities for peace, healing, justice, dignity, and holistic learning.
Our mission is to reimagine education and reimagine the world by enhancing the lives of youth and adults with peace-building, holistic education, intercultural understanding, and anti-oppressive, liberationist thought leadership.
Our trauma-informed educational and healing services empower youth and families who live in low-income housing "projects" to become neighborhood peace advocates, ambassadors, and leaders. We do this through the following practices:
- community participatory mindfulness;
- teaching disarmament;
- nonviolent credible messaging;
- upstander-modeling;
- transformative justice;
- conflict transformation;
- community counseling;
- restorative practices;
- restorative justice; and
- de-escalation.
Wisdom Projects, Inc. is the result of the 2019 merger of both divisions into one nonprofit organization. The Chicago Wisdom Project was founded in 2010 and is focused on thought leadership. The Baltimore Wisdom Project was founded in 2013 is focused on direct community organizing.
More About Direct Community Education and Community Healing
Within the greater Baltimore City area, through our unique giving-service model, the Baltimore Wisdom Project organizes and builds communities undergoing socio-economic challenges and significant patterns of violence by offering the following:
- Trauma-informed healing services (community participatory mindfulness; peace-building (both everyday relational peace and global peace typified by youth-led advocacy for weapons-elimination and anti-nuclear proliferation); nonviolent credible messaging; upstander-modeling; transformative justice; conflict transformation; community counseling; restorative practices; restorative justice; de-escalation; and health navigation);
- STEM and arts education (life science; exercise science; health science; nutrition; environmental health; environmental justice; civic, social, and cultural studies); and
- Institutional support (food service (if applicable); infrastructural support (counsel and limited resources for interior improvements for learning spaces); consultations for fundraising and development; consultations for justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (or JEDI principles); professional development for trauma-informed care and national standards for safety and security; and strategic communications).
The Baltimore Wisdom Project has offered high quality educational and health services in some of the epicenters of neighborhood violence in Baltimore City in partnership with community centers like the former Penn North Kids Safe Zone/Harambee Center in the West Baltimore neighborhood of Sandtown-Winchester and the 29th Street Community Center in Greenmount East. We have also offered in-school restorative justice and mindfulness programs at institutions like Towson High School. We continue to offer these services in daily, deep collaboration with the McKim Center in East Baltimore.
More About Thought Leadership
The Chicago Wisdom Project offers thought leadership through the Reimagining Magazine and the Reimagining Podcast on anti-oppressive education and healing. The Chicago division previously offered ground-breaking out-of-school-time and summer holistic-educational and rite-of-passage programming for youth primarily from the South Side of Chicago. The Chicago Wisdom Project also trained practitioners in a unique course for holistic educators.
Wisdom Projects, Inc. is grounded in the Wisdom Education movement. To learn more about this movement, please obtain and read Dr. Theodore Richards' Creatively Maladjusted: The Wisdom Education Movement Manifesto (Homebound Publications, 2013).
Wisdom Projects, Inc. is grounded in the Wisdom Education Movement. To learn more about this movement, please obtain and read Dr. Richards' Creatively Maladjusted: The Wisdom Education Movement Manifesto (Homebound Publications, 2013).
Other pages of our website can be accessed via the drop-down menu under the "about" page and in the menu at the top of each web page.
Join our movement for radically-caring, deeply anti-oppressive healing and learning by becoming a monthly Patron on Patreon for just the cost of a few cups of coffee by visiting https://www.patreon.com/wisdomcommunity today.
Youth of the 29th Street Community Center in the Barclay Neighborhood of North-Central Baltimore circled up, meditating, and sharing together.