Hopkins School District #270

2012 Empty Bowls

We want to thank you for mixing in your "special ingredients" to make our 14th annual Empty Bowls fundraiser for ResourceWest and ICA Food Shelf a great success. March 13 was a wonderful day with people of all ages coming together at Hopkins Center for the Arts.

Our Recipe to fill Empty Bowls in our Community:

• 1,022 bowls created by our students, staff, and community potters
• 32 Hopkins Public Schools art, music, and elementary teachers
• 218 volunteers and 473 entertainers of all ages
• 67 artist bowls & fine art for the silent auction
• 1,350 servings of soup and bread
• 47 sponsors of in-kind services

Mix well together and the yield will be
$75,214!
including the $62,000 Challenge to the Community Fund
sponsored by SUPERVALU and CHOICES FOR CHILDREN/ACCRA CARE
and 138 business, congregation, school, and community leaders.

Proceeds support the work of ResourceWest and ICA Food Shelf.

Thank you for ensuring that no one's bowl goes empty in our community.

If you would like to get involved in this community event contact Barb Westmoreland at 952-988-4069 or click here to email.

What is Empty Bowls?

Since its small beginnings in 1990 at Lahser High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Empty Bowls has become an international grassroots project to raise funds for local food shelves. In 1999, Hopkins Public Schools art teachers and leaders in Hopkins Community Education saw the growing need for a fundraiser for hunger in our own community. Art students and community potters have been creating hundreds of unique soup bowls for the event ever since! Our bowls are daily reminders of all the empty bowls in our community and throughout the world.

You are invited to join us at our 14th annual Empty Bowls Event to choose your favorite handmade soup bowl, eat a simple meal of donated soup and bread, enjoy a variety of musical entertainment, and make a generous free will donation. Professional potters have donated beautiful bowls and related art for our silent auction. Proceeds will assist our local families through the services of ICA Food Shelf and ResourceWest.

Are there hungry people in our community?
• ICA Food Shelf provided 10,207 food assists in 2011, an 80% increase since 2008, and distributed $357,290 last year to assist families with rent, mortgage and utilities.
• ResourceWest connected over 10,000 area residents to the resources they needed in 2011. The resource center on Mainstreet Hopkins distributed 1,300 Second Harvest commodity food packages and 200 emergency food bags for ICA Food Shelf.

How can I help?
• Be a sponsor in the SUPERVALU Challenge! You decide your sponsorship level, send it in by March 1st, and be recognized on all print materials at the event. Sponsors of $250+ will have their logo prominently displayed.
• Make a ceramic or felt bowl in a Hopkins Community Education class.
• Be an in-kind sponsor of soup, bread, coffee, and other needed materials.
• Volunteer at the event.
• Artists can donate a fine art bowl or hunger related art for the silent auction.
• Musicians can donate their time and talent by entertaining at the event.
• Schools can include hunger issues in the curriculum, bowl making in art classes, promotional poster design in art and tech classes; students and staff can help serve soup or perform at the event.

If you would like to get involved in this community event, contact Barb Westmoreland at 952-988-4069 or click here to email.