Category: Volunteering

 

Volunteering while traveling is a great way to see a new locale and give back at the same time. I share my volunteer travel experiences here.

Be a Quilt Volunteer – Where to Donate Quilts for Charity in 2026

Sharing my comprehensive list of 50 organizations that are happy to receive quilts, fabric and other sewing supplies, as well as ideas for local organizations where quilts can be donated

Do you love to quilt or sew but don’t know what to do with everything you make? Is your fabric stash getting unmanageably large? Do you have too many UFO’s (unfinished objects)? Do you have fabrics you are no longer thrilled with? Do you have bins full of scraps? Do you have too many quilt patterns you want to try?

If you are asking yourself, “Where can I donate quilts?”, there are a large number of organizations that are thrilled to receive finished quilts or quilting supplies. I’ve put together this comprehensive list of places to donate quilts to charity to make it easy for you.

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A Citizen Scientist in Kenya – My Wildlife Conservation Volunteer Travel Experience

Sharing all my volunteer travel experiences as a citizen scientist with Biospheres Expeditions in Kenya.

I have heard it said that Africa gets under your skin. I certainly found that to be the case after my safari to Kenya and Tanzania last summer. So, I jumped at the chance for a press spot as a volunteer citizen scientist in the inaugural Biosphere Expeditions program in the Maasai Mara in Kenya. I am sharing my wildlife conservation volunteer travel experience to inspire your next adventure to Kenya.

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Project 70,273 – One Amazing Quilter’s Global Legacy

Project 70,273 is one amazing woman’s goal to remember with quilts all of those disabled victims murdered by the Nazis between Jan. 1940 and Aug. 1941.

X marks the spot. On a treasure map, a large X means potentially good things in the form of gold coins or jewels. On a contract, X indicates where you sign your name, which makes the requirements on that piece of paper legally binding. For the Nazis in WWII, two red X’s on a disabled patient’s medical form meant death.

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