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The CDRF began with a goal of maintaining an ongoing fund with a minimum balance of $20,000. Because so many food cooperatives and organic or sustainable family farmers were devastated in 2008, CDRF will limit the dollar amount to $5,000 per applicant (or half the fund’s assets, whichever is less).
