Make a donation to CRS Rice Bowl, the Lenten program of Catholic Relief Services. Can't turn in your bowl? Give online!

To give by phone:
1-877-435-7277

Mail check to:
Diocese of Davenport
CRS - Rice Bowl Collection
Attn: Nancy Karn
780 W. Central Park Ave 
Davenport, IA 52804

Rice Bowl Collection: Thank you to all the parishes that participated in the 2021 collection. This year we were able to distribute $13,700 in local grants. 
 

Rice Bowl Grant Recipients History   

Rice Bowl helps youth program adapt

By Lindsay Steele
The Catholic Messenger

Each year, local CRS Rice Bowl donations help Project Renewal reach out to youths in downtown Davenport by providing funds for snacks and meals. During Project Renewal’s after-school and summer programs, students in grades K-12 are taught life skills, get help with homework and engage in various activities.

The $1,000 received from Rice Bowl this year is helping Project Renewal cope with pandemic-related changes, said director Ann Schwickerath. Read more...

Parishes and Catholic Schools across the U.S. participate in the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Rice Bowl Lenten program.  Through prayer, fasting,  learning and giving, parishioners learn solidarity with families and individuals in other countries.  During Lent, Parishioners are asked to contribute to the CRS Rice Bowl collection.  These funds further the work of CRS internationally, and support of organizations locally for programs that compliment CRS objectives such as feeding the hungry.  The first 25% of the total collection is retained by the Diocese for use as grants to such local organizations.  The other 75% assists CRS to address causes of global poverty and hunger.

The Bishop appoint a Diocesan Board to allocate the  Rice Bowl funds retained for local use.  The Board is composed of clergy, religious, and laypeople from around the Diocese, and is chaired by the Diocesan Director for CRS, and is the same Board and Director for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).

2022 CRS Rice Bowl Materials Order:

Please update your order for the 2022 Lenten Season. A postcard was mailed to parishes, asking to update its order for Rice Bowl materials. Please review and return to CRS. Click here to view snapshot of the mailing

CRS Rice Bowl Planning Timeline 

• January 22, 2022: Orders will ship.

• March 2, 2022: Ash Wednesday, Rice Bowl Collection begins.

• April 8, 2022: Last day orders can be placed to arrive by Easter.

CRS 2022 Virtual Events Learn more about the lifesaving work carried out around the world by CRS.

Lenten Recipes

Each year, CRS Rice Bowl features the stories of families from three different countries in order to bring U.S. Catholics closer to those they help through their Rice Bowl donations.

For 2022, CRS Rice Bowl has identified families from: 

• Guatemala

• Bangladesh

• Rwanda

For 2022, CRS Rice Bowl invites you to journey Rwanda, Guatemala and Bangladesh.  Through their stories, Rice Bowl participants are invited to learn how people in these countries overcome the factors that can lead to hunger, including flooding and drought.  Through stories of hope videos, your community will learn more about this three countries.

Please join more than 14,000 faith communities in 180 dioceses across the U.S. in prayer, fasting and almsgiving and continue Jesus' mission to care for all those in need this Lenten season.  God invites us to reach beyond ourselves and encounter the needs of all our brothers and sisters around the world.  We invite your parish and school to journey with CRS.   Read complete start of collection letter here.

Make a donation to CRS Rice Bowl, the Lenten program of Catholic Relief Services. Can't turn in your bowl? Give online!

Resources: 

How We Do it - CRS Rice Bowl Success- Recording and Resources  from the Lunch and Learn are listed below.

• Hosting a Sucessful Rice Bowl Program.

• Tips for virtual Rice Bowl engagement from CRS
   
• Parish Resources

• DYI Rice Bowl Label (If you cannot distribute CRS Rice Bowls due to COVID-19, please encourage families to visit crsricebowl.org/families to print a do-it-yourself CRS Rice Bowl label for their container.)

• Host a drive thru Rice Bowl pick-up event.

• Consider virtual kickoff event in you parish.  See the virtual tip page.

Thank you for journeying with us over these last 40 days and for your support of our global family through CRS Rice Bowl. 

We encourage all parishes to submit their funds as soon as they have them available.  With people working remotely we want to allow enough time for parishes and our Finance office to process all funds. The final deadline to submit all funds is May 31st. 

25% of the funds stay in the Diocese of Davenport to fund local programs to fight hunger.  If funds are not submitted in a timely manner it will affect the total grant distribution at the June meeting.  CRS receives 75% of funds to support CRS development project around the world.

If all possible please use Remittance form when submitting funds.

Mail Funds to:
Diocese of Davenport
CRS - Rice Bowl Collection
Attn: Nancy Karn
780 W. Central Park Ave 
Davenport, IA 52804

CRS Rice Bowl collections rebound in 2021
 

By Lindsay Steele
The Catholic Messenger
August 5, 2021

A year after the 2020 Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Rice Bowl collection was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic, diocesan Catholics donated nearly $55,000 to combat hunger locally and around the globe.

“This year’s collection is almost back to pre-pandemic levels; it’s fantastic,” said Kent Ferris, diocesan director of Social Action. “As some among us have had personal/family financial stability restored, we have remembered those in our community and (those) in other countries who continue to face new types of poverty. We have responded. Christ is with us.”  Read More...

Rice Bowl collection: Need has ‘never been so great’

By Lindsay Steele
The Catholic Messenger

Because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, “We need to think outside the bowl,” diocesan Social Action office volunteer Amy Kersten said of the upcoming CRS Rice Bowl collection. “Lent will be here before we know it.”
Earlier this month, Kersten and others involved with the annual Lenten collection participated in a virtual Lunch and Learn conversation. Each year, 75 percent of Rice Bowl collections help ease hunger in vulnerable countries. The remaining 25 percent helps ease food insecurity in the Diocese of Davenport.  Read More...