Dress for Success

As my friends know, I lost all of my clothes to Hurricane Ike. That included over twenty business suits and assorted tops, pants, shoes... you get the picture. It wiped out my whole work as well as casual wardrobe and the small amount of accessories and jewelry I owned.

While visiting with a friend, she informed me of a wonderful woman's organization called Dress For Success. This non-profit helps women who want to enter the business world by giving them a suit to wear for interviews. Their motto is From Suits to Self-Sufficiency. Once you are welcomed into their fold, they continue to support you with monthly meetings and networking.

Dress For Success doesn't simply supply you with a suit though. They go all the way ~ dressing you from head to toe with shoes, scarf, jewelry, a handbag and other assorted accessories including the hose. The women that volunteer there are marvelous. The atmosphere and building professional. I can't say enough good about this organization and how they treat women who are trying to rebuild their lives and once again stand on their own two feet.

Quite simply ~ Dress For Success empowers women to be all that they can be by meeting their most basic need to be presentable and confident for an interview.

If you have any business attire you no longer need and it's in like-new condition, please consider donating to this wonderful cause that helps women get back on their feet and enables them to look the part when calling on future job possibilities. At the link below, there are other opportunities to give also. This is a national organization that truly helps all of us, one determined soul at a time, by enabling those without to realize they have all that they need within. Thank you.

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Who We Are

Dress for Success Worldwide is an international non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of women located in 85 cities across the U.S., Canada, the U.K., the Netherlands and New Zealand. The professional clothing, employment retention programs and ongoing support that we provide our clients symbolize our faith in every woman's ability to be self-sufficient and successful in her career.

Dress for Success depends on a team of qualified, passionate and dedicated individuals, organizations and companies, each of whom plays an indispensable role in our success.

The Dress for Success team includes:

More than 80 affiliates in the U.S., New Zealand, Canada, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Each site is an independent, volunteer-driven non-profit organization committed to fulfilling the Dress for Success mission on the local level.
The staff members of Dress for Success Worldwide, who handle overall management of Dress for Success, provide support to our affiliates and are responsible for stewardship of the brand. In addition, Worldwide coordinates organization-wide fundraising and events.
The Dress for Success board of directors, which retains legal and fiscal oversight of the organization.
Our sponsors, who provide critical financial, in-kind and other types of support to the organization.
A diverse group of foundation and individual supporters, who contribute clothing and funds to Dress for Success and make it possible for us to serve our clients.
Strategic partners whose services complement and provide greater value to those that we provide to disadvantaged women.
Our Young Executives for Success (Y.E.S.!)^TM group, a volunteer branch of Dress for Success in New York City for professional women in the fashion, beauty and media industries.
The founder of Dress for Success, Nancy Lublin, who established the organization in 1996 with a $5,000 inheritance from her great-grandfather, Poppy Max.