Project Linus - Raleigh, NC Chapter

PROJECT LINUS…………DID YOU KNOW?  (2018)

Here are some interesting facts and figures about Project Linus: 

· Karen Loucks started Project Linus on December 24, 1995.  Susie Holmes began the Wake County Chapter in June 1996.

· Project Linus nationally has been alive for 7,672 days as of January 1, 2018.

· Project Linus National has had nonprofit status since May 12, 1997.

· The Wake County, NC Chapter of Project Linus donated  3,993 blankets in 2017.  Since we started, we have delivered   40,468 blankets!

· Project Linus nationally has officially collected over 6,673,024 blankets as of January 1, 2018.  If 60% of them are fabric, that translates into over 12,011,443  yards of fabric.  If 40% are afghans, that is over 21,353,676 skeins of yarn.

· If each blanket is an average of 60” long, and we laid them end to end, they would stretch 33,365,120 feet or 6,319 miles.  That is as tall as 1,151 Mt. Everests, or

18,636 One World Trade Centers or 23,010 Empire State Buildings or as long as 92,680 football fields!

· Assuming each delivered blanket so far had a label, the cost for labels would be

$200,191.

•     As of January 1, 2018, Project Linus has about 295 chapters in the United

      States.  We have 295 wonderful, compassionate coordinators.

· If each of our 295 wonderful compassionate coordinators donates an average of 20 hours per week to their chapter, that would mean about 1,040 hours per year each.  And that’s just coordinators!

· Think you’re not making a financial contribution to Project Linus?  How much money is your time worth?  Even at minimum wage ($8/hr), 20 hours per week is a salary of $8,320 in donated time per year, per coordinator.  If you are talking about 295 wonderful, compassionate coordinators, it is a value of $2,454,400 per year.