The Electric Quilt Company supports local and national groups of various types. Below are some of our contributions.

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Veterans Organizations

• Quilts of Valor

Social Movements

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• Black Girls Code
• Social Justice Sewing Academy

Arts and Culture Charities

• Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers

Medical Charities

• American Cancer Society (Ohio Chapter)
• National Alliance on Mental Illness
• St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Human Services

• World Central Kitchen

 

Local Contributions

• The Rose of Sharon challenge in support of Alzheimer’s research for the Greater Toledo Alzheimer group
• Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Northwest Ohio
• The Black Swamp Arts Festival in Bowling Green, Ohio
• BG BOOM Festival and Fireworks in Bowling Green, Ohio
• The Cocoon Shelter in Bowling Green, Ohio
• American Cancer Society (Ohio Chapter)
  
• My Very Own Blanket in Westerville, Ohio
• Ronald McDonald House (NW Ohio Chapter)
• The BGO Pride Association

Black Lives Matter Movement

The Electric Quilt Company stands in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and every fight against racism in America and across the globe. We believe every effort, no matter the size, will help speed up change to make our world a better place for everyone. EQ has made a company donation to the following charities:

• Black Lives Matter
• The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
• Color Of Change
• The ACLU

As we have in the past and will continue into the future, EQ will support diversity and inclusion within our company, on our social media platforms, and through donations to charities and movements supporting racial and social justice. The Electric Quilt Company will use its platform to feature EQ users of all races, cultures, and beliefs.

Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change brings historical and contemporary works together in critical dialogue to consider how quilts have been used to voice opinions, raise awareness, and enact social reform in the U.S. from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Disrupting our expectations of quilts as objects that provide warmth and comfort, this exhibition will explore the complicated and often overlooked stories quilts tell about the American experience, offering new perspectives on themes including military action and protest, civil rights, gender equality, queer aesthetics, and relationships with land and the environment. While addressing these powerful themes, Radical Tradition will highlight how the strategies and materials of quiltmaking over nearly two centuries have called into question long-established hierarchies, both in the art world and in society at large. Incorporating a wide range of media—from cotton and wool to salvaged wood, paint, and celluloid film—the objects on view will challenge traditional definitions of what a quilt is and the form it can take. Read more about the exhibit >