Food Cooperatives and the Katrina Cooperative Recovery Fund

The staff, members and boards of food cooperatives contributed 64% of the $124,073 donated to CDF's Katrina Fund! Thank you for your great generosity. The Katrina Fund has provided $65,000 to the Federation of Southern Cooperatives to support their extensive work with Katrina victims in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama: from obtaining basic necessities in the days and weeks immediately after the hurricane; to repairing cooperative and credit union facilities; and to educating and providing technical assistance about how cooperatives can not only help recovery, but be an effective means of economic and social organization. A further $15,000 will be used as a match to support the writing of a business plan for a fishing cooperative that is organizing itself in Placquemines Parish, south of New Orleans.