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Thread ID: 102146	2009-08-08 12:11:00	Telethon	Cheezels (14809)	PC World Chat

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799620	2009-08-13 09:05:00	Is it possible they receive most of their donations in the form of goods (food) and those don't show up on their books?	GoodHour (12218)
799621	2009-08-13 09:25:00	Is it possible they receive most of their donations in the form of goods (food) and those don't show up on their books? Quite possible. On another note it seems sometimes it's hard to give food away for free. A family member works for a large NZ food manufacturer. A few years ago they had some excess tinned goods from an export order, and offered to give it (free) to the local food bank hoping it would be put to good use. The food bank turned around and said they would only accept it if they split the amount up and gave x cans to this branch, x cans to another branch and so on. The product ended up being dumped, since the company didn't have the time or resources to organise shipping the goods to several branches - if the food bank had sent someone down with a trailer, they would have happily forklifted pallets onto it for them. A similar situation happened with an organisation which had several bins (totalling several of tonnes) of potatoes and onions they wanted to give away. Again, the food bank turned them down, so it was dumped. Not surprisingly, both of these organisations have given up trying to donate goods - they just dump them now - which is a real waste of perfectly good food.	somebody (208)
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