Page 6 - Swifty Impact Report Sept 2023

Bridget moved to
JUNIOR BOARD: rural Louisiana as
Where Are They Now? an Americorp Vista
volunteer where she
As an exercise in good grief, we started Swifty with Michael. Creating spent three years at a
the junior board ensured we would still get time with Michael’s closest workforce development
organization. She
friends and family. We could continue to nurture those relationships while now works in the big
exposing the next generation to philanthropic work and hopefully its best city of Baton Rouge
on an ACT Team
practices. The junior board was the foundation of Swifty for the first six working to decrease
years until they did that thing all kids do… they grew up! But they made hospitalizations and
increase quality of life
quite an impact while we had them. BRIDGET GUSTAFSON for people with severe
Current Governing
Board Member mental illness.
You may remember in 2015, Swifty was named the Ronald McDonald
House Charities of Chicagoland Charity of the Year. With this honor came Ian met his fiancé,
a $50,000 grant award to Swifty and a year-long mentoring program for Morgan, when they
both were in Teach for
the junior board. They were coached in donor relations, event promotion, America working in
social media strategy and of course fundraising. Their hard work paid the MS Delta. After Ian
attended Georgetown
off; the Chicago Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Law School, they
awarded the junior board with its Youth in Philanthropy Award at a returned to MS and
Ian is now an attorney
luncheon held at the Chicago Hilton Hotel. at the non-profit law
firm, the Mississippi
We thought it would be fun to update you on where our junior board is now Center for Justice.
They live on the coast
and what they’re up to in the world. IAN GUSTAFSON in Ocean Springs.
Current Governing
Board Member

Bri lives in Chicago, Colin recently David lives in Des
IL surrounded married his high Moines, IA. In his
by her friends school sweetheart, 3rd year of physical
and family! She Maddie. They live therapy school,
graduated nursing in Bellevue, WA he’s making a
school in 2020. She with their golden positive impact
previously worked retriever, Goose. on his patient’s
at Edward Hospital Colin works as a lives by helping
and now currently software engineer them improve their
works for a home for Microsoft. This strength, mobility,
health care agency happy family of three independence and
assisting patients spend their free time autonomy.
and families. hiking the trails of
BRIANNA CARROLL COLIN HASSETT the great Northwest. DAVID MCHUGH

Justin is living in Kevin is in his senior Kira is in her final
Los Angeles, CA year in industrial year of medical
and working in the engineering at school and is
Risk Consulting Purdue University. currently applying
Practice at Grant An entrepreneur, to residency in
Thornton. In he started Windy pediatrics! She’s
his spare time, City Woodwinds, excited to continue
he volunteers a saxophone her journey toward
with Junior mouthpiece company becoming a pediatric
Achievement and providing value- oncologist and
the Regional Food driven and student- hopefully making
Bank. He also loves accessible products Michael’s dream
playing golf with in an industry known come true.
JUSTIN AZZARO friends. KEVIN BRANER for its high costs. KIRA COUCH
Current Governing
Board Member
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