Resources for Human Development in Philly started 2025 with management shakeup under Inperium

Resources for Human Development, a large Philadelphia health and human services nonprofit, started the new year by announcing the departure of three senior leaders, according to internal memos obtained by The Inquirer.

The moves came three weeks after Inperium Inc., another human services nonprofit, completed its acquisition of RHD. Reading-based Inperium then completed a municipal bond sale that raised $176 million on Dec 19.

The three RHD executives who left last week were Linda Donovan, Bernard Glavin, and Stephanie Pompey. Donovan and Glavin, who led two major RHD divisions, were deleted from RHD’s website Monday morning. Pompey was removed from the site earlier. The terms of their departure were not clear.

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Donovan was mostly recently listed as chief program officer for RHD’s behavioral health and housing division. Glavin was executive vice president for intellectual disabilities services. Pompey was the organization’s chief legal officer.

Last summer, RHD’s chief financial officer and its chief information officer left as Inperium started providing those services.

Officials at Inperium and RHD did not respond to a request Monday for comment and additional details on the ongoing staffing changes.

RHD’s board agreed to the Imperium takeover last spring, as the nonprofit founded in 1970 teetered on the edge of bankruptcy. The board ousted its CEO in March as losses mounted after RHD failed to adjust to the end of federal COVID-19 aid.

Inperium’s bond offering statement on Nov. 26 said the nonprofit planned to use the money to refinance about $50 million in existing bank debt and to finance its acquisition of RHD. Though Inperium did not pay for RHD, it valued RHD at $134 million in the bond sale. A big chunk of the money from investors was expected to boost Inperium’s cash reserves.

Both Inperium and RHD provide services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, behavioral health care, substance-use disorder treatment, and other government-funded services. The addition of RHD is expected to give Inperium about $700 million in annual revenue in the fiscal year that ends June 30.

But Inperium isn’t finished growing.

“I remain confident that we will reach our goal of $1 billion in annualized revenues by the tenth anniversary of Inperium’s founding in January 2026,” Inperium founder Ryan D. Smith said in a December announcement about the completion of the RHD deal.

Before acquiring RHD, Inperium had 4,274 employees and 23,000 clients in 12 states, including Pennsylvania and New Jersey, according to the bond statement. RHD employed 2,800 on Sept. 30 in 12 states, including some that overlap with Inperium’s service area. The number of RHD clients was not available.

Inperium has a pending agreement to acquire Impact Services, another nonprofit human services agency based in Philadelphia, according to the bond offering statement. That deal is expected to close by the end of June, Inperium said.