PROJECT LINUS…………DID YOU KNOW? (2016)
Here are some interesting facts and figures about Project
Linus:
Karen Loucks started Project Linus on December 24,
1995. The Wake County Chapter began in
1996.
Project Linus nationally has been active for 6,942 days as
of January 1, 2016.
Project Linus National has had nonprofit status since May
12, 1997.
The Wake County Chapter of Project Linus donated 2952 blankets
in 2015. Since we started, we have
delivered 32,813 blankets!
Project Linus nationally has officially collected over 5.7
million blankets as of January 1, 2014.
If 60% of them are fabric, that translates into over 10.26 million yards
of fabric. If 40% are afghans, that is
over 18.24 million skeins of yarn.
If each blanket
is an average of 60” long, and we laid them end to end, they would stretch 28.5
million feet or 5,398 miles. That is as
tall as 982 Mt. Everest’s, 22,800 Empire State Buildings or as long as 95,000
football fields!
Assuming each delivered blanket so far had a label, the cost
for labels would be $179,000.
As of January 1, 2016, Project Linus has about 280 chapters
in the United States and 280 wonderful, compassionate coordinators.
If each of our 280 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!
