U.S. Charity Accelerating Plans Due to Recession

CHICAGO, March 17, 2009, Reuters — The recession is prompting the leading hunger relief charity in the United States to speed up its current development plan by two years to meet demand for its services.

Feeding America, which changed its name from America's Second Harvest last fall, wants to hit its 2012 target of distributing 2.95 billion pounds of food and serving 30 million Americans by 2010 instead, Chief Executive Vicki Escarra said on Tuesday.