PERC Staff
Carol Mori, Executive Director
Carol has over 20 years in the non-profit sector and possesses in-depth knowledge and experience in contract compliance and management for Federal, State, County, and City grants in the State of New Jersey. Prior to GSECDC, she was Director of Finance at NJCRI, who is the largest provider of services in New Jersey for people living with HIV. She now serves on the Board of Trustees and is the Chair of the Finance Committee. She was Assistant to the Director Finance at Aids Resource Foundation for Children, that provides housing, education, and case management to families affect/infected with the HIV virus, where she was responsible for managing a 4.5 million dollar annual operating budget. She was Director of Budgeting & Regulatory Reporting & Compliance with Youth Consultation Services, the largest agency in the state of NJ that is based across six counties and operates a multitude of residential shelters, special education schools, and several community based programs state wide, where she was responsible for managing an operating budget that grew from 8 million to 40 million + during her tenure. Her accomplishments include implementation of automated financial data and reporting in all areas of finance, and establishing fiscal and administrative policies and procedures to ensure proper internal controls over financial reporting and day-to-day operations.
James Smith, Shelter Director
James Smith brings 3 decades of experience and dedication to PERC Shelter. He has worked in other agencies in Hudson and Essex County before joining PERC in 2022. He has been interested in social services and social justice issues since the mid 1980’s when homelessness and mental health issues first began being covered on the nightly news. Upon graduating high school and college he became involved in such causes and has continued ever since.
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