"Robert simply understands how to get things done ...
... and knows the nonprofit arena. He has a broad span of achievements - resurrecting boards of directors, mobilizing community leaders, raising significant charitable funds, succeeding in competing for large government grants, and building a solid professional staff teams. Yet he is more than just a manager. Robert has a unique knack of connecting with clients. His enthusiasm is infectious and inspires both professional and lay leaders to dedicate their own talents and resources toward achieving the mission."
ELLIOT LEVIN - President
Partnership Resources Group (CHI Fundraising Consultant)
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ELLIOT LEVIN - President
Partnership Resources Group (CHI Fundraising Consultant)
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Over $5,000 raised from CHI's 2010 holiday greeting card sales program.
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BIO: Robert V. Tobin, MPA
During more than four decades of leadership in social service agencies, Mr. Tobin provided overnight shelter to a person who urgently needed it more than 1.5 million times.
Opening ten residential facilities for populations ranging from single men and then-called “runaway” teenagers to families reuniting with children from foster care or fleeing domestic violence, Tobin managed over $40 million for programs earning “Best Practice” awards ranging from the local Chambers of Commerce to the Smithsonian Institution.
Starting his career in public service as a VISTA Volunteer, Mr. Tobin subsequently worked for almost twenty years in and around San Francisco’s Tenderloin District addressing challenges relating to economic development, homelessness, poverty, disability, AIDS/HIV, mental health, substance abuse and neighborhood arts/culture. He has since worked in rural and suburban communities to help low income help themselves - and each other - to address the causes and consequences of poverty. As a board member or in consulting capacities, he has helped dozens of community service agencies do that most difficult of things: change.
In Tobin's ten years as President & CEO of Cottage Housing Inc., the agency’s budget doubled, its graduation rate nearly tripled, residential accommodations quadrupled, and the number of persons served annually rose ten-fold. During this time, he led a successful advocacy campaign to develop a 5-acre, 83-unit, $14 million homeless family reunification program – Sacramento County’s first and largest - on a closing military base. Having developed programming cited as a national model for resiliency-based intervention, Tobin developed a training manual to help agencies shift from top-down provider/consumer relationships into participant-driven engagement strategies based upon mutual accountability.
Previously, the inner-city multi-service center he led for nearly a decade - Central City Hospitality House - quadrupled in its budget while launching the city’s first self-help mental health center as well as a downtown art gallery and thriving greeting card business. In this capacity, Tobin co-authored legislation creating the first city-wide policy on homelessness.
Other previous roles included: Executive Officer for San Francisco County Public Health Department’s Advisory Committee on Drug Abuse; Resource Development Coordinator for the San Francisco Independent Living Project; and Program Director for the Bay Area Welfare Rights Organization. Mr. Tobin also served as the founding Executive Director of the Boys & Girls Club of Auburn, CA. From all these capacities, he acquired extensive experience with special events, promotional materials packaging and media placements.
Public recognition for these efforts include Sacramento Metro chamber’s Al Geiger Memorial Award (2010), Local Hero Award from the Center for Fathers & Families (2010), North Highlands’ Business Leader of the Year (2003), and Fenwick High School Alumni of the Month (2012). Other honors came from San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Leadership Council (1991), a Gerbode Fellowship (1990), and San Francisco Suicide Prevention (1989). He is a Senior Fellow of American Leadership Forum and has served as a vision consultant to organizations and individuals seeking to shift from transactional to transformational leadership.
Mr. Tobin earned a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from University of San Francisco. His experience in cultivating harmony and teamwork comes from decades playing sax, keyboards and bass filled in local bands. His experience in community organizing began at home as the 5th oldest of 17 children.
During more than four decades of leadership in social service agencies, Mr. Tobin provided overnight shelter to a person who urgently needed it more than 1.5 million times.
Opening ten residential facilities for populations ranging from single men and then-called “runaway” teenagers to families reuniting with children from foster care or fleeing domestic violence, Tobin managed over $40 million for programs earning “Best Practice” awards ranging from the local Chambers of Commerce to the Smithsonian Institution.
Starting his career in public service as a VISTA Volunteer, Mr. Tobin subsequently worked for almost twenty years in and around San Francisco’s Tenderloin District addressing challenges relating to economic development, homelessness, poverty, disability, AIDS/HIV, mental health, substance abuse and neighborhood arts/culture. He has since worked in rural and suburban communities to help low income help themselves - and each other - to address the causes and consequences of poverty. As a board member or in consulting capacities, he has helped dozens of community service agencies do that most difficult of things: change.
In Tobin's ten years as President & CEO of Cottage Housing Inc., the agency’s budget doubled, its graduation rate nearly tripled, residential accommodations quadrupled, and the number of persons served annually rose ten-fold. During this time, he led a successful advocacy campaign to develop a 5-acre, 83-unit, $14 million homeless family reunification program – Sacramento County’s first and largest - on a closing military base. Having developed programming cited as a national model for resiliency-based intervention, Tobin developed a training manual to help agencies shift from top-down provider/consumer relationships into participant-driven engagement strategies based upon mutual accountability.
Previously, the inner-city multi-service center he led for nearly a decade - Central City Hospitality House - quadrupled in its budget while launching the city’s first self-help mental health center as well as a downtown art gallery and thriving greeting card business. In this capacity, Tobin co-authored legislation creating the first city-wide policy on homelessness.
Other previous roles included: Executive Officer for San Francisco County Public Health Department’s Advisory Committee on Drug Abuse; Resource Development Coordinator for the San Francisco Independent Living Project; and Program Director for the Bay Area Welfare Rights Organization. Mr. Tobin also served as the founding Executive Director of the Boys & Girls Club of Auburn, CA. From all these capacities, he acquired extensive experience with special events, promotional materials packaging and media placements.
Public recognition for these efforts include Sacramento Metro chamber’s Al Geiger Memorial Award (2010), Local Hero Award from the Center for Fathers & Families (2010), North Highlands’ Business Leader of the Year (2003), and Fenwick High School Alumni of the Month (2012). Other honors came from San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Leadership Council (1991), a Gerbode Fellowship (1990), and San Francisco Suicide Prevention (1989). He is a Senior Fellow of American Leadership Forum and has served as a vision consultant to organizations and individuals seeking to shift from transactional to transformational leadership.
Mr. Tobin earned a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from University of San Francisco. His experience in cultivating harmony and teamwork comes from decades playing sax, keyboards and bass filled in local bands. His experience in community organizing began at home as the 5th oldest of 17 children.