Remember everyone: If you want to donate to a food bank, the thing that they actually want the most? A couple of bucks you can spare. Especially if you can afford to sign up to give that couple of bucks every month.

A food bank can do more with $1 than you can do with a $4 because they know what they need, have connections, and are working at scale. And the extra $3 you spent is just going to the corp that runs the grocery store.

And please, please, please... don't clean out your pantry and then show up with food that's "probably still good" because as someone who's volunteered at a food bank:

We're going to smile, say thank you, show you how you can just give us $5 a month, and then we're going to throw it away because half those cans are dented or expired and we cannot give away or serve that to a person. Especially a person that CANNOT afford to get food poisoning.

Food banks are going to get more and more important, and I can pretty much promise that your dollar is not going to go further.