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 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 artists 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 was named recently to the board of the Cooperative Development Foundation.She has a BA in economics from Trinity College and an MBA in finance.
NEW ENGLAND LOAN AND OUTREACH OFFICERS
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.
BETSY BLACK, Concord, New Hampshire. Betsy works part-time assisting Rebecca with visiting current and potential borrowers, providing technical assistance, administration of the loan portfolio, and marketing the Fund in northwestern part of New England. Betsy’s background is working with community development financial institutions (CDFIs) and nonprofit organizations. She is a long time cooperative member, volunteer, board and committee member, and enthusiast. Betsy assists CDFIs nationally with capitalization and strategic planning, and instructs for Opportunity Finance Network and Oweesta Corporation. She formerly worked for the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund for a decade as Capitalization and Communications Director before starting her own consulting business in 2002. Previously, she worked as a solo law practitioner in Manchester and Concord (NH); for the Concord Feminist Health Center (a collective); and for the Argus Champion (NH) and Milford Cabinet (NH) newspapers. She holds a law degree from Pierce Law (NH), a BA in American Studies from Middlebury College (VT), is accredited through the International Coach Federation, and is a certified Kripalu yoga instructor.
MAGGIE COHN, Roxbury, Massachusetts. Maggie 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 southeastern part of New England. Maggie comes from recent positions as Executive Director of local non-profits. Most recently she oversaw a two-year planning initiative for the Boston Collaborative for Food & Fitness, working with a broad array of community organizations, institutions and municipal agencies. Prior to that, she served as the executive director of Mission Hill Main Streets, working with business owners and local residents to bring in new independent businesses and to strengthen and improve the commercial district. In the 1990s, she worked at Red Sun Press, a democratically-controlled commercial print shop in Jamaica Plain. Developing a lasting interest in community development, she left Red Sun to pursue a degree in Community Economic Development. Maggie currently serves on the boards of the Back of the Hill Community Development Corporation and the Mission Hill Health Movement, volunteers with Bikes Not Bombs, and is a member of the Boston Building Materials Coop and the Harvest Cooperative Market. She holds a BA from UMass Boston in Studio Arts and a Master’s Degree in Community Economic Development from Southern New Hampshire University.
Marketing, DEVELOPMENT AND SPECIAL PROJECTS
MICHA JOSEPHY, Boston, Massachusetts. Micha 
assists Rebecca with regional project, including regional food system innovations and development research. He first joined the coop movement as a member of the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association, in Oberlin, OH, and later coordinated the development of Boston Community Cooperative’s first housing development, Seed Pod Coop, in Dorchester, MA. He oversaw compliance of a large affordable housing portfolio with the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation, in Boston, MA, and managed the US Embassy’s Commissary in Lusaka, Zambia. He has a strong background in non-profit financial management and faith-based community organizing. He holds a BA in Environmental Studies from Oberlin College and an MS in Community Economic Development from Southern New Hampshire University.