Endowment 
We are the only quilt museum in New England and one of the few
anywhere that collects both antique and contemporary quilts. Our
location in Lowell, Massachusetts, the historic heart of the American
textile industry, enhances our ability to educate and draws a local,
national, and international audience.
Our museum was formed and fulfills its mission through the generosity
of quilters, collectors, and friends. We now ask for your help in
ensuring the continuation of our museum through an endowment managed
by the Greater Lowell Community Foundation. There are varied ways
of contributing to the endowment, all tailored to meet the specific
financial needs of donors.
Mother’s Day Fund
Many of us have wonderful memories of our mothers, grandmothers,
aunts and sisters making special quilts and objects to beautify
our homes. Other mothers were not quilters, but shared with
their families their appreciation of the beauty and skills
involved in quiltmaking. In 2003, the NEQM established an
endowment fund to recognize these women who do so much to
enhance our lives. Each year, the museum displays the list of
names in our gallery on Mother's Day which is open free of
charge to mothers of all ages on Mother's Day.
(Donor
form to print and mail with your contribution)Named Guild Funds
The following quilt guilds have established named funds with our endowment.
100th Town Quilters
Amoskeag Quilt Guild
Concord Piecemakers Guild
Greater Hartford Quilt Guild
Huntington Quilters Guild
Narragansett Bay Quilters Association
New England Quilt Museum Auxiliary
Nimble Thimblers
Plymouth County Cranberry Quilters
Quilters' Connection
Rhododendron Needlers Quilt Guild
Other Ways to Give
Your gift to the New England Quilt Museum endowment can be designed
to suit your individual philanthropic and financial goals. Names
gifts for individuals or guilds, gift annuities, and designated
agency funds are some of the most popular options.
Additionally, you may select the form of gift that is most financially
beneficial to you. The professional advisors of the Greater
Lowell Community Foundation will work with you and your financial
advisor in selecting the most advantageous form, which may include:
Cash;
Real estate;
Bequests;
Individual Retirement Accounts;
Life insurance;
Corporate gifts; and
Appreciate securities
We invite you to help secure our legacy. I hope that you will
consider making a gift that will benefit both you and the museum.
Please contact me
so that we can discuss this important opportunity.
With gratitude and best wishes,
Connie Colom, Executive Director
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