CRAFTING FOR CHARITY IDEAS
Volunteer work can be a rewarding experience and is an important part of society. You can make a difference by completing craft projects in the comfort of your own home and donating craft items to worthy charities or you can join a local organization that crafts for a charity.
Craft for a cause and help a wonderful charity in the progress. Whether you quilt, sew, knit, or crochet, there is a charity that can use your projects!
How to get started crafting for a charity?
- Pick a charity first - locally or nationally
- Find out the types of handmade items they want
- Read the charity guidelines carefully. Many have specific requirements for the type of material to use, size, color, etc.
- Contact the organization with any questions you have
Where can I donate my handmade craft items?
Look below for a list of charities that can use your help.
If you want your homemade craft items to stay local, try calling local establishments to find out what they need. Some ideas are:
- Hospitals
- Nursing Homes
- Animal Shelters or Rescue Centers
- Homeless Shelters
- Women's Shelters
Teach Kids About Charity
You can teach your own kid about giving back or you can involve a kids organization such as 4-H or scouts in giving back by using arts and crafts time for projects. By giving and helping others, the child will become a kind, empathetic, and caring person.
Some ideas would be to:
Call a local animal shelter and see what types of blankets or animal toys they are accepting as donations. Or donation blankets and toys to Comfort for Critters.
With Color A Smile they can make a cheerful drawing for senior citizens, our troops overseas and anyone who needs a smile.
In conjunction with Operation Gratitude, kids can make paracord "survival" bracelets for our troops overseas and first responders.
Mail cards and letters to deployed soldiers through Support Our Troops.
Charity Craft Links
Find some great ideas for your craft talents by reading on. You can make the world a bit better and brighter with your handmade projects donated to charity. Don't forget to bookmark or pin this page for future reference.
Are you a charity that would like to be listed here? It is simple. As long as you are a charity that needs handmade items, we can include it. Please contact us and let us know about your charity.
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Turn your love of quilting and sewing into messages of comfort, hope and love – for a foster child, a cancer patient, victims of domestic violence, and others by donating pillowcase to local charities in your community.
AllPeopleQuilt.com
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This organization collects and distributes millions of letters of thanks and support and send them directly to our active, reserve, and veteran military.
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Afghans for Afghans is a humanitarian and educational people-to-people project that sends hand-knit and crocheted blankets and sweaters, vests, hats, mittens, and socks to the beleaguered people of Afghanistan.
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American Hero Quilts provide recognition and an appreciation for our wounded service men and women. each quilt as a metaphoric hug and a way to express our gratitude for their service to our country. Learn how you can help.
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Angels for Hope is a nonprofit organization that offers free crocheted angels to severely injured and/or chronically ill people or for anyone in need of hope.
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A non-profit organization which makes and distributed homemade sewn, knitted, crocheted or quilted blanket to children ages 0 to 18 in need.
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Recycle your denim to help better the world one pair of jeans at a time! They partner with retailers throughout the year so that people around the country can recycle their denim locally. Just grab your old denim and look for a store or event near you.
Blue Jeans Go Green
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Helping homeless, and others in need in Central Ohio through knitting, crocheting, and looming.
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Volunteer groups meet regularly throughout the Twin Cities and in southeastern Minnesota to sew, knit and crochet essential clothing and blankets for these infants. Volunteers also work from their homes as their schedules allow. Anyone can volunteer!
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Sew capes for children to provide inner strength and courage, imagination and courage for those in shelters. Learn how you can help.
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CFHK distributes general cards to Children's hospitals and Ronald McDonald's Houses in all 50 states each month in addition to holiday cards on major holidays. Use your cardmaking skills and donate cards.
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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.
Care Wear
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ChemoCaps is a group of knitters that donate their time by making hand-knit caps for cancer patients in hospital oncology units and hospice.
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Color A Smile is a nonprofit organization that distributes cheerful drawings to Senior Citizens, Our Troops Overseas, and anyone in need of a smile. This charity is a way to get kids involved in giving.
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Comfort cases can use bibs, baby & small blankets or quilts, Pjs, coloring books, stuffed animals and more! Contact their Community Engagement Coordinator to find out ways you can help! Our quilt guild has supported them for a few years now by making quilts.
Comfort Cases
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Comfort for Critters is a volunteer program that donates free handmade blankets and toys to comfort homeless pets living in animal shelters across the US. They support over 200 shelters, which are in every US state!
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Days for Girls provides sustainable feminine hygiene supplies for girls in developing countries so they do not need to miss school or work. You can help.
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Enchanted Makeovers’ nurtures women and children living in shelters and also supports women and female veterans through our educational/mentoring program. How can you help? They are always in need of pillowcases, twin size quilts, baby quilts, handmade dolls and capes for kids.
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Make handmade dolls stuffed with love and well wishes to be donated to children battling cancer and other illnesses.
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Firehouse Quilts is a non-profit group of volunteers that makes and donates snuggle quilts to Colorado fire departments, hospitals, victim advocate offices & twin size quilts to Battered Women's Shelters to be given to children & their mothers in time of crisis.
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The Gift of Hand-Written Letters to Women Newly Diagnosed with Breast Cancer
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This organization makes and distributes comfort scarves to shelters for abused women.
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Hope Scarves brings comfort, connection and courage to people facing cancer. They welcome gently used or new scarves.
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Make quilted hearts, attach a printable tag provided by the web site and then leave your hearts in public places to be found and cheer someone up!
I Found a Quilted Heart
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Crochet blanket square for AIDS orphans in Africa.
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Paint rocks and leave them for people to find to cheer or inspire them.
Kindness Rocks Project
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Knit a Square brings together knitters from around the world to collaborate in knitting blankets and afghans for orphaned children around the world.
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During the fall, from September 1st to October 1st, this organization collects scarves and partners with local organizations in their area (western Pennsylvania) to distribute in time for winter.
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Knitting Knockers provides free light comfortable knitted prosthetic to women who have had a mastectomy. The knitted prosthetic is placed in a bra and has the shape and feel of a real breast, and are more comfortable than silicone prosthetic. breasts.
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Bring the warmth and comfort of handmade sweaters to children in need.
World Vision
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This organization provides warm hand-knit and crochet caps children, women, and men going through chemo and tiny Neonatal blankets for fragile new lives in incubators. Start stitching and give.
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Little Dresses for Africa is a non-profit organization, whose mission is to provide dresses to little girls and shorts to little boys in Africa.
Little Dresses for Africa
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Make little yellow ducks and leave them for someone to find.
Little Yellow Duck Project
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Newborns in Need is a volunteer organization that focuses on providing babies needed essentials during the first days of life. You can help by making items at home or joining a local chapter and help make baby items.
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Crafters can make handmade items such as hats, scarves, paracord bracelets that can be included in care packages to express deep appreciation for service and sacrifice of service members. In addition, you can write letters to troops, veterans, wounded warriors and caregivers.
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This is a community organization based in New York City to help NYC animal shelters. Join our NYC monthly meet-ups where like-minded, animal-loving people come together to sew beds and create cat, dog and rabbit toys PLUS have a good time!
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This organization makes handmade blankets and afghans for seriously ill and needy children.
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Quilts for Kids transforming fabrics into patchwork quilts to comfort children facing serious illness, trauma, abuse and natural disasters. Learn how to help.
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The mission of the Quilts of Valor Foundation is to cover ALL combat service members and veterans touched by war with comforting and healing Quilts of Valor.
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Make whimsical pillowcases to give children an emotional boost, while resources and tools help families better understand and cope with the experience. Learn more about this worthwhile charity.
Ryan's Case for Smiles
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Donate handmade cards to this organization, which are then distributed to children while they are inpatients at Children's Hospital across the United States.
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Small Things Matters’ Crafting for Charity Program gives children of all ages and abilities the opportunity to share their talents with those in need at children’s hospitals, shelters, etc.
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The Snuggles Project is a very important project for Hugs for Homeless Animals. It provides snuggles which are crochet, knit or quilted security blankets to shelter animals.
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Stitchin For Kids is a community-based organization in Lafayette, California who create gifts for children requiring extended stays in hospitals. The gifts are intended to entertain as well as to provide comfort. See how you can help.
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The mission of The Giving Doll is to give faith, love, joy, hope and comfort to children worldwide, at times of special need through the construction and distribution of handmade cloth dolls.
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Make flat bears for sending to the troops overseas.
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Red scarves are sent to foster youth in colleges and training programs across the country.
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Threads of Love, through the effort and support of many participants in chapters across the country, provides clothing, blankets and other handmade articles for tiny premature and sick infants.
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Tiny Stitches is a community organization that helps North Georgia’s smallest, neediest new residents stay dry and warm by sewing, knitting and crocheting items. Be a volunteer.
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Warm Up America is committed to providing hand knitted and crocheted blankets, clothing, and accessories made by volunteers across the country and donated to people in need.
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Woolly Hugs is an online community making special blankets and other items to donate to a variety of causes.
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