BART: Better After Reading This

You know those useless BART tickets that you have lying around with a few cents on them? Well, BART, in addition to being a less environmentally destructive mode of transportation, is also beneficial to our community and its inhabitants. In the article titled "Tiny Tickets: BART’s Best-Kept Secret?" in the Mission Local and also in the San Francisco Chronicle, J.J. Barrow explains that:

While most BART riders don’t know that their 10- or 30-cent tickets, forgotten in purses and drawers, can be turned into charity donations, a few nonprofits do.

If you're itching to help your community, but you can't find the time or the money to help, then turning in these old, unwanted BART tickets is the perfect option. BART began this project of donating the money on these leftover BART tickets to charities, in 2001. This program is called "Tiny Tickets," and it has lost some popularity as of late as charities have dropped out due to tough economic times, yet there are still around fifty charities that participate in this program now. In the seven years in between 2002 and 2009, charities have made around $260,000. Imagine how much more that sum would be if all people who rode BART knew about Tiny Tickets. Unfortunately, due to issues with money, charities and BART are no longer able to advertise this program so it is up to us to spread the word about Tiny Tickets in order to improve our community with this simple program.