Thread: Charity Quilts--How to choose

We all like to donate to a variety of charities: it helps people and makes us feel good. Some places are "better" than others to donate to. I would encourage everyone to read the book, Toxic Charity, by Robert Lupton. It will give you some ideas to decide where to donate quilts.

There's also a website called Charity Navigator, that rates charities and how functional they are. It may be more useful for cash donations, but still worth checking out.

I make at least 21 Linus Quilts a month. I help our local chapter with the sorting and bagging up of the quilts to be delivered to hospitals and other institutions. I also sometimes donate supplies needed in the sorting and tagging process.

I agree with Mpspeedy. Project Linus is a great charity to donate to: either money, supplies, quilts or time. None is wasted and everything used is well appreciated!

Originally Posted by ckcowl

I try to give most of my donation quilts locally; I do make project Linus quilts and Downey Quilts for kids but most of my donations go to the local Hospice house, the Women's Resource Center emergency shelter ( I always give a number of kids/tween quilts to the shelter during the holidays, kids who wind up in the shelters during that time of year are especially in need of something special just for them) . I also give quilts to our local fire department, when a family's home burns it is nice if the responding fire department has a couple quilts to give them. I also give to a couple local churches/organizations that put together special gift baskets during the holidays.

Same here we focus on local needs fire depts, nursing home , and requests on a case by case basis.
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I make lap throws and baby quilts and donate them to our local nursing home, Ronald McDonald House, children's mercy hospital and a pregnancy crisis center.

I sew tops for Quilts of Valor. Have long armers that do the quilting for free.