About Bob

Bob serves as President and CEO of GuideStar and serves on the boards of Vision TV, Grameen Foundation USA, and the AAFRC Trust for Philanthropy. More...

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Too Much Donor Anonymity?

One of the joys of living in the Washington area is that while watching the news on television, we get to see the strangest advertisements urging Congress to do such-and-such sponsored by some supposedly high-minded, publicly spirited organization. I always think to myself, who are these people and where is their money coming from? [...]

The Clinton Foundation Donors

Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation released a list of donors to the foundation on January 1. The list was made public as part of an agreement with the Obama administration when Hillary Rodham Clinton was appointed secretary of state in order to prevent the appearance of conflicts of interest. (You can learn more about the foundation [...]

On the Defensive Once Again

Most nonprofits are hard at work, laboring under challenging conditions with funding getting tougher by the month and demand for services continuing to increase. Others are working on important issues to elevate the sector to new heights, such as promoting transparency and accountability and measuring effectiveness and impact.
And yet public skepticism about the nonprofit [...]

Using a Dashboard to Bring Focus and Alignment

GuideStar’s mission is to help donors make better and more informed decisions and—just as important—help nonprofit organizations become more effective and efficient.
Earlier this year I traveled to Los Angeles and witnessed an amazing event. There in a large hotel ballroom were more than 200 nonprofit-organization managers gathered to learn how to make their [...]