The Founding Circle and Tiles of the Mosaic

The Founder’s Circle is made up of the generous people who have   contributed time, expertise and money in our first year to get us going.  These people deserve special    acknowledgement for supporting “start-up” organizations as this.  It  requires a leap of faith.  Thanks to all of you!

Founders Circle Members

J. Walton Design (for logo and other work)
Alegra Printing Company (for printing grant)

Adrienne Armor

Erik Peterson, e-lumin

Grace Fill

Brad and Shari Hammel

Leah Mini

Brian and Kim Sammarco

Doug and Barbara Szwed

Michele and Nicholas Dalmaso

Dr. Michael Blacconiere

Lacey Spang

Downers Grove Friends Meeting

Sue Styer

Joe and Sue Davison

Nancy and Jim Gambaiani

Mark Demich and Kevin Hengst

Dave and Stacy Bell

Louis Mini

Steven Isham

William Ogilvie

Vincent and Patricia Foglia

Beth and Mark Freda

Hilary Hays and Tony Cline

Peter Capolino, Mitchell and Ness

Vince and Deb Asbridge
David and Marilyn Armor
Nonni’s Foods, Inc.
Mitchell and Ness Sportswear
Frank E. Jeffers, Attorney at Law
Tonya and Andrew Parravano
Lynn and Gary Gronwick
Dean and Lisa Jackson
Peter and Cathy Hetrick

In addition to financial contributions, we welcome professional donations of services such as accounting, bookkeeping, web/technical support, public speaking,, and event planning

Founders Contact Information:

BRAD OGILVIE, Founder

The Founder, Brad Oglivie has been living with HIV for 20 years, and has over 23 years in social service experience, the last 12 in HIV/AIDS.  He has a unique vision and passion that transcends boarders and boundaries as he has not only worked locally, but internationally (in rural Kenya).   He has the instinctive ability to look at HIV from the "inside out, as well as the outside-in".  This has formed the basis for the work of the organizations.  He has been featured in the Chicago Tribune and on Chicago Public Radio for his work and passion to the mission.  In December, 2005, Brad was nominated for the National HIV/AIDS Partnership's Preventions Awards.

CONTACT INFO:

Brad Oglivie

E-mail: brad@mosaicinitiative.org

Phone:  (630) 665-5194

CATHY HETRICK, Director

Partnered with Cathy Hetrick, a mother of three teenagers who is committed to seeing that her children and their generation do not get HIV and who worked with Mr. Ogilvie at their previous organization, they are dedicated to the vision that we can end the spread of HIV.  A life-long resident of Wheaton, she brings this commitment and enthusiasm to all that she does in churches, schools, business networks, The Wheaton Chamber of Commerce and The Wheaton Rotary Club.

CONTACT INFO:

Cathy Hetrick

E-mail: cathy@mosaicinitiative.org

Phone:  (630) 292-3650

After having spent the past seven years as Director and Volunteer Coordinator, respectively, of a local service organization, they have left to establish TMI ,to continue this work ,but with a clear focus on prevention. In their commitment to establishing TMI, Brad and Cathy are making the statement that, while treatment is vital to ending the spread of HIV, truly effective prevention must be autonomous of treatment while working in close partnership with treatment organizations.  In almost all cases, prevention programs are run under the auspices of treatment organizations, which create an inherent conflict with effective        prevention, as witnessed by the need to keep case loads full, and the fact that treatment is more easily quantifiable to administrators. As told by one prospective founder from a healthcare organization, the challenge to prevention is there is no financial return on the  investment.