Who We Are
History
In 1970, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania enacted and funded its
first comprehensive Mental Health/Mental Retardation Act. Bertram Wolfson, RHD
Board Chairperson, was asked to form a citizen’s committee to administer the
program in Lower Merion Township of Montgomery County – with an initial grant
of just $50,000. The committee incorporated Resources for Human Development as
a nonprofit human services organization and hired Bob
Fishman as its first – and as it turned out, only – executive
director. RHD sought to give birth to a new kind of agency that would have the
capacity to respond to a wide range of individual and community problems. It
would be an organization whose values would guide it to focus on developing a
highly decentralized organization with the broadest possible service mission.
From one program, two employees and a budget of $50,000, RHD has grown into a
$175 million corporation that employs more than 4,000 people across 13 states
and serves tens of thousands of people in need each year.
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