What is the charity or group that collects can tabs for dialysis patients?

I am a girl scout leader and we were collecting tabs for dialysis. Only today, one of my mother's asked how it worked, so I did some research and this is what I found:

According to the National Kidney Foundations website, they do not now, nor have they ever collected pull tabs for time on dialysis machines (this also holds true for box tops and product points).

They say they have received thousands of these pull tabs, only to toss them away. They do however encourage people to recycle cans, and then whoever would like to donate the money made from the recycled cans can be sent in a form of a check to: NKF at 30 East 33rd Street, New York, NY, 10016. Proceeds will be used to fund the foundation's patient programs, public and professional education, public policy initiatives and research.

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What is the charity or group that collects can tabs for dialysis patients?

I have been collecting these soda can tabs for months but lost touch with person who knew what to do with them.

http://www.snopes.com/business/redeem/pulltabs.asp

No charitable organization will pay out a premium (in cash, goods, or services) for pull tabs from aluminum cans. Some of them will indeed accept donations of pull tabs, but all they pay (or receive) in exchange for those tabs is their marginal value as scrap aluminum. Anyone gathering pull tabs for charity would do far better to collect whole cans; accumulating nothing but pull tabs is like eschewing quarters in order to collect pennies.

(From time to time, various companies will run programs under which they offer to donate money to charities in exchange for consumers' collecting and returning some item of product packaging [e.g., pull tabs, boxtops, wrappers], but such companies only accept packaging from their own products, and their object in operating these programs is to promote and advertise their brands.)

Next time someone asks you to donate a few pull-tabs for a good cause, donate a few facts instead. You'll be doing everyone a favor.

I want a scarf! I'm the SAME way! I weave, macrame and crochet and am trying to learn how to knit, but it's hard getting out of my "crocheting" mentality. St. Vincents and pretty much all churches will except clothing and other things and I think they regularly have clothing drives and stuff.. otherwise Goodwill? (Oh, actually go to a craft store in your area and ask them this. I'm sure they have information on different charity projects you can help with.)

Soda Tabs For Cancer

The National Cancer Foundation has a charity for this!