The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) is about to reach one million dollars raised to fund research projects! More than 13,000 quilts have been donated to AAQI with over $883,000 raised for Alzheimer's research so far.
Almost ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!!
At one point, the Board of Directors realized that a goal was needed so that we could make a commitment to reach it and then to reassess the future of the AAQI. There has been a great deal of thought about the future of the AAQI and about the personal passions and goals guiding each of us.
So, with all of that in mind, we have reached the consensus that the AAQI fund raising efforts will close at the end of 2013. We will continue to donate quilts through June of this year, to sell them and to raise additional funding for AAQI with the goal of hitting that million dollar mark with one big, gigantic, and fabulous hurrah for everything that Ami has done, her fabulous core group of volunteers have done, and most of all.....every single thing that every single one of US has done to bring this group to this awesome finish line!
And I want to thank ALL of you, all 40 of you, in this Liberated Challenge group...whether you have donated 1 quilt.... or 100 quilts..thank you so much! Now, keep those quilts coming, continue to meet your Quilt A Month goals through June, and please, please, please..continue to buy quilts so we can end this fabulous journey hitting that million dollar goal!!
The last month to participate in the Quilt-A-Month Club is July 2013. Read more here.
The last day to register Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts is August 1, 2013. Read more here.So, with all of that in mind, we have reached the consensus that the AAQI fund raising efforts will close at the end of 2013. We will continue to donate quilts through June of this year, to sell them and to raise additional funding for AAQI with the goal of hitting that million dollar mark with one big, gigantic, and fabulous hurrah for everything that Ami has done, her fabulous core group of volunteers have done, and most of all.....every single thing that every single one of US has done to bring this group to this awesome finish line!
And I want to thank ALL of you, all 40 of you, in this Liberated Challenge group...whether you have donated 1 quilt.... or 100 quilts..thank you so much! Now, keep those quilts coming, continue to meet your Quilt A Month goals through June, and please, please, please..continue to buy quilts so we can end this fabulous journey hitting that million dollar goal!!
The last month to participate in the Quilt-A-Month Club is July 2013. Read more here.
As Ami Simms writes:
"....2013 will be the last year of fundraising for the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative. I hope you will help the AAQI reach our goal of One Million Dollars for research and then at the end of 2013 celebrate with everyone who made this tremendous achievement possible.
Please review the important dates below:
February 15, 2013: All bookings for the traveling exhibit “Alzheimer’s Illustrated: From Heartbreak to Hope” must be finalized.
March 1, 2013: First online auction of quilts from “Alzheimer’s Illustrated: From Heartbreak to Hope” traveling exhibit. Twenty-six Name Quilts will be auctioned during the first 10 days of March, April, May, June, July, August, and September. Payment will be required at the conclusion of each auction with shipping in October 2013 after the exhibit retires. The 54 Priority: Alzheimer’s Quilts from the traveling exhibit will be auctioned during the first 10 days of October and December.
July 2013: Last month to participate in the Quilt-A-Month Club.
August 1, 2013: Last day to register Priority: Alzheimer’s Quilts. Quilts delivered to scanners after August 20 will be refused.
October 29 – November 3, 2013: International Quilt Festival. We hope to be invited back one last time to sell quilts in Houston, TX.
November 1-10, 2013: Celebrity Invitational Quilt Online Auction
December 30, 2013: Last day Priority: Alzheimer’s Quilts can be purchased online.
December 31, 2013: Quilts For Sale and Donation pages will be removed from the AAQI website and all solicitations will cease.
Our AAQI Liberated Quilting Challenge Webpage
AAQI Liberated Quilting Challenge Instructions
We Quilt for AAQI
Alzheimer's Illustrated: My Own Heartbreak to Hope
Michele Bilyeu blogs With Heart and Hands as she shares a quilting journey through her life in Salem, Oregon and Douglas, Alaska and all of her AAQI Quilting. Sharing thousands of links to Free Quilt and Quilt Block Patterns and encouraging others to join in the Liberated Quilting Challenge and make or donate small art quilts to the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) Help us change the world, one little quilt at a time!
