Teresa Cline has always been heavily involved in working with
non-profits as a counselor, a board member and a fund raiser. With a
career in education, many opportunities were given to her to volunteer
in the non-profit sector. Teresa has served in various positions in her
career; she was a special education teacher, a middle school and a high
school counselor, a Drop-out Prevention Coordinator and the lead on the
school district's crisis management team. In 2000, she started an
organization, through local high schools, that raised money annually for
various non-profits such as Habitat for Humanity, the Make-a-Wish
Foundation, Hospice, Susan G. Komen Foundation and Safe Kids. Year after
year, the organization was able to increase their donations and were
extremely successful in raising money for Special Olympics and the
Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. In the three years before Teresa retired
from the school district, she implemented a system where a percentage of
the organization's efforts would benefit a global cause. In the summer
of 2018, Teresa was introduced to the Himalayan Stove Project, and
immediately knew she wanted to be involved. On November 3, 2018 she
chaired the first annual HSP fundraiser in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Teresa and her husband, Don, moved to Fort Collins from the Charlotte,
NC area, upon retiring, to be near their three grandchildren (and their
wonderful parents, of course).