Suggested Charities
This is a list of suggested charities to get you started. Please contact charities in your local area before donating to make sure they are accepting pillowcase donations and to understand any restrictions on care, laundering, etc. If you have a charity you would like to see listed here, please email millionpillowcases@meredith.com.

• Catholic Charities
• Child Welfare Services
• Church World Service
• ConKerr Cancer
• Department of Human Services
• Dialysis Centers
• Hospice centers
• Lutheran Refugee Services
• Missions
• Nursing homes
• Oncology units
• Operation Support for Deployed Military
  See Home of the Brave, Inc. below for more specific information
• Pediatric Surgery Centers of local hospitals
• Red Cross
• Ronald McDonald House
• Runaway shelters
• Shriners Hospitals
• Transitional Residences
• United Way
• Veteran’s clinics/hospitals
• Victims of fires
• Victims of floods
• Victims of hurricanes
• Women’s shelters
• Youth shelters
• YMCA’s
• YWCA’s

Specific Charities

• Arkansas Children's Hospital
• A Spark of Hope
• Aldea Children and Family Services
  

  Ship Pillowcases to:
  1801 Oak Street, Napa, CA 94559

• Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children; Wilmington, DE
• Arbor Hospice; New Haven, CT
  

  Ship pillowcases to:
  228 Saugatuck Avenue
  Westport, Connecticut 06880

• Back to School Clothing Drive; Phoenix, AZ
  Goal of handing out 2,500 pillowcases at their Annual Clothing Distribution in July.

  Ship pillowcases to:
  P.O. Box 99
  Glendale, AZ 85311

• Contra Costa Blue Star Moms
  
• Creating Pillowcase Dreams

  Pillowcases donated to children battling cancer and cardiac defects that depend on blood transfusions. Accepting both completed pillowcases and fabric donations (1 yard needed for each pillowcase).

  For information, call Suzy Potter at (504) 939-9609.

  Ship pillowcases to:
  The Blood Center Foundation
  Attn: Suzy Potter
  2609 Canal Street
  New Orleans, LA 70119

• Crossroads for Women;

  Ship pillowcases to:
  66 Pearl Street, Suite 326
  Portland, Maine 04101

• Enchanted Makeovers; Taylor, MI

  Ship pillowcases to:
  12663 Hipp St
  Taylor, MI 48180

• Families by Choice; Terre Haute, IN

Two homeless shelters in Indiana

Ship pillowcases to:
164 Allendale Court
Terre Haute, IN 47802

• Friends of Pine Ridge Reservation; South Dakota

  Ship to either address, both will distribute pillowcases as needed:
  Little Wound High School Roots & Shoots Program One Main Street Kyle, Sd 57752	Oglala Lakota CASA 100 Crazy Horse Housing Bldg. Lower Level Cangleska Rd. Pine Ridge,SD 57770

  
  
• Genesis Corner House; Bryan, TX
  A shelter for children ages 6-18

  Contact:
  April Jones
  979-703-6017
  PO Box 461
  Bryan, TX 77806
  
  

• Guardian Angel Animal Rescue; Livonia, MI
  
  
• Haven for Hope; San Antonio, TX
  Homeless shelter for men, women and children. The charity also provides education, job training and other services for the homeless.
  
  
• Hearts and Hands
  Distributes pillowcases to nursing homes, domestic violence shelters, fire victims and more.

  Ship pillowcases to:
  Attn: Cyndi Peters
  7107 Arlet Drive
  Jacksonville, FL 32211
  904-724-3749
  
  

  His House; Miami, FL
  His House provides residential care for abused, neglected and drug-exposed children in a home-like setting.
  
  
• Home of the Brave, Inc.
  

  Please call before mailing!
  c/o Sandi Carstensen
  1107 Pershing Blvd.
  Clinton, IA 52732
  (563) 242-7213 or (563) 503-0132
  
  

• Hope Lodge; click for locations
  
  
• Huntington's Disease Society of America; New York, NY
  Pillowcases will be auctioned at June 2010 fundraiser

  Ship pillowcases to:
  Huntington's Disease Society of America
  505 Eighth Avenue, Suite 902
  New York, NY 10018
  
  

• LeRoy Haynes Center
  

  233 W. Baseline Road
  La Verne, CA  91750
  Residential care and transitional housing for boys of all ages.
  
  

• Little Dresses for Lexington; Lexington, KY
  Pillowcase dresses for girls in Haiti and Africa. Can send finished pillowcases or pillowcase dresses.

  Ship pillowcases to:
  Lyric Theatre & Cultural Arts Center
  300 E. Third Street
  Lexington, KY  40508

• Loeys-Dietz Syndrome Foundation
• Mutual Ground Domestic Violence and Assault Shelter; Aurora, IL
• National Kidney Foundation
• Open Door Mission; Omaha, NE
• Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital; Baton Rouge, LA

  Contact to donate:
  Janice LeBlanc Muscarello
  (225) 765-7012

• Pillowcases for Oncology Kids
• Pillows of Love; Palmyra, PA
• Pillows of Hope; Cincinnati, OH
  Pillowcases will be donated to children and teens at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Must be 100% cotton or cotton flannel, no fleece please.

  Ship pillowcases to:
  Katie Dickert
  7852 Camargo Road
  Cincinnati, Ohio 45243

• Quantum House; West Palm Beach, FL
  Provides a "caring place to call home" for families while their children are being treated for a critical illness or injury in Palm Beach County.
• Quilts 4 Kids

  Ship pillowcases to:
  13045 South 2420 West
  Riverton, UT 84065

• Quilts of Valor; Seaford, DE
  Pillowcases presented to service members and veterans touched by war, returning troops, and active deployed soldiers

  Ship pillowcases to:
  Quilts of Valor Foundation
  P.O. Box 1003
  Seaford, DE 19973-1003

• Sacred Heart Shelter; Seattle, WA
  Homeless shelter for women and families.
• Smiles for Sophie Forever; Avon Lake, OH
• Soldiers' Angels
• Sumner Hospice; Gallatin, TN

  Ship pillowcases to:
  Sumner Hospice
  510 East Main Street
  Gallatin, TN 37066

• Samaritan’s Purse; Boone, NC
• The Village Network; Ohio
  Provides foster care for kids all over Ohio