Richard Male

Richard Male is a recognized leader, both regionally and nationally, in the fields of leadership development, fundraising, community organizing and public policy for non-profit organizations, local municipalities and schools.

For 30 years he has conducted training sessions, provided consultation, been a keynote speaker, teacher and facilitator to literally thousands of organizations. These include faith-based and grassroots community organizations and people working at the neighborhood, statewide and national levels.

He has served as executive director and CEO of three broad-based nonprofit organizations in Missouri, Utah and Colorado. In 1981, Rich founded the Community Resource Center (CRC), which has provided a wide variety of training, consulting, and leadership services to over 3,000 non-profit organizations in the Rocky Mountain West and throughout the United States. While at CRC, Rich helped organize the Colorado Association of Non-profit Organizations (CANPO), Community Shares of Colorado, published the Colorado Grants Guide and helped organize dozens of grassroots initiatives involving people of color, persons with disabilities, environmental and social justice issues.

While at CRC, Rich obtained a national demonstration grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to organize a public policy institute and statewide organization, which develops grassroots leadership to impact public policy at a local and statewide level. Under Rich’s leadership, CRC was honored with the Samaritan Institute Award from the Colorado Ethics in Business Award as the organization that exemplifies the highest ethical values through its work in the community. In 1997, the Colorado Association of Non-Profit Organizations awarded Rich their highest honor, the William Funk Award for Building Community.

With Rich as director, the work of Community Resource Center has been highlighted on the NBC Today Show, NBC News with Tom Brokaw, Denver Post, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Colorado Public Radio, Austrian Radio and Television and other media.

Since 1971, Rich has taught both undergraduate and graduate level courses in subject areas such as grantwriting, fundraising and resource development, leadership development, community organizing/public policy; contemporary issues in society; religious institutions in the community; and proposal writing. He has taught at the following colleges and universities: State University of New York (SUNY), Washington University (St. Louis), Iliff School of Theology (Denver), Regis University, University of Colorado at Denver and Metro State College. He received the 1996 Excellence in Teaching Award in Graduate Programs of the School for Professional Studies at Regis University.

Rich has served on many local and national boards of directors, including the national Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (Washington, D.C.), CANPO, and the National Philanthropy Day Committee.

In 1993 and 1994, Rich was invited to provide community organizing, leadership development and fundraising assistance to a wide variety of civil and human rights groups in Israel. He worked with the Ethiopian, Russian, Palestinian and disability communities throughout the country. In 1995 Rich was awarded a fellowship to be part of the international symposium on leadership as a Salzburg, Austria fellow.

In 1996 Rich formed Grant Guides, Plus, a for profit corporation that provided information, training and educational assistance to non-profit organizations, schools and local governments nationally. GGP was most visible through the publication of sophisticated databases, research instruments and grantwriting services and was the publisher of comprehensive grant guides for the states of California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and New Jersey. In 2000 Rich merged Grant Guides Plus with a new company called GrantSeeker.com that provided an on-line searchable database for nonprofits, schools, and local governments throughout the country. Grantseeker analyzed over 19 billion dollars in grants from private foundations, corporations, government and religious funding sources and has one of the premier search engines on grants in the country. Currently, Richard Male is President of a national training and consulting company that bears his name.

Rich has an undergraduate degree in economics from New York University and a Masters in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis. He is married with four children and resides in Denver, Colorado.

Contact Rich at rich@richardmale.com