IMPACT IS A JOURNEY

Don’t let roadblocks get in your way.

Keeping Impact on Track

Social entrepreneurs are not immune to the unpredictable, despite the best laid plans. Open Road offers fast, flexible, and affordable funding—both grants and loans—to organizations facing discrete, unforeseen financing gaps that threaten to derail their work.

Our Model

Multiplied Returns

By stepping in with a small investment at the right moment, we keep critical projects moving forward. Our Open Road Impact Fund offers investors the opportunity to have outsized impact while still collecting a return on investment. For each dollar invested, Open Road returns $9 in impact.

The Impact Fund

$480M

Impact Kept on Track

Leveraged Impact

285

Grants & loans

The Impact Fund

Be Prepared

Open Road is passing the torch to our peers, our grantees, and our community to carry on the conversation about Risk Management.

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We’ll help you through it.

Our grants and loans are designed to keep social enterprises moving toward impact. If you think that you are eligible for a one-time Open Road grant or loan, we’d love to hear from you.

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Stories of Resilience

Sustainable growth for the social sector depends on the promise of social entrepreneurs and nonprofit leaders. Read more about their impact journeys.

Tarryn Mthimkhulu, Managing Director, Ubuntu Pathwaysjpg (1)

Our position as a long-standing grassroots institution allowed us to emerge as leaders in this crisis. Ubuntu’s staff on the ground didn't hesitate to step out of their typical roles and into the frontlines to protect those most at-risk.

Tarryn Mthimkhulu • Ubuntu Pathways

Malcolm Quigley, Deputy Director, Innovation & Strategic Partnerships, PSI

Throughout PSI’s 50-year history, we tackled the world’s most complex health challenges from Malaria and AIDS/HIV to cholera, Ebola and Zika. Yet, until COVID-19, we had not responded to a global pandemic, affecting all 50 countries where we work.

Malcolm Quigley • PSI

Heejae Lim, Founder and CEO, TalkingPoints

For TalkingPoints, scaling rapidly was a necessary and mission-critical response to an emergency situation. When schools across the country started shutting down from COVID-19, we were concerned that learning will stop for the underserved.

Heejae Lim • Talking Points

Our Community

Resources

Dive into our impact emergency room. Read our studies, toolkits, and latest updates.

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Foundations Risk Management

Foundations Don’t Know What They’re Risking

Critical gaps exist in philanthropy’s definitions of and approach to risk management. This article describes the scope of the problem and a framework for philanthropists to adopt risk-management practices that better equip the sector to address the challenges of our time.