Ethnicity Hispanic Religion Jewish | Spouse(s) Seth Eisenberg Education Harvard University | |
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Born May 13, 1972 (age 51) ( 1972-05-13 ) Miami Beach, Florida Residence North Miami Beach, Florida Occupation President/CEO, Carrfour Supportive Housing Children Zachary Eisenberg (b. 2009)
Michael Eisenberg (b. 1992, stepson)
Alex Eisenberg (b. 1989, stepson) Name Stephanie Berman-Eisenberg | ||
Miami today profile stephanie berman eisenberg
Stephanie Berman-Eisenberg (born May 13, 1972) is President/CEO of Carrfour Supportive Housing, a position she has held since 2006, Berman-Eisenberg has guided Carrfour's development into Florida's largest non-profit provider of supportive housing. Berman-Eisenberg earned a master's degree in administration, planning, and social policy from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, and a bachelor's degree from Brandeis University.
Contents
- Miami today profile stephanie berman eisenberg
- Ending Homelessness
- Operation Sacred Trust
- Awards and recognition
- Personal
- References
Berman-Eisenberg oversees a current inventory of more than 1,700 supportive and affordable housing units and "has led the effort to assemble more than $200 million in funding to develop an additional 500 units over the coming years."
She serves on the City of Miami Beach Affordable Housing Committee, Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce Affordable Housing Committee, and the JPMorgan Chase Community Advisory Committee.
In 2011, The Miami Herald named her as one of South Florida's "20 most influential leaders under the age of 40."
Her articles on homelessness in Miami have been frequently published on the Opinion Page of The Miami Herald, including "Stadium plan to house homeless no slam dunk," "A step forward for homeless vets," and "Fighting homelessness in Miami."
Berman-Eisenberg was named one of the most "Influential Business Women" by the South Florida Business Journal in 2013 and 2014. She was featured in a national profile for Commercial Property Executive in January 2014.
Ending Homelessness
Her efforts to implement novel, replicable approaches to reducing poverty and ending homelessness within many of Miami-Dade County's most economically-distressed neighborhoods have been widely profiled in news, business, and trade publications.
Berman-Eisenberg opposed a 2012 Florida Bill to use stadiums as temporary homeless shelters.
In a presentation to the 2013 National Community Reinvestment Corporation conference, Berman-Eisenberg urged increased public/private partnerships to address the housing needs of people with special needs.
Shortly after his confirmation as the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Ben Carson traveled to Miami where Berman-Eisenberg hosted him at Carrfour Supportive Housing's Villa Aurora community to show him the direct impact of federal housing subsidies.
Operation Sacred Trust
In 2011, Berman-Eisenberg co-founded Operation Sacred Trust, a collaboration of leading South Florida social service agencies with a shared commitment to ending homelessness for veteran families. Between 2011 and 2016, Berman-Eisenberg succeeded in winning more than $7 million in federal grants funds for the initiative from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Supportive Services for Veteran Families program, to provide housing prevention and rapid rehousing services to more 7,500 low-income veterans and their family members in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
A 2012 Huffington Post article featured Operation Sacred Trust as a new model for ending veteran homelessness.
Awards and recognition
Personal
Berman-Eisenberg, a native of Miami Beach, is married and has three children; a son and two stepsons. She lives in North Miami Beach, Florida.