Since 2008, Dress for Success Triangle has been allowance women accretion application one affection accouterments at a time. In Raleigh, it all happens at an 1,800-square-foot amplitude on Capital Boulevard.
But in July, the nonprofit will move into a bigger amplitude in Raleigh. The new 10,000-square-foot ability includes a warehouse, boutique, bathrobe rooms, affair allowance and computer lab.
Dress for Success Triangle is amid 130 affiliates in the United States and above that aim to empower women through new clothes. Most of the group’s audience are distinct mothers in their mid-30s, said Beth Briggs, controlling administrator for the Triangle group.
“People change back they get dressed up,” Briggs said.
Currently, the nonprofit shares amplitude with Urban Ministries of Wake County, a affairs that provides food, apartment and medical affliction to those in need.
It bound became bright that Dress for Success Triangle, which additionally has a area in Durham, bare added space.
Since it began, the accumulation has helped added than 7,000 women acquisition jobs. Briggs said 72 percent of women in the affairs acquisition application with advice from volunteers.
Many audience are referred to the accumulation by one of 150 bounded partners.
Dress for Success Triangle has 350 volunteers – all women. Many of them serve as career and angel coaches, and they advice audience actualize resumes, analyze strengths and acquisition adapted apparel for job interviews.
The women get acclaim acclimated accouterment such as blouses, pants, blazers and dress shoes.
It’s important for women to accept “something able and article that (the client) likes,” said Katie Lowek, operations administrator for Dress for Success Triangle. “It’s not about what we like, it’s about what they like.”
Ashley Ascott, administrator of development for the group, started volunteering with Dress for Success Triangle in 2009. Once she accomplished she was authoritative a aberration in women’s lives, she became an agent and again an angel coach.
Ascott said she was consistently cerebration of able fundraising account for the nonprofit.
In 2013, she co-founded Women for Success as a way to accession money for Dress for Success Triangle. The accumulation hosts contest as fundraisers.
Over the accomplished two years, Women for Success has aloft $50,000 with the advice of partnerships, volunteers and the community.
Together with Dress for Success Triangle, Women for Success hopes to actualize adaptable units for women who don’t accept busline to get to the new ability on Tillery Place, off of Capital Boulevard.
“Transportation is an issue,” Ascott said. “We capital to appear up with a way for women to admission what we do.”
The groups achievement to abide growing.
“There is ability in allowance women,” Ascott said. “That’s what absolutely keeps me there.”
On July 6, Dress for Success Triangle will move to 1812 Tillery Place, Raleigh.
To acquisition out how to accord clothes or become a volunteer, go to trianglenc.dressforsuccess.org.
