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Neighbor to Neighbor is led by a board of directors comprised of passionate volunteers who are dedicated to the mission and guide agency vision, policies, and programs.
Why does home matter to our board members?
President Chris Lidstone, Wenck
Home is more than a place to stay. It is where your family grows up. It is where you can rest your head and it remains a place of pride. A stable and safe home not only keeps a family together, but more importantly serves as their family base from which they can blossom and contribute. A stable home is the fundamental footing that will support an individual or a family and lead to success and further development.
Vice President Pete Iengo, City of Fort Collins Utilities
Home to me is a safe place where my family can grow together. This is important for my young daughter, who is learning what it means to be a respectful human being, as much as it is for my wife and I, who work hard to support each other through life’s obstacles on a regular basis. Furthermore, our home is so often an energizing, eventful, and hilarious place! We love sharing it with our friends and family, and we feel so fortunate for the physical and emotional shelter it provides.
Treasurer Ryan Cassidy, ANB Bank
Home is important because it is the foundation through which many other branches of life are built from. It’s hard to thrive on any front without having a firm foundation.
Secretary Imran Bhimani, LC Real Estate Group
Home is a safe place to relax from the pressures of the world; a space to give and receive love. Home is where I can be 100% authentic; I can laugh, cry and be at peace.
Sue Ballou, Partnership for Age-Friendly Communities
Home makes the world full of possibilities. Home is where I can create a life for my family and me, where I can take on the world, and retreat when I need a break from the pressures of life. It’s an anchor and launch pad.
Nina Bodenhamer, City of Fort Collins
Home can be many different things to different people: refuge, peace, routine, safety, joyfulness, permanence. But the absence of a home is a universal vulnerability. To me, this gap is what defines my home: gratitude for our good fortune, and compassion for those without a doorway of their own to cross each and every day.
Marla Empfield, Genesis Fitness
Home to me, means stability, independence, freedom and safety. When I am at home I’m safe from the outside world.
Amanda Huston, Coan, Payton & Payne, LLC
Home is rootedness; home is the wellspring of warm memories and relationships from which we fashion ourselves; and home is the springboard from which we launch confidently out into the world. Home is our foundation.
Kassie Levario
Home to me, is me feeling like I don’t have to perform anymore. I can clean up, relax, and not have the worries of the world on my shoulders. I can look at my kid and breathe in the comfort home provides and fill it with lots of love.
Brian Mannlein, Cushman & Wakefield
Stability, comfort, security, solace. Home provides us the ability to plan for the future and focus on what matters most. Home is our foundation.
Rev. Joseph Moore, Presbyterian Foundation
Home is a safe and stable place. A real place where our need for connection is met. Home is a place where there can be space to dream of endless possibility.
Sari Oberndorf, Larimer County
‘Home is where the cat is!’ But seriously, home is everything. Having grown up in a broken home and a survivor of childhood trauma, home is my safe space, and my place to recharge my spirit so I can rise each day and give it back to those in need. Home is where I get to take off my “work hat,” focus on me, and foster my creative self.
Dawn Paepke, Community Relations Consultant at Kaiser Permanente
Amy Pezzani, Food Bank for Larimer County
Mark Teplitsky, Krische Construction
Home is where our family thrives. The peace our home provides sets us up for success in everything else we do.
Our Loveland Advisory Board
A diverse group of community members and professionals living and working in Loveland, our advisory board is comprised of volunteer ambassadors focused on supporting N2N’s Loveland operations and community outreach.
Lindsay Gilliland
Business Development, First American Title
board member since 2019
Trish Warner
Community Volunteer
board member since 2019
Imran Bhimani
Broker Associate, LC Real Estate Group
board member since 2019
Bea Gonzalez
VP of Community Lending & Diverse Markets Business Development Officer, BMO
board member since 2019
Sam Carlson
Loan Officer, Academy Mortgage
board member since 2020
Jill Grizzle
Financial Advisor, First Western Trust
board member since 2021
Amy Ackerman
Realtor, Coldwell Banker
board member since 2023
Steven Depperschmidt
Loan Officer, Fairway Independent Mortgage
board member since 2023
Manichanh Spence
Branch Manager, AVP, BMO
board member since 2023
Kami Feldman
Loan Officer, BitOSunshine Mortgage
board member since 2024
Krista Roberts
Loan Originator, FMS Bank
board member since 2024