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Richard Gelula is trained as a social worker and has served as a local and national executive in social welfare and health causes throughout his career and as a consultant to nonprofit organizations. From 2009 through the time be became executive director of The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care in March 2014, Richard had his own consulting firm. For ten years before that he was CEO of the National Sleep Foundation which promoted public education about the vital link between sleep, health and safety. Among the organizations he worked with as an executive were the Alzheimer’s Association, the Chicago Hearing Society and the National Osteoporosis Foundation.
Richard’s focus has been to integrate key nonprofit organizational components such as Board and staff functions, fundraising and communications, and public policy initiatives with community outreach, collaborative relationships and consumer services. He has assisted organizations in identifying, developing and employing their core competencies to effectively advance their missions.
Richard has served on the boards of the National Health Council, the Association for Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, the Public Advisory Roundtable of the American Thoracic Society and as development chair of community-based campaigns.
A native of Atlantic City, Richard completed his undergraduate education at the State University of New York at Buffalo where he majored in psychology. He then completed a master’s degree in social work at the State University of New York at Albany where his concentrations were in management of human service organizations, public policy and social service planning. He has also participated in several post-graduate training programs for leadership, management and organizational development.
Richard is married to Ellen Singer, a clinical social worker, and they have two children.