Question about knitting for charity

[rokeon]

I'm brand new to knitting, but I learned when I got into making chainmail that my ideal project is not one that has an overly firm due date; I'm the sort of person who starts a project, forgets it exists for six months, then finds the supplies buried under a stack of books and sits down to finish the whole thing in two days without sleep. So I'm looking for charity programs that either accept donations continuously or reoccur every year.

I can find a million search results about charity knitting, but some of them (like helmetliners for soldiers) seem to be defunct and others are just hard to judge from their webpages. Does anybody have any organizations they'd recommend?

Comments

[bedlamsbard]

There's Afghans for Afghans -- I don't have any personal experience with them aside from being on their mailing list, but from that alone they seem to be very solid, as well as active.

[pinesandmaples]

A4A has had some serious instability over the last 5 years. Lots of bloggy dramatics so I'll spare you. The key factor was an organizational take-over that did not handle some of the issues very well. (Sorry, I was on the front-lines of the falling down. That's the only reason I know.)

[rokeon]

I am deeply afraid of bloggy dramatics, so very good to know. It sounds like I'll definitely go with Project Linus once I start making blankets.