Donating Blankets

Call the local Red Cross, the Salvation Army, any community group that aids homeless families, the county hospital (baby blankets for sending a baby home?). If they don't want them they may have ideas. Here in Altanta, GA when I called one office about a donation they couldn't use they gave me other names and numbers to try. Someone will want your kind offerings.

Jean M.

what about Dr Laura's "my stuff' bag program for abandoned and neglected kids?

penny s

You can also try searching for a Binky Patrol chapter in your area. They donate the handmade blankets to children in the hospital.

Sharon

Donating Blankets

Project Linus could certainly put them to very good use. You can find information at

Call your local police dept and ask them if they have a program to give them to children. There are various programs around where they give them out to children in stressful/traumatic circumstances.

Ditto for local hospitals.

Also call your local foster care authority and see if they will take them and give them to children being removed into foster care.

If you're an animal lover, veterinarians and animal shelters can use them, especially if they are sturdy enough to be washed many times. But Polar Fleece is probably better for this.

Project Linus, Newborns in Need, Dress an Angel, ABC quilts, ACS, ARC, Care Wear, Special Touch, Threads of Love, and many more.

If you don't want to do it yourself, there are many groups like Project Linus, Circle of Women, various correctional institutions, and others that accept donations of fabric and supplies and do the sewing. See:

Kay Lancaster snipped-for-privacy@fern.com

The machine knitting club we used to have (and miss now that it's gone!) used to make afghans to go in police cars and fire engines for children who needed warmth or even just something to cover them. It was then theirs and many became "security blankets."