Gary Bess Associates Macro Scholarship Available

Preference is given to:

  • Students interested in macro social work practices including community
  • organizing and planning, grant writing, program evaluation, or health
  • and human services management.

Gary Bess, PhD, is the owner of Gary Bess Associates (GBA), which provides grant writing, program evaluation, and consultation to nonprofit and government agencies (www.garybess.com). GBA specializes in public and private grant writing for the human services, including Federally Qualified Health Center applications. Dr. Bess holds two master’s degrees in social work and applied sociology from Case Western Reserve University and Kent State University respectively, and a doctorate in social work from the University of Southern California (USC). He has taught in graduate schools of social work at UCLA, USC, and at California State University (CSU) in Long Beach and Chico. For several years, Dr. Bess directed free medical clinics in southern California, including the South Bay Free Clinic in Manhattan Beach and the LA Free Clinic, before opening GBA in 1991.

For more information, visit www.garybess.com

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