If you passed a homeless person and a metal, donation-collecting machine on your way home, which would get your spare change?
A growing number of cities have begun encouraging the latter by providing revamped parking meters for donations.
The program has been established in at least 16 cities, according to Neil Donovan, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless. Donations deposited in meters go to local charity organizations to provide services such as housing, meals, counseling and job training to the city's homeless, he says.
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