Empty Bowls sets new fundraising goals

Via Megan Wehring

DRIP SPRINGS — Some Dripping Springs partnership continues of it tradition from helping neighbors among require.

The Empty Bowls Project desire return up to of it traditional in-person event on Sunday, November 6 starting at 11 per.m. for 3 p.m. near the Dripping Springs Ranch Park along with Event Center. The fundraiser, co-sponsored near to Dripping Springs Helping Hands as well as each City of Dripping Springs, helps alleviate hunger also food insecurity amid any community.

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Helping Hands board member and Empty Bowls Project volunteer Melissa Reese holds single painted bowl.

With donations belonging to $25 per person around a door, patrons able choose per beautiful, handcrafted ceramic bowl and fill entity with delicious soups from greater in comparison to 30 area restaurants. Dwell music, beer plus wine intend complete each offer.

Proceeds from each Empty Bowls Project benefit Dripping Springs Helping Hands, one non-profit organization as well as food pantry that owns served certain community for 36 years. Here annual event is per lifeline for each continued success belonging to Helping Hands, whose mission is up to provide each community from Dripping Springs with one compassionate care setting designed toward help neighbors in times out of necessitate.

Amid 2021, Helping Hands provided finished 205,000 pounds of food for families struggling toward lay food on to them tables.

June Baumoel, unit of each event co-chairs also some Helping Hands volunteer, replied any annual fundraiser generates extra than 65% from Helping Hands’ annual operating budget.

“Without a successful Empty Bowls event, ourselves might not become able to meet certain needs from ours customers,” Baumoel stated in a squeeze release. “Finished a past twelve months, food costs own reached unprecedented levels, leading for increased demand for food as well as temporary social services so since housing, utilities, transportation and medical aid. .”

Each year, further in comparison to 100 businesses as well as families champion each “dial for sponsors”. In order to meet increased customer needs, any 25th Annual Empty Bowl Project possesses fix single novel fundraising goal in order to increase net income via 35% nor $25,000. Any event committee is reaching out to further folks also businesses in comparison to ever earlier up to achieve aforementioned goal.

For greater information on to what extent for become some sponsor, visit http://www.drippingsprings
emptybowls.org.