Wallace & Turner was a proud sponsor of the Second Harvest Food Bank Champaign County Empty Bowls event on February 27, 2020 hosted at Urbana University. More than 350 people in attendance helped raise over $16,500 in support of the organization’s mission to eliminate food insecurities in Clark, Champaign and Logan Counties, Ohio.
About Empty Bowls
The Second Harvest Food Bank Empty Bowl events raise money locally to address food insecurity locally. Local artisans (Scott Dooley, Matt Johnson, Sandy Winter, Bruce Grimes, Thelma Matthews and The Cracked Pot Studio potters) donate handmade bowls, local school art departments (Wittenberg, Springfield High School, Graham Local Middle School, and Bellefontaine High School) have their students create and donate bowls. Local restaurants and bakeries donate gallons of soups and hundreds of loaves of bread to these. Hundreds of people volunteer on event nights and hundreds of people show up to enjoy great food and fellowship.
About Second Harvest Food Bank of Clark, Champaign and Logan Counties
Second Harvest Food Bank collects, stores, and distributes consumable surplus food. The organization operates out of a 62,000 square foot warehouse, serving well over 75 non-profit member agencies in Clark, Champaign and Logan Counties. These agencies feed over 79,000 hungry families yearly. In 2012, over 2.8 million meals were served to over 370,000 men, women and children across the three-county service area. Approximately 1,200 seniors were served monthly. Second Harvest Food Bank is a member of Feeding America, who provides its members a national, recognizable branding, training, sustainability, and additional national product opportunities.
