As most of you may know, I’m in the nascent stages of launching a non profit organization, Fashion For All, which is a significant career change. Fashion For All’s mission is to offer women in low-income communities a day of dignified shopping and access to community based organizations, which provide educational, career and parenting resources.

Starting with a clothing drive supported by individual and corporate donors, partnerships and alliances with local women-focused social service organizations and prominent fashion and beauty brands, Fashion For All is able to provide a unique experience for struggling and disadvantaged women. Twice a year, residents in low-income communities visit a ‘pop-up’ store created specifically for them, where they are able to shop and have access to personal styling and holistic healing and wellness services. What begins as a day of deserved indulgence morphs into a lively, informative resource fair where guests interact with, and learn from, inspiring women entrepreneurs, and representatives who can arm our guests with the tools they need in order to achieve personal and professional success. Our previous partners include Dress for Success, Healthy Families Successful Start, and Fort Greene Snap.

Feel free to check out photos from our first event.

While my organization is pending 501c3 status, I’m in full gear for a Los Angeles event & a holiday NYC event (dates TBD). And I’ve found a terrific partner in BEAUTY CARES, a national nonprofit organization designed to provide comfort, joy and renewed self-esteem for women who currently reside in safe houses protecting women and children from domestic violence.

REQUEST: If you know of any beauty & fashion brands, or major corporations that would be interested in providing product or in sponsoring a joint event, please let me know! I know you must get inundated with these requests, but I implore you to take this seriously. All donations will be tax-deductible, and this is terrific PR, especially in this precarious economy.

If you know of anyone who would be interested in getting involved with FASHION FOR ALL (from volunteers to sponsors to donors to offering up free branding consulting), please let me know.

NOTE: I’ll be in Los Angeles from 6/11-6/15, taking meetings. Beauty Cares and Fashion For All are both headquartered in New York.

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