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Empire Quilters

Empire quilters is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1982 to preserve and promote the culture, tradition and history of quilt making. We use our talents in service to the community, and exchanging of our skills, ideas and visions with one another and the community.

They make quilts, stuffed animals, preemie caps, stockings and gift bags, which they fill at holiday season to distribute to shelters. They also make wheel chair pockets for residents of nursing home and cage comforters for an animal shelter. They made up more than a hundred gift bags last year, and several hundred quilts to the various groups. They delivered 53 to just one shelter, every child received a book as well as stocking or gift bag. All the current under one year infants received a quilt.
 Some organizations that Empire quilters has helped: Mt Sinai pediatrics Manhattan, Barrier Free Living shelters,Americares, Child Help, New Era Veterans and Veteran hospital and homes, NY hospital Queens, Quilts for Kids, Harlem Hospital NICU, Project Linus and several others.

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