Our Beneficiaries

Our Beneficiaries

Talawanda Oxford Pantry & Social Services

Oxford Empty Bowls' primary beneficiary, the Talawanda Oxford Pantry & Social Services (TOPSS — formerly the Oxford Community Choice Pantry) opened in July 2007 as a collaborative effort between the St. Vincent de Paul Society of St. Mary Church and the Family Resource Center. This non-profit community endeavor serves the Talawanda School District and follows the "choice pantry" model, preserving shoppers' dignity by allowing them to choose their items according to their household size, food preferences, and federally recommended nutritional requirements.

Location: 5445 College Corner Pike • Oxford, Ohio 45056
Phone: 513-523-3851
Email: director@topss.org 
Online: https://www.topss.org/
What Makes Them Special
TOPSS's goal is to ensure everyone in the Talawanda School District has the nutrition and health-related resources they need to survive and the opportunities they need to thrive.  TOPSS has three core functions:

Provide direct services

Remove barriers

Develop collaborations

Additional Beneficiaries

 As a result of our growth and success, Oxford Empty Bowls expanded our embrace and now welcomes four minor beneficiaries: the BackPack Program, the Miami Cares Food Pantry, the Open Hands Food Pantry, and Talawanda School District's Little Free Pantries. Each of these organizations receives a modest gift of $750 to be used in their hunger relief efforts, thereby allowing us to help still more of our friends and neighbors in need.

BackPack Program

111 E. High Street • Oxford, Ohio 45056

Operated locally by St. Mary Church, Feeding America's BackPack Program is a national, non-profit program that provides vitamin fortified, non- perishable food items to low-income school children to take home on Fridays. Two hundred children attending Kramer, Marshall and Bogan elementary schools are served by the BackPack Program.


Phone: 513-523-2153
Email: info@stmox.org
Online: https://www.stmox.org/backpack-program.html

Miami Cares Food Pantry

112 Nellie Craig Hall • Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056

 An initiative of Miami University's Student Success Center, the Miami Cares Food Pantry serves Miami University students who are facing hunger and food insecurity.  Additional student services are also available, including support for housing, computing, remote learning support, and other emergency needs.


Phone: 513-529-0007
Email: studentsuccess@miamioh.edu
Online: Miami Cares Food Pantry

Open Hands Food Pantry

2143 Millville Oxford Road • Hamilton, Ohio 45013

The Open Hands Food Pantry, based in the small community of McGonigle, was established in 2012. Open Hands hosts a Monday night food pantry, open to anyone from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m., and on Fridays takes boxes of food to neighborhoods in Oxford and Hamilton, providing food and clothing to those unable to travel to the pantry building.


Phone: 513-205-3356
Email: mcgoniglemo@fuse.net
Online: https://www.facebook.com/Open-Hands-Food-Pantry-692946037389657/

TSD Little Free Pantry

131 W. Chestnut Street • Oxford, Ohio 45056

Housed at the main entrance to each of the five schools in the Talawanda School District, each Little Free Pantry stocks non-perishable food items, personal care products, and paper items/school supplies, which are accessible to district students and their families all the time.

Phone: 513-273-3100
Email: franksk@talawanda.org

Food Insecurity Rate in Ohio

 11.8%

People Experiencing Food Insecurity in Butler County

39,000

Children Experiencing Food Insecurity in 
the Talawanda School District

1000

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