Empty Bowls McKinney

05/19/2026

Yesterday, Empty Bowls McKinney had the honor of presenting checks to the incredible community partners who serve our neighbors with compassion, dignity, and love every single day. 💜

Meals shared. Pantry shelves filled. Fresh food distributed. Encouragement offered. Hope extended. Lives touched throughout our community.

Each organization serves in its own unique way, but together they embody something larger: a way of being community. A way of showing up for one another. A way of saying no neighbor should walk through hardship alone.

Because artists created, volunteers served, sponsors gave, restaurants cooked, businesses partnered, and this community gathered around the table together, meaningful work continues across McKinney every day.

Empty Bowls has always been about more than bowls of soup. It is about connection. Compassion. Hospitality. And neighbors helping neighbors.

Thank you for continuing to help make McKinney a community that nourishes, serves, and cares — one bowl at a time. 💜


Community Garden Kitchen McKinney Food Pantry The Samaritan Inn Food Pantry McKinney Little Free Pantry

Blount Fine Foods McKinney Community Development Corporation

05/18/2026

LOOK WHAT YOU DID, McKinney!

Because this community showed up with open hands and generous hearts, Empty Bowls McKinney raised $90,000 to help fight hunger right here at home.

Neighbors helping neighbors.
Artists, volunteers, churches, chefs, businesses, sponsors, students, families, and friends coming together to say: no one should face hunger alone.

You filled bowls.
You filled tables.
You filled hearts with hope.

This is what community looks like.
This is what compassion looks like.
This is what happens when people decide to serve together.

One bowl at a time.
One meal at a time.
One neighbor at a time.

McKinney… look what you did. We are humbled by your generosity.💜💜💜



Brought to you by Blount Fine Foods
In partnership with McKinney Community Development Corporation
Benefits McKinney Food Pantry The Samaritan Inn Food Pantry Community Garden Kitchen McKinney Little Free Pantry

05/01/2026

With Grateful Hearts for Our Beneficiaries 💜

At the heart of Empty Bowls McKinney is a simple truth: when a community comes together, lives are changed.

We are deeply grateful for the organizations on the front lines of service every day. They are out there feeding families, offering dignity, creating belonging, and extending hope where it’s needed most.

To Community Garden Kitchen, McKinney Food Pantry, McKinney Little Free Pantry, and The Samaritan Inn Food Pantry, thank you for the many ways you nourish our community, not only with food, but with compassion, dignity, and care.

You remind us that serving others is holy work. And you remind all of us what is possible when love is put into action. Because of you, empty bowls are filled and so are hearts. 💜

04/29/2026

Radical Generosity Looks Like This 💜

Radical generosity looks like businesses saying yes to their community.
It looks like sponsors stepping forward.
Like benefactors quietly giving.
Like artists creating.
Like chefs serving.
Like volunteers showing up.
Like neighbors offering their time, talent, and treasure in abundance.

It looks like a community coming together with open hands, generous hearts, and a shared desire to nourish others.

At Empty Bowls McKinney, radical generosity filled bowls. And in doing so, it filled hearts, nourished lives, and strengthened our community.

To every sponsor, donor, artist, chef, volunteer, contributor, and supporter,
thank you. We are deeply grateful. 💜

Because of you, Empty Bowls was community at its very best.

📸:Mark Bishop

04/28/2026

✨Because Generosity Changes Everything ✨

With grateful hearts, we begin by thanking our incredible title sponsor, Blount Fine Foods.
💜🙏💜

Your generosity helped fill far more than bowls. You helped fill our community with hope, joy, and a wonderful example of tangible love in action.

Thank you for showing up in such a big-hearted way. We are truly thankful.

📸Photo credit: Mark Bishop

04/25/2026

04/25/2026

Thank you to The Batdrone for attending Empty Bowls McKinney and for creating this beautiful video that helps tell the story of this incredible community.

04/25/2026

Our deepest thanks to The Batdrone for attending Empty Bowls McKinney and for creating such a beautiful video that helps tell the story of this incredible community. 💜

04/24/2026

💜 Thank you McKinney 💜

Our community showed up!

You came.
You gave.
You shared delicious offerings.
In doing so, you helped fill empty bowls across McKinney.

To our artists, chefs, volunteers, sponsors, and every single guest who walked through the doors at TUPPS Brewery, thank you.💜🙏💜

Because of you, this wasn’t just an event.

It was a reminder of who we are when we come together.

The bowls we carried home will serve as reminders that small acts of care can ripple far beyond a single evening.

And that together, we can help ensure fewer bowls go empty.

📸 Photo Credit: Sara Thomas


Brought to you by Blount Fine Foods
In partnership with McKinney Community Development Corporation
Sponsored by H-E-B
Chad Watts - State Farm Insurance Agent

Encore Wire

04/23/2026

💜Tonight, bowls will be filled.💜

Not just with soup.
But also with compassion, generosity,
and the awesome power of a community that shows up for each other. 💜

When you hold a bowl tonight,
you are holding more than clay.
💜You are holding hope.💜

🥣 Join us tonight at TUPPS Brewery
🕕 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

💜Let’s fill empty bowls together. 💜

Benefits Community Garden Kitchen
McKinney Food Pantry McKinney Little Free Pantry The Samaritan Inn Food Pantry



Brought to you by Blount Fine Foods
In partnership with McKinney Community Development Corporation
Sponsored by H-E-B
Chad Watts - State Farm Insurance Agent wire