“Empty Bowls Project” allows participating artists and groups to create and donate bowls, then serve a simple meal. In some communities, ceramic artists are joined by wood turners, glassblowers, fiber artists, metal smiths, painters, sculptors, and other artists and craftspeople. Guests choose a bowl to use that day and to keep as a reminder of all the empty bowls in the world. Some event organizers choose to serve the soups in carry out containers and the guests can choose to take a handmade bowl home. In exchange for the meal, and the bowl, guests purchase a ticket at a suggested minimum amount. One hundred percent of each meal’s proceeds are devoted to local hunger-fighting organizations, such as food banks or soup kitchens, or to national or international charitable groups.