--- title: Here's How You Can Pay for Parking Tickets by Donating Food to Charity description: A program in Lexington, Ky., allows parking tickets to be paid for with donations to local food backs. It netted 6,000 cans last year. authors: - name: Ethan Wolff-Mann url: https://money.com/author/ethan-wolff-mann/ at_money_since: 2015 articles: 160 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/ewolffmann former_staff: true published: '2015-12-18T17:04:43.000Z' modified: '2024-05-16T10:44:44.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - Charity - fines - parking tickets - pubdesk word_count: 177 canonical: https://money.com/pay-parking-ticket-by-donating-food/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Parking Ticket Windshield](https://img.money.com/2015/12/gettyimages-141963328.jpg) There's probably only one place on Earth where getting a ticket and not getting a ticket is a win-win situation: Lexington, Kentucky. The second-largest city in Kentucky just adopted a temporary policy allowing parking violators to make good on their tickets by donating food. If you have a ticket for $15, instead of paying by cash or check you cover your tab by donating 10 cans of food to a local food bank. According to *[Fast Company](http://www.fastcoexist.com/3054651/this-city-lets-you-pay-your-parking-tickets-by-donating-food)*, last year's edition of this program collected around 6,000 cans of food, and more is expected this year. This is a pretty big deal, considering tickets are a nice addition to a city's income and ticket issuance is on [on the decline](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/need-to-feed-the-parking-meter-theres-an-app-for-that/2015/05/26/199b1c24-00ab-11e5-833c-a2de05b6b2a4_story.html) in some areas. The good PR caused by this campaign is [being copied](http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/12/14/for-holidays-hanover-park-police-will-trade-parking-fines-for-canned-goods/) by a police department outside of Chicago too. Get your parking ticket food donations in soon though—when the holidays are through, offenders are going to have to pay in cash again. **MORE: 7 Acts of Random Holiday Season Kindness That'll Restore Your Faith in Humanity** ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/pay-parking-ticket-by-donating-food/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Lifestyle", "item": "https://money.com/lifestyle/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Life Advice", "item": "https://money.com/life-advice/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Here's How You Can Pay for Parking Tickets by Donating Food to Charity" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/pay-parking-ticket-by-donating-food/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/pay-parking-ticket-by-donating-food/", "name": "Here's How You Can Pay for Parking Tickets by Donating Food to Charity", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2015-12-18T17:04:43.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/pay-parking-ticket-by-donating-food/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/pay-parking-ticket-by-donating-food/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-05-16T10:44:44.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Here's How You Can Pay for Parking Tickets by Donating Food to Charity", "articleSection": "Lifestyle", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2015/12/gettyimages-141963328.jpg", "width": 3833, "height": 2550, "caption": "Parking Ticket Windshield" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ethan Wolff-Mann", "url": "https://money.com/author/ethan-wolff-mann/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/ethan-wolff-mann/#author", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/ewolffmann" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2015-12-18T17:04:43.000Z", "description": "A program in Lexington, Ky., allows parking tickets to be paid for with donations to local food backs. 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