Richard has thirty years of successful experience in community development, human services planning, evaluation, and public policy analysis. His clients have included major foundations, governors, state agencies, and local agencies. He takes a value-adding approach, learning what the client wants to accomplish, what assets the client has to work with, and the nature of the setting in which the client's organization must pursue its objectives.
Rich can help an organization or planning group to apply the principles of family-based community development to a variety of projects, including:
Strategic organization planning
Design and implementation of 
comprehensive community initiatives.
Creation of community-state government partnerships.
Evaluation of multiple-program initiatives focused on targeted places.
Consensus building among diverse groups when conflict stands in the way of project success.
