Project Linus is a 100% volunteer
non-profit organization.
On Christmas Eve, 1995, an article titled Joy to the World appeared in Parade Magazine. It
was written by Pulitzer Prize winning photo-journalist, Eddie Adams. Part of the article
featured a petite, downy haired child. She had been going through intensive chemotherapy
and stated that her security blanket helped her get through the treatments.
After reading the article, Karen Loucks decided to provide homemade security blankets to
Denver's Rocky Mountain Children's Cancer Center, and Project Linus was born.
Project Linus is a national 100% volunteer organization. As of Sept. 2004, 371 chapters
can be found throughout the United States and over 1 Million Blankets have
been donated to traumatized children throughout the country. Most blankets stay within the
chapter unless there is an emergency in another chapter. We shipped over 10,000 blankets
to New York and 600 to Washington after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Blankets were also
sent to children in Afghanistan.
