Richard Carman

Earned a BA from Western, Illinois University in 1971 and a MSW from the University of Illinois in 1977. Mr. Carman’s career focused on working with throughout the US well as nine countries prior to retiring in 2016. During his career he worked primarily as an senior administrator, registered lobbyist in Washington, DC, CEO of three different nonprofits and NGOs. He was instrumental in the creation of IMPACT, and international alliance of five non-profit organizations from the USA, Germany, UK and Norway that assisted small NGOs build on existing services in the disability community. At the same time creating new services that enabled them to become self-sustaining over time often by developing Social Enterprises. While representing IMPACT Mr. Carman worked as a member of a management committee. The team consisted of five international professionals working in eight countries developing financing, program design and supervision of over 20 deployed training staff. Project teams were formed to support children and adults with disabilities services in the Dominican Republic, Romania, Latvia, Russia, India, Bulgaria, Tanzania and Kenya. (after the collapse of the USSR). He was employed throughout these years as a Senior Vice President for International Development by Mosaic, an American based Nonprofit providing services in 13 states. During the last three years of his career, he and his wife Barb split living abroad in Tanzania and Romania. Mr. Carman has also served as a Board member of ANCOR (D.C. based), the ANCOR Foundation, President of KOPA in Latvia, Board Chair of Motivation Romania and held an special appointment a UN on the “rights of individuals with disabilities.” He also created a “think tank” at Mosaic focused on public policy issues in Washington, DC and later founded a Fellows program for post graduate students to work with IMPACT partners for 1 year. Currently he serves as the Vice-Chair and Acting CEO of Fresh Start Pallet Products, a Social Enterprise located in Hartford, CT.