Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Root Change

Biography

Photo of Evan  BloomBefore 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, Evan authored one of the most widely used capacity diagnostic tools in international development, co-founded the Impact Alliance www.impactalliance.org, 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 and only 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.

Evan has worked in the field of international development and community development for 25 years. He has lived in South Asia and West Africa, and has undertaken numerous assignments abroad in more than 20 countries. Evan has been a consultant to over 50 U.S. PVOs and international NGOs, Southern NGOs, the United Nations, the World Bank, Peace Corps, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Fortune 500 Corporations including Dow Jones and Time, Inc. He teaches innovation and strategic partnering with the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey California.