Archive for June, 2009

Project Angel Kisses

“Project Angel Kisses is a ministry, built on a foundation of faith and prayer, to help meet the very special needs of precious preemies and full-term babies whose parents are in need of help. We want each family to know,without a doubt, that there are people who love their tiny angels, are praying for them, [...]

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Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Project Knit

Project Knit is part of Project Sunshine which provides free programs and services to children and families who are affected with serious medical challenges.
Project Knit gives knitters the opportunity to help children and families affected by medical challenges. There are [...]

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Thursday, June 25th, 2009

The Mother Bear Project

The Mother Bear Project is dedicated to providing comfort and hope to children affected by HIV/AIDS in emerging nations, by giving them a gift of love in the form of a hand-knit or crocheted bear.
The simple gift of a hand-knit bear with a tag signed by the knitter has touched children with the message [...]

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Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Faith, Hope and Charity Stitches, Inc.

Faith Hope and Charity Stitches is a 501(c)3 non profit corporation.

We started FHCS in January of 2004, to make and give clothing, blankets, burial outfits and other things to babies that are too small to shop for, to families that can not afford to purchase the items, and to have the appropriate clothing needed [...]

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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Grace

Submission to Wish Upon a Hero“I am the principal of Thomas Paine International Elementary School. I am writing on behalf of a child and family in my school. About six weeks ago, Grace, a second grader, was diagnosed with cancer. She is responding well to treatment, and we eagerly await the day when she can [...]

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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Lawn Flamingoing- Nana's Heroes

I am a self professed Twitter addict and one of the people that I follow (@jaymattlin) is a 22 year old guy who amazes the heck out of me. He maintains a website called nanasheroes.org and while visiting his page I found the story about “Lawn Flamingoing”, which began as a senior project for Jay. [...]

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Monday, June 15th, 2009

Virtual Food Drive

I am participating in the Operation Feed Virtual Food Drive because there are too many children, families and senior citizens facing the same basic need – they don’t have enough food. Demand for emergency food assistance is now up 20% and will continue to grow each day during this economic crisis. By participating in the [...]

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Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Crafting for a Cause

Crafting for a Cause, a501c3 non profit organization, is a group of crafters from around the globe, coming together to help those in need. They use their crafting talents to make afghans, quilts, lapghans, [...]

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Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Knit (or Crochet) A Square

Knit or crochet and send just one square (or more) and it will join thousands of other squares from around the world to be joined into blankets for these children,many of whom are affected by HIV AIDS.
Let’s do the mathematics for this crochet and knitting project:
40 squaresmakes one [...]

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Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Cards for Heroes

OUR MISSION

To support our nation’s armed forces by sending blank greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them.
Guidelines for cards:
No Glitter
A2 size cards
General cards
No store bought
Any hero letters. (A letter to any military member… not specific to one person)
CURRENT TOTAL 6/8/09
145,477 cards have been
sent to our heroes [...]

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Thursday, June 11th, 2009