DPMI Instructors
Diverse and moving practitioners with over 100 years of professional experience.
Beryl Levinger - Managing Development Projects
Dr. Beryl Levinger is Distinguished Professor of Nonprofit Management and MPA Program Chair at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. She also directs the Center for Organizational Learning and Development at the Education Development Center (COLAD). COLAD helps NGOs, governments, and multilaterals strengthen their capacity-building work.
Dr. Levinger has held senior positions at AFS Intercultural Programs (President), CARE (Vice President), and Save the Children. A former vice chair of InterAction, she has worked in more than 70 countries and regularly consults with such groups as the World Bank, UNICEF, USAID, UNDP, and a broad range of international NGOs. Dr. Levinger is also the Director of the Development Project Management Institute (DPMI).
Evan Bloom- Social Entrepreneurship and Strategic Partnering
Evan Bloom is founder and managing partner of Root Change, an international non profit which helps social innovators scale up enduring solutions to social and economic problems by launching and supporting pattern-breaking social enterprises that advance new ways of connecting people, organizing efforts, and promoting open innovation.
Before founding Root Change, Evan Bloom served as the vice president for capacity building at Pact, Inc. His duties included setting strategic directions for Pact’s organizational strengthening initiatives and projects, developing new capacity building technologies and researching new pathways to higher nonprofit performance.
During his 13- year tenure at Pact, Mr. Bloom authored one of the most widely used capacity diagnostic tools in international development, co-founded the Impact Alliance, a global action network committed to strengthening the capacity of individuals and organizations to generate deep impact, and founded the Capacity Building Services Group (CBSG). CBSG was the first global nonprofit management consulting and advisory group launched and directed from within a major US international nonprofit development agency, providing organizational capacity building technical assistance and advisory services to local organizations, multi and bilateral agencies, and NGO networks in 28 countries.
Seth Pollack - Facilitating Participatory Development
Dr. Seth Pollack, an associate professor and director of the Service Learning Institute, spent ten years in the field "doing good work," and now is helping students realize the impact that service can have in communities, and in themselves.
"When I teach and work with students I am always drawing on my experience as a peace corps volunteer. For five years I worked in communities as a stranger." Seth was in the Peace Corps in Mali, a desert country in West Africa, where he worked primarily with women's groups on issues of conservation and economic empowerment. His status as a man and status as a Westerner with outside knowledge were important factors in his interactions.
Dr. Pollack is deeply committed to developing students' capacity as community builders in a multicultural community and to establishing the kind of institutional environment needed to support community-based teaching, learning, and research.
Dr. Pollacks is recipient of the 2005 Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning.
