The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative can only do what it does because of our volunteers and companies who give or discount their services. I know that before I began doing a little extra for Amie behind the scenes that I didn't fully appreciate just how much work so many of our voluteers actually do! Kudos to every one but especailly to our primary movers, shakers, and do'ers for the website and behind the scenes, everywhere!
Besides my rather extensive blogging, yes I know I used 4 separate blogs and an AAQI web page just to promote my #1 Charity! But this project has been THAT dear to my heart! And behind the scenes, I was secretly a member of the AAQI Quilt Police...Amie's words in an email to me ;-)
I scanned the web several times a day to find all of the current blog posts or website articles, or news reports for any mention of AAQI and if I found anything that contained any kind of major inaccuracy as to profit versus proceeds versus donation, for example...I was to write a nice little comment with a bit of a correction ;-) I didn't find many of those but my ongoing lists of who said what about our organization ran into lists as long as three pages single spaced on some months. I kept those board members reading, if they so choose to!
And as I did this, I also kept lists of email blogger's addresses for our email lists. Sometimes, bloggers don't use their real names, sometimes, they don't post an email address even on their blogs, and sometimes I really felt like a genuine history detective. I spend about 6 hrs a week doing all of this, but that was peanuts compared to what other volunteers did with all of the quilt scanning, web page creations, updating, etc. etc.
But nothing worth doing is ever easy! But between every one involved, especially our fabulous quilters...what a run!
- More than 2000 quilters who have donated quilts. See our Honor Roll.
- BenefitBidding.com, donates auction services for monthly online auctions!
- Recycled Paper, MPI Research in Mattawan, Michigan
- Diane Petersmarck
- Receives shipped quilts
- Emails donor acknowledgements
- Quilt Scanner
- Uploads images to web site
- Inserts BACK and NEXT buttons on auction quilt page
- Creates archival disks of images and HTML coding
- Updates auction page with buy buttons and price + insurance
- Uploads Quilt-A-Month Club data to web page
- Go-to person for all web page related emergencies
- Beth Hartford
- Receives quilt registration data from quilt donors
- Builds web pages for donated quilts
- Emails donor with quilt numbers
- Archives HTML coding
- Printing Czar
- Houston Tag Builder, 2009-2010
- Kathy Kennedy-Dennis
- Co-Curator, "Alzheimer's Illustrated: From Heartbreak to Hope"
- Administrates Quilt-A-Month Club
- AAQI Answer Woman
- On-call quilter
- Houston Support Team
- James Tyson, created and hosts quilt registration forms
- Donna Moscinski and Eileen O'Regan, Quilt Scanners (2012-2013)
- Robin Brooks :Quilt Scanner (2013) and Name Quilt Image Fixer
- Barbara Miller
- Sold Quilt Mover
- $1,000 Promise Coordinator (2013)
- Name Quilt page creator and name checker
- Fannie Narte
- Writes and posts FaceBook status updates
- Comments on wall posts
- Naomi Adams
- Creates monthly auction pages on BenefitBidding.com
- Creates thumbnail for auction
- Creates quilt collage for AAQI home page
- Daphne and Leon Stewart
- Updates Honor Roll data
- Notifies quilters in monthly auction
- Transcribes comments from exhibit
- Michele Bilyeu
- Google alerts monitor
- Keeps master blogger list
- Robbi Eklow, CafePress.com product creator
- Peg Howard, "Get Ideas" comment moderator
- Ruth Langdon
- Paper flipper
- PQ Filing Goddess
- Quilt check-in and price uploading
- Houston Prep Team 2010, 2011, 2012
- Mary Lecea, Tag Builder 2011
- Invoicing March 2012 to present
- Houston Prep Team, 2012
- Anne Wolhfeil
- Sewed quilts to mounting for AI:FHtH
- Footie stitcher for AAQI booth in Houston
- Invoicing 2011 to present
- Barb Newtown, very necessary things, 2011
- Houston Quilt Prep Team & Recovery 2012: Shelley Tuuri, Sharon Pelc, Emma Eaton, Marie Kudej and Ruth Murray.
- Martha Wolfersberger, Houston Prep Team 2012
- Jen Hinwood, Houston Prep Team 2012
- Susan Pain, Houston Support Team
- Karen Musgrave, press release writer, 2006-2012.
- Carol Kolf, scrapbook scanner
- Barbara Waxer
- Copyright consultant
- Word Wizard
- Kathie Veach, Research Protocol Advisor
- Sherry Whitford, blog interviewer
- Ruth Murray, Houston Prep Team 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
- Lee Kirchner, logo rendering
- Doug Tessler, audio recording for "Heartbreak to Hope" video
- Robin June, Accountant, offering discounted services, July 2007-present
- Karey Bresenhan (Quilts, Inc.) and Brooke & John Flynn - Exhibition space for Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts sale at International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX. 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 2011, and 2012.
- Rebekkah Tario
- Invoicing 2010- February 2012
- Houston Tag Builder, 2011
- Keeper of Houston Master List, 2011
- EE Schenck, fabric to cover walls in exhibit space at Houston International Quilt Festival, used 2006-2011.
- Flyer-printers, Sticker-printers, Pipe Bootie Makers, Skrunchie Sewers, and quilters who roll up their sleeves to help.
- The White Glove Brigade & Quilt Police, giving hugs and keeping the quilts safe.
- Quilt Scanner (2013)
- Name Quilt Image Fixer
