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Sign In — Free (10 views/day)The Alliance for American Quilts Inc, founded in 1999, is a small nonprofit in the Arts, Culture & Humanities sector that reported $244K in total revenue in fiscal year 2024. Revenue grew 15% year-over-year, indicating healthy expansion. Expenses of $227K left a modest 7% surplus.
To promote the understanding of the quilt as an important American grassroots art form, to share stories and documentation about quilts with a broad public and to educate Americans about the importance of documenting quilts and quiltmakers.
Community Quilt Days: Phase Two: Building on the regional quilt documentation days that the Quilt Alliance held in Western NC and Eastern TN, and KY in 2023, we worked with groups that meet online or...
Community Quilt Days: Phase Two: Building on the regional quilt documentation days that the Quilt Alliance held in Western NC and Eastern TN, and KY in 2023, we worked with groups that meet online or at special events. Our goal was to document quilters who belong to groups that are underrepresented in the Quilters Save Our Stories oral history collection. This includes African Amerian Quilters, Native American Quilters, members of the Modern Quilt Guild, and the Quilts of Valor Foundation. Funding from the NEA Grants for Arts Projects supported documentation work that began in early 2023 and continues through June 2025. Some interviews took place via Zoom, some were carried out and recorded remotely by QA staff and project partners. Infrastructure Development: The Quilt Alliance was awarded $30,000 in 2024 as part of the In These Mountains: Central Appalachian Folk Arts & Culture Infrastructure Grant from South Arts. This grant program aims to provide improved tools and resources to organizations so that they may advance their work in supporting the folk arts and traditional culture of Central Appalachia. Our board and staff received training in DEI and oral history, and this was the first professional development experience we have planned for board members, and feedback was very positive. Computer hardware and software upgrades made possible by this grant allowed us to strengthen our capacity ahead of our typical replacement schedule. The CRM software training we received was customized especially for the QA, and we learned how to create workflows that will save us time and improve our members user experience. We commissioned a comprehensive marketing assessment that evaluated our branding and how we communicate across all media. Assessment results and redesigned assets were shared with the board via slides and discussion. The design of three brochures from general to specific audiences (quilting groups an non-quilters) was produced with funding. Staff travel to represent the QA at quilt shows and events in NC and NY, and site visits with project partners in TN and KY were both inspiring and energizing. These activities resulted in several plans for collborations in 2025.
Quilters Take a Moment: QTM 2024 was the fifth event in the virtual series. This year we rolled the event into our membership benefits program, so only a small number of tickets were sold to...
Quilters Take a Moment: QTM 2024 was the fifth event in the virtual series. This year we rolled the event into our membership benefits program, so only a small number of tickets were sold to non-member. The topics included photography, videography, labeling, and cataloging quilts. The goal is to recoup lost ticket revenue via membership growth over the next few years. Quilters SOS - Save Our Stories (QSOS) celebrated its 25th anniversary by releasing new guidelines for the grassroots project. Project manager Emma Parker created a presentation for QA members who will help pilot the QSOS relaunch. The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress continues to house the physical archives of the collection, and the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History continues to house and host the digital archives of the collection. Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! 2024 marked the 12th anniversary of this project to document and share stories of quilts where quiltmakers and quilt owners gather. The formula for Go Tell It! is simple: one person talking about one quilt in front of one video camera for three minutes. We continued the virtual collection of Go Tell It! interviews for various QA projects and events, some recorded via Zoom and others recorded and submitted by the Tellers. 121 Go Tell it! videos were shared via YouTube in 2024 with 7,307 total views. Textile Talks: The Quilt Alliance participated as one of four partner organizatoins in the fourth year of the Textile Talks lecture series. The QA presented 13 of the 51 talks presented in the 2024 season, and 5,967 attendees participated in these live programs. The recordings of each presentation were shared on the QA YouTube channel with 9,343 total views to date. Running Stitch, a QSOS Podcast: Host Janneken Smucker released three episodes of Season 4 of the Running Stitch podcast in 2024. The topic of season 4 is technology, and episodes included: The Industrial Revolution with Rachel Maines, The Electric Quilt with Penny McMorris, and The Rotary Cutter with Kritin Barrus. Downloads are estimated at 1,019 to dated (53k since the podcast launched).
Guild presentations: The QA continues to offer on-site and virtual education and outreach programs, offering lecture and quilt/quiltmaker documentation day services to quilt guilds, quilt shows...
Guild presentations: The QA continues to offer on-site and virtual education and outreach programs, offering lecture and quilt/quiltmaker documentation day services to quilt guilds, quilt shows, museums, and libraries. In 2024, staff gave on-site lectures and documentation days for the Amelia Island Quilters Guild in Florida and the Smoky Mountain Quilters in Tennessee. The Nimble Thimblers Quilt Guild in Massachusetts met via Zoom for a QA presentation. Emma Parker presented a paper about the Running Stitch podcast for the annual conference of the Oral History Mid-Atlantic Region. The QA served as a partner in the first Recharge & Reinvent Virtual Retreat for Quilt Guild Leader presented by the International Quilt Museum. QA staff advised on ticketing and Zoom production and presented one of the virtual workshops, How Saving Your Guilds History Can Ensure Its Future. National Quilting Day: The Quilt Alliance co-sponsors National Quilting Day each March, and in 2024, we held our fifth virtual celebration, asking quilters to hang quilts outside their home and post photos on social media with the tag #nationalquiltday. We were again treated to a day-long quilt show with quilts hung on homes, clotheslines, barns, fences,... in all kinds of settings.
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Sign In — Free (10 views/day)| 2024 | 2023 | Change | |
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| Revenue | $243,639 | $211,310 | +0.2% |
| Expenses | $226,551 | $220,131 | +0.0% |
| Net Income | $17,088 | $-8,821 | -2.9% |
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Sign In| Name | Title | Hours/Week | Role | Reportable Comp | Other Comp | Total |
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| Amy Milne | Executive Director | 40.00 |
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| Laura Hopper | Co-President | 1.00 |
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| Bradley Mitchell | Co-President | 1.00 |
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| H Mark Dunn | Vice-President | 1.00 |
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| A'donna Richardson | Treasurer | 3.00 |
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| Frances O'Roark Dowell | Member | 1.00 |
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| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Net Income |
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| 2024 | $243,639 | $226,551 | $160,752 | $17,088 |
| 2023 | $211,310 | $220,131 | $147,616 | $-8,821 |
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