Bowled over By Your Generosity

What kind of impact can you make when you combine 22 amazing restaurants, 13 generous sponsors and donors, 85 gracious volunteers and a team of talented potters and wood turners?  
 
422,501 meals for North Texans in need!

This year’s Empty Bowls luncheon drew a crowd of more than 1,897 guests who enjoyed a delicious lunch while raising $140,833.60 for the North Texas Food Bank. Guests at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center enjoyed classical music by Young Strings as they noshed on soups, breads and desserts from the more than 20 North Texas hot spots. At the end of the event, each guest took home a beautiful commemorative bowl handmade by a local artisan. Chris Smith, director of indirect sales at First Choice Power said: “The event was really fun and interesting, and we all loved the bowls we got to take home. I think people saw a whole new side of First Choice Power.”
 

Every dollar raised at the event went to feed four people in the North Texas area. As a sponsor of the food bank, First Choice Power helped to get the donations rolling by providing 48,000 meals to support this lunch and the Taste of the NFL dinner. These meals counted toward our Million Meals challenge, one of the key initiatives of our Food First™ program to fight hunger here in Texas.  Benji Coomer, our indirect sales manager, said, “Participating in Empty Bowls let people see how important our corporate initiative to fight hunger is.”

Check out pictures from the event on our flickr stream or learn more at the Empty Bowls website.