Purpose Future Fellow - Emerging Fund Manager
Dorian Gregory
Deputy Director, Cooperative Fund of New England
Dorian Gregory is enabling cooperative businesses in low-income communities to access financial products and leverage their skills to help build a robust, localized ecosystem of entities rooted in shared ownership.
Through the Purpose Futures Fellowship, Dorian Gregory is focused on growing the Cooperative Fund of New England (CFNE). The CFNE is a non-profit loan fund, community development financial institution providing loan capital to cooperatively-owned enterprises to finance working capital, real estate and business acquisition, and other small business needs. CFNE provides lines of credit, term loans and flexibly-structured term loans that may be redrawn as paid down.
As Deputy Director, Dorian Gregory partners with the executive director to achieve CFNE's mission and vision, directs lending activities, and manages finance and administration. Dorian joined CFNE in 2014 as a loan and outreach officer. A CPA with almost 20 years in public accounting, including as a senior manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, she has provided finance, audit, governance, and business advisory services to a variety of companies in industries as diverse as higher education and health services, manufacturing, transportation, and technology. Her lifelong dedication to social and economic justice has driven her work on environmental and renewable energy campaigns, community organizing with a low-income and poor peoples' rights organization, and as a battered women’s shelter hotline volunteer and board member. Dorian obtained a BA in Mathematics and Philosophy from George Mason University, her MA in Philosophy from SUNY at Stony Brook, and concentrated accounting studies at the UMass-Amherst Isenberg School of Management. She currently serves on the board of her local food co-op and teaches Taijiquan (Tai Chi).