Our Core Team Gleefully Serves Every Client
Olympia Ammon
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Olympia is a BoardSource and NANOE certified nonprofit strategy consultant with more than 24 years of experience helping nonprofit organizations achieve bold revenue goals.
While Olympia’s experience spans a variety of sectors, she has a particular passion for healthcare, education, social services and social justice for those most vulnerable.
She is a proud graduate of Vanderbilt University and Rice University.
Nicole Ammon
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Nicole is an avid animal enthusiast with 25 years of experience working with exotic animals and native wildlife, along with domestic animals, in zoological, sanctuary, and veterinary settings.
She loves to travel and volunteer her time working with animals in other countries. Nicole has an office management background excelling in data organization and budgeting
She is a proud graduate of The Evergreen State College (BS ’98) and Cat Tales Zoological Training Center (Honors Certificate ’99).
Hope Bang
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Hope Bang is a Spring 2024 intern at The Collective, excitedly exploring the intersection of business and social change in the nonprofit space.
She has work experience in social science research, personal injury law, and immigration law, but is most passionate about social justice and advocacy, community service, empowering youth, and all things performing arts!
Hope Bang is a junior at Vanderbilt University, double-majoring in Human & Organizational Development and Sociology.
Then We Pull in Our Super Specialists
as Needed per Your Scope
Josephti Cruz
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Personal Financial Planner for Life
Your money affects nearly every part of your life. It can dictate how you spend your time, how you’re able to support your family—and how you feel. So when it comes to figuring out the best way to manage your resources, it makes sense to work with someone like Jo who’s willing and able to deeply understand both your concerns and your hopes for the future.
Carissa Holsted
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Mini-me (Planner, Builder, and Executor)
What could you accomplish with a “mini-me” – someone who has been in your shoes AND has the time and space to plan, build, AND execute? She works with visionary leaders and entrepreneurs in educational and social impact settings. She provides customized short and long-term support via a combination of strategy and tactical support, often during inflection points such as growth, change, scale, or transition. Specialties include: Organizational Strategy and Design, Strategic Initiative and Project Management, Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness.
Sarah Cotton Nelson
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Social Impact and Philanthropy Advisor
As Senior Advisor at High Flying Strategy, Sarah provides social impact and philanthropic advising, strategic guidance and facilitation, leadership development/coaching, and speaking/ moderating services.
Rhiannon O'Leary
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Expert Event Design and Management
Rhiannon owns Gather Co., an events firm serving nonprofit clients. Gather Co. is your partner for expert in-person, virtual, and hybrid event design and management services.
For over sixteen years Rhiannon has partnered with organizations and companies, creating world-class live experiences, designed to bring together leaders, politicians, workforces, makers, builders, celebrities, influencers, and more to connect, support important work, and fundraise. Through this work, she has had the opportunity to engage tens of thousands of people and raise over $10 million for wonderful social impact work.
Mark Rapoza
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All. Things. Data.
Mark Rapoza is a full-stack data professional with diverse, high-impact experience spanning both the private and public sectors. His professional interests and expertise center around applied predictive analytics (including machine learning and AI), data engineering, data visualization, data systems architecture, data ops, and developing bespoke data-intensive applications. K-12 school data, ecological research, medical records, marketplace analytics, prospect data management – he loves it all, and he’s ready to build upon whatever is brought to the table.
Women-owned
Values-driven
Headquartered in Los Angeles
Serving the World
BoardSource Certified Nonprofit Consultant
BoardSource is the recognized leader in nonprofit board leadership research, leadership, and support. It provides leaders with an extensive range of tools, resources, and research data to increase board effectiveness and strengthen organizational impact, and serve as the national voice for inspired and effective board leadership.
Olympia proudly holds a BoardSource Certificate of Nonprofit Board Consulting. The three day course gives nonprofit consultants the tools needed to address important and sometimes tough conversations that happen in the boardroom. The goal of the certificate is to help ensure the nonprofit sector has the governance trainers that it needs.
NANOE Certified Nonprofit Consultant
The National Association of Nonprofit Organizations & Executives (NANOE) is the only nationwide membership organization in the U.S. for Executives seeking credentials in the art of nonprofit capacity-building. Practitioners who hold a prestigious NANOE credential are “best practice” experts who grow charitable enterprise and discover new ways to advance the common good.
Practitioners who hold the CNC credential are nationally qualified experts who labor alongside nonprofits providing the organizations they serve “big wins!”
