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RHD founder and CEO Bob Fishman

Bob Fishman, CEO, Resources for Human Development

  • An easy solution to new pay law for CEOs

    I recently found an easy way to address one new piece of the financial regulations imposed by the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, and I hope to share it here to help lessen the burden on our nation’s CEOs.Companies will now be required to disclose in their proxy statements the ...

  • At RHD, we are NOT lazy idiots. Also, not fat

    So a very well-known and presumably influential radio host went off on a rant recently that was, by itself, fairly unremarkable. Pretty garden-variety radio blather. But in the middle of it, this broadcaster veered weirdly into our arena, and called nonprofit employees “lazy idiots” and “rapists, in terms of finance ...

  • RHD's nurse-run health centers to the rescue

    There is an epidemic shortage of family physicians doing primary care in this country, and no one coming behind them to make up the gap. U.S. medical shool students going into primary care has dropped 51.8 percent in the last decade, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians.But ...

  • When we talk about income inequality ...

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  • Still in the champ's corner

    By now you've read the stories about Matthew Saad Muhammad, the former light-heavyweight champion of the world and one of the greatest boxers in Philadelphia history, staging his latest comeback -- this time, from a homeless shelter. It first appeared in our own One Step Away, and was followed in ...

  • Who would like 1 percent of $87 million?

    This seems like a good time to bring up RHD's One Percent Solution again, in the wake of a report by the Philadelphia Inquirer on CEO compensation in this area. The Inquirer simply reported the numbers, without trying to bring up a discussion of income inequality. But, really – can ...

  • Introducing: Outside In

    We showcased our award-winning arts programs at a recent event here at our central office for our funders and government partners (for whom we are extraordinarily grateful!). The artwork from Oasis, Artists for Recovery and the still-unnamed studio at the Lower Merion Vocational Training Center from the Philadelphia area was ...

  • Human service budget cuts hurt all of us

    This is a great article from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on why budget cuts to human services are so harmful. It's not just because it robs the most vulnerable people in our society of opportunities they desperately need, but also because these cuts have a disastrous trickle-down ...

  • A seven-year itch never scratched

    I told Bert Wolfson, RHD’s chairman of the board, that I would stay for seven years when he hired me in 1970. Just seven. Luckily, he never called me on it, and I’ve stayed at RHD 33 years longer than I’d planned.This year Resources for Human Development celebrates 40 ...

  • This is how you should ask for things

    Our arts programs across the country do amazing things every single day. Working with artists with intellectual disabilities, these programs produce great work and genuinely promote healing and learning opportunities through creative self-expression.They also have an awful lot of fun.The staff and clients at Blank Canvas Studios at ...

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