If I ran the world, I would plan a nice sit-down with silly questions to answer in a Round Robin — what's your favorite animal? when you were a teenager, what nickname did you wish you had? what was the first scary thing you did in a car? — and some bottled drinks and declare it done.

If giving is insisted upon, could one do a collection (opaque container so you can't see what others are giving) and pass that along to a food bank (presuming that's as non-controversial as things get).