This is a wonderful thing you propose.
In my guild, we set aside one meeting a year where we make charity quilts that we all work on at the meeting, sewing tops, sandwiching them and burping and tying them for a specific group. We change the groups each year and vote on who will get them. And we continue to work on them at home during the year. This year we added some outside work for vetereans quilts, and a LQS is machine quilting them at a discount.
I quilt at my church with the senior ladies. We quilt for pay and also make two raffle quilts a year. The money goes to the church and we can earmark it for a special cause.
There are several of these church and community groups in the greater metropolitan area, and I know rural areas do this also.
Hospitals and senior homes are always needing activities and volunteers.
All you have to do is put the word out and you will get ideas of what is needed in yout area, and then you decide where you want ot put your energies. And you can decide whether you will stay or move on if the fit isn't right for you!
I love the idea of using your/my gifts and paying it forward! :thumbup: