AAQI News Fash!

Wonderful happenings courtesy of the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative...just for you to check out and maybe even do!

1. Watch the AAQI episode of The Qulit Show for FREE.

The Quilt Show is now running episode #712 featuring the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative for FREE. This was taped back in August of 2010, so some of the numbers are a little out of date, but everything else is the same.

Updates:

The AAQI has raised more that $722,000 for research since we started back in January 2006

The AAQI has received more than 10,000 donated quilts so far.

Here's the link: http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/shows.php/episode/712

2. Vote for the AAQI at http://www.attorneyandoni.com/Giving_Back.html

This blog post will go out at 1am eastern time on June 6th. Feel free to scoop me and send this information (word for word if you like) out right away. Daniel J. Andoni, a local attorney here in Flint, Michigan, pledges 3% of his net profits to a local charity each month. Instead of deciding which deserving nonprofit gets his donation, he uses crowd sourcing: visitors to his website cast their vote for one of five charities. The one with the most votes at the end of the month wins the donation.

The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative is one of the charities listed for the month of June! We are off to a fabulous start, but it's the charity with the most votes at the END of the month that counts. To pull this off, we need to keep growing the numbers. Every vote counts.

Vote here: http://www.attorneyandoni.com/Giving_Back.html

3. The June online auction ends June 10th.
You've still got plenty of time. The June online small quilt auction is in full swing. We have 27 quilts up for bid and we hope everyone will bid. All profits fund Alzheimer's research. Please bid here before the auctino ends on June 10th: http://www.benefitbidding.com/listings/categories/index.cfm?category=965774286

4. AAQI Founder and Executive Director Interviewed in local paper
Ami Simms was interviewed in the Flint Journal for her work with the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative. Read it online here: http://www.mlive.com/living/flint/index.ssf/2012/05/piece_by_piece_flint_woman_qui.html

Thank you very much for helping the AAQI get the word out so we can fight this horrific disease.

Ami Simms

Founder & Executive Director, Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative
More than $713,000 raised for Alzheimer's research since January 2006. Help us make a difference...one quilt at a time.

By Michele BilyeuMichele Bilyeu Quilts With Heart and Hands for the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) Join in my Liberated Quilting Challenge...and buy or donate a quilt, today!! We are changing the world...one little quilt at a time.