Hosted by Food for the Hungry’s Academic Programs, the second annual transformational development conference is scheduled for August 7-9, 2009 at Eastern University’s campus in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. Eastern University is co-sponsoring the event.

The conference hopes to bring together a diverse group of people who are united by a common vision to end physical and spiritual poverty around the world. Food for the Hungry invites representatives from relief and development organizations, universities and educational institutions, research bodies, churches and denominations, advocacy and mobilization movements, field programs, the arts and media, and governments. For more information on the conference, visit www.TDconference.org.