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

  7/30/2010 12:46:29 PM

  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 ...

  7/28/2010 1:36:20 PM

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• Still in the champ's corner

  7/12/2010 12:59:54 PM

  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?

  6/28/2010 3:38:45 PM

  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

  6/23/2010 12:13:54 PM

  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

  6/8/2010 10:26:11 AM

  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

  5/25/2010 8:39:21 AM

  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

  5/14/2010 12:25:31 PM

  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 ...

• 'Searching for answers'

  5/6/2010 1:31:55 PM

  The Norristown Times Herald recently did a series on homelessness in Montgomery County that featured our own Genny O'Donnell of RHD's Coordinated Homeless Outreach Center (CHOC) and the Homelessness Prevention Center.The series is worth a read, as it takes a good look at homelessness, from the different causes to ...

• On Executive Leaders Radio

  4/30/2010 7:35:44 PM

  Recently I was on WWDB-AM's Executive Leaders Radio with Herb Cohen talking about Resources for Human Development. You can listen to it here. Click on the April 9 show. I was on with John Fowler, Marty Rosen and Jeffrey Stello.

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