Rebecca Dunn
Rebecca Dunn
Overview
Rebecca has been the Executive Director since March, 1986. She manages the Fund from her home office (which moved in April, 1994.) She commutes to New England to facilitate Board and Executive Committee meetings. She has extensive experience as a business consultant and as a commercial bank loan officer for Barclays American. She was formerly a bank examiner for the State of Connecticut. Rebecca has also worked as a consensus process trainer and nonprofit advisor to a number of groups. These include her local food co-op, an urban grocery store project, a symphony orchestra, an artist collective, and Dance New England. She helped Wilmington Community Coalition, a diverse organization which served low-income city neighborhoods, form a community loan program. She has served on the boards of the Opportunity Finance Network (National Community Capital Association), Temple of Israel, the Wilmington YWCA, New Hanover County Human Relations Commission, WHQR public radio community advisory, and Tidal Creek Food Coop. Rebecca serves on to the board of the Cooperative Development Foundation as Treasurer.
Cooperative Fund of New England
CFNE advances community based, cooperative and democratically owned or managed enterprises with preference to those that serve low income communities through: · provision of prompt financial assistance at reasonable rates · provision of an investment opportunity that promotes socially conscious enterprise; and · development of a regional reservoir of business skills with which to assist these groups.
Executive Director