Hand-Up instead of Hand Out.

Here's what I put on Facebook today:


You may feel the way I do as you pass people asking for handouts on the street--awful if you pass them by and awful if you give them a dollar (tho' $2.00 for Street Sheets is okay).
I usually tell them that I don't give money to people on the streets, just to organizations, and that can sound very phony, as a man asking money on the street told me recently. So thanks to Robert Liu (reporting on another outreach organization), I found out about HandUp and bought their gift card, which just came in the mail.