The Past Presidents' Forum will meet twice a year to help direct the community service projects of the guild. This committee will work independently of the board and report annually to the guild. All guild members that have served a term as president are welcome.
Next meeting: June 2022
At the "freebie" section of the stage at guild meetings, an optional donation jar has been added. The money collected in this jar will go to KIVA, an organizaiton that makes micro-loans around the world. The forum will direct the donated funds toward projects that help women or further texile/sewing business. Small loans (starting as little as $25) when repaid will go into the guild's KIVA account and can then be reloaned to another woman sewer!
2021 Annual Report of Community Service Projects:
Kiva: A total of $210 was collected for the fund. All of the women have paid back their loans and we have chosen two more women to fund.
Comfort Quilts: Members made a total of 95 completed quilts and we donated a total of 254 quilts.
Post Cards: Members sold postcards and received donation for Visiting Nurse Services and Hospice of Suffolk, Inc. Total: $610.
Scholarship: $500 worth of scholarships were offered to the membership but there were no applications this year.
Auilt of Valor: There were no recipients of the Quilt of Valor from our guild this year.
2020 Annual Report of Community Service Projects:
Kiva: Of the three women who we lent money to in 2019, two have fully paid us back and we have 70% from the third one. Due to Covid, the forum didn't meet in 2020 so there were no loans made last year.
Comfort Quilts: Due to restrictions during the Covid pandemic, almost all locations that normally accept quilts were not permitting donations. We still managed to donate more than 70 comfort quilts.
Quilt of Valor: One quilt presented to World War II veteran Joseph White.
2019 Annual Report of Community Service Projects:
Kiva: The woman who received the loan in 2018 has repaid that loan in full. Two loans of $100 each were made in 2019
Comfort Quilts: Members made a total of 255 quilts and an unknown number of quilts donated to camp for children suffering from cancer
Post Cards: Members sold postcards and received donations for Visiting Nurses Service and Hospice of Suffolk Inc totalling $2320
Quilt of Valor: One quilt presented to a Veteran who is a former Stitcher.
