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Crafting for Charity

Find organizations you can donate completed crafts and/or supplies to. A great ideas for families!
Afghans for Afghans
Afghans for Afghans is a humanitarian and educational people-to-people project that sends hand-knit and crocheted blankets and garments to the beleaguered people of Afghanistan.
American Sewing Guild - Giving Back
Here are some worthwhile causes you can craft for.
Angels for Hope
This organization sends crocheted angels to severely injured and/or chronically ill people, as well as their caregivers, or just someone that needs hope - as a tangible reminder that they are not alone, that others care, and that you are remembered in their thoughts and prayers.
Angels for Nursing Homes
This group was founded to make angels to give to nursing home residents at Christmas time to let them know someone cares, plus to make other items at other times of the year.
Barb's Caring Touch
Barb's Caring Touch is a group of volunteers who crochet, knit, and /or sew, providing handmade baby items to hospitals. All items are given free to infants and their parents.
Binky Patrol
A binky is a homemade blanket that can be sewn, knitted, crocheted or quilted. This organization distributes blankets to children in need of comfort across the country.
Bundles of Love
Bundles of Love is an all volunteer non-profit organization, incorporated in the state of Minnesota to help infants and their families.
Caps for Kids
Providing needy children with cozy hats to keep them warm is what Caps for Kids is all about. Nearly one million caps, along with other children's accessories, have been knitted and crocheted by volunteers since the program began. The hats are given to non-profit, non denominational agencies in the communities of the donors.
Care Wear
Care Wear is a nationwide group of volunteers who knit, crochet, and/or sew, providing handmade baby items to hospitals. All Care Wear items are given free to infants, children and their parents.
Chain Of Love Charity Group
Their members are a group of loving and giving people who crochet, knit or sew items to be donated to a different charity each month. Donations go all over the country.
Chemo Caps
Chemo Caps is a group of knitters that donate their time by making hand-knit caps for cancer patients in hospital oncology units and hospice.
Critter Knitters
The Critter Knitters Coalition was created in response to the dire need for warm, comfortable blankets by abandoned animals in New York animal shelters.
Cubs for Kids
Dress a teddy bear for a homeless child to love.
CUREchief®
Their mission is to give CUREchiefs® away to those who are undergoing treatment for cancer. Their goal is to allow every cancer patient worldwide to have a CUREchief®! Find out more...
Dolly Hugs
Dolly Hugs is designed to "hug" the child that holds her. Her arms will wrap around the child's neck and her face will press against the child's cheek, bestowing a little kiss.
Helmet Liners for the Troops
Find out how you can use knitting and crocheting techniques to make helmet liners and neck coolers for US troops.
The Hugs Project
This group is dedicated to improving the quality of life for all our Military Service Members serving in the desert this summer. Their "mission" is to place a "hug" (cooling necktie) around the neck of every American living in the Middle East.
Knit for Kids
This organization donates knitted sweaters to children in need all over the world.
Love Letters: Random Cards of Kindness, Inc.
Their goal is to create positive and inspirational homemade cards for children with life-threatening illnesses. They also hope to inspire others to establish chapters in their hometowns.
Newborns in Need
There are many ways you can help this worldwide organization, everything from making items for newborns to encouraging school and community groups to make things.
Operation Teddy Bear
Donate crosstitched squares, chosen from their list of themes. Squares are made into different items and money raised from these items are donated to a specific charity.
Project Linus
We are a non-profit organization that makes hand-made blankets and quilts. These are then distributed to children of all ages in need.
Snuggles Project
This popular project was created to give comfort and security to shelter animals as they await their new homes.
Stitches from the Heart
Stitches from the Heart is a non-profit organization that sends handmade 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.
Teddies for Tragedies
This organization provides teddy bears to children in need all over the world.
Touching Little Lives
Their mission is to touch the lives of needy premature and newborn infants in Ohio, to do all that they can to give them, free of any charge, the necessities that every newborn needs.
Wrap Them in Love
Their Mission is to collect donated quilts and distribute them to children around the world so, they can be wrapped in the love of a quilt.

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