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

Every year, scholarships help students discover perspective, opportunity, a wider view, and what fits.

The Open Road Foundation is a community scholarship fund for West Chester that doesn't run out. Every dollar goes into the fund. Gifts and its returns pay for scholarships every year for West Chester area students with financial need.

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Some roads are worth leaving home for.

We are a West Chester nonprofit, and we are backed and supported by the West Chester Area School District. The founders pay the running costs, so every gift goes into the fund. Read the full mission

The need here is easy to miss.

Here, in this district

1,500

Median household income in this district is $137,133. That is exactly why the need goes unseen. About 1,500 students in this district are economically disadvantaged. Our first scholarship is awarded this school year.

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

How the fund works

  1. You give

    Gifts, events and corporate match programs are the main way the fund grows.

  2. We invest it

    In safe securities, such as government bonds, so every gift earns returns.

  3. We award scholarships

    Together, gifts and returns pay for scholarships for West Chester area students each year, at a four-year school, a two-year school or a trade.

Open the road, and see what comes back.

We want this fund to be a cornerstone of West Chester, so more West Chester students can take the open road. A gift here goes into a fund that doesn't run out, and helps pay for scholarships this year and every year after.

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