Support Our Work

The people we serve rely on the generosity of those who believe that every person, despite their challenges, should be treated with dignity and have the opportunity to develop their full potential.

You can help create brighter futures for many adults and children with special needs. Donations received from friends, foundations, and businesses directly improve the quality of life for all RHD clients and allow RHD to continue developing caring, effective, and innovative programs that help people in need build better lives for themselves.

You can also send a check as a tax-deductible donation, in any amount, to:

Resources for Human Development
4700 Wissahickon Avenue, Suite 126, Building A
Philadelphia, PA 19144-4248

If you’d like to donate to a specific program, please note that with your donation.

If you wish to give a tribute gift in memory or honor of a loved one:
Please note “in memory of” on your check. To make a memorial donation online, please contact fundraising at [email protected], telling us your donation should be marked as a tribute gift in memory of a loved one. Your secure online donation will be designated accordingly. Please include an address if you would like us to acknowledge your gift.

If you wish to support your workplace’s United Way campaign, please designate RHD to receive your payroll deduction. RHD’s Donor Choice number is 00838.

Resources for Human Development accepts in-kind donations, which can include furniture for our residential facilities, books for our libraries and reading rooms, or any goods and services — including volunteering. Because RHD is a national organization supporting more than 160 programs across the country, there is no centralized mechanism for coordinating volunteer efforts or in-kind donations at a program. Please contact RHD programs directly for information on how to make an in-kind donation, share your time with consumers, help out in a program’s office, or lend your expertise to an advisory board or special event. You can search RHD program by service line and geography here. 

Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities

Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities

Resources for Human Development has been serving adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities and helping them lead more fulfilling lives since 1972, when it established the Lower Merion Vocational Training …

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Behavioral Health

Behavioral Health

RHD’s history of innovative services began in the behavioral health field, establishing Lower Merion Counseling & Mobile Services in 1970 in response to a community need for outpatient services. Since then, RHD has expanded …

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Addiction Recovery

Addiction Recovery

RHD recognizes there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach to addiction recovery. RHD offers a variety of innovative person-centered and person-directed recovery plans that take into account where our clients are in their unique …

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Homelessness

Homelessness

Everybody deserves a place to call home. From shelters and safe havens to supported independent living and nationally renowned case management services, Resources for Human Development helps people of all …

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Women & Children

Women & Children

Resources for Human Development has served on several task forces for women and children’s programs in different states across the nation, and was part of the original Governor’s task force …

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Integrated Health Care

Integrated Health Care

RHD’s Family Practice and Counseling Network operates community health care centers in three of Philadelphia’s medically underserved neighborhoods. The centers employ a nurse-managed model to deliver caring, quality primary health …

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Youth Development

Youth Development

RHD has been serving at-risk youth for nearly 20 years. We pride ourselves in being at the forefront of progressive societal change with our innovative and individualized approach towards serving …

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Veterans

Veterans

Those who serve our nation in the military, whether during wartime or peace, sometimes need help reintegrating into civilian society. Over the years, RHD has assisted veterans with issues of …

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There are Thousands of Reasons to Support RHD—Here are a Few

Breakthrough

“Good morning.” Randall said “good morning” to the staff at his residence in Tennessee, greeting Aerry Austin one day when Austin showed up for work. Those two unremarkable words were …

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‘You’re heroic’

March 1, 2017 Jerry, a vendor with RHD’s One Step Away, was about to sit down to watch Richard Gere’s new movie when Gere walked up and asked about Jerry’s …

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A Shared Life

Todd Davis is having “one of those mornings,” as he calls them, when the chemotherapy hits him particularly hard. Todd is an RHD staffer living with Brandon, a client with …

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Toy Story

Tiphany Giles is a toy designer at Hasbro, one of the world’s leading toymakers and the company behind such legendary games as Monopoly, Yahtzee and Play-Doh. She has also become …

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Center of Excellence

RHD welcomed Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf to the RHD Montgomery County Recovery Center, as Gov. Wolf and the Department of Human Services officially named MCRC a “Center of Excellence.” Becoming …

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