Empty Bowls fundraiser coming to Champaign, Logan counties this week

Soup crawl format to allow for variety of tastes
Second Harvest Foodbank of Clark, Champaign and Logan Counties will bring its Empty Bowls fundraiser events to Champaign County on Wednesday and Logan County on Thursday in a soup crawl format and include a hand-made bowl. Monies raised will help fight food insecurity.

Credit: Contributed

Credit: Contributed

Second Harvest Foodbank of Clark, Champaign and Logan Counties will bring its Empty Bowls fundraiser events to Champaign County on Wednesday and Logan County on Thursday in a soup crawl format and include a hand-made bowl. Monies raised will help fight food insecurity.

Soup will be the food choice the first week of April in Champaign and Logan Counties for those who like a variety of the hot treat, want a unique keepsake and to support the fight against hunger.

Second Harvest Foodbank of Clark, Champaign and Logan Counties will present its Empty Bowls fundraiser events: Champaign County’s on Wednesday, April 2 starting at The Farmer’s Daughter restaurant in Urbana, 904 Miami St., and Thursday, April 3 for Logan County beginning at Bellefontaine’s The Flying Pepper Cantina, 137 W. Columbus Ave.

Both events will be 5-8 p.m. and done in a soup crawl format, which allows guests to visit multiple restaurants for their soups. A $20 donation for adults and $10 for ages 12-under will get guests a unique hand-made bowl created by Springfield students and a ticket will get them the variety of soups available.

The format was popular according to Allie Godfrey, Second Harvest Foodbank of Clark, Champaign and Logan Counties, marketing and events specialist, and has been added to the Logan County event. This is that Logan’s first event in several years, being canceled the past two years due to problems including inclement weather.

“The people had been missing it and we’re going to gauge how people like (the soup crawl format),” she said. “We’re excited about the new structure as it was a new way to reinvent Empty Bowls and we hope the people will like it.”

There will be six participating restaurants in Champaign County to visit and five in Logan County as part of the soup crawl.

Godfrey said the Clark County Empty Bowls event on March 27 exceeded expectations with more than 500 people attending the event at Wittenberg University as individual donations especially help fight food insecurity.

The organization’s efforts helped more than 56,000 people in the three counties last year, with nearly five million pounds of food equal to nearly four million meals provided.

“These types of donations really help us and we appreciate any support we can get,” Godfrey said.


MORE DETAILS

For more information on Empty Bowls or Second Harvest, go to facebook.com/2ndHarvestOH.