Empty Bowls Westchester

Thank you to all those who supported the 2019 Empty Bowls Westchester!

Save The Date

6th Annual Empty Bowls Westchester
November 15, 2020

Congratulations to the 2019 Empty Bowls Westchester Grant Recipients

Hillside Food Outreach, Mount Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry, Boys and Girls Club of Northern Westchester, Community Center of Northern Westchester, Hope Community Services, Interfaith Emergency Food Pantry of Pleasantville, Bread Of Life

The Empty Bowls project is an international grassroots effort
to raise both money and awareness in the fight to end hunger.

Over $420,000 has been raised to help eradicate food insecurity in Westchester County but the fight continues…

Donate to Empty Bowls

Empty Bowls promises to honor your generosity and use your donation in the most effective way possible.
Donations will be used to provide assistance where it is needed most within the donated to category or to address a similar need.

The premise is simple.

Communities work together to create hand-painted bowls.
Guests are invited to a simple meal of soup and bread.
In exchange for a donation, guests are asked to keep a bowl as
a reminder of the all the empty bowls in the world.

How It Began

The concept for “Empty Bowls” started in the early 90’s with Bloomfield Hills, Michigan high school students and their art teacher, John Hartom. In an effort to help out with the local food drive they threw, decorated and fired 120 bowls. The school’s staff was invited to the cafeteria to select a bowl and enjoy a simple meal of soup and bread. John and his wife talked to the staff about hunger in their community, thanked them for their cash donations and then asked them to take their bowls home with them as a reminder of those with “empty bowls”. There are now “empty bowls” projects all over the world.

The project is now championed by The Imagine Render Group, a nonprofit whose mission is to develop creative, exciting, and powerful models that are replicable and scalable by others wishing to work for social justice.