Tere has been providing philanthropic services to Vermont and Northern New England nonprofits for over 23 years in support of education, health care, public broadcasting and youth and family services. Tere thrives with clients when their vision and our campaign expertise transform their organization to realize its truest potential.

Tere has been consulting for most of her fundraising career and supervising campaigns, leading teams, and organizing departments for the rest. Her deepest expertise is in campaign strategy, planning, and execution. Inherent in that work are her skills in understanding donor motivations, transformative campaigns, major gifts training, volunteer management, program development, assessments, and executive coaching.

Tere served in senior leadership positions locally at Champlain College and VPR and has partnered as lead development consultant for dozens of clients throughout Vermont and New England. After graduate school, Tere spent 7 years in higher education as an adjunct professor teaching writing and various literature classes. Tere currently serves on the board of the Piney Woods School in Mississippi and has served as Board chair and in various board, conference, and speaking roles for AFP-NNE.

Thanks to a family camp in South Starksboro, Tere grew up in the hills of Vermont hiking, skiing, winter backpacking, and fishing with her dad and has called Vermont home since 1984. In every season, Tere can be found with her daughter Skyler and dog Cooper still roaming the woods in boots, skis, or snowshoes. Former hobbies include skydiving, flying, and running half-marathons.

Rick has served nonprofits and policy makers for nearly 30 years through leadership and consulting roles.

Rick focuses on building lasting, productive relationships on behalf of organizations doing good in the community. At the Greater Burlington YMCA, Rick led the nearly $20 million fundraising campaign to build a long-delayed new Y. At the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, Rick led the team that raised more than $99 million in a comprehensive campaign – on a goal of $60 million.

Having started his career as a college writing instructor, Rick recently returned to the classroom to teach Grant Writing at Champlain College – where he now supports the board as Secretary of the Corporation. His board service includes Community Health Centers of Burlington, the Vermont Health Foundation, Howard Center, Catamount Outdoor Family Center, and The Parks Foundation of Burlington, as well as leadership committees of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Association of American Medical Colleges. A graduate of the Snelling Center for Leadership, Rick holds a master’s degree in writing from the University of Missouri – Kansas City and bachelor’s degrees in journalism and English from Park University.

A Vermont resident since the 1980s, Rick lives in Charlotte with his wife, Andrea Grayson.

Lisa's design experience spans 32 years, three cities (Boston, San Diego and Burlington) and myriad mediums.

In 1997, she established liquid studio, which serves organizations engaged in youth and family services, forestry, health care, public broadcasting, higher education and consumer products. Her primary focus is print and digital design with a particular passion for book design, but she has also completed several large-scale interior design projects.

Lisa brings a keen ear and an instinctual approach to visual problem-solving that allow her to distill a client's multi-layered message into successful, accessible communication tools.

Lisa is a lifelong Vermonter with the exception of art school in Boston and 3 years in San Diego to further her education in design and the art of surfing. She lives on the lake in North Hero with her husband, Marc, and their 2 rescue dogs Wile.E. and Kermit.