2008 Empty Bowls Event to Benefit Scottsdale’s Vista del Camino Food Bank
Scottsdale, AZ (November 5, 2008) – Buy a bowl of pasta at Scottsdale Community College on December 3rd and help fight hunger. A minimum donation of $5 at this year’s Empty Bowls event buys a dish of pasta served in a delightful ceramic bowl hand-crafted by local school children.
Scottsdale Community College, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts and the Scottsdale Unified School District are joining forces for this year’s Empty Bowls event. The event will be held from 11:00am to 7:00pm Wednesday, December 3, at Scottsdale Community College Student Center (SC) Cafeteria, 9000 E. Chaparral Road. (map: http://www.scottsdalecc.edu/maps/scc_campus_map.html).
Proceeds from the event will help restock the shelves at Vista del Camino’s Food Bank, and the City of Scottsdale’s local food bank, which responds to approximately 5,000 requests each year for emergency services of food, clothing and shelter.
“Our hope is that through this partnership, and the participation of many across our campus and communities, we can provide food and shelter to those in need,” said Dr. Jan Gehler, Scottsdale Community College president. “A little from each of us can make a difference to so many.”
Students and faculty from the Scottsdale Unified School District and the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, as well as children from Paiute Neighborhood Center’s after-school program have been busy creating the bowls. Approximately 400 bowls will arrive in time for this important annual fundraising event. Aramark will prepare and donate the pasta.
At 12:00pm, the Mayor of Scottsdale will speak, followed by Dr. Jan Gehler, SCC president, Katy Cavanagh, Interim Scottsdale School Superintendent, and Kathy Breen, Human Services Manager at Vista del Camino’s Food Bank.
Hand-crafted bowls will also be created for the event by fine arts teachers from the Scottsdale Unified School District and local artists that will be sold for $20.
About Empty Bowls
In 1990, a Michigan high school art teacher and his students brainstormed fundraising ideas to support a food drive. What evolved was a class project that entailed making ceramic bowls that were filled with soup. The soup-filled bowls were sold, and the buyers kept the empty bowl as a reminder of world hunger. By the following year, the originators had developed this concept into Empty Bowls, a project that provides support to food banks, soup kitchens, and other organizations that fight hunger. Empty Bowls events have been held throughout the world, and millions of dollars have been raised to combat hunger.
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Media contact:
Denise Kronsteiner
(480) 423-6567
denise.kronsteiner@sccmail.maricopa.edu
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