Feinstein’s 2005 Spring Challenge to Fight Hunger Raises a Record $133 Million

For the eighth consecutive year, Rhode Island philanthropist Alan Shawn Feinstein’s annual spring challenge to fight hunger has raised millions of dollars for agencies nationwide feeding the needy.

Over one and a half million people nationwide, including hundreds of schools, participated by contributing to their local anti-hunger agencies last March and April in response to the Feinstein Challenge, raising a total of $133 million—making it the most successful grass roots campaign to fight hunger of all times! A list of the anti-hunger agencies and houses of worship that benefited, as well as what they each raised from the Feinstein campaign, can be viewed at www.feinsteinfoundation.org/agencies.

Feinstein started his $1 million yearly spring challenge to fight hunger in 1997. Since then, they have raised over $480 million for agencies helping the hungry.

"Alan Shawn Feinstein has shown what one man can do to advance the cause of fighting hunger", said Robert Forney, President and CEO of America’s Second Harvest, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief charity. "His efforts are helping millions of people in need," says Dr. Robert Carothers, President of the University of Rhode Island.

Feinstein is founder of the Center for a Hunger Free America at the University of Rhode Island and the Feinstein International Famine Center at Tufts University.

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