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Serving up Art, Music, and Specialty Soups!
Join your fellow community members, businesses, and community organizations at our annual Empty Bowls Project Dinner! Empty Bowls is a signature fundraising event for the UCAN Food Bank. Empty Bowls Project dinner attendees get their choice of a bowl crafted locally to use to taste an array of tasty soups made by some of Douglas County’s top restaurants and chefs. We’ll also be serving up artisan breads and wines to accompany the soup.
This event is all made possible by incredible supporters like you. At last year’s event, we had almost 200 local residents attend and help us raise over $49,000. We have set a goal of raising $75,000 for our 2025 Empty Bowls event. With your support, we can provide over 200,000 meals to our neighbors through our network of 15 emergency food pantries and 6 community kitchens/shelters.
We offer benefits to those who generously sponsor Empty Bowls. All sponsors receive recognition at the event as well as on UCAN social media/web-site. Learn more about Sponsorship levels and other benefits.
You can sign up to sponsor here.
Come join us at our fun-filled event. We’ll have bowls, food, wine, music and more waiting for you at our Food Bank warehouse located at 284 Kenneth Ford Drive. You can purchase tickets to attend the event here. You can also just show up at the event and purchase your ticket then. Either way, you’ll help provide over 100 meals to local families in need.
Enjoy building with clay? We are looking for those who would like to support our effort by creating the bowls we’ll be offering at our event. If you would like to get together with others to help in this way, stop by Over the Hill Ceramics on 400 SE Lane in Roseburg on the first Thursday of each month starting at 4:30pm. You can purchase a bowl for between $10-15 and tap into your inner artist to decorate it.
Nearly 1 in 4 of Douglas County’s children are hungry, their parents often unable to feed them 3 meals a day. Children are the most vulnerable to the effects of persistent hunger as it reduces their ability to learn and negatively impacts their health, growth, and development. These effects can last a lifetime.
40% of county residents live in a food desert, lacking easy access to a supermarket with healthy, affordable food options. These residents often must pay high prices to shop at local convenience stores with few food options. Or, if they have reliable transportation, they face a long drive to a town with a full-service grocery store that stocks fresh produce, milk, eggs, and other staples.
To address this need, The UCAN Food Bank, through our network of partner agencies, provides over 1,000,000 meals each year.
