Alternate Contact
- Anne Calvert, Program Coordinator II
About Rich
Rich Barnett leads outreach and special event activities for World Resources Institute. Rich joined WRI in 1996 and since that time has worked on a variety of projects, always at the junction of communications, marketing, and fundraising. He strives to bring a “practical creativity” to everything he works on.
Recent projects include WRI’s annual reports, top ten outcomes maps and brochures, and “Courage to Lead” dinners in New York and Los Angeles, which collectively have raised $3.25 million in critical unrestricted funds.
Prior to WRI, Rich worked with the Sheridan Group, a private fundraising consulting firm, and for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a national institute that conducts research on public policy issues of special concern to African Americans. He also covered corporate and foundation giving trends and issues for the Taft Group, a publisher of reference works for the nonprofit arena.
Rich received his J.D. from the University of Georgia and his B.A. from the University of Virginia.
