Create Nonprofit Organization to Provide Craft Education & Handmade Items for Charities

Dreamer: Lana Jackson     
Dream Location: Des Moines, IA
Contest Month: Statewide August 2010
Website: thecraftingforcharityclub.shutterfly.com/
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Dream Rank: 5 
Number of Votes: 245
In 2007, a group of friends met to make craft items for local charities. 3 years later, we’re becoming a nonprofit! This year we will be making a quilt and fundraising items for Habitat for Humanity, teaching craft classes & making kits for patients on bedrest at Iowa Methodist, hosting our 3rd annual Quilt-In November 19th and 20th to benefit local youth, making teddy bears and dolls for the children of deployed National Guard soldiers, and helping children make cards and scrapbooks to send to deployed soldiers. We need this money to pay for supplies and nonprofit filing fees.
We can always use more volunteers. If you can join us, please contact me directly at ljackson3200@gmail.com. I will be glad to send you detailed information about how you can help.

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LANA J. posted the following comment on 8/24/2010 9:31:13 AM To NewbieCrafter - Thank you so much for your comment. I certainly hope you will going us at a working meeting. We spend a lot of time teaching volunteers new craft skills so they can help with a wider range of crafts. Please go to our website for a calendar of events or contact me directly at ljackson3200@gmail.com if you want more information. We even check out supplies to people so they can work on items at home so nothing is impossible!
NewbieCrafter posted the following comment on 8/23/2010 9:12:45 PM I am amazed by your program & I must say I was even more amazed by the fact that you donate all of your craft items to local charities & local people. There is so much need in Iowa right now with the poor economy that it is heartlifting to see Iowans helping other Iowans. I am especially proud of the fact that your organization works in conjunction with so many other great charities strengthening the impact these charities have on lives in our own community. I applaud the work you do with so many different people from young mothers-to-be to the elderly to the families of our soldiers. I with there were more organizations like yours.

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