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Recipients

2012 Empty Bowls Event

Grant Application Process

The Empty Bowls Virginia Peninsula committee selects grant recipients from among local organizations with programs that provide meals or groceries to people in need in our Peninsula communities. To be eligible for consideration, an organization must be a nonprofit with tax exempt status, must be located on the Virginia Peninsula (as far west as Williamsburg/James City County to as far east as Hampton), and must operate programs that help to feed people in need in Virginia Peninsula communities. The grant application period for the March 15, 2013, fundraiser closed January 5, 2013.

All funds raised at the Empty Bowls Virginia Peninsula event go to feed people in need. While we may select organizations that provide for other needs as well, the funds Empty Bowls donates are committed to be used to fight hunger.

Grant Recipients Selected for 2013:

FISH Emergency Services Williamsburg

LINK of Hampton Roads

Grove Christian Outreach Center

Peninsula Foodbank

 

Hunger on Peninsula

Watch The Empty Bowls Video

Hunger in the US

Trailer: Hunger Hits Home

Food Network Documentary on Hunger in America (Watch it on Hulu)

Hunger Facts

~ 16.7 million children -- nearly one in four -- live in households that do not have access to enough nutritious food to lead active, healthy lives. ~ When children don't get enough nutritious food, they fall behind physically, cognitively, academically, emotionally and socially, ~ Food insecurity is a situation that exist when people lack secure access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food for normal grown and development and active and healthy lives.