A hatchback packed with boxes, a lamp and a potted plant, parked in a driveway before the drive to school.

West Chester, Pennsylvania

We fund one student a year to discover perspective, opportunity, a wider view, and what fits.

The Open Road Foundation helps West Chester Area School District students afford the school that fits them best, wherever it takes them.

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Some roads are worth leaving home for.

We are a West Chester nonprofit. We raise the money here, the founders pay the running costs, and the school district picks the student with us. Read the full mission

The need here is easy to miss.

Here, in this district

1,500

Median household income in the West Chester Area School District is $137,133. That is exactly why the need goes unseen. About 1,500 students in this district are economically disadvantaged. We are funding one of them this year.

U.S. Census ACS 2024; NCES Common Core of Data, 2024–25.

Open the road, and see what comes back.

One student, this year. Ten thousand dollars gets us there.

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Some roads are worth leaving home for.

The need here is easy to miss.

Open the road, and see what comes back.

We fund one student a year to discover perspective, opportunity, a wider view, and what fits.