Our leaders make the difference.
Robert Cottrell
Robert Cottrell is the founder and president of HopeKids.
He also serves as the Executive Director of the very first HopeKids chapter, located in Phoenix,
serving children throughout Arizona.
He has been married to his wife, Susan, since 1987. They have five beautiful children, three girls and two boys,
ranging in age from 12 to
20.
He will tell you that he married out of his league and has five children who are out of this world!
Rob has a music industry background and first began working in non-profit development and management in
1985 with the Live Aid/Band Aid Ethiopian famine relief efforts.
He continued in nonprofit development and management and in 1996 founded an organization providing
free consulting, training and help to ministries and missionaries across the globe.
Robert has been a speaker at local and national conferences and has been a widely sought after
advisor and consultant in the area of development.
Rob first started working with children facing a life-threatening illness in 1987, working
with AIDS babies in New York City. He started his personal work granting special wishes
for children more than a decade ago with a boy named Bobby.
Rob is also a singer and piano player who has recorded two CDs and serves as a Worship Leader
at his local church.
Please feel free to email Rob directly at Rob@HopeKids.org
Josh Taylor
Josh Taylor heads our Minnesota chapter.
Josh Taylor has been married to his wife Carrie since 2002 and they have two young
children, one of each! Born in Sydney, Australia, Josh originally moved to
the United States in 2000 to pursue a career in golf course design.
Josh then spent the next seven years working for Tom Lehman in his golf course design company.
At the beginning of 2006 Josh and Carrie began volunteering with the HopeKids chapter in
Phoenix. By the middle of 2006 Josh and Carrie had decided to join HopeKids as
part of the HopeKids National Expansion program and move from Phoenix to Minneapolis to start
a new HopeKids chapter in the Twin Cities. The Twin Cities chapter held it’s first event
in November, 2006.
Prior to being a mom Carrie spent four years working with at-risk teens in a Charter High
School in downtown Phoenix.