Canning Food Drives? (OPB, Think Out Loud)

AIR DATE: Tuesday, December 13th 2011 POSTED BY: ALEX JOHNSON

For many people, the holiday food drive is an integral part of the holidays. But what if instead of donating canned food during the holidays, we wrote checks to food banks so that they could buy more food themselves? According to Katherina Rosqueta, the executive director of The Center for High Impact Philanthropy, that's a smarter way to go.