Margaret H. Reiff, MSW, LCSW
Executive Director/CEO

Ms. Reiff was appointed to serve as Jarvie’s Executive Director/CEO on November 1, 2007, after serving as the Deputy Director of the Jarvie Commonweal Service® for over six years. As Deputy Director, Ms. Reiff oversaw, coordinated and administered the Jarvie Service's Individual Service Program, supervising a staff of six social workers and the program's Assistant Director for Staff and Student Training.

Before coming to Jarvie in 2001, Ms. Reiff served as the Program Officer at the Brookdale Foundation. Her responsibilities included managing the daily operations of the foundation: reviewing and overseeing awards for all grant initiatives, coordinating national training conferences and providing technical assistance services. Previously, Ms. Reiff resided in the Boston area where she was a Service Coordinator for the Cambridge Housing Authority in elder and disabled housing developments and as a Protective Services Worker and Case Manager for West Suburban Elder Services. She also has experience as a family therapist and served as a Schweitzer Urban Fellow at Boston City Hospital's Child Witness to Violence Project. Ms. Reiff has served as a volunteer co-facilitator of a support group for Alzheimer's caregivers at SAGE New York. In 2006, Ms. Reiff was elected a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.

Ms. Reiff, a native of Pennsylvania, earned her undergraduate degree with honors at Mt. Holyoke College, and a Master of Social Work at Simmons College School of Social Work in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2003 she completed the Executive Level Management Program at Columbia University’s Institute for Not-for-Profit Management.

 

Raymond J. Hamilton, RFG
Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Hamilton brought over twenty years of not-for-profit accounting and management experience to Jarvie in 2001. In addition to managing the accounting function, he supervises other administrative functions, including technology.

He previously served as Assistant Director of Finance for the Peale Center for Christian Living in Pawling, New York, overseeing accounting staff supporting the planned giving activities of that ministry. Before that position, Mr. Hamilton was Assistant Controller at the Christian Herald's Bowery Mission Ministries, an organization that operates a homeless shelter and rehabilitation center in Lower Manhattan and administers a summer program for underprivileged children in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. He also volunteers his time working within the penal system leading retreat-style programs for the incarcerated.

A native of Massachusetts, Ray grew up in Maine but is a long-time New York resident and earned a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from Marist College in Poughkeepsie. Mr. Hamilton was certified as a Registered Financial Gerontologist (RFG) in 2004.