Richard S. Thill, Ph.D., has three decades experience as a fundraiser, problem solver, public speaker, advocate, researcher, educator, and consultant. His clients have been awarded tens of millions of dollars in funding. In 1996, he retired from his position as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research and Director of the Office of Sponsored Projects at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). After retiring from UNO, Dr. Thill founded FundaMental Solutions Inc. to share his expertise with non-profits, for-profits, and government agencies. His firm has served clients on five continents.

Thill holds a doctorate from UCLA in Germanic Languages and Folklore. From 1967 to 1996, he served at UNO as a faculty member, department chair, and associate dean. Simultaneously, he held a position as Adjunct Professor of folkloristics in the Department of Preventive and Societal Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. From 1976-1979, he was Business Manager of the Modern Language Journal. In 1978, he founded the Archiving Section of the American Folklore Society and served as its Executive Chair until 1982. Dr. Thill has presented numerous professional papers and workshops on grantsmanship, fundraising, strategic planning, computer-augmented instruction, archival automation and design, and folklore.

Dr. Thill formerly presided as Chair of the Downtown-Omaha Kiwanis Foundation funding committee, "Young Children, Priority One." He served as a member of the Sienna-Francis House Grant Committee, as President and member of the Executive Committee of the Nebraska Chapter of the Leukemia Society of America, as president of the Omaha Chapter of the National Council to Prevent Alcohol and Drug Abuse, and on the boards of directors of Experience Unlimited and the Nebraska Council to Prevent Alcohol and Drug Abuse.