Richard Margoluis

Richard is the chief adaptive management and evaluation officer and oversees a team dedicated to supporting the foundation’s four grantmaking programs, helping our staff and grantees use adaptive management to improve outcomes and results.

Richard came to the foundation in 2016 from Foundations of Success, a small nonprofit organization he co-founded. Foundations of Success is dedicated to improving the practice of conservation and development through enhanced monitoring, evaluation, learning, and collaboration. Through that organization, he developed concepts, tools, and approaches for enhanced practices; assisted partner organizations to develop adaptive management systems; evaluated conservation projects and programs; managed applied research related to evaluation; and facilitated cross-site and cross-institutional learning.