CREATED FROM A SIMPLE BELIEF: TRAVEL, DONE RIGHT, CHANGES HOW PEOPLE SEE THE WORLD AND YOUR BRAND.
We partner with nonprofits and purpose-led organizations to design journeys that connect key stakeholders to their work through experiences that educate, inspire, and create measurable impact.
We know travel is an incredibly powerful tool for connection.
It brings key stakeholders - donors, customers, clients, and staff - into direct relationship with your work or product, transforming an experience into enthusiastic loyalty and engagement.
And more, responsible travel has the power to create lasting impact at destinations.
Every journey invests in local businesses, community leaders, and social and environmental conservation efforts - ensuring travel uplifts and protects the places and people we visit.
What makes Range Collective different?
We bridge the worlds of travel, philanthropy, and brand storytelling - designing experiences that move people emotionally and strategically.
Our approach blends field-level insight, design thinking, and deep mission alignment to create journeys that strengthen connection, inspire investment, and elevate impact.
Meet Amanda
Amanda Popp is the founder of Range Collective and a lifelong believer in the power of travel to create connection and impact. With over 17 years of experience spanning international development, social enterprise, and luxury donor travel, she has lived and worked in Indigenous communities across Central America and partnered with many of the world’s leading conservation organizations to design transformative travel experiences. Her work bridges people and purpose—helping travelers, donors, and mission-driven brands engage more deeply with the world and their role in it.
Tell me more.
Amanda Popp has spent her career at the intersection of travel, philanthropy, and social impact — building meaningful connections between people and purpose through the power of exploration.
Her journey began more than 17 years ago, when she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Gambia, West Africa, leading community health and development projects alongside local leaders and women’s cooperatives. That experience sparked a lifelong commitment to working with communities to create lasting, locally rooted impact.
After earning her Master’s degree in International Development from Brandeis University, Amanda lived and worked across Central America — from the highlands of Guatemala to the rural farming communities of Nicaragua and Honduras. There, she collaborated with Indigenous Mayan partners on sustainable agriculture and education initiatives, and conducted her graduate thesis on monitoring and evaluation of rural farming programs. These years shaped her understanding of global development, cultural exchange, and the importance of travel that uplifts and respects the communities it touches.
In 2013, Amanda founded Living Threads Co., a social enterprise dedicated to preserving artisan traditions and providing sustainable livelihoods for women weavers across Latin America. Living Threads grew into a collective of over 300 artisans, connecting heritage craftsmanship with conscious consumers worldwide — a project that continues to inspire her belief that travel, when done well, can be a force for good.
For the past decade, Amanda has worked in luxury donor and impact travel, partnering with some of the world’s leading environmental conservation organizations to design experiences that inspire giving and deepen engagement. Her work has taken her from the rainforests of Belize and the coral reefs of the Pacific to the savannas of Africa and the Andes of South America — crafting programs that connect donors, scientists, and local partners to the heart of conservation work.
Today, through Range Collective, Amanda brings this experience together — helping purpose-driven organizations and individuals create journeys that are both deeply personal and profoundly impactful.
Amanda Popp
“I’ve seen how travel can change people and move missions forward - sparking understanding, inspiring generosity, and creating genuine connection. From years spent living and working alongside communities in The Gambia, Honduras, Guatemala, and Nicaragua to designing donor journeys that bring people face to face with conservation work and the individuals driving it, I’ve witnessed the profound impact meaningful travel can have when done with care and purpose.
Today, as a founder, partner, wife, and mom of two adventurous young kids, I’m passionate about helping others experience that same sense of wonder and connection - whether that means meeting artisans in the highlands of Guatemala, exploring coral restoration projects in Belize, or simply seeing how our everyday choices shape the world around us. Incredible organizations and companies are working tirelessly to make a positive impact; more people should have the chance to see and feel that work. When they do, the reach of that mission grows exponentially.
Because when travel is done with intention, it doesn’t just take us places—it changes us.”
