STAFF AND OUTREACH COORDINATORS
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
REBECCA DUNN, Wilmington, North Carolina. 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 on an as needed basis and to facilitate tertiary Board and Executive Committee meetings. She has extensive experience as a business consultant and as a commercial 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 non-profit advisor to a number of groups. These include her local food co-op, an urban grocery store project, a symphony orchestra, an artists collective, and Dance New England. She helped the Wilmington Community Coalition, a diverse organization which serves low-income city neighborhoods, form a community loan program. She has served on the Board of the National Community Capital Association, Temple of Israel, the Wilmington YWCA, New Hanover County Human Relations Commission, and Tidal Creek Food Coop. She has a BA in economics from Trinity College and an MBA in finance.NEW ENGLAND OUTREACH COORDINATORS
MARY HOYER, Amherst, Massachusetts. Mary works part-time assisting Rebecca with visiting current and potential borrowers, providing technical assistance, administration of the loan portfolio, and marketing the Fund in the southwestern part of New England. She is a former educator in the Hartford Public Schools and is now working as a community development consultant, having worked in the nonprofit and cooperative development arenas for over twenty-five years. She has been active in anti-racism and anti-apartheid work, union organizing, alternative and parent education, and local electoral politics. She has a doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, an MA from the University of Kentucky, and a BA from Occidental College. She joined the Fund’s Board of Trustees in 1992.
MARY O’HARA, Boston, Massachusetts. Mary works part-time assisting Rebecca with visiting current and potential borrowers, providing technical assistance, administration of the loan portfolio, and marketing the Fund in Eastern Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. She is a partner with Burlington Associates in Community Development, LLC and provides organizational development, strategic planning, and market analysis services to CDFI’s and community land trusts. She has served as the Director of Lending at the Institute of Community Economics and was a founding board member of the Boston Community Loan Fund. Mary has served as a guest lecturer at the Graduate Program in Community Economic Development at New Hampshire College and as an Instructor at National Community Capital Association’s and the National Community Land Trust annual conferences. She has a BA in Government and Human Services from Cornell.
PHEBE QUATTRUCCI, South Freeport, Maine. Phebe works part-time assisting Rebecca with visiting current and potential borrowers, providing technical assistance, administration of the loan portfolio, and marketing the Fund in New Hampshire and Maine. She is an experienced loan officer formerly with Coastal Enterprises, Inc. (CEI), a CDFI in Wiscasset, Maine. She is an experienced grant writer and works with CDFIs to develop comprehensive capitalization plans. Her past experience includes portions with the Maine Credit Union League, Peoples Heritage Bank and the Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation. Phebe has a BA from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont.
BRENDA LATVALA PFAHNL, Goffstown, New Hampshire. Brenda works part-time assisting Rebecca with visiting current and potential borrowers, providing technical assistance, administration of the loan portfolio, and marketing the Fund in New Hampshire and Vermont. Brenda's background is in cooperatives, community lending and affordable housing development. She holds a master's degree in Community Economic Development, as well as an MBA with a concentration in finance. She has worked with CFNE as an Outreach Coordinator as well serving on the Board. She has also worked as Finance Director for an affordable housing development company and with manufactured housing park cooperatives while working for the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund. In a volunteer capacity she has served as Treasurer on the Board of Directors of the Concord Food Cooperative and as the Secretary on the Board of Nesenkeag Farm.
