FOX 29's Bill Anderson has the story. PHILADELPHIA - Sometimes the modest ideas are forced to grow during extraordinary circumstances.
That is what happened to Evan Ehlers and his non-profit business, Shared Excess. Evan started with an idea to make sure that students didn’t waste their excess food on their meal plans but that quickly expanded.
Now, as restaurants are forced to close due to COVID-19, his organization has dramatically expanded and are helped to make sure potentially wasted food gets into the hands of those who find themselves in need as a result of the coronavirus. “In the past year and a half, we’ve delivered a little over two hundred and twenty five thousand pounds of food,” Evan explained, “In the past 48 hours alone,