Please Welcome Happy Bottoms- John Teasdale's Bio below:

HappyBottoms is excited to introduce you to our new Executive Director, John Teasdale.

 

John has a long history of working with nonprofits in the KC area including with DeLaSalle Education Center and Rockhurst University.   He has also worked in the for-profit arena at Haake Companies as a producer for group health insurance benefits.

He's served on many boards for KC community groups including the Bacchus Foundation, the Kansas City Club, and the Boys and Girls Club.

 

John was born and raised in Kansas City, and says he is very proud of his father, Joe Teasdale, who was Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney for many years and served one term as Missouri Governor '77-'81. John is a Rockhurst High School grad, went to Notre Dame for undergrad where he also played football for the Fighting Irish, and then back to KC for his MBA at Rockhurst University.

 

While he doesn't have kids of his own, he knows how many diapers families go through since he has 5 nephews and 1 niece. They're all here in KC so he says he takes a lot of pride in being #1 Uncle!

 

John says HappyBottoms "pulls at my heart strings" because of its mission to provide diapers to babies in need. But he is also drawn to HappyBottoms intellectually because of his business sense, he's been impressed with how HappyBottoms is run so "effectively and efficiently."

 

"My long-term vision for HappyBottoms is to get diapers to every child who needs them in the KC metro area," says John.