Alex Grillo
Connecting San Diego shoppers with local growers and bringing fresh, seasonal produce closer to their communities. The Produce Table is the app that links shoppers to the growers behind their produce, from field to season.
An Impact program
The Impact Collective
Founders Supporting Founders
When one founder grows, another gets the opportunity to begin.
What it is
Grow yours. Help theirs begin.
The Impact Collective is Impact’s new program for founders and artists.
Members grow their businesses while helping the next generation of entrepreneurs begin theirs.
- Featured
on our website and social channels.
- Invited
into our community and events.
- Showcased
at our silent auctions, starting with the Impact Launch Gala on Saturday, November 14, 2026, at the Pendry San Diego.
For our members
What members receive
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Founder spotlight
Featured on we-impact.com and Instagram, with your story told well.
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A home in the Collective
Your business has its place right here, on this page, among the founders of the Collective.
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Community
Invitations to Impact events, gatherings and future auctions.
The next generation of entrepreneurs.
What guides us
Our values
Generosity
We believe generosity and business growth strengthen one another.
Fairness
The founders who give are honored as fully as the founders who receive.
Stewardship
Every gift is handled with care, and every resource is put to good use.
Community
Founders walk alongside one another, for the long run.
Service
We lead with love, and with what we can give to the next founder.
Our promise
The Impact Collective is as committed to the success of the founders who give as it is to the success of the founders who receive.
The Collective · November Spotlight
San Diego small business founders
Tory Robinson
Documenting the moments that matter and helping people and organizations bring their stories to life through film. Blacktivision has captured San Diego’s defining moments on film since 2016.
Kylie Cappellano
Kylie is a trauma-informed, Soma+IQ certified breathwork facilitator and a USD law graduate who guides founders and high-achievers to lead from a regulated nervous system. She built the Growth Guide app so the shift lasts long after a session ends.
Her gala package · The Growth Path
Three private breathwork sessions, three personalized Growth Guides, and support between sessions.
Cameron Martin
Creating memorable experiences and capturing the moments that bring people together. A three-time The Knot Best of Weddings winner and WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Award recipient, and the official photo booth partner of the Impact Launch Gala.
Rising Artist Spotlight
Meet the artists
Nadeen Ali
Creating original works in acrylic and resin, including the commissioned Impact Rising Leaders Series and Has Anyone Told You How Beautiful You Are?
Avry Mais
Blending illustration, poetry and storytelling to create work that invites people to feel, reflect and connect. Her debut collection, Whispers So Loud They Echo in Silence, pairs original illustration with poetry and short fiction.
More founders joining every month
The Collective is growing. New founders and artists are introduced here as they join.
The next generation
Meet the Rising Leaders
The finalists of Impact’s $50,000 Rising Leaders Scholarship. They pitched in San Diego on October 17, 2026, and the winner is named live at the Impact Launch Gala. The founders of the Collective help each of them begin.
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DeRonte Craig
Checkride Coach
Long Beach, CA
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Dr. Alec Freling
Wandr Health
Los Angeles, CA
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Velma Funebe
iBraid
Baltimore, MD
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Lorie Hardy
KinGuard
University City, MO
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Vincent Jacobbi
GoDoor
San Diego, CA
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Akua Osei-Nkwantabisa
Walkable
Edinburg, TX
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Frank Park
El Horno Chimi
La Jolla, CA
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Dr. Tamecca Rogers
CareerVibes
Tulsa, OK
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Paris Rollins
Picky Eaterz
Florissant, MO
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Colin Simmons
Anticipative
Los Angeles, CA
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Anton Smith
Arisa Global Solutions
Los Angeles, CA
Rooted in faith, open to every founder. Our faith informs how we serve, not whom we serve.
Founders and artists
Join the Collective
If you’re a founder or artist who’d like to be part of the Impact Collective, we’d love to hear from you.