Directory: Society: People: Women: Organizations: Development: Transition to Work (19)
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The Women's Alliance - National organization of independent community-based members who provide professional attire, career skills training and related services to low-income women seeking employment. Information on membership, programs, and corporate partners.Suitability - Lowell, Massachusetts group created to enhance the marketability of economically challenged women by providing free interview clothing, to those who are actively seeking employment through a job training program.
A Miner Miracle - San Francisco. Nonprofit organization that provides professional clothing and image counseling to low income men, women, and young adults seeking employment.
A Suitable Image - Framingham, Massachusetts. Nonprofit providing career clothing and workshops at no charge to low-income women transitioning back to work in the Boston-Metrowest area.
Attitudes & Attire - Dallas. Workshops on image, self-esteem, and workplace ethics. Information on programs, supporters, and client successes.
Bottomless Closet - Chicago. Provides professional clothing, job readiness, and post-employment training and coaching services to women on assistance and working-poor women.
Bottomless Closet - Promotes economic self-sufficiency by providing interview skills, business clothing, and ongoing career development and support programs to New York City women on public assistance.
Career Closet - Nonprofit organization that provides interview-quality professional clothing at no charge to economically disadvantaged women in Santa Clara County.
Clothes that Work - Dayton, Ohio. Offers professional clothing and career skills workshops.
Image and Attitude - New Jersey. Nonprofit that helps to elevate the image and self-esteem of economically disadvantaged women by providing business attire to women who are actively seeking employment. Also offers mentoring and support group.
Jackets for Jobs, Inc. - Nonprofit corporation that provides interview-quality, professional business clothing at no charge to economically disadvantaged women in the Metropolitan Detroit Area.
Suited for Change - Washington, DC. Provides professional clothing and ongoing career education to low-income women to increase their employment and job retention potential and to contribute to their economic independence.
Tailored For Success - Provides women with free business attire and gives them the opportunity to attend career development workshops to increase their interpersonal skills in a business context.
The Career Wardrobe - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Working in partnership with over job training programs, domestic violence shelters and other agencies, provides free interview-appropriate clothing and support services to women who are transitioning from welfare to work or beginning a life free from domestic violence.
Wardrobe for Opportunity - Goal is to help low-income women in Contra Costa and Alameda Counties improve their image and self-esteem by providing them with quality business clothing appropriate for job interviews and the professional workplace as well as career development support.
Women Helping Women - Costa Mesa, California. Strives to secure adequate funding and broad based community support to fullfill the desperate need of our clients for services provided by the Professional Clothes Closet and Computer Learning Center.
Women's Success Network - Mission to assure that economically challenged women completing job training are ready for that first interview and the weeks to follow, by providing them with career-oriented clothing and helping them to maintain their confidence and self-esteem.
Working Wardrobes - Orange County, California, nonprofit which assists survivors of domestic violence and other adults in crisis to reclaim their self esteem and re-enter the workforce, through life skills education, career coaching, and professional image enhancement services.
Image for Success - Marin County. Accepts donations of women's professional clothing and accessories, to be provided to people entering the workforce. Describes training programs and location.
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