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MVCAF Donates $850 from Second Annual Empty Bowl Auction

By Rick Archer, Community Writer
July 6, 2015 at 09:31am. Views: 47

The Moreno Valley Cultural Arts Foundation (MVCAF) began its effort to call attention to challenges that homeless students and their families face in Moreno Valley last year with its Empty Bowl Project. The MVCAF received a grant from the Community Foundation to provide artists with wooden bowls to transform into artwork. MVCAF partnered with the Salvation Army, Path of Life Ministries, and the MV Unified School District's Valley View High School in creating a documentary and MVCAF exhibited and auctioned the completed bowls and created the Moreno Valley Homeless Family Assistance Fund through the Salvation Army. The foundation conducted its Second Annual Empty Bowl Project and this year's auction raised $850, bringing the total donations to the Salvation Army to almost $3,000. MVCAF made a point, with the Salvation Army, that the donation was to stay here to help homeless families of Moreno Valley. The foundation intends to follow up next year with a third annual effort. MVCAF leaders said it was a pleasure to work with Captain Julius Murphy, who has been transferred to run the Oceanside mission as of this July.

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