Board of Directors
Robert Bennett
Chairman of the Board
rbennett@resourcedevelopment.net
Robert Bennett has nearly 30 years of experience as a leader in the research and development of social services and public policy initiatives. He is a nationally known expert in program development and evaluation, planning and grant writing, and software, data warehousing, and mapping applications.
Bob founded Resource Development Associates, Inc. (RDA) in 1984, and for the next 20 years led the development of major initiatives in public health, urban revitalization, juvenile justice, infant mortality, perinatal substance abuse, school-linked family support services, homelessness, mental health, children systems of care, and independent living services. He has been a frequent consultant to Federal and State agencies, including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, and Center for Substance Abuse Prevention; the National Institute of Mental Health; the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, and Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; the State of California Department of Health Services; and the State of California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs. Today, RDA is one of the nation's premier strategic consulting and research firms specializing in strengthening public and nonprofit efforts to promote social and economic justice for vulnerable populations. In addition, over the past ten years, the firm has raised more than $400 million in funds from State, Federal and private funding sources.
In 2003, Bob left his position as Principal of RDA to become President and CEO of Family Service Agency of San Francisco, San Francisco's oldest and largest outpatient social services and mental health treatment organization. He continues to serve RDA as Chairman of the Board. Prior to forming RDA, Bob was Executive Director of the Center for Independence of the Disabled, a consumer-driven, community based, services and advocacy organization whose mission is to increase social, educational, and economic participation of persons with disabilities.
Bob is the author of several dozen major evaluations and published papers, as well as numerous invited conference presentations. He is also the co-author of Vision/Reality, HUD's guide to comprehensive community planning. Bob holds a B.A. in philosophy, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an M.A. in history, with highest honors, from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in organizational development from the Fielding Graduate Institute.
Patricia Marrone Bennett, Ph.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
pbennett@resourcedevelopment.net
Dr. Patricia Marrone Bennett has an extensive background as an advocate, administrator, planner, and organizer. With more than 35 years of experience in the nonprofit and public sectors, she has consistently sought to develop the capacity of organizations to fulfill their missions and better serve their communities. Her work has helped her to develop a comprehensive understanding of government funding streams, contracts, and policies regarding allocation of resources. Throughout her career, Pat has participated in several of the largest and most innovative projects in the nation in the areas of youth violence prevention, juvenile justice reform, substance abuse, homelessness and child welfare reform. She has conducted research on the impact of family violence on the incidence of youth violence as well as research on youth gangs in Oakland, Richmond, San Jose and San Francisco.
As President and Chief Executive Officer of Resource Development Associates, Inc. (RDA) since 2004, Pat leads one of the nation's premier strategic consulting and research firms specializing in strengthening public and nonprofit efforts to promote social and economic justice for vulnerable populations. In partnership with others, she currently leads RDA's multiyear evaluation of the After School for All (A4A) collaborative, an ongoing evaluation and planning project involving five school districts and 36 schools in the East Bay. Pat is also the lead consultant to the San Francisco Proposition 63 (Mental Health Services Act) mental health transformation planning effort. She led the planning process for the State of Washington's mental health transformation effort and continues to provide services to the State now that it has been chosen by the federal government as one of seven sites for funding. In addition, she has been the project lead on numerous efforts including a state funded multiyear grant to address chronic truancy in West Contra Costa County, a planning effort to examine the occurrence of youth and family violence in specific neighborhoods, and a variety of planning and research efforts on youth homelessness in the San Francisco East Bay area.
Prior to joining RDA in 1995 as a Principal and member of the firm's Board of Directors, Pat spent 25 years working in the nonprofit sector as an Executive Director of several multi-service organizations providing prevention and intervention services to low income youth and their families, including The CENTER - Counseling, Education and Crises Services; Allied Fellowship Service; and the California Public Interest Research Group. She also served as the Chief Lobbyist for the Friends Committee on Legislation, a nonprofit advocacy group (established by Quakers in 1952), where she addressed juvenile and criminal justice, and mental health civil liberties on a daily basis before policy makers. Pat was the first Executive of the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Commission. She has worked as a community organizer and has been a lecturer at several universities. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Capella University and teaches graduate students on "The Role of the Board and CEO in Nonprofit Organizations."
Pat is the primary author of numerous governmental and foundation grant applications including applications to the National Funding Collaborative on Violence Prevention, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the California Endowment Foundation. She served as a Commissioner of both the California Blue Ribbon Commission on Inmate Population Management, and the Contra Costa County Housing and Community Development Commission. In addition, she is past Chair of INTERACT, a coalition of health and human service organizations, as well as past Chair of the Alameda County Grants Management Commission. Pat holds a B.A. in speech communication from San Francisco State University, and an M.A. in human and organizational systems and a Ph.D. in human and organizational development from the Fielding Graduate Institute. She is currently researching and writing on the topic of creating mindful organizations within the nonprofit sector.
Richard Mueller
Director
rmueller@resourcedevelopment.net
In a career spanning 25 years, Richard Mueller helped build two multibillion-dollar financial services companies, a venture capital firm, and three prominent consulting firms. He is a recognized leader in the design and implementation of compelling strategic roadmaps for organizations facing complex challenges, and has successfully guided several organizations through watersheds in their evolution.
Richard is deeply involved in nonprofit management and organizational capacity building. He currently serves on the board of Resource Development Associates, Inc., a strategic consulting and research firm specializing in strengthening public and nonprofit efforts to promote social and economic justice for vulnerable populations. Richard is also a board member and Immediate Past Chairman of Family Service Agency of San Francisco, the oldest and largest private nonprofit human services agency in the Bay Area. With a strong personal belief in the shared responsibility for social and economic outcomes, he has been effective at coalition building and devising collaborative solutions to community-wide problems.
Richard is a Partner of Origo Social Enterprise Partners, a global business advisor, incubator and research institute focused on creating sustainable enterprise design. Prior to joining Origo in 2004, he was an officer and shareholder of R.J. Rudden Associates, Inc., a leading provider of strategic, economic and management consulting services to the world's energy markets. Before joining Rudden in 1998, Richard advised CEOs and boards of public and private sector organizations as President of Mueller & Company. From 1986 to 1991, he was Managing Director of Commercial Scientific Corporation, a venture capital firm with domestic and overseas holdings in information services, technology, manufacturing, banking, and science oriented companies. Richard's early work was in the financial services industry where he earned an international reputation as a pioneer in the application of computer technology to financial markets. In 1984, he joined the founding management team of First Deposit Corporation (now Providian, a division of Washington Mutual, Inc.), a consumer banking and financial services firm. Richard began working with financier Harvey Baskin in 1982 to build CDx, the first real time computerized exchange for money market instruments, which achieved $1 billion in annualized trading volume in its first eight months of operation. He started his career in 1980 with Bankers Finance Corporation, the investment advisor to the Government Investors Trust (GIT) family of mutual funds.
Active in the field of business economics, Richard counsels U.S. and foreign government officials on a wide range of economic and public policy-related issues. He facilitated the 1987 acquisition, merger, and reorganization of Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates and Chase Econometrics to form the WEFA Group (now Global Insight, Inc.) as one of the largest economic research and financial information companies in the world. He served as Senior Advisor to WEFA's Chairman for more than 10 years and helped expand the firm's consulting, software and publishing divisions. He also served as Senior Advisor to renowned economist Laurence Meyer before President Clinton appointed Meyer to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve in 1996. Richard served on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) in Washington, D.C., and is Past Chairman of NABE's Corporate Planning Roundtable and Past President of NABE's San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. He is a member of the Silicon Valley Roundtable and the Sacramento Economic Roundtable. Richard's undergraduate studies were in economics at the George Washington University.
