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Dress for Success Supervisor Foley, Councilwoman Walsh Encourage Donations of Professional Attire To Help Disadvantaged Women in Suffolk Thrive in the Workplace Brookhaven Town Supervisor Brian X. Foley, Councilwoman Kathy Walsh and Dress for Success Brookhaven, the Suffolk County affiliate for Dress for Success Worldwide, encourage women to donate one new or nearly new interview suit during the week of March 11-17 to help another woman enter the workforce. During S.O.S. – Send One Suit – Week, women can bring their suit donation to any Dress Barn store. One of America’s premier specialty retailers of women’s career and casual fashions, Dress Barn has been the national drop-off site and title sponsor for S.O.S. Week for five years. To date, consumers through dressbarn have donated more than 99,000 suits during S.O.S. Week. To find your local Dress Barn store, visit www.dressbarn.com. The Style Network and the VIACTIV® Brand are also national sponsors of S.O.S. Week. “We applaud the efforts of Dress for Success Brookhaven in providing professional apparel for more than 2,000 Suffolk County women,” said Supervisor Foley. “I encourage individuals with clothing to share to take advantage of this annual awareness program and donate those items at their local Dress Barn store.” Brookhaven Town Councilwoman Kathy Walsh, liaison to the Town’s Office of Women’s Services, said, “We are inviting Town employees to get involved with S.O.S. Week by bringing their donations to Town Hall on Independence Hill in Farmingville on Wednesday, March 16 between 8:30 and 10 a.m. Together, we can help make a real difference in the lives of disadvantaged women in Suffolk, and help them to thrive both at the workplace and in their lives.” Dress for Success is an international not-for-profit organization with the mission to promote the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and the career development tools to help them thrive in work and in life. Dress for Success has affiliates in more than 80 cities in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For more information about Dress for Success Brookhaven, please call (631) 451-9127 or visit the website at www.dressforsuccess.org/brookhaven. Dress for Success® Brookhaven 3253 Route 112, Suite 1, Medford, NY 11763 - 631 451-9127 - fax 631 451-9125 www.dressforsuccess.org
Posted on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 (Archive on Sunday, March 18, 2007)
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