Bob Giannino-Racine

Executive Director

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Bob Giannino-Racine is the Executive Director of ACCESS, The Action Center for College Educational Services and Scholarships. Under Bob’s leadership, ACCESS has been recognized for the important role it plays in Boston and beyond.  In 2009, ACCESS was named a Social Innovator by the Social Innovation Forum and received the Committed to Access Award by the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Massachusetts, and was a 2008 recipient of the Boston Foundation’s prestigious Out of the Blue Award in recognition of “exceptional leadership” in the Boston nonprofit sector.

Bob has 16 years of experience within the Boston non-profit community.  Prior to joining ACCESS, he served as the Vice President of Business Development and Government Relations at Jumpstart for Young Children, a Boston-based national nonprofit organization that engages college-aged young people in service.  While at Jumpstart, Bob held several senior level management positions, including three years as Executive Director of Jumpstart Boston – where he oversaw a threefold increase in the organization’s impact on the City’s children.   Bob’s previous experience includes being involved in the start-up of a number of other successful non-profit ventures, and a stint in the for-profit sector with Procter and Gamble.  As a product of the Somerville Public Schools and a graduate of Harvard College, Bob knows first hand the need for high quality advising services and the role that financial aid, in particular scholarship support, plays in making a difference in one's life.

In addition to his work with ACCESS, Bob is on the Board of Directors of Boston-area non-profits Social Capital Inc and Strong Women Strong Girls and is Treasurer of the Board of idealist.org, the world’s idealist.org – the leading non-profit career internet site.  He is member of the Boston Study Group, a panel of business, philanthropic and non-profit leaders from across Boston who meet monthly to examine pressing issues facing the city. In both 2006 and 2009, Bob served as Co-Chair of the Education Convening for The Boston Foundation’s Boston Indicators Project, a biennial gathering of Boston’s educational leaders, and for the last three years has served as a member of EdVestors’ Educational Review Panel.  Bob has also served as an Alumni Interviewer for Harvard College. 

Bob resides with his family in Concord, Massachusetts.