Donors and Donations Archives - The Sewing Machine Project

Stories to tell

by Margaret | Feb 21, 2023 | Donors and Donations, Founder's Musings | 26 comments

I, like many sewers, have a few machines in my “stable”. It was time to clean house. My mom’s Featherweight…nope, can’t get rid of that one. My day-to-day machine…always in use. That one stays put. Back in the corner of the closet is a familiar case—a faded plastic...

Gene

by Margaret | Dec 29, 2022 | Donors and Donations, General | 4 comments

His name was Gene Alexander. And we knew each other…even though we’d never met. His note arrived in July of 2021, the handwriting shaky with age. He’d read about The Sewing Machine Project in the Christian Science Monitor and was impressed with our...

Thrivent Choice Dollars

by Margaret | Nov 30, 2020 | Donors and Donations, General, In the News | 0 comments

Are you a Thrivent Member? The Sewing Machine Project is proud to be included among the organizations approved to accept Thrivent Choice Dollars! If you wish to make a donation using your Thrivent Choice options, here are the instructions: Instructions: -Go to...

It takes a village

by Margaret | Jun 11, 2019 | Community Programs-Local, Donors and Donations, General | 2 comments

We do not live in a vacuum. We are here to interact with one another. We are here to lift one another up and walk alongside one another. This is so true for The Sewing Machine Project. We exist because an idea was lifted up and people felt its power. Individuals and...

Benefit!!

by Margaret | Feb 26, 2019 | Community Programs-National, Donors and Donations, General | 1 comment

JOIN THE SEWING MACHINE PROJECT AND THE CHURCH OF YOGA FOR A DONATION BASED CLASS BENEFITTING THE NEW ORLEANS MARDI GRAS INDIAN COUNCIL When I walked through the double shotgun house that is becoming the Center for the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian Council I...

Focus on Donors: Third Stage Bags

by Margaret | Oct 15, 2018 | Donors and Donations, General | 2 comments

Cecilia Plum is a name that sounds like music to me. When I received a message through the Sewing Machine Project website recently asking me to contact her I had to look back through my files to see where I’d heard the name before. Sure enough, there she was in our...