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.
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
Be Prepared
Sometimes the unexpected can be anticipated. We work upstream with grantmakers, sharing research and best practices on managing risk so funders and their grantees have the resilience to withstand any storm.
Need Funding?
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.
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.
Resources
Dive into our impact emergency room. Read our studies, toolkits, and latest updates.
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.
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