Wildlife and nature

Animal shelters and rescues

Theater and dance

Rivers, parks and trails

Hunger and food

Schools and learning

Housing and homelessness

Community health

Mental health

Mentoring and foster care

Legal help and rights

Jobs and money help

Atlanta

The Triangle

Everywhere

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Royal Animal Refuge

Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta

Georgia Advancing Communities Together

Atlanta Writers Club

Cobb Collaborative

Bosleys Place

Jewish Fertility Foundation

Murphy Cline-Snider

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At Collective, we're building a platform to help nonprofits tell their stories better—but the people behind our product have stories of their own. This series introduces you to our team members whose experiences motivate us to build in the right way.

Favorite nonprofit storytelling moment: One nonprofit storytelling moment that really sticks with me is Book Harvest’s Block Party. It’s a joyful celebration of reading and literacy, and what I love most is how they pull the community together year after year- bringing people of all ages into a festive space centered around literacy. It’s proof that community events can be both fun and powerful catalysts for change.

[Side note: If you haven’t heard of Book Harvest, check them out! They are amazing at creating adaptive ways to show up in community, from their school-based efforts that provide scaffolded literacy to their book abundance initiatives.]

Why I’m working with Collective: My decision to join Collective came from a place of wanting to do more. In my previous role at Duke, I had the privilege of working with many incredible organizations, but I often felt limited by resources- even with Duke’s support. From my days of running an AmeriCorps program within a small nonprofit, and collaborating with team members on other projects, I knew that nonprofits know their needs best; it just took a few tough conversations with nonprofit professionals regarding grants and lack of resources from my end to remind me of this. This was a key point of the community engagement trainings I facilitated with students, yet I wasn’t able to answer the call when they let me know what was needed— different ways to tell their stories to funders who care about their mission.

When Malik asked me to join Collective, it felt like this was truly what I (we) had been looking for all along. I love that Collective can shift the power back to nonprofits, at no cost to them. That’s why I’m here: to help amplify their voices and give them access to the support they deserve.

A little about me: I have a background in educational program management, having worked with the Durham Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, organized courses for government officials, and taught high school English. I’ve done a little bit of everything, so if you’re from the Triangle or Charlotte, NC and think you might recognize me, you could definitely be correct! I have a wonderful fiancé and a precious son (our dog Murphy).

I’m excited to be part of this movement— a space where nonprofit stories can be shared, resources can be spread further, and communities are empowered to do their best work.

Why Sarah is Building Collective

At Collective, we're building a platform to help nonprofits tell their stories better. The people behind it have stories of their own. This series introduces you to our team members whose experiences motivate us to build in the right way.

Favorite nonprofit storytelling moment:

My most impactful nonprofit moment was when I worked in Lesvos, Greece at Gateways2Life, serving refugees from the Middle East and north Africa by running a women’s and children's shelter. It was arguably the hardest thing I’ve done because the mental fortitude required to help refugees who were aggressive and distrusted any help was difficult. Their attitude was warranted because these refugees spend their days in an extremely crammed and stressful environments all while simply trying to survive for years after escaping the turmoil in their home countries.

One of the most important things to me was to figure out how to provide some semblance of childhood experiences for the children that came through. During my free time I would try teaching them math, playing games, or finding a show the kids could watch. At the end of the day, earning the trust from the refugees required the deepest levels of empathy and consistency, revealing that small consistent gestures can be just as effective as robust methods of support.

This experience inspired me to pursue a career related to social impact and reminds me that the world is always in need of mission-driven support.

Why I’m building Collective:

I believe that mission-driven organizations have amazing stories and deserve to be financially stable. Collective has the unique opportunity to raise the level of support for all mission-driven organizations, and as someone who has benefitted from volunteering with many organizations from a young age, I want to be a part of something that is bigger to support those who desire the world to be a better place.

A little about me:

I come from the delightful Houston suburb of Sugar Land, moved to Durham for my MBA at Duke, and now reside in Chicago, where I’m thoroughly enjoying the ability to be outside in the summer compared to NC and TX (we’ll see about winter).

I’m passionate about education, basketball (Go Spurs Go and Let's Go Duke), and my cat Hudson, who is still trying to figure out how to pay his portion of rent.

Why Daniel is building Collective

At Collective, we're building a platform to help nonprofits tell their stories better—but the people behind it have stories of their own. This series introduces you to our team members whose experiences motivate us to build in the right way.

Favorite nonprofit storytelling moment:

My most meaningful nonprofit storytelling moment comes from my family's involvement with the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF). When my mother was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, we discovered not just a devastating cancer, but an organization dedicated to changing the trajectory of this disease.

After my mother passed away in 2017, sharing her story became both a way to honor her memory and contribute to MMRF's mission. What made this particularly powerful was witnessing how the foundation amplified individual stories like hers—transforming personal loss into collective hope and action. MMRF understood that behind every research dollar and clinical trial were real people fighting for more time with their families. Seeing her journey become part of a larger narrative about resilience, scientific progress, and the urgent need for new treatments showed me storytelling's true power in nonprofit work.



Why I’m building Collective:

My background is in tech investing — in that role, I heard and studied countless examples of digital platforms being built to better serve the needs of different sectors, but I had not seen a platform effectively helping mission-driven organizations build deeper connections with their audiences.

Collective started with a hunch: it seemed like there was a clear disconnect between how “good” people’s intentions are with their amount of involvement in the nonprofit sector. It was clear to me that the tools that the sector has to use for marketing their true strengths were not hitting the mark, so I got to work.

A little about me:

I’m originally from Atlanta, Georgia and am a lifelong suffering diehard Atlanta sports fan! No jokes about the 2017 Super Bowl are ever tolerated in my presence 🙂

I was once a competitive track athlete, running middle distance events in college. When I’m not building Collective, you can find me around Atlanta with my two dogs (Chance and Sage) or hopping around coffee shops in the Research Triangle!

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