If you haven’t yet visited the Long Island Children’s Museum in Garden City to contribute your time and creative efforts to the Safe and Warm Quilt Campaign to support Long Island’s homeless youth, you still have two more weeks to do so.
Family and Children’s Association, one of Long Island’s largest health and human organizations, launched the campaign, Long island’s largest quilt initiative, intended to bring Long Islanders together to demonstrate compassion and unity by way of the creative arts.
Long Island Children’s Museum is currently supporting the campaign by hosting events throughout the month, where individuals, families and schools can drop in to create their own 18” by 18” squares.
Participants are encouraged to get creative with their fabric blocks by way of sewing, painting, mixed media or gluing adornments.
Fabric blocks will also be decorated by FCA staff and clients representing all the different programs that exist at FCA.
Once fabric squares are complete, FCA will sew them all together to create a quilt large enough to require a local park to unfurl.
Marian Conway, executive director of N.Y. Community Bank Foundation, once of the fabric sponsors, said of the campaign, “It is a pleasure to be able to assist Family and Children’s Association, an organization that does such great work on Long Island… This project, to be able to do something with just a few bits of fabric, is empowering for the individual who may not have the dollars to give but wants to help. It is as if we are using our own hands to lift up the lives of others.”
The project not only allows children to get creative, but it also provides a valuable opportunity to teach them the importance of helping those in need.
To participate, a $25 donation buys you one fabric block.
Businesses and organizations are also encouraged to participate by adding their logos to the quilt through the FCA’s four-block sponsorship package.
The sponsorship levels are as follows:
Quilt Sponsorship: Includes 18 x 18 logo on quilt, logo on website, signage at unfurling.
Toasty Sponsorship: Includes 18 x 18 logo on quilt, listing on website, signage at unfurling.
Fabric Sponsorship: Includes 18 x 18 logo on quilt and signage at unurlfing.
Fore more than 130 years, Family and Children’s Association has worked to protect and strengthen vulnerable families and communities on Long Island.
Anyone interested in heading over to the Long Island Children’s Museum to participate in one of the workshops that are free with museum admission can first register for their fabric block through the following link: https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink aspx?name=fcassoc&id=31.
The Safe and Warm gatherings take place on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., through Aug. 25.
Long Island Children’s Museum is located at 11 Davis Ave. in Garden City.
For more information about the scheduled events, go to www.licm.org.
For more information about Family and Children’s Association, go to www.familyandchildrens.org.
