A Family's Experiment in Stealth Giving

By Ian Wilhelm

During the holiday season, many people will make anonymous gifts. But one Canadian family is taking the idea to an extreme, pioneering what it calls "guerrilla giving."

Hoping to change how everyday people think about giving, the Vancouver family leaves small cash gifts in public parks, at bus stops, and in other random places, to be discovered by strangers — an activity that is part scavenger hunt, part social experiment.

The mysterious benefactors track their