Richard M. Pordes

Managing Director, Richard M Pordes, LLC

Richard brings to his work an accumulated knowledge of over thirty-five years in communications, marketing and fundraising.   He also brings his experience creating and implementing new fundraising strategies in large and medium organizations, and his skills as a trainer, trouble-shooter, and motivator for non-profits around the world.

Richard founded his consulting company in January 2006, after more than 30 years with UNICEF in a variety of communications, marketing and fundraising posts.  At UNICEF he was instrumental in supporting and motivating UNICEF’s National Chapters and Country Offices to achieve greatly improved results from fundraising.   Today he specializes in doing the same for other international charities and non-profit organizations.

In the 1990s, Richard introduced direct response fundraising and monthly giving to UNICEF Chapters in Hong Kong, Japan and Korea, introducing methods that had never been tried there before.   He also advised and supported UNICEF chapters in Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.

More recently, from 2000 until 2006, he helped UNICEF initiate and expand its fundraising activities in developing countries, guiding UNICEF Country Offices in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines and Russia.

Since taking early retirement from UNICEF, Richard has advised numerous non-profit organizations including WWF, Save the Children Alliance, Doctors without Borders (MSF), UNHCR: the UN Refugee Agency, Amnesty International, the Nonviolent Peaceforce, and Operation Smile.

Richard is a frequent speaker at international fundraising conferences.  He is a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) and has served on the Operating Committee of the US Direct Marketing Association’s International Council and its Non-profit Federation. He has published numerous articles for the non-profit press and has won three DMA Echo Awards for his work in direct response fundraising.   He lives in Stamford, CT with his wife and business partner, Donna Gould.