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PUZZLES TO REMEMBER is a youth led 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to enhancing the lives of individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias through jigsaw puzzles, cognitive engagement, and social connection. Led by Executive Director Hailey Richman, Puzzles To Remember has distributed more than 236,000 puzzles valued at over $2 million to more than 5,000 memory care communities, nursing homes, veterans facilities, senior centers, and other organizations across all 50 states and 16 countries. Our programs have benefited more than one million people while diverting approximately 148 tons of puzzles from landfills through donation and reuse. Puzzles To Remember also promotes intergenerational connection through Puzzle Time, which brings young people together with individuals living with dementia for shared puzzle solving, conversation, and companionship. Our mission is to provide engaging and purposeful activities that promote connection, participation, and joy while enhancing the quality of life of those affected by dementia. Donate Puzzles If you have puzzles you would like to donate, please contact us at Puzzles2Remember@gmail.com. We will help identify a location where your puzzles can benefit individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Donation acknowledgment letters are available upon request.

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Puzzle Club Donates to PuzzlesToRemember

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By Max Wallack
Puzzles to Remember

I was recently contacted by Becki, who lives near Jackson, Tennessee.  Becki is part of a group called the New Jacksonian Jigsaw Junkies.  Over the past 20 years, this group has amassed over 500 jigsaw puzzles.  Storage space is getting tight, and they would now like to donate their puzzles to PuzzlesToRemember.

I have located about a dozen facilities in the Jackson area to which they will bring puzzles.  Becki told me one of the members had gone to the Veteran’s Home in Humboldt and noticed that there were jigsaw puzzles set up on the tables in their activity room.  I was happy to hear this since I had sent puzzles to that facility about a year ago.  It’s good to know they are being used to help our veterans!

I will be supplying the members of the puzzle club with donation letters so that each member can receive a tax donation for the puzzles they donate.
 
If there are other puzzle groups out there who would like to donate their puzzles, please contact me at the email on the bottom of this page.




Max Wallack is a student at Boston University.  His great grandmother, Gertrude, suffered from Alzheimer's disease. Max is the founder of  PUZZLES TO REMEMBER. PTR is a project that provides puzzles to nursing homes and veterans institutions that care for Alzheimer's and dementia patients.

Posted by Max Wallack at 4:25 PM

3 Comments:

Adrian said...

Cannot find your email. I have hundreeds of puzzles to donate. I live in the state of washington. Let me know if you are interested. The puzzles are still new and wrapped. Thanks. Adrian

July 28, 2012 at 6:35 AM  
Max Wallack said...

My email is at the bottom of the page:

PuzzlesToRemember@gmail.com

I would be very happy to have your puzzles donated to PuzzlesToRemember. If you wish, I can give you the names of several facilities in your area to which you can bring your puzzles, and I can provide you with a tax donation letter.
Thanks,
Max

July 28, 2012 at 9:21 PM  
Max Wallack said...

My email is at the bottom of the page:

PuzzlesToRemember@gmail.com

I would be very happy to have your puzzles donated to PuzzlesToRemember. If you wish, I can give you the names of several facilities in your area to which you can bring your puzzles, and I can provide you with a tax donation letter.
Thanks,
Max

July 28, 2012 at 9:21 PM  

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PUZZLES TO REMEMBER was founded in 2008 by Max Wallack, in memory of his great-grandmother, Gertrude Finkelstein, who died of Alzheimer's disease in 2007.
Puzzles To Remember is registered in Massachusetts as a public charity. Contributions are welcome, and are tax deductible under sec. 501(c.)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.

For more information, write to us at Puzzles2Remember@gmail.com