File #: 23-2586    Version: 1 Name: RECOGNIZING JACK LYNCH
Type: Consent Calendar Resolution Status: Approved
File created: 4/19/2023 In control: Board of Commissioners
On agenda: 4/27/2023 Final action: 4/27/2023
Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING JACK LYNCH FOR HIS OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP, COMMITMENT, AND DEDICATION TO SAVING LIVES IN HIS CAREER WHEREAS, Jack Lynch builds and strengthens Gift of Hope's relationships with community and civic group leaders to increase organ and tissue donation; and WHEREAS, he is a strategic advisor to the President/CEO and Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network's senior leadership team on community relations, minority relations and organ, eye and tissue donation awareness and education; and WHEREAS, he served as the organization's director of community affairs, Lynch established and maintained relationships and developed initiatives to create a positive culture around organ, eye and tissue donation in community groups and hospitals; and WHEREAS, Jack Lynch established Gift of Hope's African American Task Force of more than 100 volunteers who coordinate donor education and programs in African American communities throughout Gift of Hope's donation servic...
Sponsors: DENNIS DEER, TONI PRECKWINKLE (President), SCOTT R. BRITTON, JOHN P. DALEY, BRIDGET DEGNEN, MONICA GORDON, BRANDON JOHNSON, BILL LOWRY, KEVIN B. MORRISON, MAGGIE TREVOR
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PROPOSED RESOLUTION

RECOGNIZING JACK LYNCH FOR HIS OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP, COMMITMENT, AND DEDICATION TO SAVING LIVES IN HIS CAREER

WHEREAS, Jack Lynch builds and strengthens Gift of Hope's relationships with community and civic group leaders to increase organ and tissue donation; and

WHEREAS, he is a strategic advisor to the President/CEO and Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network's senior leadership team on community relations, minority relations and organ, eye and tissue donation awareness and education; and

WHEREAS, he served as the organization's director of community affairs, Lynch established and maintained relationships and developed initiatives to create a positive culture around organ, eye and tissue donation in community groups and hospitals; and

WHEREAS, Jack Lynch established Gift of Hope's African American Task Force of more than 100 volunteers who coordinate donor education and programs in African American communities throughout Gift of Hope's donation service area; and

WHEREAS, before joining the organization in 1987, Lynch was a manager of hospital development for Sandoz Pharmaceuticals in Hanover, N.J, and attended City Colleges of Chicago and Chicago State University, and participated in the pre-med program at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn.; and

WHEREAS, Jack Lynch was recognized as a thought leader in addressing donation and education in the African American community, Lynch was appointed by former Illinois Gov. George Ryan to chair the Illinois Department of Public Health Organ Donation Committee in 1993. He currently leads work to develop a new Gift of Hope facility in Chicago's South Side Chatham community; and

WHEREAS, Jack Lynch served on Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White's Organ Donation Advisory Board. In addition to speaking at hospitals and organ transplant programs across the country, he is regularly interviewed by local, regional, and national media on the need for and importance of minority o...

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