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Dear Friend of Swifty, Welcome to our 2018-2019 Impact Report. It is our chance to say thank you to everyone who has supported the mission of the Swifty Foundation this past year and to let you know what we have been up to, thanks to your generosity! Our brother, Michael, donated his brain after his death so researchers can find better treatments. His choice to give his tissue has influenced everything Swifty has done to improve the lives of children diagnosed with brain cancer. In 2019, Swifty launched a national initiative called Gift from a Child. We are so proud of Gift from a Child because it is part of Michael’s legacy and the initiative has united families just like ours across the country and so becomes part of their children’s legacy. Most importantly, we know it is a game changer in empowering childhood brain cancer research. In these pages, you will read what we have accomplished together and what still needs to happen to get more tissue into research labs. What’s with the handstands? Glad you asked. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month and Give a Hand, Take a Stand is a campaign to raise awareness of the children who are living and dying with cancer as well as the families, medical professionals and friends who are caring for them. Read all about it on page 3. In these pages, Swifty shines its spotlight on some very special teachers and one very special doctor who you will want to meet. In addition, you can find our audited financials, the list of grants we made and our favorite page…our honor roll of donors who make it all possible. Thank you for continuing to help us work toward making our brother Michael’s dream of ending childhood brain cancer a reality! Ian and Bridget Gustafson Michael’s Brother & Twin Sister Michael, handstand champ Ian and Bridget Gustafson Bridget in California’s High Sierras

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Dear Friend of Swifty,

Welcome to our 2018-2019 Impact Report. It is our chance to say thank you to everyone who has supported the mission of the Swifty Foundation this past year and to let you know what we have been up to, thanks to your generosity!

Our brother, Michael, donated his brain after his death so researchers can find better treatments. His choice to give his tissue has influenced everything Swifty has done to improve the lives of children diagnosed with brain cancer. In 2019, Swifty launched a national initiative called Gift from a Child.

We are so proud of Gift from a Child because it is part of Michael’s legacy and the initiative has united families just like ours across the country and so becomes part of their children’s legacy. Most importantly, we know it is a game changer in empowering childhood brain cancer research. In these pages, you will read what we have accomplished together and what still needs to happen to get more tissue into research labs.

What’s with the handstands? Glad you asked. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month and Give a Hand, Take a Stand is a campaign to raise awareness of the children who are living and dying with cancer as well as the families, medical professionals and friends who are caring for them. Read all about it on page 3.

In these pages, Swifty shines its spotlight on some very special teachers and one very special doctor who you will want to meet. In addition, you can find our audited financials, the list of grants we made and our favorite page…our honor roll of donors who make it all possible.

Thank you for continuing to help us work toward making our brother Michael’s dream of ending childhood brain cancer a reality!

Ian and Bridget GustafsonMichael’s Brother & Twin Sister

Michael, handstand champ

Ian and Bridget Gustafson

Bridget in California’s High Sierras

Do you believe in destiny? Well, we do and Angela Waanders is the proof. Michael had a Master Plan and Dr. Waanders had a dream of accelerating research through autopsy tissue donation. In 2016, those forces came together and now there is Gift from a Child. Angela’s passion, dedication, broad vision, caring and her super smarts have been invaluable in shaping Swifty’s post-mortem tissue efforts. It is so true to say, we could never have done it without her!

Swifty wants to spotlight and THANK four teachers who have inspired their students and school community to care

for others and stand up for children with cancer.

For three years now, Jeni Rogers and Ann Brotherly-Lamb have helped their fifth-grade

student council host Coin Wars for Swifty. The student council generates excitement to get every classroom

of the grade school involved. Students from each class bring in loose change or other money they have collected from

forgoing a treat or asking for donations. The winning classrooms get to celebrate with ice cream and pizza. Students raise thousands of dollars each year and it is the Swifty Foundation who is the real winner! We are humbled each year by their generosity.

Matt Horan and Creighton Getting inspire their students and school community to go the extra mile and to do it with a smile. For four years now, November means no shaving for the male teachers at their junior high. No Shave November is not only a time when beards grow, but facial hair is taken to an art form. The teachers shave their beards into creative designs and the students and faculty vote on the best “Mustache for Michael”. Each vote costs $1…vote early and often and for your favorite facial hair!

Give a Hand Take a StandIn August we launched our Give a Hand,Take a Stand campaign to shine a light on childhood cancer patients. Michael Gustafson was a handstand champ and they are a great metaphor for the cancer journey. Cancer turns our world upside down just like a handstand does. Both require courage, strength and perseverance. Participants are asked to either do a handstand or give a hand to someone who inspires them, then challenge five others to do the same. Look to FB, Twitter and Instagram for examples of people taking the challenge and learn more at www.giftfromachild.org.

SWIFTY SPOTLIGHT: Angela Waanders MD, MPH

Together Toward Hope

“Coin Wars” at Prairie Elementary School, Naperville, IL

No Shave November at Kennedy Junior High,

Lisle, IL

SWIFTY SPOTLIGHT: Teachers!

Family ForumFifteen families gathered at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in December to attend Swifty’s Family Forum meeting. Each of the families had lost a child to brain cancer and either donated their child’s brain to research…or wanted to but were unable. We want to thank our friends at Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation and KidsvCancer who helped in the planning.

We began by sharing stories and pictures of our children. We laughed and we cried remembering these beautiful children who were taken too soon. As we shared our donation experiences, hope and determination emerged. All were comforted knowing our children’s donations are helping find new treatments for children currently living with cancer. What a gift tissue donation is, not only for research but to each family as we try to heal from our profound loss.

Swifty learned much from the experience and wisdom of the families gathered and we revised our plans for Gift from a Child accordingly. The families have since joined us as advocates and partners in the work to empower research through autopsy donations.

Children who gave the ultimate gift, their post-mortem tissue to help children they will never meet

MICHAEL’S MASTER PLAN, a plan that began with his decision to donate his own tissue after he died, focused the Swifty Foundation on two goals for empowering childhood brain cancer research:

To create the structure for a family living anywhere in the U.S. to be able to donate their child’s brain tumor and tissue after death.

To be the catalyst for a cultural change, through education and advocacy, so autopsy donations become the rule rather than the exception, equipping researchers with the data to understand why brain cancer treatments are failing our children.

In order to accomplish these goals, we needed to build a movement and a message bigger than Swifty. Three years in the making (building the strategy, infrastructure, and relationships), Gift from a Child has been launched! GFAC is a Swifty led national initiative empowering brain cancer research through post-mortem donation. It is supported by families who lost children to brain cancer, foundations, researchers and medical professionals. Find us at www.GiftfromaChild.org.

Watch these families tell their stories at www.GiftfromaChild.org/

family stories.

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Transparency Creates AccountabilityWhen a child’s tissue is donated for research, families want the researcher to be the very best steward of the gift received. In addition to being able to process a whole brain donation, each Center of Excellence is committed to sharing the gift of the child’s tissue broadly across the research community. We are developing metrics that will be used to publicly report the outcome of each and every donation received by the centers on the GFAC website. The metrics included: labs where the tissue was sent, whether cell lines/mouse models were created, and studies/publications the tissue advanced.

Goal#1Making it possible for families to donate anywhere in the country.

Centers of Excellence The cornerstone of GFAC are its Centers of Excellence. They are regional sites for the coordination, processing and sharing of donated autopsy tissue. Swifty funds tissue navigators who work collaboratively across institutional lines to help ensure any family can choose to donate.

In 2018, Swifty’s annual appeal (California Here We Come) raised the dollars necessary to fund a tissue navigator at Stanford AND thanks to your generous response we were also able to fund a tissue navigator at Children’s National in Washington, DC. as well. We are ahead of schedule…there are now four Centers of Excellence in the GFAC network! Meet the Swifty supported navigators at each site:

CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA:

Kella Trans-Du

CHILDREN’S NATIONAL, WASHINGTON DC:

Augustine Richard Eze

LURIE CHILDREN’S, CHICAGO:

Melissa Williams

STANFORD HEALTHCARE, PALO ALTO:

Madeleine Lee

“ I recognized the importance of the donations

and how impactful they were for the families. Passion

drove my desire to be in a more forward-facing role.”

Kella Trans-Du Children’s Hospital o Philadelphia

“It was a great way to be able

to help families at the most

difficult time in their lives and

also to be able to advance research to help improve

treatments and find cures for these devastating brain cancers.”

Melissa Williams Lurie Children’s Chicago

Family CompanioningNo family should be alone as they decide whether donation is the right choice for their child. Driven by the wish that we’d had someone to turn to when we were losing our children, some of the families who gathered at our Family Forum chose to do something about it. Our friends at Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation, Live Like John, Unravel Pediatric Cancer and Victoria Haggenmiller helped us develop a Family Companioning program for GFAC. Trained parents of children who donated tissue after death, are matched with families whose children are at the end of their life. It is an opportunity for a family contemplating donation to ask the most delicate questions and confide in someone who has walked the path before.

Thanks to decades of education and advocacy, most of us register to be organ donors because we know if something tragic should happen to us, something positive can be brought to the life of another by donating our organs. This wisdom applies even for families who confront the unspeakable tragedy of losing a child to brain cancer.

Swifty is working with GFAC families and partner foundations to begin to educate the childhood cancer community about the importance of empowering research through autopsy donation. In March of 2019, www.GiftfromaChild.org and social media channels were launched, and printed materials created. GFAC volunteers are meeting with hospitals throughout the country to let doctors, social workers

and hospice nurses know that this option is available to families whose child’s life ends too soon.

Goal#2Changing the culture so autopsy donation is no longer the exception but becomes the common practice.

Swifty on the Road… promoting Gift from a Child

• Assoc. of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers Conference,

Phoenix | April 2019 – Exhibitor

• PBTF’s Translating Discoveries to Cure the Kids Conference,

San Francisco | May 2019 – Presenter

• National Cancer Institute’s Enhancing Biobanking for Childhood Cancer,

Rockville, MD | May 2019 – Presenter

• Curefest for Childhood Cancer, Washington DC | September

2019 – Bronze Sponsor “Walking with a companion in the dark is better than walking alone in the light” Helen Keller

THANKS to Gift from a Child’s fellow funders!

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Summary of Swifty

2018 Grant Making

Stanford Healthcare, Monje LabTissue Navigator

Total 2018 Grant Making

CHOP Foundation (4Pennies Campaign)Open DIPG Project

Co-funded with Alex’s Lemonade Stand FoundationPediatric Oncology Student Training Grant, Medulloblastoma Innovation Grant, Medulloblastoma focus

Kids v CancerGeneral Operating

$300,000

$460,000

$75,000 $30,000 $25,000

Hospital for Sick KidsMedulloblastoma Conference $20,000 Children’s Brain Tumor Tissue ConsortiumScientific Advisory Fund$10,000

Swifty By The Numbers2018

Statement of Financial PositionDecember 31, 2018

ASSETSCash & Equivalents $ 377,872Investments $ 1,137,639Accounts Receivables $ 88

TOTAL ASSETS $ 1,515,599

LIABILITIES & NET ASSETSLiabilities

Grants Due $ 350,000Accrued Expenses $ 12,755

TOTAL LIABILITIES $ 362,755

Net AssetsUnrestricted $ 837,534Board Restricted (Admin Expenses) $ 315,310*

Total Net Assets $ 1,152,844 TOTAL LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS $ 1,515,599

* The founders of the Foundation made a contribution to the Organization in 2013 to be restricted for use in paying any and all administration expenses. As part of the Foundation’s annual review of designated assets, the Board has restricted $315,310 as of December, 2018. Administrative and fundraising costs of $46,655 were paid and released during the year ended 2018.

** In 2018, Swifty received contributions of $464,599 and issued $460,000 in grant awards.

Statement of ActivitiesFor year ended December 31, 2018

REVENUES & OTHER SUPPORTContributions $ 464,599Unrealized Loss $ (120,543)Realized Gain $ 25,404Dividends & Interest $ 28,099Investment Fees $ (6,049)

TOTAL PUBLIC SUPPORT & REVENUE $ 391,510

EXPENSESProgram:

Grants $ 460,000Advocacy $ 49,585Website $ 6,494Equipment & Misc. $ 2,815

Administrative $ 39,800*Fundraising $ 6,855*TOTAL EXPENSES $ 589,797

Change in net assets $ (174,039)Net assets, beginning of year $ 1,326,883Net assets, end of year $ 1,152,844

To receive a copy of Swifty Foundation’s 2018 independent audit report conducted by Desmond & Ahern Ltd., please contact [email protected]

N OK UA YHTSwifty Thanks Our 2018 Donors

Kevin AbeAlison & Pete AbeDiana AbramicKaren AdamsonJennifer AdelhardtChris AlagnaJean AlbaneseDana AlbertsonJane AlbrechtDana & Thomas AldrichChristopher AleagaCaitlin AllsworthSusan AltmannPam & Ron AmatoTony AnayaHoward AndersonJulia & John AndreoniLaurel AnstineSuzann & Jean AntoineSonny ArcillaSusan ArnoldJustin AzzaroNancy & Doug AzzaroMary BabiezPatty Bachinski-KochAdvije BaftiriLynn BakerPamela BakerBarry BaldwinBill BalintAmy Balis-ReifenstuhlCamille BallaKathy BarleltRosemary BarrAnn BartaRuth & Christopher BartonOlivia BaumJean BaxCathy & Jeff BayerMichelle BellaAmy BenakMary & Denis BerryHeidi BerryMarla & Mark BiesiadaKelly BillingtonScott BillishEmily BishopMark BittnerNancy & John BjergaEric BjergaCaitlin BlanchardDavid BlocherLaura & Tom BloodgoodKris & Dan BlouinCindy & John BlumbergDave BoburkaOlga & Jim BondMarcia & Ed BonDurantRaktim BorpatragohainChristina & Walter BorstHang BowerKatie BoyntonKathy BradleyCindy & Brian BradtkeSherry BrandysMatthew BranerCathy & Dave BranerMichelle & Alex BrattonJamiela BraxtonLogan BrensdalCJ BridgesJulia & Bruce BrongeGail BrooksStacey BuckKaren & William BudicinPatty & Kyle BuikemaSusan & Ricky BullockSuzanne BuntrockGloria & Ed BurjekBarbara & David BurkhardtTaylor ButtonGrady ByrnesRenata & Mieczyslaw BzdykRosanne & Robert Cadetto-TaylorKathy & Dan CahilllArely Calderon

Karrie CampDonald CampPatrice & Kevin CampbellCathy & James CaneffAmie & Ben Valore-CaplanGrace CarballoPat & Steve CarlsonKelly & Matt CarlstromBunce CarriePete CarrollStacy & Pete CarrollDee CarrollShannon CarrollLori & Brian CarrollMaeve ChadraJulie & Todd ChesnutMaryann & Thomas CiccarelliPeter ClarkShelly & Joe ClaytonBernie CobbEileen O’Shea & Marybeth ColemanCarena ConstantarasCrystal Contreras-PradoLinda & John ConwayMaureen CookChris CorbettKristin & Bill CordesKira CouchDan CouchLauryn & Jeff CouchDeborah & Mark CouchKathy CouchLauri & Dave CovasAllyson CrockettBarb CrockettCheri & Jim CrockettMary & Doug CrockettMargaret CrottyJackie & Craig CunninghamSam CurtisLinda & Tom CusackBarb & Rich CzaplewskiRosa Lea DanielsonAnn DavalosJudith DeanTracy DeCookSagar DeoHannah DeschKate DeVriesDave & Julie DevriesAna Rosa & Rafael DiazChar & Bob DillonDave DoddsKathryn DonohoeSuzanne DoonanMerissa DoranNick DoranPeter DorrmannGinny DoyleJeff DrenthSuzanne & Patrick DriscollShannon DuncanJennifer Dunham ProvostBryce DunlapColette DuPontTammy & Bob DuranteLaurie EganCarol & Rick EcksteinMadison EdwardsJennifer & Mike EllbergReem ElshafeiAllison EmswillerAmy EprightTracy EraciCarol EspositoNancy & Dick EulerMr. & Mrs. EvangelidesKristen & Mike EvansBonnie & Bill FacinelliMiriam FaderSal FazioJennifer FerroRon FisherMeghan FlannerySarah FlemingBrian Fonte

Kathy FordJudy ForzleyDorothy & Jim FoxDana & Jerry FoxParker FoxJonathan FrankoJean FraunhoferElizabeth & Russell FreesVicki & Gary FriedmanJudy & Bob FrunkErin FultsColin GallagherFrancisca GarciaJoseph GarciaAna GarciaAlexandra GarganoCheri & Frank GentileSuzanne GibsonBarbara GildenSarah GilfillanMichael GilmartinBrian GilmartinLaura & Chris GilmartinPatty GiovannettiColin GoebelDonna & Jeff GoldenJonathan & Marie GoldfordBruce GoldfordLaura & JerryGolebiewskiLinda GolubMartin GoodlettDiane GoshornSr. Madelyn GouldKetti GraefenhainJudy GrafMary Jo GrafGina GrahamHeather & Douglas GreeneSuzanne & Michael GreeneSandy & Mike GregoAnne GrossKathy & John GuarinoKaren & Tim GuerraGina GugliottaRohit GuptaBridget GustafsonIan GustafsonPatti & Al GustafsonClaire HaasMarissa HaberlachJeanette & Mark HackerAmanda & Richard HaddockNaasir HaleemEileen & Jim HallDiane & Sheldon HalpernPatricia HamillLisa & David HammanKara HammelrathLilly HanslikLaurie HargroveAmanda & Larry HartleyAshlee & David HartsteinKimberly HartsteinMarcy & Marc HartsteinNancy & John HartungPatty HarveyCindy & Bill HassettFrances HattauerTheresa & Mike HawleyMary Jo & Steve HazardColette & John HazardZhenhao HeJonathan HeitzMelissa & Russell HeitzPat HenkePaulette HicksDavid HoagLauren HoelLeslie HoffmanColleen & David HogaboomSuzanne & Michael HogartyBarb & Tom HolzerKaty HolzerJames HolzerCaitlin HolzerJean & Nick Hoyle

Kathy & Chris HubbardPatti Hubly VarsolonaReginald HuerinaAmanda HumphrevilleTom HurleyHamza HussainJonas IglesiasGail & Stephen IovinelliMelanie JacksonSue JacobiLaurie & Cotty JacobiAmy JacobsJon JacobsJillian JacobsonMary JaegerVictoria & Heinrich JaegerAlan JagielloBeth & Tom JanusHannah JanvrinYvonne & Kurt JanvrinKate JarosEllen & Gregg JechJim JennessShannon JenningsAlice JinMary JohnsonAlli JohnsonRobyn & Craig JohnsonJenu JokuttyNorman JonesAudrey JurekPaula JurlowHyun & Luke KahngAmy & Joseph KainAnn KamenjarinKatie Kamp-BoysenTerry & Ray KarosJulia KatzGretchen KeaneKay KearnsMichael KeenanPatricia & Vincent KeenanKaren & Chuck KeenleyCaitlin KennedyTerry & John KerrManca KersmanecRobert & Susan KesslerRay KinneyDebi KloeblenJulie & Tad KnightBeth KnobbeLainey KorsanAlice KraepelAnna KraftsonNancy & Mike KrejciGail & James KremaElizabeth & Derek KrukAngela & Joel KuchcikCourtney KulcakSallesh KumarSophia & Eric KunathDolores Lago-GonzalezBonnie LandauMelissa & William LangleyErin Larson ZardsBrooke LaurenLaurie EganConnie & David LaVoyBrooke LawlerPeter LawrenceJosephine LentinoSharon & Jim LentinoArnold LewisPeggy & Scott LeydenJulie LiberioCarrie LiedtkeTammy LinderMargaret LittlePaula & Walter LoagueJulie & Wally LomaxJodi & Jeff LongJose Lopez-PargaAllyson LoughKathryn LoveBob LubicKristy & Paul LucasJoan Lyons

Nikki LyonsMegan & Scott MabreyJohn MaherKathleen Maher KennyGerri MahoneyJennifer & Brian MaksaDanny MalekElaine ManettiSusan & Jim MarseilleJosie MartinezCarla MascolaVincent MassarelloEleanor MaternLaurie & Robert MatlinJeannie MatulaBev & Frank MayerHank MazurekLinda Mazursky LinkSheila McAnanlyPeggy McCarthyBrigit McDonnellLaura & John McDonnellKatie McdonnellSarah McGeeKristen & Riley McGIrkTeresa & Mike McGrathKathleen & Tom McGrathDavid McHughJanelle & David McHughHailey McHughAmy & Jerry McKeownPatti & Joe McKeskaDiane McKoneCarole & Robert McLeanMary Ann & James McLeanSusan & Marc McLeanGinny McLeanMoll McNicholasConnie McQueeneyKatrina & Alan MederLinda & Brian MeekLaura Jane Mellencamp-MurphyJames MelsaMatt MeniettiShawn MichaelMary & Ken MilesBob MillardCarolyn MillerRyan MillerJudith MillerMilliganDeb & Richard MitchlerJulie & Kenneth ModaffSusan MontgomeryEric MontgomeryMaryll MoonMatias MorenoJody & Randy MorrisKacie MorrisZachary MorrisJennifer & Robert MorrisseyKayla MoserMary MoserVickie MoserMorgan MulcahyVirginia MulhollandMelissa & Christopher MulvaneyNick MulvihillKim MurphyTim MurphyMary MurphyJonathan MurraySue & Thomas MurrayMichael MussonKatie MyczekKathleen & Dominic NakisTina & John NassosMarianne NavenKirsten & Sam NeffLynn & David NelsonMartine & Glenn NelsonJoan & Donald NoeThomas NolanJennifer & Shawn NolanJoan & Joe Noonan

Jennifer NorgaardElizabeth NormanMelissa NotoPeggy & Dennis NowickiJohn O’LearySue & Tom O’MalleyCaitlin O’RourkeStephen ObermanEllen ObermanLawrence ObermanRegina OfiaraRobyn & Dan OHalloranMary & Mark OliphantHannah OliverRyan OliviaAbby OlivieriJeanne Marie OlivieriKathy & Jerry OlsonMaria OrensteinMary OzgaNick ParkerChristine ParkerDrew PasmaElizabeth PatersonLynn & Mike PattonMary & Dick PattonPat PattonChristy & Steve PauliMaggie PerezAnny PerryCarole & Sid PetersonLinda & Bill PfeifferLisa Phares-JabesStephen PickettGeraldine PiorkowskiStephanie PoseyPatti & John PothRenee PrestonHelene PrinceJulia & Heri Pryce-SotoMoureen & Jim QuaidJason QuinnKaren & Mark QuinnHenry RaczkiewiczBJ RadekAbby RaderSheila & John RakeCindie & Kipp RammAllison ReardonKrista & Mike RechtorikRachel ReedJulie ReillyKenneth ReimerMichael RekruciakGretchen RenfroScott ReynoldsTyler RichardsonDarius RichardsonDeb & Pat RileyJessica RobertsJan & Don RodgersMeg & John RoetterLuisa Maria & Tom RogersTrish RooneyWendy & Kevin RosePeg RothMary & John RungerMelissa RutkowskiLinn & Bob RutkowskiMic & Mike RutkowskiNancy & Paul RutkowskiBarb & John RyanJim RyanCarmel RyanJoseph SalvittiDonna & Stephen SampMary Beth SanchezPhyllis SandersSherry SansoneBarbara & Roger SassenDebra SaturleyMargie SauberKristi & Jim SauterAndrew ScharmCheryl & Art SchlumpfFran & Marc SchneeLaura & Michael Schnee

Carole SchneeRick SchneeChris & Tom SchneiderLinda SchneiderBarb SchoffCole SchramPatti & Steve SchroederSue & John ScottKathleen & Greg ScribaRoss SeidmanGregory SelepRobin & Gus SemeriaCarol SepetaKathy ShankMegan & Steven ShebikRebecca ShippPhillip SholtsFern ShudnowMichelle & Ed ShurnaCarole ShuttsMeredith SiambekosMary Lou & Terry SidlowLaura SikorcinEric SimasDassi SklanKristen & Robert SmithJohn SmithLaura SnyderNick SolakAlex SolomonManeesh SomisettyJill Ann & Mark SouthernLisa SparagnaMichael SparoughMary Beth & Michael SpeerJoel SpenadelDeborah Spiezio-SiebersKristen & Jeffrey SpringerSarah StanicekLori & Chris StanicekLaurie StantonLara & Tod StantonTerry StarrettJennifer SteeleAmber & Rudy StefanskiMonica & Tom StepanofBridgett StephensonJanet StevensonLynn & Steve StewartTaylor StonerChristine, Pete & Evan StrakaCyd & Keith StrandHelen & Ron SuntkenCece SurinaDon SwanRose SzulakaJenny TankBarbara TaruscioLaura & Ned ThompsonRita ThompsonHolly ThorntonDeb & Todd TiefenbachLinda & Angelo TomaselloEleanore & Benjamin TombaughLisa & Paul TonsagerRocio TrejoLinn Ann TyrrellMarlene UstianCarrie Van ArsdellMiriam & Neil Van HeukelemNancy & Dave Van VolkenburgDennise & Ed VaughnBev VavraDeborah VecchioJane VerikTyler VincentAmy & Sam VisserAmy & Tony VolpeNicole & Gregory WaiteSean WakeMary WalkerWilliette WalkerMolly WallaceXiazhen WangJackie & Scott WebbCajsa Weber

Sonya WeekesDeborah & David WegererEllen & John WeinsteinLisa WeintraubAndrea & James WelchTrish & Dennis WenzelJames WhealanCarl WhiteAllison WhiteKim WieslerEllen WigginsJackie & John WilhelmSharon WilkinsonJason WilkinsonMaureen WilliamsBecky WilliamsFelice & Jerry WilliamsGreta & Michael WilliamsDeb WilsonSally & Paul WirtzJill & Steven WittwerGabby WolfFran & Cameron WolfeAlaina WooPatty WrightDavid WuWendy & Danny XiaoYufan YangPing & Lian YaoLisa YoungCindy & Mike YuanFarukh ZaripovPam ZaroslinskiDebbie & John Zink

Corporate Donors/ FoundationsBank of America Charitable FoundationDelta Tau DeltaEdward & Wanda Jordan Family FoundationExelon FoundationFontana Leadership Development, Inc.GHD Services, Inc Granite CorpHSBC Philanthropic ProgramsJanus & AssociatesKeynote ConceptsKJHSLife Lens & LoveMcKenna Claire FoundationNaperville Central High SchoolNaperville North High SchoolNetwork for GoodNick’s English HutPrairie Elementary SchoolSeven Bridges EyecareSMMPSyntrinsic Investment Counsel

Monthly Donors Linda ArrichKelly & Keith BrownSheila & Terry GallagherMary HendersonDave HollanderJackie & Blair JensenAl MitchellJeannine & Kevin PfauBen RyanKathy SherrillLaurie Stanton