we donate a lot of the smaller items to our local battered woman's shelter, especially kids quilts for the children. Give them to your police dept and they will deliver them. Often the address is private for obvious reasons. My mother is now in a nursing home and at Christmas many of the residents were given beautiful afghans. A local woman teaches knitting and crocheting to younger people and they donate their works to this nursing home. They were beautiful and it was so nice to see the smiles on their faces. Many of these residents have no one. They only thing is make sure they have no special washing requirements and it is best to be smaller size - lap or twin. Also, have a blank tag on I so they can put their room number on it and get it back after being laundered.