Our Board

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.