2024- Year End Report
As we welcome another Humboldt Project Linus blanket year, I want to recap our blanket successes for 2024. In 2023, we delivered 475 blankets to local agencies working with young children. In 2024, we delivered 526, that is 51 more blankets than in the previous year! This was possible for a number of reasons.
1.) Our productive group of Blanketeers continue to make and donate “blanket hugs” during our monthly meetings at Buttons in Old Town. Rain or shine, we are there on the last Saturday of the month sharing blankets, sharing sewing tips, selecting fabric from our fabric donations, and sharing life’s adventures, or misadventures, depending on one’s point of view! Anywhere from 28 to 48 blankets come in at each meeting. We also have additional blanket donations from people who cannot attend our meetings. And even though Buttons is closed to the public on Saturdays, Margaret, Buttons Mgr., is there to great us with a smile and a welcome board.
2.) Our 2024 donors are also responsible for our successes. Coast Central Credit Union, the Christine and Jalmer Berg Foundation, and Soroptimist’s International of Humboldt Bay were generous with their funding support in 2024. These funds allowed us to buy quilt batting in bulk, plastic bags for blanket deliveries, misc. office supplies, fabric and yarn. Besides having the benefit of their financial support, these organizations have expressed their gratitude and respect for what we do in our community.
3.) We deliver blankets to a number of local agencies on a regular basis. These agencies have come to rely on our blankets for the children and families they serve. They trust and know that the quality of our blankets will make a difference in the lives of the children who receive one. I appreciate the professionalism of agency staff, the positive feedback they provide, and the confidence that they will connect each Project Linus blanket with a child in need of one.
4.) Fabric donors. We received some fabric/yarn donations during the past year. Sometimes, a person is downsizing their fabric inventory, or perhaps a health issue makes it impossible to continue sewing, or a person passes away leaving fabric unused and a family member wants to donate the fabric to Project Linus Humboldt. These fabric donations supplement the fabric purchases we make and help to minimize costs to make our blankets.
The success of our local chapter really is a group effort and on behalf of our chapter I want to express my appreciation to all of the above parties for their contributions to a successful 2024! We will be 7 years old this coming May and I am sure that we will have another very successful blanket year.