Community Outreach Committee has many projects:
• Brings Northwest Quilters to community programs, including schools, fairs, and special community events.
• Supports veterans in our community through the Christmas Stocking program, which includes sewing stockings from kits cut by our volunteers; collecting "stuffers" for those stockings from a designated list; and sewing pillowcases from kits distributed during the autumn. All these items are distributed through community agencies in November-December.
• Supports the Quilts of Valor® Foundation by making and awarding patriotic quilts to active military and living veterans touched by war. Learn more here.
• Coordinates NWQ participation in the year-round Kids' Pillowcase Project, which collects standard-sized individually made pillowcases for long-term hospitalized kids (up to age 18) at OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital. Use your own kid-friendly 100% cotton fabric or sew up a kit available at general meetings. Contact Gail Planck for information.
For more information – Community Outreach Committee