[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 73 (Wednesday, May 13, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S5430]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       TRIBUTE TO MARTIN SINNOTT

  Mr. DURBIN. I rise today to congratulate Martin Sinnott on his 
retirement as president and CEO of Kids Hope United. Throughout his 
career, Marty served Illinois' children and families, first at the 
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, then The Youth 
Campus, and finally Kids Hope United. After 30 years of success in the 
nonprofit social services, Mr. Sinnott is ready for a change of pace.
  Marty Sinnott is a native Chicagoan. He earned his undergraduate and 
graduate degrees from the University of Chicago. His first job after 
college was with the Illinois Department of Children and Family 
Services. There, he started as a social worker and over the course of 
ten years rose to become administrator of resource development and 
utilization.
  After Marty left DCFS, he continued his work on behalf of needy 
Illinois children as president and CEO of The Youth Campus, a child 
welfare agency in Chicago. During his tenure at The Youth Campus, he 
increased the organization's revenues from $1 million to $13 million. 
And more importantly, he led the organization's growth so it was 
serving six times as many kids.
  Since 1999, Marty has been with Kids Hope United, a Chicago-based 
private nonprofit child and family services agency. As chairman and 
CEO, Mr. Sinnott led a multistate expansion that tripled revenues and, 
again, increased the number of children and families the agency 
reached. Kids Hope United now has a 900-person staff, an annual 
operating budget of $55 million, and a scope of services that reaches 
families in Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Florida.
  I commend Marty Sinnott for his decades of service to the children 
and families of Illinois. Congratulations go out to him and his family 
on his retirement from Kids Hope United. We wish you many years of 
continued success.

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