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Hundreds took part October 17 at CAFB's 5th Annual Empty Bowls event hosted by the FHI360 Conference Center in Dupont Circle.

It’s sometimes a challenge to find an hour or two in our busy schedules to volunteer. Imagine trying to squeeze in the time during your spouse’s senate campaign.

Since the start of the school year, Toby Rivkin has been working with a group of fifth-grade students and helping them create one-of-a-kind bowls for the Capital Area Food Bank’s Empty Bowls

The open house was a chance for the Capital Area Food Bank to share its remarkable new facility with partner agencies, board members, donors, friends and staff.

A warm bowl of soup on a cool fall day is always welcome, but when DC’s best chefs are behind the delicious dishes, their professional touch turns a simple lunch into a delicacy.

Feed the Need, an event conducted by Shannon Toronto at an LDS Church in Arlington, VA, raised over $8,000 for the CAFB.

MagNoodles Pasta Founder and CEO Aileen Magnotto and PBS Chef George Hirsch dropped by to deliver 23,000 servings of multi-grain, vegetable-based pasta.

Empty Bowls will offer an assortment of hand-crafted bowls from local artists who have been hard at work spinning their pottery wheels, shaping clay and creating beautiful pieces.

Members from AARP recently stopped by the Capital Area Food Bank to help pack and sort food for their annual day of service.

Empty Bowls is an exciting event hosted by the Capital Area Food Bank each fall during which artists donate their original, handmade bowls that are then filled with a symbolic meal of soup and bread.