Check with your local Humane Society and/or rescue facilities. If you check with nursing homes and such, make sure you ask them about what they do with the quilts if the resident dies. Our nursing home here if the resident dies and the family doesn't want the quilt, they toss it in the trash, even though the quilt wasn't made for a particular person, so needless to say, I don't make any for our local nursing home, but I do make pet beds and donate them to our Humane Society, and I also make 2 quilts a year for them to raffle/auction off at their fundraising events.
Some have mentioned police and fire departments, and the group that I belonged to, did give our police/fire departments several quilts along with stuffed animals, only to find out that they never gave them out, so we nixed that idea, so just a word of caution, make sure they'll give them out when needed.
Last edited by pocoellie; 03-11-2017 at 06:18 AM.