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Richard Wong is the President and CEO of Gifts In Kind International, the world’s leading charity in product philanthropy. Richard works with the volunteer board of directors, the leadership team and the staff to define and direct the strategic actions needed to achieve organizational and program delivery goals. His deep passion for serving the underprivileged will further advance Gifts In Kind’s mission of partnering with businesses and nonprofits to provide quality products that support vital community services and improve lives around the world.
With over 27 years of experience in both the nonprofit and corporate sectors, Richard is a progressive leader who brings a humanistic approach to program delivery and operational management. The son of a humble church minister, he emigrated from China to Hong Kong, and later to the United States, where he received a bachelor of science in economics and business administration from Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania. After a twelve-year successful advertising career on the east coast, he found tremendous personal fulfillment working for nonprofit organizations.
For the past fifteen years, he’s guided both large and small organizations to realize their vision and reinvent their mission and helped to raise over $600 million in contributions. More recently, Richard was the CEO and Cofounder of Richmond-based HumaniLink, L.L.C., a management, technology and fundraising consultancy that leverages advanced communications strategies to improve nonprofits’ efficiency and accountability. Simultaneously, he also founded Strategic Partners Advertising in 1996, an advertising agency that served commercial clients, also based in Richmond. | 