We want to thank so many people in Chicago, NY, NJ, Philadephia and in the Netherlands for taking on this cause on behalf of JasperAgainstBatten. Below, we want to specifically acknowledge some of the people and institutions that have helped us a great deal. And to those of you we have not listed on this page, but who have helped our cause, you all have given us hope and a chance as we fight hard to save our little boy and other young children from this horrific disease.
USA
David Trang at IndexTwo for his hours designing this website, help us to maintain it and answer all our questions.
Van Yang, award-winning cinematographer, for making the incredible short Jasper video.
Marisa Groenweghe for her logo design. The little star has become our trademark both in the US and in the Netherlands.
All teachers, children and families of the Oscar Mayer School, Black Bear Academy and the nearly 20 public and private schools in Chicago and beyond who are getting behind our family and this campaign by means of a children’s collection can drive. And of course, also all of the business who have displayed our donation cans and signs.
Notably, we want to give a special thanks to Sweet Mandy B’s and Olivia’s Market who continue to call us regularly to pick up these wonderfully full cans!
The Gelfland family and the dozens of kids from the Great Neck High School South in NY who joined our Chicago effort and spend their last day of school distributing donation cans to business in their town on Jasper’s behalf.
Mike and Anastasia Hinchsliff for organizing the best kid’s Dance party ever in The Hide Out to raise awareness and money for Jasper’s cause.
All the people from the Dutch Club (and in particular Andrew Enschede and Petra van der Wildt) and the Dutch community overall for the great fundraising event at Sedgwicks (Jasper’s Orange Party) and for all of their continued support.
Sarah Toeller, the General Manager at Kid’s/Baby Gap Store in Lincoln Park along with Rodolfo Flores who have committed themselves and their time to the Jasper Against Batten effort and got the Gap to hold a Promotional Benefit at their store on Jasper’s behalf (an additional thanks to Argo Tea for providing refreshments).
Kevin Hammet, truly THE kids’ photographer in Chicago, who did a promotional day at Classic Kids Photography in Lincoln Park.
Aaron Vint and the team at Binny’s Beverage Depot who organized a wine/beer/cocktail tasting/Benefit and silent auction.
Capstone Global Markets from New York for organizing a great and extremely successful fundraiser. Paul Britton, in conjunction with his teams in London, New York and Chicago, raised hundred and sixty five thousand dollar in one day!!! Also a big ‘thank you’ to all members of his teams, in particular Marcee Deegan and Dina Thakarar!
Duncan Valentine for running the 2009 New York marathon in honor of Jasper and donating his medal + ten thousand dollar in sponsor proceeds.
The Philadelphia option trading community that raised over fifteen thousand dollars in the month of November 2009. A special thank you for Martin Hirsch for putting this together.
The Kaiser Family and The Lakeshore Athletic Clubs for throwing such a successful big Family Bash Against Batten in celebration of Jasper’s 5th Birthday and also, the children’s initiative that started our effort. And to the business’s that have donated so generously to this event: Best Buy, Jocks Bar and Grill, Starbucks, Trader Joes, Uncle Sammy’s, Devil Dawgs, NYC Bagel and Deli, Well Street Popcorn, Reinhart Foods and Caffe Baci. A special thank you to ABC News Anchor, Ravi Baichwal for MCing the ceremony. Hundreds of families came out to support us and we will never forget it!!
All the colleagues of Fortis Clearing Americas that donated so generously to our cause.
Last but certainly not least; all the members of the financial community in Chicago and elsewhere in the US that made generous donations to this cause. Most of them prefer to be anonymous but their support has certainly be very significant!
The Netherlands
The Christian elementary school “De Weerklank” from Westmaas for donating all the proceeds of the 2009 Christmas celebration to our foundation.
The protestant church “Het Kruispunt” from Linschoten for donating all the proceeds of ”het kleine kerkje” for the entire third quarter of 2009.
Thanks to the UMA orchestra of over 60 musicians + opera singer Anthony Heidweiler as special guest for their awesome performance in the Dominicuskerk (Utrecht Oog in Al). Also many thanks for supermarket AH (Handelstraat Utrecht) for donating drinks and food to this event! In particular the show of Anhony was great!
The Dominicus School in Utrecht Oog in Al for donating a part of the ’Parade di Domi 2009′ proceeds!
The Warries family for organizing a pancake feast in Utrecht.
Patrick Westland and the other people of the Podiumfestival.nl organization for including Jasper’s cause in their festival.
All the colleagues from Fortis bank in Amsterdam that participated in the raffle and silent auction.
The Rabobank Hoeksche Waard for organizing a bicycle sponsor tour.
Pollies Ice Cream Parlor from Oude-Tonge; during ‘the Walk of Goeree-Overflakkee’ they donated one day of ice cream sales revenue.
Marianne Melenberg and her colleagues from FBN SecHandling who baked cakes (for other colleagues) during the entire month of September. All proceeds were donated in favor of JAB
The team of daycare centre SpeelOkee from Oud-Beijerland who donated the proceeds from a DVD sale to the parents of their little customers
The students of Joke Dijk Boersma from the Vincent van Gogh College in Assen. They wrote an awesome book with poems in honor of Jasper and the proceeds of this book were donated to our Dutch foundation. Great work guys!
All the members of the financial community in Amsterdam and elsewhere in Europe that made generous donations to this cause.
All readers of the Dutch National newspapers and magazines; Trouw, Het Algemeen Dagblad, Volkskrant, Libelle and Vriendin for all the uplifting and encouraging messages they send us + the numerous donations they made to this cause.