FACILITATOR BIOS Pact's Vice President for Capacity Building Director of Pact’s Capacity Building Services Group (CBSG) Evan Bloom is Pact’s Vice President of Capacity Building and Director of Pact’s Capacity Building Services Group. He is responsible for setting the strategic direction of Pact’s organizational strengthening initiatives and projects, developing new capacity building technologies and researching new pathways to higher nonprofit performance. Mr. Bloom has worked in the field of international and community development for over twenty-five years. During that time, he has held numerous leadership positions, including coordinator of the International Rescue Committee’s NGO strengthening program in Since 1992, Beryl Levinger has served as Distinguished Professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, an affiliate of Middlebury College. Additionally, she directs the Development Project Management Institute there. Between 1992 and 2007, Beryl also headed the Center for Organizational Learning and Development at EDC (Education Development Center). As a veteran practitioner with nearly forty years’ experience in education and nonprofit management, Beryl has held executive positions at Save the Children, CARE (senior vice president), and AFS Intercultural Programs (President). She is a founder and past vice chair of InterAction, a consortium of more than 150 internationally focused non-governmental organizations based in the US. Her field experience includes ten years in Latin America with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Peace Corps as well as shorter assignments undertaken in almost eighty countries. She has been a consultant to many major nongovernmental and multilateral organizations including the World Bank, UNICEF, United Nations Development Program, Save the Children, and Catholic Relief Services. Beryl has written extensively on NGO capacity-building, capacity measurement, partnering, education policy, nutrition’s impact on school performance, leadership development, and the design of education and training programs. Claudia Liebler is one of a small number of professionals who specialize in positive approaches to change. Her innovative work in capacity building includes tools for building coordination and collaboration between organizations, government, bi-lateral and multi-lateral agencies, and community groups. She facilitates the mobilization of vibrant networks, assists organizations to create their futures and maximize their impact in the world, and helps communities of all kinds to discover their assets and build a common agenda among diverse stakeholders. She has worked with many different tools for performance enhancement and with methodologies that build strong local service provider communities. Kim Alter is recognized as a global thought leader for contributions in the field of social entrepreneurship and has endeavored for 18 years to employ business tools and market-based approaches in the social sector to create social change and alleviate poverty. Alter began her career as a social entrepreneur when she co-launched and directed a 100% self-financed social enterprise, Visions in Action, operating in five African countries. After a stint in corporate marketing and competitive intelligence for multinationals, Dow Corning and Volvo Construction Corp, she worked as a microfinance technical advisor for international agencies, Save the Children and Catholic Relief Services. In 2000, Alter started Virtue Ventures LLC, a small innovative management consulting firm committed to furthering the field of social entrepreneurship through action-research technical services and its own initiatives. Alter's expertise is in designing and implementing mission-focused social enterprises and incorporating business practices into nonprofit management to strengthen institutional capacity, engender an entrepreneurial culture, and increase financial sustainability. She has spoken widely on the subject of social entrepreneurship and several of her clients and projects have won awards for innovation. Alter has worked in 35 countries in: Europe, Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East and in a wide variety of industries and sectors. In 2004, Alter was appointed Visiting Fellow to the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford where she teaches and co-teaches several courses on social entrepreneurship, including High-Impact Social Enterprise Design and Social Finance. Pact's Capacity Building Services Group (CBSG) is Pact's global consulting and action research unit devoted to improving the management and governance capacity of nonprofits, foundations, multilateral agencies, and municipal governments. The CBSG directs a global performance-improvement consulting practice. It focuses on coordinating research programs and roundtables to drive innovations in social development, and documents promising approaches to support poverty reduction, good governance, environmental stewardship and healthy families. Our approach centers on strategy development for scaling up social impact, clarification of Theory of Change, evaluation of grant-making approaches, business models for programs and initiatives, and capacity diagnostics and strengthening services for grantees and organizational networks for change.
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