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Article: CDF establishes hurricane recovery fund.(NEWSLINE)
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- Rural Cooperatives
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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Citing the need to help the long-term recovery of rural areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, the Cooperative Development Foundation in early September launched the Katrina Cooperative Recovery Fund. The fund will direct contributions specifically to individuals and cooperative businesses in the rural areas of the three hurricane-ravaged states.
"The nation has been horrified by the scenes from New Orleans, Biloxi and Gulfport," said CDF Chair Terry Lewis, a vice president with the National Cooperative Bank. "We can only imagine the destruction that has also occurred in rural areas. The Katrina Cooperative Recovery Fund will direct contributions to ...