Gary D. Bass is the executive director of the
Bauman Foundation Bauman is a surname. It may be a respelling of the German name Baumann, or it may be the Russian, Ashkenazi Jewish or Scandinavian spelling of the same name.
Notable people with the surname include:
* Christopher Bauman (1982–2005), American ...
, and founder and former executive director of
OMB Watch
The Center for Effective Government, formerly OMB Watch, was a think tank and advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. It was focused on government transparency. Founded in 1983, the organization ceased operations in 2016, folding its work into the ...
.
Bass received a combined doctorate in psychology and education from the
University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
. He was president of the Human Services Information Center before founding OMB Watch in 1983. Since then he has been a prominent commentator on federal information policy issues and assisted other
nonprofit organization
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s: ''
The NonProfit Times
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'' listed him within their Power and Influence Top 50. In 1989, he created RTK NET (the Right-to-Know Network), a free online service to provide community groups with access to government data.
External links
OMB Watch profile of Gary Bass*
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Michigan alumni
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