Since 2004, he has worked as vice president of The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation in Atlanta.
[1] He has published extensively on philanthropy and evaluation, including a 2004 book chapter[2] with Michael Quinn Patton and a 2010 article[3] that examined philanthropy, accountability and social change.
Bare is a contributor to the opinion section of CNN.com and an executive-in-residence at Georgia Tech's Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship.
He studied journalism under Philip Meyer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, completing a Ph.D. in 1995 and publishing a chapter on the belief systems of journalists in a 1998 book, Assessing Public Journalism, edited by Meyer, Ed Lambeth and Esther Thorson.
From 1990-97, he wrote a weekly column for The Chapel Hill Herald and produced issue briefs for the National Center for Education Statistics.