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Our Investments

Open Road sees every grant it makes as an investment for social impact. We provide fast, flexible capital via Charitable Grants and Loans. Our portfolios exclusively support mid-implementation projects, to keep impact on track.

Investment Criteria

How to Manage Risk

We believe that in order to get the greatest social impact out of philanthropic dollars, NGOs and funders need to have open conversations about the risks involved in each project. When these conversations don’t happen, risks turn into roadblocks and impact is in jeopardy.

Research & Tools

Featured Resources

Contingency Strategies, Mitigation Strategies, Monitoring Risk, Risk Identification

Risk Management Toolkit

10 Tools to help donors incorporate risk and risk management into their daily grantmaking.

Roadblock Analysis Report

The findings from this multivariable roadblock analysis provide the first-ever empirical dataset on “what goes wrong” in impact- focused projects and offer early conclusions on how specific roadblocks correlate with other variables.

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ORA In The News

News / Jan. 13, 2017

New York Times

A Tool Kit for the Donor Eager to Grasp All the Risks of Donation

by Paul Sullivan

“We designed the tool kit very deliberately, so a foundation could take it in total or pick and choose tools à la carte,” said Maya Winkelstein, who served as chairwoman of the group, called the Commons. “Our hope is people will print off the tool kit and bring it to their staff meetings or their board meetings or to their C.F.O. of programming.”

News / May. 19, 2017

SSIR

Navigating Risk in Impact-Focused Philanthropy

This special supplement in Stanford Social Innovation Review, produced by Open Road Alliance in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation, examines the concept of risk in philanthropy, providing insights, examples, and practical steps to help philanthropists better account for and manage risk as an integral part of the grantmaking process.

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