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Richard S. Kordesh |
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Director, Illinois ResourceNet |
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kordesh@uic.edu |
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(312) 996-8595 |
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Richard Kordesh is Director of Illinois ResourceNet: A Funding Access
Initiative, a statewide non-profit capacity building project based in the Great Cities Institute.
He is an Adjunct Professor in Urban Planning and Policy at UIC and a Visiting Professor in the
School of Social Work, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
Dr. Kordesh is working with UIC faculty in the Jane Addams College of Social Work to build a new
educational and research partnership between UIC and Addis Ababa University. With support from
the Oak Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland, he is conducting training and research in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia’s capital city, focusing on community development in one of the city’s neighborhoods.
In a project supported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Richard is also conducting research into
the productive uses of housing and habitat by families in rural and urban settings in the United States.
Dr. Kordesh has led statewide community development initiatives in governors’ offices in Illinois and
Pennsylvania, and has written extensively on community development and family policy. He has also
taught graduate and undergraduate classes at UIC (Social Work and Urban Planning), Penn State-University
Park (Political Science and Policy Analysis), and Indiana University-Bloomington (Political Science).
Dr. Kordesh received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University-Bloomington in 1986, and his
MSW in Community Development and Planning from the Jane Addams College of Social Work at UIC in 1976.
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