Meet The Impact Collective

Rebecca Goldcrump

CEO, CO-FOUNDER
Rebecca has been on a journey from numbers to humans - from CPA to MBA to Social Impact Strategist and Entrepreneur to Integral Coach. She is passionate about using numbers to impact humans and bringing humanity to numbers. Too often, she has seen businesses and organizations focus on one or the other, or has seen those functions live separately and siloed within an organization. She knows there is another way, where purpose and human-centeredness drive the numbers, and vice versa.
She co-founded The Impact Collective to solve that problem. Through a mix of consulting and coaching, she helps organizations integrate doing good with how they do business, so their social impact drives their business success.

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Sarah Holdeman

COO, CO-FOUNDER
Sarah thinks about “growth” in everything she does, including how to grow mission-driven organizations’ impact. She believes that any business focused solely on the monetary bottom line is doomed to fail. After years in tech startups where profit and financial gain were put above all else, with impact and purpose as a nice afterthought, Sarah knew there was a better way.
As the Social Media and Marketing Chair (and incoming Vice Chair) of the B Local PDX board, she uses these skills to help grow and solidify the B Corp movement in the Pacific Northwest. Her experiences in industries ranging from food and beverage to technology startups allow her to bring a well rounded, innovative approach to projects in service of helping organizations reach their impact goals.

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How It Started

Sarah and Rebecca first met on a trip to Colombia in 2017, as part of their MBA program in Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship. They both knew they wanted to make a difference in the world, and they knew they wanted to do it through social entrepreneurship, but at the time they weren’t quite sure how. They went down their own paths for a few years after graduating from the program - learning lots, trying new things, but never quite feeling fulfilled.

Then came 2020 - we all know what happened then. Sarah and Rebecca leaned on what they knew best - helping and solving problems. They both signed up to volunteer by helping local businesses pivot during the worst of the pandemic. They realized 2 things - they really liked working together, and they still held those closely aligned values around social impact, the B Corp movement, social entrepreneurship, and wanting to change the way people were doing business.

So they started getting together and having conversations about what they could create together. They did what they did best - brainstormed and strategized. Fans of design thinking, they decided to start with the problem. And there was one they were particularly passionate about - throughout their careers they had worked for and with many mission-driven and purpose-led companies, companies with grand visions and inspiring stories. But when they took a peek inside, they found that sometimes it was all talk, or sometimes the “mission work” lived with just one person or team, or sometimes the impact took the form of a bunch of ad hoc programs here and there that felt disjointed. They wanted to solve that problem - to bring strategy to social impact.

They decided to use their collective knowledge as MBAs with experience in consulting, finance, sales, operations, start ups, nonprofits, and most importantly, social impact to help businesses integrate doing good into how they do business - so their social impact drives their business success. Because they knew a different way of doing business was possible. And they wanted to do it together, with the power of collective action.