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Show Me The Money

Show Me The Money
The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative has raised more than $290,000 for Alzheimer's research since January 2006. (See below.)

2009 is our second year as a nonprofit corporation.

So far this year we have earned approximately $19,276.91in profit. All profit is used to fund Alzheimer's research.



"Money IN / Money OUT" Report
(January 1, 2009 to May 31, 2009)


Income:


Total Income: $23,597.00



Expenses:

  • Quilt Insurance for "Alzheimer's: Forgetting Piece by Piece:" $707.00
  • Licenses & Permits: $470.00
    • Solicitation Registration Fees:
      • Massachusetts: $50
      • Tennessee: $50
      • North Carolina: $100
      • Alabama: $25
      • Maine: $50
      • Minnesota: $25
      • Pennsylvania: $150
      • Montana: $20
    • Office Supplies: $23.05
      • Two ring binders to organize research grant proposals: $5.82
      • Manila envelops (100) to mail solicitation registrations: $8.26
      • Marking pens for putting numbers on Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts
        and signing purple patches: $8.97
    • Supplies: $156.46
      • Card stock for Priority: Alzheimer's Quilt tags: $11.98
      • Plastic hang tabs for Priority: Alzheimer's Quilt tags: $67.92
      • Printing solicitation registration forms: $76.56
    • Telephone ($24.99/month + taxes): $154.84
    • Web Page Hosting & Revenue Share ($39.95/month + 1.5% of sales): $386.70
    • Café Press Web Hosting ($6.95/month): $16.80
    • Credit Card Processing Fees: $575.85
    • Accountant Fees: $865.00
    • Fulfillment Services: $681.00
    • Freight (postage): $116.46
    • Texas Sales Tax (Houston Quilt Festival 2008): $160.80
    • Michigan Sales Tax (last quarter 2008, paid in 2009): $6.13

    Total Expenses: $4,320.09



    Profit in 2009: $19,276.91


    The AAQI is a totally volunteer organization. No individual is compensated in any way for their work.

    If you've got any questions, just ask Ami.

    Know that our success is due to the following individuals and companies listed below:
    • Bernina of America, FOUR aurora 440 sewing machines. They were used as donation incentives and awarded in 2006 and 2007.
    • Mallery Press, Inc.: Labor, office space, phone, email, web page, auction updating and processing, office supplies, publicity, and promotion from 2006 through 2007.
    • Beebe Moss, note card painting.
    • Robin June, Accountant, watching every penny (July 2007-present)
    • Peggy Mages, Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts registration
    • Diane Petersmarck, Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts, $1,000 Promise Registrar, Honor Roller, Priority: Alzheimer's Quilt Label Maker, auctioneer.
    • Karen Musgrave, press releases.
    • Alexis Durham, Purple Patch Person.
    • Beth Hartford, Printing Czar.
    • Niki Gottesman, mover of web pages.
    • Kathie Veach, Research Protocol Advisor
    • Laura Robins-Morris, Honor Roll computer code.
    • Marty Lawrence and Mary Lecea, exhibit preparation.
    • Rebekkah Tario, photo tweaking.
    • Daphne Stewart, comment transcription and auction notification.
    • Flint volunteers: Mary Lecea, Rebekkah Tario, Ruth Murray, and Martha Winn.
    • Julie Sefton, quilter of The Quilt Of Purple Patches
    • Lee Kirchner, logo rendering and CD and book photography
    • Anthony & Company, Inc., blank yardsticks for bottom sleeves of exhibit quilts
    • Nanette Zeller, photo-cropping and original CD cover design
    • Mike DiMichele, audio expertise for CD
    • Echo Swinford, hand-holding up the CD learning curve and DVD production
    • Doug and Simm Tessler, iPod movie of traveling exhibit.
    • Karey Bresenhan (Quilts, Inc.) Exhibition space for Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts sale at International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX. 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009.
    • Alzheimer's Association (Houston & Southeast Texas Chapter) exhibit "walls" and staff support, 2006.
    • EE Schenck, fabric to cover walls in exhibit space at Houston International Quilt Festival, 2006 and 2007.
    • Carol Downing, MasterTrack Productions, Inc. CD replication discount.
    • Ann Louise Mullard-Pugh, public relations.
    • Kathy Kennedy-Dennis, on-call quilter.
    • Kathy Kennedy-Dennis and Susan Pain, Houston Support Team
    • Donna Brisbin, State Solicitation Registration Facilitator
    • On-Site AAQI Volunteer Coordinators. These individuals saints supervised the traveling exhibit on-site. They coordinated with individual venues, other volunteers, and Ami. They were at the exhibit every hour it was open to the public and made sure it was appropriately staffed with volunteers. Often they were responsible for CD sales, set-up, and tear-down, too. These heroes did all this AND paid their own transportation, plus hotel and food. It is with supreme admiration that I thank the following superstars:
      • Ann Louise Mullard-Pugh (Road To California, January 2007; Denver National Quilt Festival, May 2007)
      • Sherry Whitford (Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, February 2007)
      • Ragi Marino and Naomi Adams (Dallas Quilt Guild Show, March 2007)
      • Karen Musgrave (Seams Like Fun Quilt Show, September 2007)
    • Flyer-printers, Sticker-printers, Pipe Bootie Makers, Skrunchie Sewers and quilters to roll up their sleeves to help.
    • The White Glove Brigade & Quilt Police, giving hugs and keeping the quilts safe.