Board of Directors                                                                                              Meeting Dates

(September 1993) - James L. Armstrong, III – Phillips Exeter Academy 1951; Yale University, B.A. 1955; Yale Law School, LLB 1958; Married 1955 to Mary R. McCall, two children, five grandchildren. Retired attorney – Partner Kelley, Drye & Warren (merger partner with Smathers & Thompson); litigation practice in business an anti-trust matters. Past President Dade County Bar Association and Orange Bowl Committee. Member of American College Trial Lawyers; International Academy Trial Lawyers, Director and co-chairman of Community Partnership for Homeless
 

(April 2004) - Trish Bell is a dedicated civic activist and philanthropist in Miami since 1977. She devotes much time to planning events and raising funds for causes that improve the community, especially the under-served sector. Her focus areas have been numerous. She presently serves as Co-Chair/Museum of Science, provides counseling in the Stephen Minister Program, and actively supports Kendall United Methodist Church, Miami Urban Ministries, Red Cross, Informed Families, Ronald MacDonald House, FAN, the Ballet, and Coconut Grove Playhouse. Trish and husband, Dan, have been married for 42 years, have three children, and together enjoy boating, traveling, music and sports.

(December 2003) - Yolanda Berkowitz has an extensive background in real estate and sales. Prior to her residency in Miami, Berkowitz was a managing partner with a multi-national foreign corporation based in Hong Kong. Living in Miami since 1995, Berkowitz has focused her efforts on community involvement. She has served as a board member of Adopt-A-Pet, Telluride Historical Museum and she is a trustee of Voices for Children Foundation, Inc. Berkowitz is also a child advocate with the Guardian Ad Litem Program.

(September 1993) – Creed C. Black is a native Kentuckian, an infantry veteran of World War II and a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. He spent most of his career as a newspaper editor and publisher but also served two years as an assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education & Welfare. He retired in 1998 after a decade as president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. He is married to the former Elsa Goss, an attorney and journalist, and has four children and eight grandchildren.
 

(July 2000) - Philip F. Blumberg, founder and CEO of American Ventures group of companies ranking among the top real estate investment managers in the US. He serves on the Boards of Florida Chamber of Commerce, Florida Council of 100, University of Miami, Beacon Council, Orange Bowl Committee, CPHI and Greater Miami Foreign Trade Zone - also a member of Florida Council of 100 and Miami Business Forum. He’s a past Chairman of Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce. Graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, received a B.S. with Honors, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
 

(October 2004) – Paula Brockway currently serves on the board of trustees for Palmer Trinity School, as well as the board of trustees for St. Thomas Episcopal School and recently served as senior warden of the church, also on the board for Beaux Arts, and the Museum of Science and Planetarium. Brockway has an extensive history of involvement in many organizations throughout Miami, including Baptist Children’s Hospital, the Eisenhart Concert Series, the American Red Cross, and the University of Miami.
 

(May 2004) – Nicholas G. Bustle is City President of Miami for SunTrust Bank South Florida Region and Commercial Banking Line of Business Manager for the South Florida Region. He has been with SunTrust Bank for 17 years. Active in Miami-Dade community, Bustle serves on the Board of Directors of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Beacon Council. Bustle holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and a Master of Science degree in International Business from Florida International University.

 

(September 1993) - Alvah H. Chapman, Jr. is the Founding Chairman of Community Partnership for Homeless, Inc. A third generation newspaper executive, he retired as Chairman of Knight Ridder in 1989 after almost 30 years with the company and continued as a Knight Ridder Director through April 2000. His many civic involvements have included service as Chairman of We Will Rebuild following Hurricane Andrew, Founding Chairman of Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, and 31 years as a Director of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. A native of Columbus, Georgia, he graduated from The Citadel, Military College of South Carolina, in 1942. After graduation, he served as a B-17 bomber pilot and squadron commander in World War II completing 37 combat missions with the 8th Air Force.
 

(September 1993) - Robert E. Chisholm has been involved from the beginning with Community Partnership for Homeless as a member of the Board, Chairman of the Design & Construction committee and more recently as a member of the Executive Committee. Mr. Chisholm is Owner and President of R.E. Chisholm Architects. Mr. Chisholm blends his architectural skills into leadership initiatives bringing architects and the community into common efforts through involvement in the community business leadership, disaster relief, codes, procedures and social architecture issues through his personal service and accomplishments. Mr. Chisholm was inducted into the Second Annual Alumni Hall of Fame for Architecture and Community Service for Miami-Dade College; elected to the Board of Trustees for Beacon Council; Chairperson of the South Florida National Parks Trust; Member of New World Center Committee of Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce; Past Board member of the Latin Builders Association; past Chairperson of the South Beach Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; Member Kiwanis Club of Little Havana; Chairperson for Everglades, Biscayne and Dry Tortugas National Parks for the South Florida National Parks Trust; Board of Directors Allapattah YMCA; Beacon Council Member; during Hurricane Andrew emergency efforts he rallied and led architects in Miami to provide pro-bono services in cooperation with government efforts; has received numerous national urban design awards as well as elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA). Mr. Chisholm was awarded the Jubilee 2000 Pontifical Medal by the Vatican and the Archdiocese of Miami. Mr. Chisholm received Masters degree from the University of Miami. He and his wife, Lilliam, have two adult children.
 

(July 2004) - Bonnie M. Crabtree is the Managing Director of Korn/Ferry International’s Florida office. She has been in executive search for fifteen years and her international and domestic assignments have spanned a wide variety of functions at the senior executive levels. Ms. Crabtree is Chair of the Board of Directors of Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Greater Miami, on the Board of Florida International University Foundation, the Board of Governors of the Miami City Club, and the Board of Governors of the Miami Chamber of Commerce.
 

(September 2003) - Nancy Davis is chairman of the board and president of McArthur Farms, Inc. and McArthur Management Company. She is highly active in numerous organizations in the community professionally and personally, ranging from agriculture to the arts. Davis currently serves as vice-chairman of the Florida Land Council and director of Florida Dairy Farmers, Inc. Davis is also director of the Performing Arts Center, Florida Grand Opera, and Historic Bok Sanctuary. She is a founding director of the Miami City Ballet.

(September 1993) - Annette Eisenberg served on the boards of the Urban Renewal Area Program, Little HUD, Downtown Development Authority, City of Miami Code Enforcement, Wynwood Area Empowerment Zone, and the Downtown Bay Forum.

Awards include: Prominent People in Florida Government, Citizen of the Day, Martin Luther King Memorial Brotherhood, Florida Electronic Service’s Woman of the Year, Edison Middle School’s Pacesetter, the naming of “The Annette Eisenberg Community Center”, Edison Park Outstanding Support Award, John F. Kennedy Award for Community Services, Tifereth Israel’s Presidential Award and Woman of the Year.
 

(July 2003) – Carlos Fernandez-Guzman is the executive vice president of the marketing division for BankUnited, Florida’s largest Florida-based bank with branches located throughout south and west Florida. Over his 30-year career, Fernandez-Guzman has served as a top executive at various companies in the Miami area including XTec, Southeast Banks, American Savings of Florida, Riverdale Investments and Consolidated Bank. He is active in many civic organizations including the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, United Way of Dade County as well as the board of directors of United Home Heath Care.

(September 2002) Nancy Hector is the retired principal of Miami-based Bayview Financial Trading Group, which was founded in 1993. Prior to that she served as Managing Director and COO of Reserve Financial Company and was employed by banking giants Citicorp and Bankers Trust in New York. Hector is one of the founders of “I Have a Dream Foundation,” a private trust established by Bayview that mentors and tutors children in Liberty City beginning in elementary school through high school with the goal of helping finance their college education. She is a supporter of the Charlie Foundation, recently providing funding to purchase land in North Carolina to build a summer camp for foster children. Hector resides in Coral Gables with her husband and four children.
 

(October 1994) - Dorothy Jenkins Fields, PhD - Founder of the Black Archives, History & Research Foundation of South Florida, Inc. - Historian Dr. Dorothy Fields is a native whose maternal grandparents settled in Overtown, the Colored section of Miami, in 1903. Her life’s work is community transformation through scholarly research and historic preservation, tools to help indigenous residents gain employment. She saved the Lyric Theater and other buildings from the wrecking ball. Inspired by Alvah Chapman’s efforts to build a model comprehensive homeless shelter adjacent to Overtown, she is a longtime CPHI board member.
 
 

(March 2002) - Rev. Roberto Garza is Pastor of San Isidro Catholic Church in Pompano Beach, Fl. He is also the Director of Mission Effectiveness and an Executive Board Member of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami; Executive Board and Ethics Committee Member of Catholic Hospice, Inc.; Executive Board Member of the Florida Community Loan Fund, Inc.; President of Verbo y Vida/Word and Life Catholic Television Ministry; and a Spiritual Director at St. John Vianney College Seminary in Miami.
 
 

(December 2004) - John Krousouloudis is currently Vice President-Marine Operations for Celebrity Cruises, responsible for the marine, technical, safety and environment management of Celebrity’s fleet. He has held various engineering and management positions with Exxon Corp, Group Vice President in Greece and England for ABS and Chief Operating Officer of AVIN International, a major oil tanker company. He holds a B.E. in Naval Architecture from the State University of New York and an MBA from Michigan State University.
 

(September 1999) - R. Kirk Landon is retired Chairman of American Bankers Insurance Group. He is currently the Chairman of Innovative Surveillance Technology and Orange Clothing. Also, he serves as a Trustee of Florida International University and holds Board positions in Arts for Learning, Community Partnership for Homeless and The Zoological Society of Florida.
 

John Malloy, Jr. is a senior managing director and partner of Everest Capital, an investment advisory firm. Malloy joined the company in 1996 and has 14 years of experience in research analysis and international investment management. He received a bachelor's degree in management from Norwich University, Military School of Vermont, and a master's in business administration from the Boston University Graduate School of Management. He is a vestry member of St. Thomas Episcopal Parish of Coral Gables, FL.
 

(December 1999) - Albert Nahmad is President and CEO of Watsco, Inc., a public company trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Watsco is the world's largest distributor of central air conditioners, gas furnaces and related products. Previously, he was a group Vice President of W. R. Grace & Company. He is a graduate of the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and of Purdue University at West LaFayette, Indiana with a Master of Science degree in Industrial Administration.
 

(December 2003) - Amarilis Moran Osorio has dedicated herself for the past 10 years to help children locally as well as internationally. She is the founder and president of CHS Cares, an international charity that supports day care centers and orphanages, and The Phoenix Initiative Program, which donated more than 5,000 computers to schools and hospitals in 15 countries. Additionally, Osorio is a founding member of i2 Cares and a board member of Cushman School.
 

(April 2004) - Allan J. Pekor is chairman of Lennar Financial Services and executive director of the Lennar Foundation. Originally from the New York area Pekor worked for Deloitte & Touche and the Rockefeller organization. In addition to his duties at Lennar, he serves on the Board of United Way, Inroads and Temple Beth Sholom. Pekor holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Pace University, New York, where he is a member of the Board of Trustees.
 
 

Darryl Robinson is vice president of Transwestern Commercial Services, a national commercial real estate firm. Robinson provides tenants and property owners with a broad spectrum of real estate services and represents clients in complex transactions for properties located throughout Florida and in other parts of the country. Robinson serves on the board of the South Florida Community Christian Foundation. He resides in Coral Gables, FL.
 

(April 2000) - Wayne Schuchts, real estate professional, innovator, born March 25, 1961, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Wayne at age 9 moved to Florida and attended Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory, where he is now chairman of the Board of Directors. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1984 with additional studies at Colgate University. Wayne briefly played professional football. Wayne has 22 years of commercial real estate experience serving many Fortune 500 Companies real estate needs. Wayne is married to the beautiful Tara Elias and is blessed with two special children – Brooke and Jameson.
 
 

(December 2004) - The Reverend Thom Shafer is the senior pastor of First United Methodist Church of Coral Gables. He has served in various positions of leadership within United Methodism: consultant with United Methodist Committee on Relief; chairperson for the Florida Conference Council on Ministries; and most recently as District Superintendent of the Jacksonville District. Currently he serves on the Boards of Directors for the Florida United Methodist Children’s Home, Community Partnership for Homeless, and Chairperson of theDade and Broward Districts of the United Methodist Church. Reverend Shafer is married to Karen King Shafer and they have two teenage children.
 

(February 2000) - S.A. Spencer is the founder, CEO, and principal investor of Holding Capital Group, a private management and leveraged buyout and venture capital investment firm. Holding Capital has completed over 100 transactions aggregating over $3 billion since inception in 1975. Prior to that, Mr. Spencer was a managing director of AP Moller (Maersk Line), Copenhagen, Denmark; a consultant/ partner with McKinsey & Company; President and CEO of Briggs Manufacturing Company in Warren, Michigan. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. 

 
Suzanna Valdez is program director for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. She has over 16 years of management and public relations experience in the legislative, government, academic and private sectors. Past government positions include her presidential appointment in 1993 to the White House Office of Public Liaison, where she served as the principal liaison to the Hispanic community. In 2001, Valdez pursued a graduate degree at Columbia University and was named associate director of the Eugene M. Lang Center for Entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School. In May 2004, she received an MPA with a concentration in international economic policy.
 

(September 1993) - H. Daniel Vincent has been Executive Director of Community Partnership for Homeless since 2001. Dan came to Community Partnership with nearly twenty-two years of experience in non-profit charitable organizations, primarily with The Salvation Army. While with The Salvation Army he served as an officer, professional employee as well as ordained/commissioned officer with the rank of Major. He is an active member of civic and business organizations. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Touching Miami With Love, has served as the Vice Chair of Miami-Dade County Emergency Food & Shelter Board as well as the Chair of Miami-Dade VOAD.
 

(June 2001) - Joanna D. Wragg, APR, is a principal of Wragg & Casas Public Relations, Inc. A member of the Counselors Academy of the Public Relations Society of America, she is Accredited in Public Relations (APR). A board member of the business organization, Florida TaxWatch, Wragg also is Trustee of the National Cathedral Association of Washington National Cathedral. A former journalist, Wragg is a past president of the National Conference of Editorial Writers and former associate editor of The Miami Herald.
 

(December 2004) - Stefan H. Zachar, III, a third generation Miamian has been aware of the homeless issues dating back to his teenage days. Being involved with CPHI and serving the residents has a spiritual meaning to him. "I want my children to appreciate how lucky they are and never forget that each one of us is special no matter our circumstance." He started Tropees" of the Historical Museum of Southern Florida and has served on numerous boards in the community. Stefan is a Vice President with Goldman Sachs & Co. Private Wealth Management.