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BS”D
Kind of OT, but sometimes Hashem takes care of that which kashrus agencies miss.
There was a pizzeria near where I used to live in Manhattan years ago, one of 2 kosher ones in the area. Once I went there, and noticed there was no pushka, so I offered to bring one. The Israeli owner showed me that he did have one – for a non-Jewish AIDS fund of all things. Never mind that his clientele had no interest in putting money in it, to him it was all the same. I told him that the one he had was fine, but he needed a Jewish one – he did not agree to my getting him a proper pushka for a Jewish tzedaka even though I made it clear that a collector would come to empty it for him (as he did for other Jewish businesses in the area) and he would have had to do nothing. By then I had a foot out of the US anyway and I did not remember to go back and try again.
A month or so later, the AIDS pushka tzaddik went out of business.