Our Partners
Fresh Take Consulting, LLC is a woman-owned and operated business.
Our partners are skilled, creative, and tenacious. Whether on staff or as consultants, they have worked with nonprofits in just about every arena. Each of our partners understands the total development picture and specializes in areas that draw upon their strengths. They bring their best so that you can be your best.
DIANNE ALVES, OWNER
You might say that helping mission-driven organizations is Dianne Alves’ mission in life. Dianne has worked in development for more than 30 years, helping to grow both the revenue streams and the capacities of nonprofits throughout Oregon. She has worked for nonprofit organizations that affect change by protecting the environment, administering health care and health education, providing housing, support comprehensive mental health and social services to children and families and K-12 and higher education.
Dianne is a recognized expert in her field and is a frequent presenter for both nonprofit organizations and professional development associations. Her appearances include Willamette Valley Development Officers (WVDO), Nonprofit Association of Oregon (NAO) and Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP).
LISA A. BROWN, PARTNER
Energizing nonprofits to do their best work and motivating people to get involved in making a difference has been the focus of Lisa Brown’s 30+ year career in the nonprofit sector. Partnering with organizations of all shapes and sizes, Lisa has built development programs from the ground up, expanded organizational capacity, and shaped the public profile of nonprofits with a variety of missions and visions. A champion of communications-driven fundraising, Lisa knows that each organization has a unique and powerful story to share with a distinctive community of friends, supporters, and advocates.
Writing the next chapter in her own story, Lisa stepped away from full-time development and communications work in 2012 to specialize in areas where she can have the highest impact. Since that time she has partnered with nonprofits in all aspects of planning, coaching, and implementation, specializing in values-based communications, comprehensive fundraising strategies, and cohesive case development.
Brian Tibbetts, Associate
Grant Writing, Grants Research, Marketing & Communications Strategy
Brian works to guide nonprofits through transition and help them to grow their capacity. Over the last decade, Brian has partnered with organizations at every stage of growth to help them refine their voice and leverage their mission and vision toward successful funding of their long-term strategy and programming objectives. He has worked with a variety of nonprofit organizations affecting change by providing housing, protecting the environment, providing instruction and performance opportunities in the arts, and working to ensure that everyone has enough to eat. Brian understands how important and effective it is to tell the story of an organization in language that speaks to a variety of communities and audiences.
Brian stepped away from a successful career in marketing and communications to devote his energy to work that has the highest potential to make a positive impact in the world. He holds a master’s degree in writing and specializes in all aspects of communications-driven fundraising.
Lisa Palermo, Associate
Board Development, Fundraising, Leadership Support
Lisa has witnessed the best and worst of nonprofits, experiencing those highs and lows from both seats, as a nonprofit employee and as part of Board Leadership. Through this dual perspective she’s developed a passion for addressing three pain points in any nonprofit's success; Board Development, Fundraising, and Leadership Support, the latter being for both the Executive Director and the Board Chair. Lisa’s nonprofit experience spans environmental issues, supporting women and children, workforce development, families without housing and hospice.
If you’ve met her you’ve heard her ask this question: “If you owned your own business, would you let a rotating group of untrained volunteers make key financial and strategic decisions for your business?” That our country’s nonprofit structure is set up in exactly that manner drives her to help small to medium size organizations put practical solutions in place that will support long-term, sustainable effectiveness for their communities.