AmeriCorps Service Project to benefit JJ Bags

AmeriCorps Service Project to benefit JJ Bags This will be an ongoing project to support JJ Bags, an organization that provides duffle bags filled

For the next year, I will be serving with AmeriCorps through the Preservation Alliance of West Virginia. As part of my service year I have decided to partner with JJ Bags to provide handmade blankets and other care items to support their mission of providing bags to foster care children in the state.

Another big special thank you to my mom, Susan Logothetis, for helping me organize hundreds of squares into blankets, se...
08/27/2022

Another big special thank you to my mom, Susan Logothetis, for helping me organize hundreds of squares into blankets, sewing and fixing blankets, and overall helping me manage this huge project.

I need to give a special shout-out to fellow AmeriCorps member Emma Durham and her group of volunteers who helped me sew...
08/27/2022

I need to give a special shout-out to fellow AmeriCorps member Emma Durham and her group of volunteers who helped me sew and finish dozens of blankets this year. I could not have gotten these done without this group of wonderful ladies.
Pictured: Emma Durham, Sharon Norwich, Kathryn Greenly, Karen Norwich, and Angela Durham.
Not pictured: Francis Cologar, Marilyn Baumgras, and Loretta Woods.

08/27/2022

Thank you to fellow AmeriCorps member Marisa Terwilliger for organizing a supply drive and recruiting volunteers to sew blankets in Philippi, WV.

Thank you also to Eli Thompson and his gaming partner Richard for hosting several charity streams to collect supplies. The gaming community donated many of the supply donations over the two years of the project, including donations from viewers in Europe.

For the 2021-2022 term we collected and donated more than $4000 worth of items for JJ Bags to put together duffle bags t...
08/27/2022

For the 2021-2022 term we collected and donated more than $4000 worth of items for JJ Bags to put together duffle bags to go to WV foster kids!!!

08/27/2022

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO MADE AND DONATED SQUARES, BLANKETS, AND OTHER SPECIAL ITEMS:
(I am sure I forgot someone in this huge list--so just comment below if I missed you)

Pamela, Sue, Kathy, and other members of Stitches of Love (Seymour, TN), Linda Ann Moore (West Seneca, NY), Janice Toothman (Fairmont, WV), Brianna Kazala (Coal Hill, AR), Judy Blackmon (Eaton, OH), Linda Ayers (Waynesboro, VA), Kathy Delia (Chicago, IL), Beth Kluber (Aurora, IL), Ellen Beltran (Walnut Creek, CA), Lydia Cooper (Tucson, AZ), Crystal Johnson & her neighbor (San Tan Valley, AZ), Bonnie Keeney (New Oxford, PA), Emily Harbur (Boston, MA), Anne Dzurnak (Morgantown, WV), Melissa Nichols (Fairmont, WV), Anne Swisher (Morgantown, WV), Renae Cox Carlesbad, NM), Karen Norwich Adams (Morgantown, WV), Loretta & Layle Woods (Morgantown, WV), Kelsea Mertz (Zelienople, PA), Tamara Cole (Shepherdstown, WV), Paul Alagna (Woburn, MA), Joanna Lochoff (Boca Raton, FL), Barb Riegler (Lockport, IL), Valerie Harpham (Leona Valley, CA), Joanne Masco (Red Bank, NJ), Donnis Bryant (Mobile, AL), Jessica Byers (Parker, CO), Shelley Redman (St. Johns, MI), Erin Purvis (Richmond, IN), Barb Stillson (Elkhart, IN), Robin Krest (Kansas City, MO), Carol Bohmbach (Sedro Woolley, WA), Kathleen Graham (Augusta, GA), Peggy Drake (Butler, PA), Donna Holten (Holden, LA), Donna Fouts (Jackson, GA), Vedia White (Darlington, SC), DeAnna Malinowski (Orlando, FL), Emma Durham (Morgantown, WV), Angela Durham (Morgantown, WV), Helen Stottlemire (Littleton, WV), Judi Citenbaum (Silver Spring, MD), Alice Hayes (Hawthorn, NJ), Nancy Mohs (Melrose, MN), Mary Sangston (Wanette, OK), Susan Logothetis (Sugar Loaf, NY), Nancy Porter (Morgantown, WV), Susan Granville (Shepherdstown, WV), Kay McPheeters (Fruitland, ID), Erik Felker (Burbank, CA), Martha Vachon, (Crystal Lake, IL), Ronna Platt (Clinton Township, MI), Pam Gordon (New York, NY), Linda Nanney (Hickory, NC), Sharon Norwich (Morgantown, WV), Jacqueline Krizner (Philippi, WV), Bonne Riffle (Buckhannon, WV), Marsha Chelli (Philippi, WV), Barb Kelley (Philippi, WV), Kathryn Greenley (Morgantown, WV), Mary Ann Cleavenger (Philippi, WV), Mavis Holt (Philippi, WV), Francis Cologar (Morgantown, WV), Marilyn Baumgras (Morgantown, WV).

September 2020-August 2021 more than 20 volunteers donated 265 blocks, 81 blankets, and we finished 9 blankets out of sq...
08/27/2022

September 2020-August 2021 more than 20 volunteers donated 265 blocks, 81 blankets, and we finished 9 blankets out of squares.
August 2021-August 2022 57 volunteers donated 820 blocks, sent in 99 blankets, and helped put together 61 blankets out of donated squares! I received donations from 25 states this year!!! [combined with donations from the 2020-2021 term, volunteers sent items from 29 different states]]
That is a total of 1085 squares and 250 completed blankets (plus donations of hats, hearts, and stuffed animals)!

When I started this project in fall 2020 I thought that I might be able to make or collect a few blankets and maybe do a...
08/27/2022

When I started this project in fall 2020 I thought that I might be able to make or collect a few blankets and maybe do a supply drive for JJ Bags. I never would have fathomed that less than two years later this project would grow to donating 250 handmade blankets sent in from volunteers all over the country, plus several thousand dollars in supply donations to benefit foster kids in West Virginia.
Thank you all so very much for all your support, donations, and kind words. You all made this project a success and I am grateful to have met so many wonderful people doing this work.

Packing up the last donations to go out to JJ Bags tomorrow!
08/26/2022

Packing up the last donations to go out to JJ Bags tomorrow!

WE ARE FINISHING UP WITH 250 HANDMADE BLANKETS FOR WEST VIRGINIA FOSTER KIDS!!!!
08/26/2022

WE ARE FINISHING UP WITH 250 HANDMADE BLANKETS FOR WEST VIRGINIA FOSTER KIDS!!!!

Blanket #70 out of donated squares! Squares from Kansas City, MO, Richmond, IN, Coal Hill, AR, Leona Valley, CA, and St...
08/25/2022

Blanket #70 out of donated squares! Squares from Kansas City, MO, Richmond, IN, Coal Hill, AR, Leona Valley, CA, and St. Johns, MI. Sewn together by Mavis Holt (Philippi, WV) and border by Karen Adams (Morgantown area).

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Fairmont, WV
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