Our Annual Alli Ortega Empty Bowls Fundraiser has helped hundreds of Scottsdale families and seniors receive food, school supplies, healthy lunches, necessary supplies, and assistance during tough times, and right now they need our support more than ever.

Our 2022 fundraising event will be a week-long online auction where our community can bid on hand-crafted bowls by local artists and Scottsdale students as well as additional items donated by the community. Join us February 22-28th! 

All proceeds will benefit SCP Programs for youth (Back to School and Healthy Packs), families (Vista del Camino Food Bank, Adopt a Family, and Emergency Rent & Utility Assistance), and seniors (Adopt a Senior, Beat the Heat, Brown Bag) in the Scottsdale community who are experiencing a crisis. In 2021, 465 families, 320 seniors, and 753 students in Scottsdale were served through these critical programs. 

In the months leading up to this year’s week-long online auction event, Tammy Hinds from Scottsdale Center for the Arts and Scottsdale Community Partners will be facilitating bowl-making workshops at various Scottsdale Unified School District and Paradise Valley Unified School District schools, teaching the students and artists about the 30-year mission of the Alli Ortega Empty Bowls Fundraiser as part of the process of creating their bowls. The goal of the program is to get students educated about the benefits of philanthropy within their local communities. Typically these bowls are sold at a wonderful in-person event, but as a precaution for the safety of our community, Scottsdale Community Partners will instead hold this fundraiser online with the hopes of returning to its beloved original format in 2023.