Happy Monday, dear T.H.R.I.V.E. Association family! We hope that you had a wonderful St. Patrick’s Day celebration yesterday! The color green is a vet favorite and is always one of the top requested colors at every Stand Down that we serve. You really can’t go wrong when choosing to craft for our cause with this color. Also, green is one of T.H.R.I.V.E. Association’s main colors, as it represents growth and renewal. Our mission is to provide a hand up to our veterans and their dependents by gifting hand-crafted goods during their recovery from homelessness.
4th of July, 2023
Happy Monday, T.H.R.I.V.E. Association family! May you and your loved ones have a safe and joyous 4th of July!
In the Crafting Lab
Happy Monday, dear T.H.R.I.V.E. Association family! We are currently hard at work in the crafting lab, and we’ve got lots of great new patterns and techniques coming your way in the coming weeks! We’ve got knitting, crocheting, and even loom patterns and techniques coming soon, so stay tuned!
December Stand Downs
Happy Monday, dear T.H.R.I.V.E. Association family! We hope that you had a very happy Thanksgiving! As you’re gearing up for the upcoming holiday season, remember that we have some of our biggest Stand Downs coming up. Please keep sending in your lovingly hand-crafted goods!
If you’d like to donate a hat, scarf, face mask, or other handcrafted garment to our cause, please remember that the dear veterans and their dependents prefer dark colors, e.g. blue, black, green, grey, and all-time favorite, camouflage. If you would like to knit, crochet, or sew a garment in a brighter color, red or deep purple are always popular bright colors. We cannot emphasize this important point enough: please do not use sparkly or overly decorative yarns and fabrics. While they have their place, they are simply inappropriate for the veterans and their dependents (including children because of potential choking hazards).
If you are not a crafter, but would like to help, there are still many ways to support our cause! Please consider donating materials and/or making a monetary donation to help us cover the costs of materials, shipping, and overhead. Please remember you can support our cause by shopping on AmazonSmile. See the “Shop for Our Cause” blog post for additional information.
If you need yarn, or other supplies, please contact us through email at thriveassociation@thrivevets.org or by phone at (469) 427-9654. Please be aware that any communications are recorded. If you have donations and cannot make it to one of our in-person knitting groups, we are still continuing our policy of curbside pickup. Please contact us to schedule a pickup if you are in the DFW area. If you reside outside the DFW area and would like to make an in-kind donation, please contact us to make arrangements. Remember, even one lovingly handcrafted hat or scarf can make a huge difference in the life of an underprivileged veteran or their dependent(s).
Love
One of the key components of all of T.H.R.I.V.E.’s handcrafted goods is love. We’d like to thank our wonderful donors whose generous contributions, hard work, and love are crucial in helping us to accomplish our mission.
Although several of the Stand Downs that we support have been postponed or have had to be altered to keep our communities safe in this current pandemic, we are still collecting goods that will be sent to the various V.A.s throughout the year so please, please keep crafting! If you are not a crafter, but would like to help, there are still many ways to support our cause! Please consider donating materials and/or making a monetary donation to help us cover the costs of materials, shipping, and overhead. If you need yarn, or other supplies, please contact us through email at thriveassociation@thrivevets.org or by phone at (469) 427-9654. If you have donations, we are still continuing our policy of curbside pickup. Please contact us to schedule a pickup if you are in the DFW area. If you reside outside the DFW area and would like to make an in-kind donation, please contact us to make arrangements. Remember, even one lovingly handcrafted hat can make a huge difference in the life of an underprivileged veteran or their dependent.
Last Call for Washington State Stand Down
Tomorrow, 10/14/20, T.H.R.I.V.E. Association will be sending a package of our lovely handcrafted goods to the wonderful veterans in Washington State. We are still accepting donations for this shipment. So, if you live in the DFW area and have last minute donations that you would like to turn in for this upcoming Washington Stand Down, please call our office at (469) 427-9654 or email us at thriveassociation@thrivevets.org to arrange for a pickup.
There are numerous other Stand Downs right after this one that we will be serving, so please keep crafting. If you need ideas, please feel free to check out our blog for free patterns.
It’s Stand Down Season
Over the past two months, we have sent out over 440 of our lovingly handcrafted goods to the wonderful veterans in beautiful Fairbanks, Alaska and the great states of West Virginia and Kentucky.
There is still time to donate! We have many Stand Downs coming up, with the next one in mid-October in Washington state. We are in desperate need of scarves in particular, however hats, mittens, etc. are still needed. There are other ways to donate if you are not a crafter. Please consider making a monetary donation to help us cover the costs of materials, shipping, and overhead. If you need yarn, or other supplies, please contact us through email at thriveassociation@thrivevets.org or by phone at (469) 427-9654. If you have donations, we are still continuing our policy of curbside pickup. Please contact us to schedule a pickup if you are in the DFW area. For those outside of the DFW area, please ship your donations to our office at:
T.H.R.I.V.E. Association
9329 Springwater Dr.
Dallas, TX 75228
Remember, even one lovingly handcrafted hat can make a huge difference in the life of an underprivileged veteran or their dependent.
Please Stay Safe
Due to the rising health concerns for our volunteers, staff, and the community which we serve, T.H.R.I.V.E. Association will be putting ALL of our knitting groups on hold until further notice. We ask that you stay safe and follow what our global health experts have advised – proper hand washing protocol and self-quarantine however possible to prevent the further spread of the COVID-19 virus.
To help combat cabin fever among our crafters in this time of self-isolation, we would like to share a free simple pattern from Red Heart Yarns. Please follow this link to view the Daydream Hat pattern.
If you are a veteran or a dependent of a veteran and need our help, our office is still open and will do our best to aid you. Please feel free to reach out- even if you just need to talk in this dark time: (469) 427-9654. Please remember that we are here for you.
A Call to Crafters
We’ve been busy this past month, having sent 100 items to Fairbanks AK and 200 items to Huntington WV! Our goods were well loved by the veterans who received them, so thank you for all of your support and hard work. However, we still have several Stand Downs coming up, such as Fort Worth and Dallas TX, and need your help to meet the needs of the veterans at these events. We are short on hats and scarves in the darker shades of black, blue, green, grey, and camouflage. We need your support to meet the numbers at these Stand Downs, in the colors and styles that the veterans prefer. So please, send in your work as soon as you can!
Meeting Goals
As a special thanks to all of the hard work put forth by our dedicated volunteers, T.H.R.I.V.E. Association has fresh homemade vegan apple pie for our Dallas Chapter! Each week we strive to provide our local volunteers with homemade vegan goodies.
If you are interested in volunteering, please fill out one of our volunteer forms here. Remember, it is not necessary that you know how to craft; if you are interested in learning, we would love to teach you at one of our weekly Craft-a-thons. Also, if you have a skill set that you’d like to donate, feel free to contact us here. We’d love to hear from you!
Last year, T.H.R.I.V.E. Association was able to provide 36 items to the Homeless Veterans Stand Down. We promised ourselves, and our community that we would continue to grow until the needs of every former service member was met. By continuing to recruit new, dedicated volunteers, we’re on our way towards reaching that goal. Way to go volunteers, we’re very proud of you!
On November 8, 2016, T.H.R.I.V.E. Association will distribute our collected handmade goods to the underprivileged military veterans. Please remember to send all wet blocked finished garments to our headquarters.
