Harold Richman - Leading and Reforming, For The Sake of Vulnerable Children

Leading and Reforming, For The Sake of Vulnerable Children

Harold Richman provided public policy leadership throughout the world:

• He sat on boards of major public institutions (service agencies, public policy institutes) and foundations, several of which he helped create. This included the John Gardner Center at Stanford University; the Children’s Institute at the University of Cape Town; the Information and Research Center in Amman, Jordan; The Center for Children and Youth at the Brookdale Institute in Jerusalem, and the Center for the Study of Social Policy in Washington D.C.
• He sat on the boards of a number of foundations (SEED Foundation in Washington D.C., Michael Reese Health Trust, Chicago, IL, MB Fund, Chicago, IL) and civic groups (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Interfaith Youth Core, Mental Disability Rights International, Afterschool Matters, Chicago, IL).
• He led a Committee on Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. The Committee has since evolved into the internationally respected Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy Studies, a graduate professional school at the University of Chicago.
• He established Chapin Hall as a policy research center at the University of Chicago to inform child-family policy.
• Under his leadership, the School of Social of Administration became a leading institution in the field of social welfare policy and administration.
• He was the first chairman and served on the board of The University of Chicago's Laboratory Schools (the preK–12 school founded by John Dewey), the council of the College, and the Social Service Review.
• He was a member of the Governing Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

He advised colleagues, government officials, and philanthropists on countless policy issues, as well as small neighborhood groups helping highly vulnerable communities.