ScarfStyle Knit-Out Contest | Interweave Press

at the 2005 Knit-Out and Crochets

The scarves from the Scarf Style Contest were all donated to charity.

Boston Boston Medical Center provides health care for the most vulnerable in our society, and is a uniquely successful model for delivering outstanding services to everyone regardless of status or ability to pay. A one-of-a-kind food pantry for malnourished families and children, counseling services for young witnesses to violence, and the most extensive interpreter services in New England exemplify the unparalleled medical and support services available at Boston Medical Center.

Dallas/Ft. Worth The Family Place opened as one of the first shelters for victims of family violence in the state of Texas in 1978 and provides emergency shelter and transitional housing for abused women and their children, empowers domestic violence victims to lead nonviolent and independent lives, and educates the community about the nature and extent of domestic violence. Depending on the weight and design, scarves will be given out in the winter to needy families, or gifted to The Family Place program participants for Valentine’s Day 2006.

Louisville (Kentuckiana) The Center for Women and Families serves women, children and families affected by domestic violence, rape/sexual assault and economic hardship. Founded in 1912, The Center is a non-profit agency that last year served over 30,000 people in fourteen counties in Kentucky and Indiana through three main programs: the Domestic Violence Program, the Rape Crisis Program, and the Family and Community Support Programs. Scarves will go to needy program participants in Winter 2005.

Philadelphia The American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women Campaign is designed to increase and advance the national call for heart health awareness among women. Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of American women. Cardiovascular diseases, including heart disease and stroke, kill nearly 500,000 women each year. The Go Red For Women Campaign combines style with substance, yet it’s much more than a fashion statement. It’s about educating, informing and empowering women to take charge of their health and to live stronger, healthy, hearty lives.

St. Louis Lydia’s House works in faith to end domestic violence by being a place of healing and a voice of hope for abused women and their children. Founded in 1995 in St. Louis, Lydia’s House is a non-profit agency and Missouri’s largest provider of transitional housing and comprehensive, goal-oriented support services to abused women and their children.

Washington, D.C. Food & Friends is a volunteer supported, non-profit organization that meets the daily nutritional needs of people living with HIV/AIDS, their families, and caregivers in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Scarves will be distributed with food care packages to local people in need. Orphan Foundation of America (OFA) is a non-profit organization that helps orphans and foster youth as they transition from foster care to young adulthood. Scarves will be sent to foster youth in college as part of OFA’s National Care Package Day. Consider participating in their upcoming Red Scarf Project which will send handmade scarves to college students in foster care. Deadline is January 20, 2006. Details