Charles Bell

Program Director, Consumer Reports

Chuck Bell is Programs Director for Consumer Reports, an independent nonprofit member organization that works side by side with consumers for transparency and fairness in the marketplace. Over his 30 years at CR, Chuck has worked closely with CR's advocacy offices in California, New York, Texas, and Washington, DC on a wide range of consumer policy issues, including health care, financial services, food safety and product safety. From 1995 to 2015, Chuck served as the New York coordinator for CU’s Charitable Health Assets Project, which worked to provide public oversight of conversions of nonprofit health corporations to for-profit companies, and to hold nonprofit health insurers and hospitals accountable to their social missions. He currently leads direct advocacy in the northeastern states on CR's priority campaign issues. He has served as a Project Associate for the Philanthropication thru Privatization (PtP) initiative, and contributed to several project papers and case studies. Chuck also serves as chair of the board of directors for Nonprofit Quarterly, a nonprofit journalism organization.