Mission

Production of Hand Crafted Items for Those in Need

To recruit and train volunteers to make and distribute handcrafted quilts each year for Bay Area newborns, children, homeless families, seniors, wheelchair patients and veterans.
To recruit and train volunteers to make pillowcases for children with lifethreatening diseases, people of all ages with AIDS, and children and families in homeless shelters.
To provide transport wheelchair bags, holiday stockings, and sewing projects as requested.
Adding beauty and cheer to these individuals lives.

Services to Low-Income, Unemployed/Underemployed, Youth and Senior Communities

To provides skills that will allow volunteers and clients to earn money from the sale of their handcrafted items.
To provide training on how to market and sell their handcrafted items.
To provide affordable materials for manufacturing of these handcrafted item.
To provide a retail job-training program.

Educational Opportunities to Public School Teachers and Students of all ages

Provide training and materials to teachers and students not currently available in the Bay Area public schools to learn how to create handcrafted items.
Provide adult education and materials for sewing, quilting and the creation of handcrafted items not currently available in Bay Area adult education programs.

Collaboration with Other Non-Profits and Faith-Based Organizations

Collaborate with other non-profits and faith-based organizations to set up programs as requested and provide sewing services as needed.
To partner with one International non-profit each year on a project.

Community Building

Bring together people from diverse backgrounds, ages, classes, and ethnicities to foster community through the vehicle of sewing, quilting and other handcrafted items.