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Quilters' Connection’s primary community service projects
have been the production of comfort quilts and monetary donations
to worthy non-profit organizations.
Comfort quilts are made in workshops shared with Burlington Quilters,
the Jenks Senior Center, and others. Recipients for each year are
summarized below.
The primary recipients of QC's monetary donations have been the
New England Quilt Museum and the Arsenal Center for the Arts.
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2008-2009 |
$4000 was raised by the "Leaves that Keep on Giving"
challenge at the 2009 Quilt Show. It was devided equally between
The New England Quilt Museum and the Arsenal Center for the
Arts, each receiving $2000.
Comfort quilts were donated to NH Region 10 Community Support
Services, Project Linus, Heartbeat Organization, Lynn Economic
Opportunity Inc., USA Cares, The Children's Room (Arlington)
General Proton Center, Heart House, House of Hope (Lowell),
COR UNUM Meal Center (Lawrence), Children's Hospital,
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2007-2008 |
$1500 was donated to the New England Quilt Museum.
Comfort quilts were donated to DSS Transition Home, Children's
Hospital, Women, Inc., Lynn Economic Opportunity, Abby's House,
Shriner's Burn Hospital, NICU South Shore Hospital, Germaine
Lawrence Home
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2006-2007 |
$2500 was donated to the New England Quilt Museum.
Comfort quilts were donated to Heartbeat Organization, Dept.
of Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, Elliott Community Human
Services, Parmenter Hospice Residence, Project Linus, A Women's
Concern, House of Hope (Lowell), Reach (Beyond Domestic Violence)
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2005-2006 |
$1000 was donated to the New England Quilt Museum.
Comfort Quilts for victims of Hurricane Katrina in
Houston, Baton Rouge LA, Mobile AL, New Iberia LA and Keene
TX
Locally, quilts were donated toTransition House for Victims
of Domestic Violence and to Finex House in Jamaica
Plain (A shelter for battered women and children)
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2004-2005 |
$1500 was donated to the New England Quilt Museum.
Comfort Quilts for Horizons for Homeless Children,
a daycare center in Dorchester, Pernet Family Health Services
in Worcester, and Missions of Charity in Dorchester,
a homeless shelter for women and children
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2003-2004 |
$2500 was donated to the New England Quilt Museum. |
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2002-2003 |
$500 was donated to the New England Quilt Museum.
Comfort Quilts for veterans |
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2001-2002 |
$500 was donated to the New England Quilt Museum.
Comfort Quilts Donated to Help for Abused Women and Children
and the Children's Hospital of the North Shore |
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2000-2001 |
$500 was donated to the New England Quilt Museum.
Comfort Quilts for children at Sandra’s Lodge in
Waltham, MA |
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1999-2000 |
$500 was donated to the New England Quilt Museum.
Funds raised through the sale of comfort quilts was donated
to the Cape Cod Center for Women in Falmouth, MA |
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1998-1999 |
Comfort Dolls donated to the Northshore Children’s
Hospital and to Help for Abused Women and Children
on the North Shore |
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