Quilt for Charity

Quilters are a generous and prolific group. We love to create even if we don’t have a place for our creations. I know there is a large community of quilters making tops that need a home.

My purpose for this page is to connect top makers to top finishers for charity purposes.

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*** I am listing organizations that are: ***

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• Willing to take Quilt tops (and finished quilts as well)
• Willing to quilt and bind the tops
• And that the organization will then use the finished quilt for their charity purposes

List additional groups in the comments with the following information:

• Organization name
• State or Country it is located in
• A link to the Quilt Donation page at their website or Facebook page so we know they are a legitimate organization

First I’d like to thank Joyce for her question of where can she send tops for charity quilts. This gave me the focus for this project to connect quilters to charity groups.

Thank you to all the makers supporting others with our love wrapped in quilts 💕

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*** Basic Guidelines ***

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• Contact organization before sending
• Trim your loose threads and check all your seams are sewn
• Send backing, batting & binding fabric whenever possible.. charity groups are not made of money, they need the supplies to put them together. (heck they might take your extra fabric, ask them)
• Share a photo of your quilt at the end , then send your top off with love 💕
• You can also join my community and share photos there at https://www.facebook.com/groups/QuiltWithPatSloan

PLEASE READ –

• Most of these groups also take finished quilts and supplies, ask them
• It is up to you to contact the organization before sending your top. Once you send it, that top now belongs to that organization to use as they see fit.

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• Many people want to donate wedding gowns to make angel dresses for families that lost a baby.  Check out
  • Eve Foundation https://www.evefoundation.org/
  • and NICU Helping Hands  https://nicuhelpinghands.org/programs/angel-gown-program

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** National Organization List **

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American Hero

• http://americanheroquilts.com/
• Susan shared – Since they started in 2005, I have donated to American Hero Quilts. They are on Vashon Island, Washington, and quilt for injured and burned veterans here and in hospitals overseas, as well as some family members who lose a loved one. They accept tops, fabric, money, batting, and help finishing quilts. The head of the organization is Sue Nebeker. The quilts now get counted with Quilts of Valor.

F7Quilts

• https://f7group.com/quilts/
• FB https://www.facebook.com/F7Group
• Cassaundra shared – We take quilt tops and finished quilts! We have an art therapy program where instead of only giving quilts to Veterans- we actually teach them the many steps of quilting and then they either give the quilt to another Veteran, a person we have vetted, or we use for raffle,whcih keeps the programs going. It’s the “teach to fish, rather than give a fish, model 🙂

Lutheran World Relief (LWR) 

I had the great honor of being able to take a tour of the LWR processing warehouse in Maryland. I was joined by  This video shows you the warehouse and the process to get the quilts ready for shipping to people in need. 

Thank you to Karla Walker of our community, with over 25 years of charity work for LWR, for organizing this.

Many thanks to the LWS staff Janel Johnson-Momanyi, the Senior Manager, Quilt & Kit Ministry, and Martha Piedrasanta Associate, Quilt & Kit Ministry.  Most of the tour was given by the amazing Loretta Wolf, Director of Material Resources for the Brethren Service Center (otherwise known as “the New Windsor Warehouse”!)  You’ll learn this center supports several organizations.  We were also joined for the tour by Kathy McLaughlin, Maryrose Spriggs,  Barbara Evans and my husband Gregg who did a lot of the filming! 

• https://lwr.org/quilts/resources
• Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/lwrquilters 
• Karla said- rated as a top 10 charitable group. Nationally, we make about 400,000 quilts per year and that are sent World Wide, including the U.S., where they are needed. My group has made 1000 quilts in 25 years. We depend on donations and grants to keep the costs minimal. Quilt tops are 60 by 80 inches and any design, even whole cloth is fine. Join the group’s Facebook page. Then, you can ask for a Lutheran Church in a particular area that can take quilt tops. My group gets so many donations of fabric, that I had to go on the Facebook page to find another nearby church to share our donated fabric!

Project Linus

• Find a local chapter and ask about sending a top, do not assume all chapters have the abilty to take a top  https://www.projectlinus.org/volunteer/

Quilts beyond Borders

• https://quiltsbeyondborders.wordpress.com/
• Cyndi shared – Quilts Beyond Borders is a charity group that has regional coordinators around the US. I have been doing quilting for them or about a year now.

Quilts for Cops

• https://quiltsforcops.com/
• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Quilts-for-Cops-1611415529154708
•  Charmayne said – They have volunteers who finish them and send them to police and fire officers injured in the line of duty. They recently started to accept quilt tops for police dogs who have been injured. I have sent them many tops.

Quilts of Valor – they have very specific guidelines for donations, read up

• Find a local chapter and ask about sending a top, do not assume all chapters have the abilty to take a top  https://www.qovf.org/

One Common Thread

• A group helping women in Honduras to make quilts to sell to support their families. Please read about their efforts at their website  https://onecommonthread.org/pages/what-we-do

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Northeast United States

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Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont 

New York – Long Island Quilts for Kids 

• http://www.longislandquiltsforkids.com/
• Carrie said – We create quilts and multiple other items for donation. We are a very productive chapter of the national organization Quilts for Kids.  In addition to quilts we have made almost 50,000 masks and 5000 scrub caps that have gone to healthcare facilities across the northeast United States and tribal lands in the west that are n need.  We also participate in the Dress A Girl program sending yearly over 1000 dresses to developing countries around the world such as Haiti, Ghana, Columbia, Malawi. Burkina Faso and others.  Additionally we donate to the Shoe Box program by providing dresses and shorts for their holiday shoe boxes that are distributed through Samaritan’s Purse.  These are a few of the many projects we are working on.  As you can see from the volume we produce and the communities we distribute to our Quilting Angels are very busy!

  We have been in existence for almost ten years and have a wonderful network of donor sites set up for distribution.  We donate to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Stony Brook Childrens Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, St. Mary’s Specialty Children’s Hospital, Winthrop Kids Cancer Center and  many other healthcare facilities.

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** MidWest United States **

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Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan,  Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota,  Wisconsin  

Indiana – St. Patrick Catholic Church Prayer Quilt Ministry 

• https://www.stpatrickspagosa.org/prayer-quilt-ministry
• We put in a label before giving away. Thanks so much. Our ministry is listed on the church calendar as we meet every Monday at 9:00am. 

Iowa – Des Moines Area Quilter’s Guild

• https://www.dmaqg.org/about-us/contact-us/ – email them about your tops
• Deb said – we will take quilts, quilt tops, quilt kits & fabric donations. Quilts are completed by guild members & donated to a variety of children’s, homeless, police, hospital & veterans’ organizations.

Iowa – Jo’s Country Junction 

• https://www.joscountryjunction.com/charity-quilts/
• Vivian said – Jo’s Country Junction blog has served as a conduit for charity tops that she then sends out to her network of longarmers who will quilt the tops and donate them to charities they are affiliated with. Jo’s contact information is on her Charity Quilts page

Iowa & Illinois – Mississippi Valley Quilters Guild 

• https://mvqg.org/community-involvement 
• Wendy shared – has over 200 members in our bi-state area of Iowa and Illinois. We are very active in our community and would welcome quilt tops, fabric, batting, etc. Our members make quilts to donate to Quilts of Valor. We provide each Habitat for Humanity home with 1 or 2 quilts. We make and donate quilts to over a dozen charitable groups. Contact us at MVQUILTERSGUILD@gmail.com. Thanks.

Ohio – Snuggled In Hope 

• https://www.snuggledinhopequilts.com/.
• Julie shared- This is a great place and we love to finish quilts!

Ohio – Gold Heart Quilters 

• https://www.goldheartquilters.com/ 
• FB – https://www.facebook.com/goldheartquilters/
• Debbie shared – I am near Dayton OH and have a group that quilts only for charity. We are a 501(c)(3) and there are about 40 of us who are dedicated to giving to many different charities and individuals. We would LOVE to have quilt tops and/or finished quilts. ALL ONLY for charity. Please check us out!! Thank you!

Wisconsin – The Evergreen Quilters Guild of Green Bay

• http://evergreenquiltersguild.com/pages/servicequilts.html
• Kris said – The Evergreen Quilters Guild of Green Bay, WI accepts quilt tops that are then quilted or tied by guild members. If the donor can also provide backing and binding fabric, it is greatly appreciated. We fund raise to purchase the batting. The link includes info on the organizations who receive as well as approximate sizes. The guild email is at the bottom of the web page.

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** Southern United States **

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Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,  Mississippi,  North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma,  Tennessee,  Texas, Virginia,  West Virginia

Kentucky – National Quilt Museum  

• https://quiltmuseum.org/quilts-for-quilting/
• Barbara sent to me from the museum newsletter  -The National Quilt Museum holds several benefit auctions each year. Items donated by quilters and quilt industry companies are auctioned off. Every quilter can support our auction! Simply donate quilts, quilt blocks, quilt tops, usable fabric, quilting supplies, patterns, and/or kits.

Kentucky – Louisville Nimble Thimbles Quilt Guild  

• https://www.facebook.com/376084299416869/
• Brenda said – My Guild in Kentucky takes tops . .We donate to Childrens hospitals, Quilts for Veterans. And many Charities.

Kentucky – Bellevue Quilt Ministry 

• https://www.facebook.com/Bellevue-Quilt-Ministry-837809076360150
• Karen said – Our church quilt ministry is Bellevue Quilters, and we have a Facebook page where you can learn more about us.  We would be tremendously grateful to finish any quilt tops sent to us.  We make over 100-200 quilts every year for local shelters, rehab homes, children’s homes, etc. Most of what we make are twin size.

Texas – Covered in Love 

• https://katandcatquilts.blogspot.com/p/covered-in-love.html
• Sarah said – Once the top becomes a quilt it is donated as a comfort quilt to East Texas Medical Center for distribution to patients who pass away in the hospital. These patients are adults so tops using juvenile themed fabrics are probably better sent elsewhere.

Virginia – Station Stitchers in Purcillville

• https://www.facebook.com/StationStitchers
• https://volunteer.loudouncares.org/agency/detail/?agency_id=110059
• Sandy said – she is part of this group and they do take tops

Virginia – Virginia Star Quilters Guild 

•  https://vastarquilters.com/meetings/outreach/
•  Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/VSQGuild/
• Karen said – donates over 200 quilts to various organizations. You can see them at the outreach link above. we can be reached at vastarquilts@gmail.com We will accept fabric, batting, quilt tops and completed quilts for donations.

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** Western United States **

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 Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado,  Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico,  Oregon,  Utah, Washington, Wyoming

Arizona – Sewing for Babies

• https://www.facebook.com/groups/SewingForBabiesAZ/ 
• Sandra said –Sewing for Babies AZ We are a pretty small organization, but we provide quilts, specialty clothing some crocheted items to area NICUs and also the Phoenix Indian Medical Center. The quilts used for the isoletes for the preemies need to be around the range of 36 by 42. We actually use a lot of six inch blocks and make them six blocks across and seven rows long. The quilt tops for the Indian babies can be any size. They love brightly colored quilts. The hospitals we deliver to are Phoenix Children’s, Banner University, Maricopa Medical, Banner Estrella, maybe others. I deliver to St Joseph’s NICU, and the Phoenix Indian Medical Center. Our volunteers just do the part they like–some sew quilt tops, some layer the quilts. We actually bind the quilts, then have a lot of them tied, very few are actually long arm quilted, but some are machine quilted.

Arizona – Aviva Children Services 

• https://www.avivatucson.org/
• Cheryl said –  I have donated finished AND unfinished quilts to Aviva Children Services.

Colorado – Firehouse Quilts of Colorado

• https://www.firehousequilts.org/
• Candy said – I belong to an organization for charity quilts that will take fabric, completed tops, and quilts. It is Firehouse Quilts of Colorado. We donate over 1,000 items each year to various organizations such as women’s crisis center, victim advocate offices, medical centers, and firehouses. Any size top will be accepted.

Idaho – VL Batman Project

• https://vlbatmanproject.org/
• Cindy shared – Our quilts are donated to the Idaho Children’s Advocacy Center.

Washington State – Everett Quilt Guild

• http://everettquiltguild.org/Outreach
• Pat shared – Everett Quilt Guild in Everett, WA. We are a small, dedicated group of quilters who provide quilts to those in need in Snohomish County. Groups we service include: The Everett Fire Department, the Snohomish Fire Department, Clare’s Place (transitional housing for 65 – 70 adults), Everett Public Schools outreach to homeless students, local nursing homes, Habitat for Humanity, and Christmas House (serving low income children).

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** US Territories **

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Be the first to send me an organization for here

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** Outside the United States **

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Australia – Oz Comfort Quilts

• https://sewmanyquiltstoolittletime.blogspot.com/
• FB – https://www.facebook.com/Oz-Comfort-Quilts-110733377116810/
• Rosemary shared – Oz Comfort quilts takes tops and even blocks, and other sewing pieces – bags for example. It has given much to Australian disasters. They have an active FB group too 

Canada – Victoria’s Quilts Canada

• https://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/p/hands2help-2021.html

• Vivian said -Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict has listed “Victoria’s Quilts Canada” as an organization that will take tops as part of Sarah’s annual “Hands2Help Comfort Quilt Challenge”. She doesn’t list their contact information but interested quilters can sign up to participate and she will probably provide that information.