Our Board

Harriet Joynes combines over 20 years of experience in small business management with a sustained interest in the areas of nonprofit housing and micro-enterprise.  She is currently Chief Operating Officer at the Support Center for Nonprofit Management, where she is responsible for all internal operations including finances, administration, human resources, program operations, communications and technology.

Before moving to New York in 1980, she worked as a city social worker in West London, then as Housing Development Manager for the Notting Hill Housing Trust, buying and converting private housing to the public housing sector.

From 1983 to 2001, she successfully launched, ran, and sold The Ultimate Basket, a gift basket business in New York City.

Ms. Joynes is a graduate of  Fordham University  with a BA in Political Science and serves on the advisory board of the GEEL clubhouse in the Bronx.

Peter Brest has worked for over 25 years in the fields of housing and human services.

He joined the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty in 1996, serving first as Director of Housing and currently as Chief Operating Officer, where he oversees and manages the agency's service programs as well as developing new and innovative programs to serve low-income families and individuals.

He previously served as Associate Commissioner for Housing and Adult Services in the New York State Department of Social Services, where he was responsible for the development of housing for the homeless and oversight of the state's homeless shelters and adult residential care facilities.

Mr. Brest has Master's Degrees in Social Work from Columbia University and Public Administration from NYU.

Daniel Delehanty has worked in the field of community development for over 15 years. Starting in international community development, he ran the Trickle Up Program's microenterprise efforts in Africa, then served as Deputy Executive Director from 1998 – 2000. He then turned his attention to the New York area, working as Deputy Director of the Staten Island Economic Development Corporation. He also served as Deputy Director of the Business Outreach Center Network in Brooklyn, where he help launch innovative microenterprise programs for child care providers, refugees and women entrepreneurs. 

He then joined the public sector, serving as the Director of the Community Affairs Unit at the New York State Banking Department. There, he spearheaded the Banking Development District Program, a highly successful program to bring banking services to underserved areas. 

In September 2006, he returned to the private sector to join the Community Development Banking team of Capital One Bank as a Vice President. At Capital One, he directs CRA related philanthropy to support economic development and is responsible for community development activities in the field of economic and small business development. 

Mr. Delehanty is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of SUNY at Stony Brook and attended graduate school at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. 

Yma Gordon-Reid is currently the Senior Manager of Grant Programs at the Newell Rubbermaid Foundation. Most recently, she served as a Senior Vice President at Citigroup within the Citi Community Development team, managing a multi-million dollar grant and corporate contribution portfolio supporting national non-profit organizations. She worked with other consumer business units within Citi, as well, to provide access to products and services to underserved communities and to translate programmatic opportunities into business results.

Before joining Citi, she served as the Program Officer for Economic Development at the Ms. Foundation for Women, providing grants and technical support to organizations serving entrepreneurs and social enterprises in over 35 states. She is currently the chair of the National Advisory Council of the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO.) 

Ms. Gordon-Reid has a Master's of International Affairs from Columbia University and a Bachelor's in Economics from Spelman College 

Jill Kelly is the Deputy Regional Director, New York & Connecticut, for Citi  Community Development,  overseeing strategic projects, partner relationships, budgets, staffing and organizational effectiveness.  Her responsibilities have included CRA, Fair Lending and local government relations as well as executing Citi's community commitment for financial capability & asset building, neighborhood revitalization, enterprise development, microfinance, and college success through nonprofit community alliances and beyond philanthropy efforts.

She works closely with Citi Foundation to provide oversight and quality assurance for the grant making activities in the region.

Prior to joining Citi in 1997, her career encompassed roles in education, government affairs, and small business development. 

Ms. Kelly has a Bachelor's of Science degree from Barry University in Miami  and a Master's Degree from Florida State University.

Bryan Pu-Folkes is an attorney specializing in immigration law.  He serves as a member of the Immigration Committee of the New York City Bar Association and serves on the board of the Queens Legal Services Corporation. 

In 1999 he founded New Immigrant Community Empowerment, Inc. (NICE), a New York City based cross-cultural, non-profit immigrant service and advocacy organization that works to ensure that new immigrants are informed, active and influential in civic, governmental and public affairs.  

He also founded the Community Journal Legal and Education Fund, a nonprofit economic and community economic development initiative in Queens that publishes a fully bilingual Spanish-English newspaper and sponsors  community workshops and programs, including the annual Jackson Heights Film and Food Festival, a customer loyalty program to support local neighborhood merchants,  and the Jackson Heights Clean Streets initiative.

In 2005 he ran for City Council for the 25^th Council district in Queens, challenging an incumbent Council Member, and received endorsements from the New York Times, Citizens Union, the New York League of Conservation Voters.

Mr. Pu-Folkes is the recipient of many awards including the Best Lawyer Under 40 Award by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.