Increasing donations to supermarket food-bank bins using proximal prompts.

Samantha J. Farrimond & Louis S. Leland, Jr.. (2006) Increasing donations to supermarket food-bank bins using proximal prompts. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 39, 249-251.

There has been little research into interventions to increase participation in donating items to food-bank bins. In New Zealand, there has been an increased demand from food banks (Stewart, 2002). This study demonstrated that point-of-sale prompts can be an effective method of increasing donations to a supermarket food-bank bin.

DESCRIPTORS: food banks, community setting, point of sale, proximal prompting