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Buzz Schmidt

Founder & President

GuideStar International (GSI)

GuideStar International (GSI), a UK-registered charity, illuminates the work of the world’s non-profit organizations through online repositories of reports about organizations in each country. Schmidt founded GuideStar in the US (www.guidestar.org) in 1994 and led it for 8 years and then moved on to create GuideStar UK in 2003. Schmidt is a graduate of Princeton and Stanford’s Graduate Schools of Business and Education.

  • In 1999, named 1999 US Non-profit Executive of the Year by The Non-profit Times
  • In 2001, named one of six visionary leaders in philanthropy by Time Magazine
  • Consistently among the Non-profit Times’ “Power 50” in the non-profit sector

Memberships

  • F.B. Heron Foundation, Chair, Trustee
  • New Philanthropy Capital / US “Friends” Organization, President
  • Institute for Philanthropy, Trustee
  • Independent Sector, member of International committee
  • APVA Preservation Virginia, Trustee