The Clearinghouse is an all-volunteer project of Pima Council on Aging (PCOA) under the direction of the Manager of Volunteer Services.

Meet the Volunteer Clearinghouse Staff

Joyce Finkelstein, Program Manager

Joyce worked for Pima Community College before becoming the executive director of the Green Valley CommunityCoordinating Council, now GVC, in 1999. After retiring in 2009, Joyce threw herself into community service and as President of the Green Valley Recreation Board of Directors. She also served as Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer of GVR and has chaired the Bylaws, Nominations and Elections, Board Affairs and the Planning and Fiscal Affairs Committees. She is currently a Board member of the Greater Green Valley Community Foundation, and past president of the Rotary Club of Green Valley and currently serves as an Assistant Governor of Rotary District 5500. Joyce also served as president of the Country Fair White Elephant Board. Other groups, but not all, in which Joyce volunteers is the Freeport-McMorran Foundation, Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona, Pima Council on Aging, Beth Shalom Temple Center and is a volunteer mediator for the Arizona Attorney General's Office.

Diane Diamond, Editor/Workshop Manager

Diane, a CAE (Certified Association Executive), served the association and banking industry in several capacities in the Chicago area for over 25 years, retiring in 2008 and moving to Arizona in 2009. She has volunteered as the Vice President of Media Relations for the Southern Arizona Chapter of SCORE and wrote their weekly Biz Tip column in Monday’s Arizona Daily Star. She currently volunteers for the White Elephant Thrift Store and the Green Valley/Sahuarita Volunteer Clearinghouse and manages their Facebook pages.

For 13 years prior to retirement, she was the Vice President, Director of Professional Development for the Financial Managers Society (www.fmsinc.org), a professional society for 1,600 chief financial officers and financial managers of community banks, thrifts and credit unions. She was responsible for the development and management of a national conference, thirty plus regional meetings and over twenty on-line seminars in addition to the production of publications (books and CDs).

She has been in association management since 1987 working for both a state and national trade associations for bankers (Financial Managers Society, Illinois Credit Union League and The Institute of Financial Education). She also served as the Director of Training at a community bank and taught various courses at the junior college level. She earned a bachelor’s degree in education (Miami University, Ohio) and a master’s degree in human development (University of Illinois).

Wesley Whitman, Volunteer Orientation/Database Manager

Wes grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He has a BA in Psychology from Muhlenberg College and an MA in Industrial Psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Much of his career was spent working in Human Resources departments in New York City. The last eight years before he retired he was an Adjunct Instructor at Muhlenberg in the Psychology Department.

Wes and his wife Lori moved from Pennsylvania in 2004, currently residing in Quail Creek. Since that time, he has become an active volunteer in many organizations. He has worked as a docent at both Titan Missile Museum and Pima Air and Space Museum. He developed and taught two classes for the local branch of OLLI in Green Valley. He has been with Valley Assistance Services since 2010, conducting a workshop in Financial Literacy. He currently is a member of the Senior Medicare Patrol for Pima Council on Aging, presenting talks on preventing Medicare fraud. Wes also is an instructor for the AARP Smart Driver course. He is now with the Green Valley/Sahuarita Volunteer Clearinghouse, developing the volunteer orientation program.

Gary Kissinger, Database Applications Developer

Gary has a B.S degree in Information technology and B.S. in Business Management. He worked in computer industry for 30 years as a programmer through an Executive Vice President. Currently he is retired in Green Valley, developing database applications for non-profits.