About Us

This video is featured on the homepage of our website, and we would love to tell you our story and find out how you can get involved with caring for our homeless!

Our Vision

An America where all homeless and less fortunate are provided with the basic necessity of warmth and the gift of hope.

Our Mission

Our mission at Blanket USA is to provide warmth and dignity to America’s homeless and less fortunate by supplying blankets to homeless shelters and outreach organizations across the United States.

Our Story

Humble Beginnings

What started as a school project to teach the Fehder children and their classmates the importance of giving back, has grown from a small grass roots program into a national campaign to warm the bodies and hearts of America’s less fortunate and homeless. 20 years ago, Blanket Louisville collected about 300 blankets with notes from the students attached to each, as the blankets were being distributed on Valentine’s Day to a local homeless shelter. Thus, the slogan of Warming Bodies and Warming Hearts!

It was an incredible success.

Steve and Kathy Fehder recognized the power of the program with a very small school and envisioned what could be if more schools, churches, businesses and organizations got involved. The next year 1,000 blankets were collected, 2,000 the next, then 3,000 and 4,000 and it kept growing. 20 years later, with the help of friends, family, hundreds of volunteers and collection partners, and thousands of generous donors, Blanket Louisville has collected and distributed 140,000 blankets to the homeless and less fortunate in the Louisville region, central Kentucky and Appalachia. Blankets have also been distributed to disaster victims in Eastern and Western Kentucky and to area charities assisting refugees.

From Kentucky to the Nation

Blanket Louisville has grown from an initial Valentine’s Day distribution to an important year-round non-profit, serving over 25 homeless organizations in the Louisville and Kentucky region. And after 20 years of warming the homeless and less fortunate, the vision of the Blanket Louisville founders to warm more bodies and hearts continues with the creation of a national campaign to help the homeless and less fortunate across the USA. Blanket USA - Giving Warmth and Hope to America’s Homeless. And the idea of spreading hope and love on that first Valentine’s Day will live on as each blanket sent to homeless outreach organizations will have a simple, but powerful message attached … YOU ARE LOVED.

For more information on the Blanket USA story please take a few minutes to watch our video (above) and a special music video (below).