Craft Charities   

CHARITIES

Looking for a worthy project to spend your time on? Check out these charities. Volunteer to help and have fun doing it!

For the Love of Babies: A group of people from all over who share the common goal of wanting to help babies and their families. Provides the babies of SW Missouri the basics that every baby should have.

CompassionKnit: Provides hand-knit hats, mittens, and scarves to local homeless communities. We believe that homeless men, women and children ought to have a set of winter items that are hand-stitched specifically with them in mind. Currently assists homeless communities in Boston, MA and in Eastern Iowa.

Artists Helping Children: Looking for canvas, cloth, or knitted bags to put the art supplies and cuddly animals in. Also looking for handmade knitted, crocheted, and sewn cuddly animals, dolls, puppets, and other handmade toys.

Operation C.A.R.E.S.: Donates handmade crocheted (and some knitted) afghans known as woobies to the Anne Arundel County and Baltimore County Foster Care programs.

Friends of Pine Ridge Reservation: A group of internet volunteers who sew, knit, crochet and donate items for the babies, children and adults living in abject poverty on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Many families on Pine Ridge have no plumbing, no electricity, no heat and live in substandard homes in 30 below weather. We can use your help!

Newborns in Need : Newborns in Need, Inc. (NIN) is a 501 (c) 3 charity organized to take care of sick and needy babies and their families; and in cases of crisis, to help where help is needed.

Stitches From the Heart : We are a non profit organization that sends handmade (crochet, knit or sewn) clothing, blankets, and love to premature babies all across the nation! We also have a senior program that helps seniors help others by donating yarn and supplies. Call us Toll Free: 1-866-472-6903 or Sign up to be a member by e-mailing us at StitchFromHeart@aol.com.

Warm Hearts ~ Warm Babies: We are a group of volunteers who sew, knit, crochet, and quilt for premature infants, and babies in need. We donate to hospitals, crisis pregnancy centers, shelters, law enforcement agencies, foster care, WIC (Women in Crisis) offices, and individuals across much of the state of Colorado. All of our gifts are donated free of charge and 100% of what we receive in donations goes to help the babies. No one in our organization takes a salary.

Project Linus, Providing Security Through Blankets: Project Linus consists of volunteers who crochet, knit and quilt blankets for local seriously ill and traumatized children. They currently donate over 150 blankets per month. Recipients include Loma Linda Children's Hospital, Riverside Regional Medical Center, Royal Family Kids Kamp (for Foster Children), Ronald McDonald House, Schlessinger Foundation (My Stuff Bags), Thessolonika Family Services Home for abused and molested children to our recipient list and Virginia's Home for Abused Women and Children.

The Afghans for Angels Project: The Afghans for Angel Project is a philanthropic project designed to collect knitted or crocheted 5" X 5" yarn squares to be made into afghans. The afghans will be sold from the website, through EBAY auctions, and at craft shows--the proceeds donated to the Diaz memorial at Angel's school, Northwood, in Ames, Iowa. Also, the project makes comfort afghans that are donated to individual children who've been diagnosed with cancer from the Ames community.

The Ships Project: The Ships Project (formerly known as The Bataan Project) began in October 2001 in response to a request for warm items, especially slippers, for the ladies on board the USS Bataan. Ellen Harpin of FL and a few friends decided it would be wonderful to make one warm item for each person on that ship to let them know we care and are behind them all the way! The project has since grown way beyond what they first envisioned. They soon began receiving requests from sailors/Marines on other ships. You can help, too, in brightening the days of our troops by sending handcrafted items!

Heavenly Angels in Need: Heavenly Angels in Need sends items out to hospitals that have NICU's. NICU's have premature babies, sick babies from mothers who abused drugs and overdue babies. They donate to at-risk Pregnancy centers and are also going to donate to funeral homes that need gowns and items for babies whom passed away.

Angels For Hope: Angels for Hope was originally for chronically ill and terminally ill people and it has grown to "anyone in need of hope or a smile". Help them let people know there are others out there who care.

Memorial of Fallen Soldiers:  Cross Stitchers needed to donate their time to stitch one of two patterns for each fallen soldier that has been killed in either Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.  This project will continue until all names have been stitched.