Join the Coalition
on Open Impact
Open Impact is a shared platform for coordinating complex, real-world initiatives—bringing together projects, data, and collaboration across teams, organizations, and regions.
It supports work as it happens: from coordinating multi-site efforts and capturing field-level insights, to sharing knowledge, tracking outcomes, and making impact visible across an ecosystem of peers, partners, and funders.
“The Open Impact platform is what we have been dreaming of as projects on the ground for decades…it’s not just another dream of the technosphere, it’s responding to the real need to bridge the gap between the local realities of regenerative action and funding mechanisms, in a way that is informed by and cooperates with living systems.”
— Pablo Friedlander, PhD
Built with a global community of practice
Across regions and sectors, communities are advancing real-world solutions—often across multiple organizations, partners, and project sites. Yet this coordination is rarely supported by a single system. Teams rely on a patchwork of tools for communication, project management, reporting, and resource sharing, making it difficult to carry knowledge forward, stay aligned, or capture progress as work unfolds. Open Impact was developed in response to this gap: not a lack of solutions, but a lack of shared infrastructure to coordinate and resource them effectively.
Since our early cohort in 2021, the platform has grown alongside a global network of practitioners, researchers, and community-based organizations shaping how it evolves in practice. Today, it supports 300+ organizations and networks across 70+ countries, spanning more than 1,000 projects. Through fellowships, regional pilots, and convenings, participants are not only using the platform—they are helping define how it works. This work spans ecological restoration, food systems, community wellness, the built environment, and climate action.
Recent efforts include cooperative market access for small farmers, youth-led landscape-scale restoration, and portfolio-wide reporting for community-directed funds. These are not isolated initiatives, but part of a broader shift toward more connected, community-defined systems. Open Impact supports this shift by linking projects, surfacing shared insights, and helping knowledge, coordination, and resources move more effectively across regions—while communities retain agency over how their work is defined and supported
What can I do with Open Impact?
Coordinate projects and workflows across teams, partners, and regions
Organize networks, cohorts, and communities in shared spaces
Collect data and documentation in stride with implementation
Publish resources and build shared knowledge libraries
Track progress and outcomes in real time
Create dashboards for reporting, learning, and storytelling
Share projects and portfolios with partners, funders, and communities
Used across real-world initiatives
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Cooperative market access for small farmers
Coordinating production, aggregation, and buyer relationships across regional food systems
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Landscape-scale ecological restoration
Tracking activities and environmental outcomes across multiple project sites and teams
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Learning cohorts, fellowships, & accelerators
Delivering programs, coordinating participants, and capturing outcomes over time
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Community-directed funds & portfolios
Enabling portfolio-wide reporting and visibility across projects and partners
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Public & institutional partnerships
Improving access to resources, technical assistance, and regional planning tools
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Distributed research & field-building initiatives
Coordinating multi-partner efforts and documenting shared learning across networks
Become a network partner
We work with select networks and regional organizations to configure Open Impact for coordination, learning, and visibility across their ecosystems.
If you’re exploring how to strengthen collaboration, resource sharing, or reporting across your network, we’d be glad to connect. You can reach us at [email protected] (subject: “Network”).
Platform Features
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Community Directory
A searchable, map-based view of projects, organizations, people, and events across your network
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Dashboards & Reporting
Combine real-time data, narrative, and media to track progress and communicate impact
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Groups & Feeds
Shared spaces for updates, discussions, events, and ongoing coordination across teams and partners
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Projects & Workflows
Coordinate tasks, deliver programs, and capture data through structured, multi-step workflows
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Resource Libraries
Publish and organize tools, research, and media into searchable, shareable knowledge collections
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Project Portfolios
Present initiatives through dashboards, storytelling, and curated resources for partners and funders
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
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Open Impact is typically accessed through networks, programs, or partnerships rather than as a standalone, self-serve tool. It is delivered as a progressive web app, making it accessible across devices and adaptable to a range of connectivity contexts.
Organizations engage by joining a network or initiative using the platform, participating in a cohort or program, or partnering with us to configure it for their own ecosystem.
We are also developing a broader practitioner and developer community to support more open participation, shared learning, and collaboration around the platform.
If you’re exploring how it could support your work, feel free to reach out at [email protected].
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Open Impact is shared digital infrastructure designed to support coordination across networks and initiatives. It is not a program itself, but a platform that enables programs, partnerships, and collaborative efforts to operate more effectively.
Unlike conventional SaaS tools, it is not typically used as a standalone system. Instead, it is configured within real-world contexts—supporting ongoing work across organizations, regions, and partners rather than sitting separate from it.
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Open Impact is grounded in the idea of common infrastructure for collective action—shared systems that support coordination, learning, and resourcing across organizations and initiatives.
At its core, Open Impact is built on enterprise resource planning (ERP) architecture—a class of systems used by large organizations to manage complex operations like workflows, data, and resource allocation. These systems are typically costly, rigid, and difficult to use outside of corporate environments.
Open Impact adapts this underlying approach for more accessible, flexible contexts. It brings coordination, documentation, and reporting into a single environment designed for multi-site, multi-partner initiatives—so teams can manage complex work without relying on fragmented tools.
It is also shaped through real-world use—configured within networks, programs, and partnerships—so the system evolves alongside the work itself, allowing knowledge, coordination, and visibility to persist across projects and over time.
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You do.
Organizations and individuals retain full ownership of the data they create or upload. You control what is shared, what remains private, and how your information is used. Open Future Foundation Inc. operates as a steward of the infrastructure, not an owner of user data. Read the full platform Terms of Service here.
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No.
Open Impact does not sell user data or share it with third parties without your explicit consent. Organizations retain full control over what they create, and information is only shared or made public if you choose to do so.
The platform is stewarded by Open Future Foundation Inc. in service of public benefit and is designed to support collaboration without extracting value from user data. As it evolves, we are working toward a more distributed, user-supported, and participatory governance model, transitioning Open Impact to a shared technical commons over time.
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Open Impact is stewarded by Open Future Foundation Inc., a nonprofit organization working in service of common infrastructure for collective action.
The platform is supported through a combination of philanthropic funding and codevelopment partnerships with aligned organizations. It is not venture-backed and does not rely on monetizing user data. Instead, it is maintained in service of public benefit, with a focus on developing sustainable, community-aligned support models over time.