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Y2K? Y go 2 waste?

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Howard Lake | 21 January 2000 | News

Two enterprising US charities are asking all those who stored food and supplies in anticipation of social breakdown due to the Y2K “bug” to donate them to charity.

Two enterprising US charities are asking all those who stored food and supplies in anticipation of social breakdown due to the Y2K “bug” to donate them to charity. Second Harvest is running the Y Go 2 Waste campaign, which runs from 15th January to 15th February, and Americares is seeking donated goods too.

Read UK Fundraising’s coverage of Millennium-related fundraising and the Y2K bug.

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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.

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