Impact Travel Portfolio
A gala dinner tells donors about your mission. A well-designed field trip puts them inside it.
The same is true for your team, your partners, and the purpose-led brands that share your values. The right trip at the right moment can deepen a key relationship, unlock a major investment, or turn someone from a passive supporter into your most passionate advocate. This portfolio shows how.
Range Collective Co. is an impact travel specialist founded by Amanda Popp — a practitioner with 17+ years of experience planning and executing high-stakes impact travel for conservation organizations, environmental foundations, mission-driven nonprofits, and purpose-led brands. The case studies in this portfolio were developed and led by Amanda throughout her career, and represent the depth of expertise she brings to every Range Collective engagement. From intimate principal gift cultivation journeys in Montana's backcountry to multi-departure stewardship programs for national conservation organizations — every journey is built around your organization's specific goals, key relationships, and mission priorities. Not a generic itinerary.
Where Governance Meets Wild: A Conservation Board Retreat on Canada's Pacific Coast
TNC · TOFINO, BRITISH COLOMBIA · 6 DAYS · JUNE
This major international conservation organization’s global board convened on Canada's wild Pacific Coast for a governance retreat embedded in one of the most extraordinary ecosystems on earth - the Emerald Edge, the world's largest intact coastal temperate rainforest, spanning 100 million acres across Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska.
Held in Tofino, a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve, the program wove board governance meetings seamlessly with conservation field immersion. Board members experienced private bear-watching excursions on the open Pacific, an intimate dinner with Assembly of First Nations (AFN) leadership, and expert-guided exploration of TNC's Emerald Edge conservation strategy. Members who joined the optional two-night extension deepened their engagement with Hesquiaht, Ahousaht, and Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation partners — hiking the Wild Side Trail on Flores Island, visiting the Naa'waya'sum Coastal Indigenous Gardens, and exploring the intertidal zone by zodiac alongside humpback whale sightings.
HIGHLIGHTS
Seamless integration of board governance meetings with world-class conservation field programming
Private access to First Nations-led conservation sites and deep Indigenous community partnerships
Optional 2-night cultural extension with Hesquiaht, Ahousaht, and Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation partners
Full-service logistics management in a remote, multi-modal destination — complex travel made seamless
IMPACT
Board members returned with a visceral, first-person understanding of TNC's Emerald Edge strategy and deepened relationships with First Nations conservation partners — translating immersive field experience into stronger philanthropic commitment and board advocacy.
Board Trip + Optional Extension
Principal Gift Cultivation · Donor Departure
At the Edge of the Prairie and the Peaks: A Principal Gift Journey on Montana's Rocky Mountain Front
Rocky Mountain Front, Montana · 6 Days
Montana's Rocky Mountain Front is one of the most ecologically significant landscapes in North America — the dramatic meeting point of the Great Plains and the Rockies, grizzly bear country, and part of the larger Crown of the Continent ecosystem. Steeped in Blackfeet cultural heritage, it is both a working conservation landscape and one of the most viscerally powerful places a donor can experience.
A small group of a conservation organization's most significant donors traveled to this remote landscape for an intimate, all-inclusive principal gift experience. Staying on private conservation land, guests moved through the backcountry by foot and horseback, engaged with the organization's on-the-ground conservation work, and heard directly from field staff each evening. Amanda Popp served as on-the-ground trip leader, embedded as an extension of the development team throughout.
HIGHLIGHTS
Private access to active conservation land — guests sleep and travel inside the organization's actual work
Expert conservation programming delivered by the organization's own field scientists each evening
Backcountry hiking, horseback riding, wildlife viewing, and dawn birding in grizzly bear country
Full-service, all-inclusive experience in a remote, off-grid setting — complex logistics managed seamlessly
Embedded trip leader serving as an extension of the development team throughout
IMPACT
By placing donors inside the conservation work — on the land, among the scientists, with no separation between the mission and the experience — this journey created the conditions for deepened philanthropic relationships and principal gift conversations.
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