FW: Very Special update from Andrea Jaeger----Extremely Time Sensitive

Jeffrey,

I hope you are well.  I often ask Ghislaine about you and she always gives a glowing report.  Things in NYC are well. Things with CGI busy as ever, hard to believe it has been 4 years.  We just hosted our CGI U meeting at Tulane. We had 600 students from 45 states and 263 universities – it turned out really well, we were all very pleased. Here is a video clip of it (it takes a little bit of time to load)  http://newsroom.mtv.com/2008/03/21/cgi-u-meet-some-of-the-countrys-most-committed-college-students/.  We will have our CGI Int’l meeting in Hong Kong in early December and prior to it have our CGI NY meeting here in the city in September. All in all things are going well and we will never forget those who believed in us from the beginning. One of my favorite quotes is on the US Navy Seabees Memorial:  “With a skillful hand and a willing heart, the difficult we will do at once the impossible, may just take a bit more time!” It certainly has proven true in CGI land J

 

I called Ghislaine about something I wanted to bring to your attention.  She said I should just forward it to you directly, hope you do not mind.  

 

Andrea Yaeger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Jaeger reached out to me and asked for me to make an introduction to you.  I met Andrea 2 years ago at CGI.  You probably would remember her - Andrea (see articles below) was a professional tennis player at a young age but then realized her calling was really to help children.  She used her winnings to start an organization to help children with cancer.  It has become a haven for children who want to just be children J

Andrea is one of the most positive people I have ever met.  She has a large donor who is willing to make a substantive match to funds she raises - so this past year she has been tirelessly out there trying to raise money – all the while remaining positive, happy, gracious, funny and kind. 

 

Andrea sent me the email below after doing some research about possible donors.  I do hope you will be willing to meet her, though be prepared, if you spend 5 minutes with her you will want to give her everything – she is just that kind – talk about someone who wears her heart on her sleeve. 

 

Here is her organization’s website: http://www.littlestar.org/

 

Here are some articles about Andrea:

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,26334,1561084,00.html

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/richard_deitsch/12/08/media.circus/index.html

 

Let me know what you think – I would be happy to do a virtual intro between the two of you – or you could reach out to her yourself. 

Thank you very much for considering it Jeffrey.

Take care of yourself.

 

Mary