Community Outreach
We also:
- Work with local Museums on documenting and rehousing their quilt collections.
- Design and make a Raffle Quilt for each quilt show with proceeds going to charitable organizations.
- Produce and Promote a biennial quilt show.
LOVE AND COMFORT QUILT PROJECT Chairwomen: Peggy Avery, Cindy Burns & Pattie Fiduccia email: comfortquilts@gvqc.org (click on photo to see larger image) Members of the Genesee Valley Quilt Club make various sized quilts each year. These quilts are donated in lots of 25 to worthy local charities. We accept donations of monies, quilt fabric, quilt batting and sewing machines. This year GVQC Members have made over 414 quilts for the Love & Comfort Quilt Project from which we have donated 425 quilts to Rochester Area Community Organizations. The receiving organizations have included: Alternatives for Battered Women St. John's Home Catholic Charities of Livingston County Ronald McDonald House Rochester Family Mission Monroe Community Hospital Lifespan Downtown Senior Program Shore Winds Nursing Home Rochester General Neonatal Unit Woodside Manor Nursing Home RAIHN - Rochester Area Interfaith Hospitality Network Liberty Manor Hannick Hall, Newark NY Unity Health Dialysis Services Westgate Nursing Home Cure Childhood Cancer Association Lifetime Care Hospice Bivona Child Advocacy Center Wilson Commencement Park Hillside Children's Center Independent Living for Seniors Canandaigua VA Hospital Holy Family Church Early Childhood Program McCauley Residence ABC Child Development Center Advent House YWCA Rochester Break Away Club at Monroe Community Hospital Court Appointed Special Advocates Community Childcare Center Jewish Home of Rochester Community of Caring of Livingston County The Salvation Army of Rochester Lewis Street Childcare Center Sojourner House School of the Holy Childhood Children Awaiting Parents Benicasa Hospice, Mendon, NY The Northfield Sunset House Hospice Mt. Carmel Hospice Special Thank You to: Patricia's Fabric House of East Rochester, NY and their customers for donating pre-made star blocks for our members to sew into comfort quilts. Hobbs Bonded Fibers Charity Program Acquaintances, Families, Friends and Members who donate quilt fabric, batting, talents and their time. |
Genesee Valley Quilt Club, Inc.
....Blending Art and Tradition
Founded January 1936
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