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.
Become a network partner
We are currently partnering with select networks and regional organizations to configure customized versions of the Open Impact platform. If you are interested in scheduling a demo and learning more, please send an email to [email protected] with the subject line “Network.” Please include your organization name, your best point of contact, and a brief description of your work and any current challenges you’re facing.
F E A T U R E D P R O G R A M
Announcing the Second Cohort of Regional Resilience Fellows
The Regional Resilience Fellowship is a year-long program supporting community-rooted organizations and networks advancing resilience in food systems, ecological restoration, community wellness, and the built environment. Fellows gain access to shared tools and a global peer network while helping shape a digital commons of place-based solutions that can be adapted and scaled worldwide. This year, we’re partnering with 14 organizations & networks across 19 countries spanning 6 continents to guide the systems that enable collective action.
