Nexus Community Partners’ Open Road Fund Community Education Sessions (ORFCES) may have concluded for the year, but the community wealth building keeps on keeping on. The sessions are a series of workshops offered by the Open Road Fund (ORF) in collaboration with community partners to provide financial education, information, and resources to ORF gift recipients and the broader Black community to build wealth. During each session, two lucky winners were selected in a random virtual drawing for two $50 electronic Visa gift cards.
One of the most rewarding parts of offering this workshop series was collaborating with incredible community allies in our shared mission to build Black wealth. These community partners shared their expertise with compassion and accessibility rooted in the tradition of liberatory education through community building, information, and healing. Each session was centered around the Open Road Fund’s five wealth-building themes that were developed through rigorous discussion and community focus groups to establish what we consider to be wealth. The ORFCES are a manifestation of our values in practice. Achieving dreams isn’t a matter of ability or inability; it’s a matter of access and opportunity. The Open Road Fund strives to offer both. The 2025 series is available via YouTube and explores single-family homeownership, conquering money shame, pursuing a post-secondary degree, and making practicing joy a habit. Start watching below!