TURN SPARE CHANGE INTO FULL PLATES
One little bowl. A whole lot of good.
Rice Bowls is a simple hands-on project that helps provide meals for children around the world.
We send you our little plastic Rice Bowls. You share them with your church, school, family, business, club, or community. Everyone fills their bowl with change and donations. Then you send the gifts back to Rice Bowls, and we put them to work providing food for children who need it.
It really is that simple.
WHAT IS A RICE BOWLS PROJECT?Think piggy bank with a purpose.
For more than 40 years, people have been filling little Rice Bowls to help feed children around the world.
There is no complicated fundraiser to run.
Nothing to sell.
No expensive program to purchase.
Just give each person or family a bowl, invite them to fill it, and watch a bunch of small gifts become something much bigger.
GIVE.
Fill your Rice Bowl with spare change, dollars, or other donations.
GROW.
Talk with your family, church, class, or group about generosity, hunger, & caring for others.
CHANGE LIVES.
Return the donations to Rice Bowls and help provide meals for children around the world.
SMALL BOWLS. REAL MEALS.When you participate in a Rice Bowls project, your group joins people across the country who are helping provide food for children living in children's homes around the world.
Rice Bowls partners directly with children's homes and helps cover the cost of food they need to care for the children they serve.
Your quarters matter.
Your kids' crumpled dollar bills matter.
The bowl sitting on the kitchen counter matters.
Because when thousands of people decide to give a little, together we can do a whole lot.
WHO CAN DO A RICE BOWLS PROJECT?Pretty much anyone.
Churches
Use Rice Bowls during VBS, Lent, missions month, Sunday school, children's ministry, or a church-wide giving project.
Schools & Classrooms
Give students a tangible way to practice generosity while learning about hunger and the world around them.
Families
Put a bowl on the kitchen counter and make giving something your family does together.
Businesses & Organizations
Invite employees, customers, teams, or members to join a simple project with a meaningful purpose.
Clubs & Community Groups
Youth groups, scouts, sports teams, service clubs, and neighborhood groups can all participate.
You don't need a huge group to make a difference.
You just need to start.
HERE'S HOW IT WORKS1. ORDER YOUR BOWLS
Tell us a little about your group and how many Rice Bowls you'd like.
2. WE SEND THEM TO YOU
We'll get your bowls and project information headed your way.
3. FILL THEM
Hand them out and invite your group to collect donations.
Coins. Dollars. Birthday money. Lemonade stand money. Allowance. Whatever generosity looks like for your people.
4. SEND YOUR DONATION
At the end of your project, collect the gifts and send them to Rice Bowls.
5. WE TURN THOSE GIFTS INTO MEALS
At the end of your project, collect the gifts and send them to Rice Bowls.
That's it. No selling. No complicated fundraiser. Just people helping people.
WHY RICE BOWLS?Because generosity doesn't have to be complicated.
A Rice Bowls project gives children and adults something they can actually hold in their hands. Every time someone drops another coin into the bowl, they're reminded that they can make a difference.
And when all those little bowls come back together?
They add up.
$33 can provide approximately 90 meals.
A handful of change may not feel like much.
Until your handful joins mine.
And hers.
And his.
And theirs.
That's the beauty of Rice Bowls.
