2024–25 · City-wide
Supermarket gift cards for local food pantries
Suggests buying $2 million in $50 supermarket gift cards for neighborhood food pantries to distribute, requiring little city labor since nonprofits would do the work.
English title and summary written with AI from the resident's text.
The resident's idea, as submitted
The idea
Food insecurity
Who it helps and why
Buy 2 million worth of Supermaket gift cards in $50 amounts and give the gift cards to the local food pantries in the neirbirhoods to distribute to gift food insecurity. it’s way to do it. very little city labor involved. the local non profit four parties hand almost all the work.
Details
- Cycle
- 2024–25
- Submitted
- August 7, 2024
- Neighborhood
- City-wide
- Portal category
- Sustainability
- How it was submitted
- Individual submission
- Submission language
- English
- Themes
- Food access
Themes grouped with AI from resident idea text.
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