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Donating canned goods to food pantries is like donating needles and syringes to a cancer research organization (lemmy.world)
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[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

To which I’d say yes both seem helpful to an organization that helps people in need.

But cash is much more universal and allows the cancer research organization to get exactly what they need rather then whatever needles people feel like donating. It's the same thing with food pantries. You can donate 10 cans of vegetable soup, but if the food bank doesn't need that at the time, you've just wasted your money on vegetable soup when you could have just donated cash.