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Susan Piper, coordinator of the Nevada County chapter of Project Linus, shows a blanket she made for a child who needs comfort.
Q: What is your mission?
Provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to Nevada County children who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need through the gifts of new, handmade blankets and afghans, lovingly created by volunteer “blanketeers.” A: More than 2.6 million blankets have been donated nationwide since Project Linus started in 1995.
Q: What is your yearly budget, and how many paid employees do you have?
A: The Nevada County Chapter of Project Linus is 100 percent volunteer with no paid employees. Any expenses incurred are either out-of-pocket or paid through donations to our chapter.
Q: What is your nonprofit's history?
A: This comes from the Project Linus Web site: “On Christmas Eve, 1995, an article titled ‘Joy to the World' appeared in Parade Magazine. It was written by Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist, Eddie Adams. Part of the article featured a petite, downy haired child (www.projectlinus.org/laura.html). Laura had been going through intensive chemotherapy and said her security blanket helped her get through the treatments.
"After reading the article, Karen Loucks decided to provide homemade security blankets to Denver's Rocky Mountain Children's Cancer Center, and Project Linus was born."
A: Who is your primary audience?
A: Agencies that involve children, including hospitals, Child Protective Services, domestic violence shelters, etc.
Q: List the biggest achievements in your nonprofit's history.
A: With the help of very generous volunteers in Nevada County, we have distributed more than 2,300 blankets since we opened our chapter in March 2005.
Q: List the biggest challenges you face.
A: Continuing our efforts to maintain blanket donations and monetary contributions to keep the chapter going.
Q: What is your No. 1 short-term goal?
A: Continue our efforts to bring awareness of our chapter to the community.
Q: What is your No. 1 long-term goal?
A: To support every agency in the county that provides services to children in need.
Q: What is your major fundraiser?
A: We are a very small nonprofit with a very independent volunteer base. We have no major fundraisers planned and rely on the community to provide donations.
Q: What is the best way to help?
A: Project Linus volunteers work at home at their own pace or through guild, church and social groups. We have no dues to pay or monthly meetings to attend, quotas to meet or time limits. Our mission, simply stated, is to make security blankets for children who are seriously ill or traumatized in some way.
Q: We have made arrangements with Ben Franklin Crafts, Fibers in Grass Valley and West America Bank in Penn Valley to accept blanket donations.
A: Project Linus is a wonderful opportunity for people who like doing something they enjoy and helping children at the same time.
Contact information
Project Linus Nevada County• Susan Piper, coordinator
• P.O. Box 518, Penn Valley, CA 95946
• (530) 432-7758 and (530) 432-7751 fax
