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 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.
Vice President 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 possibilities.
Treasurer Ryan Cassidy, First Western Trust
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 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.
Member-at-Large Chris Lidstone, Lidstone Inc.
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 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.
Member-at-Large Mark Teplitsky, Peak81 Construction Consulting
Home is where our family thrives. The peace our home provides sets us up for success in everything else we do.
Member-at-Large Nina Bodenhamer, Community Volunteer
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.
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.
Matthew Dozier, The Group Real Estate
Home is both safety and a sanctuary. It is a place where I can truly express all the orderliness and messiness that is all a part of who I am. It allows for rest, creativity, and working with my hands, which is both cathartic and rejuvenating. Home centers me.
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, Caregiver
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.
Dawn Paepke, Kaiser Permanente
Home – four little letters that mean so much. Everyone deserves to have a safe place to lay their head, to raise their family, to laugh and dance in the kitchen while cooking a meal, to dream, to plan, to be themselves in a safe space. Home to me is the basis of everything good in my life.
Amy Pezzani, Food Bank for Larimer County
I feel particularly sentimental about my home. To me, home is more than just a physical space; it’s a retreat where comfort, safety, and cherished memories converge. It’s where I raised my daughter. Home creates a sense of coziness unlike any other place. It’s where I unwind after a long day surrounded by the familiar. Home is where I find peace and can truly be myself.
