DPMI Instructors

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 is Professor of Service Learning, and the Director of the Service Learning Institute at California State University, Monterey Bay. Under Dr. Pollack’s leadership CSUMB has become recognized as a national leader in the field of service learning and civic engagement. 

In 2005, Dr. Pollack received the Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning, for his work in linkingcommunity and campus around issues of diversity, and social justice.  He has led workshops on curricular change and civic engagement across the country and internationally. 

In 2009, Dr. Pollack was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Cape Town and the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, supporting higher education’s efforts to build transformative partnerships with NGOs. Dr. Pollack has significant experience working in rural development in West Africa, Central America and South Asia. 

He was Community Development trainer for Plan International, and was country director for the American Friends Service Committee in Mali, where he helped to found the first independent Malian women’s NGO:  Femmes et Developpement.  He also created and produced the award-winning documentary film series, The Quiet Revolution, highlighting success stories in sustainable rural development from around the globe.  Dr. Pollack has a PhD in International Development Education and an MA in Organizational Sociology, both from Stanford University.