Expanding opportunities
Open Horizon collaborates with nonprofit partners to co-create opportunities to advance racial and social justice through organizational support in the areas of Economic Justice, Education Justice, and Health Justice.
Established in 2019, Open Horizon is a family foundation based in Alexandria, VA, serving the Greater Washington DC area, the US South, and beyond. Committed to advancing racial and social justice, we dedicate ourselves to catalyzing positive change through funding, building capacity, convening, and amplifying voices.
Open Horizon News and Features
Values Aligned with Action: What’s on Your Horizon?
As we shared in our previous post, we recognized early on that experiential learning opportunities would be a core pillar of Open Horizon’s programmatic partnerships.
Rooted in Growth: Centering Healing, Justice, and Liberation in 2025
As you have seen us name before, we value the question: “how can we center social justice partner needs?”
Setting 2025 Intentions: using lessons and tools of abundance for an Open Horizon
In 2025, Open Horizon intends to look back, reflect on the lessons from 2024, be grateful for now and the present moment in community with our partners, and look forward with curiosity around the guiding questions and needs from our cousins.
2024 comes to a close, the Horizon remains Open
We may simultaneously love and loathe this time. The opportunity to reflect on the awesomeness that we’ve had this year coupled with the option of remembering and longing for the nourishing experiences again —
OH, that’s Emergent Relational Philanthropy?!
Relational Philanthropy is that phone call that we get from a partner in urgent dire need for a lawyer because of a deadline to file paperwork to get some serious matching funds from that funder over there.
Gathering in Power: Open Horizon’s Commitment to BIPOC Affinity Spaces and Leadership
The benefits of affinity spaces are clearly measurable and the brilliance of them is that the returns are deeper and more expansive than one could plan for.
Affirming Identities, Easing the Load: Why Affinity Spaces Are Essential for Well-being
Affinity spaces are essential. These similar-identity groupings allow for conversations in which you can drop your guard and communicate in ways that don’t require code-switching.
Expanding Horizons: Growing Opportunities for BIPOC Students Through the Richard S. and Doris M. Cohen Scholarship Program
But wait, there’s more!… Last month, our team shared our enthusiasm for our collaboration with our partners in implementing Open Horizon’s Richard S. and Doris M. Cohen Scholarship Program.
Main Photo taken by Sae G. | Critical Exposure, one of our grantees
Process shot: Community-building circle at a youth leadership meeting for the 2018 Youth Mayoral Forum.