Currently there is a couple of major grocery store that have coin dispense changers. that is, the clerk does not give you your change but a machine. while working in a Safeway, i realized they go threw a couple of hundred of dollars in pennies a day alone! They often have programs where they need a dollar donation for red cross or unicef and every so often someone donates. Now i was beging to think, what if they asked you if you wanted to " donate your pennies to the poor" prior to giving you change, with the option to donate it all? how many people would?
well it was about 3 years ago there was serious talk about getting rid of pennies all together, and the are often found on the ground, thus many people would donate the pennies, and who knows who would donate all the change period. this money would be put into an account to go to non profit groups (red cross unicef breast cancer...) to help them help the world. now if one safeway needs $200 dollars in pennies a day, and lets say combined pennies and larger change that is donate is $100 per store per day, what would that mean? well 3,000 per store times the number of branches well in the thousands per chain, making a monthly contribution of 30K per month per particapating store!
Would cancer and diabities be cured by now if this started in the 90s??
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There are coin counting machines in some supermarkets that already do this.
I intentionally drop my pennies around store fronts to encourage the economy. Because of the superstition by many people that they must have Good Luck to have found a penny, I spread my pennies around where people will find them. That way, they feel good about themselves and are more likely to take small risks.
I don't have any faith in charitable organizations. I was coerced to donate to United Way when I worked for a City Government up in Michigan. Being told that my advancement depended upon my overall character. So I did NOT donate. A couple of months later a story came out in the news that United Way paid it's staff a very high fraction of all donations collected and that only a very small amount made it to those actually in need.