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Dress for Success Worldwide Presents Achievement Awards to Newark
Resident and Dress for Success Memphis
Awards for Outstanding Leadership Announced at 2007 Success Summit
New York, NY - August 1, 2007
Marvese Sugar of Newark and Dress for Success Memphis received the second annual Dress for Success Achievement Awards on July 14 at the organization's Success Summit at Hotel Palomar in Washington, DC. The awardees were recognized for utilizing the leadership skills they acquired at last year's Success Summit with the Professional Women's Group (PWG) of their local Dress for Success affiliate and in their local communities.
"We were thrilled to present Achievement Awards to Marvese Sugar and Dress for Success Memphis," said Joi Gordon, Chief Executive Officer of Dress for Success Worldwide. "These women are leaders and role models for everyone at Dress for Success and in their communities."
Ms. Sugar, the 2006 PWG delegate from Dress for Success Morris County who now resides in Newark, received the 2007 PWG Delegate Achievement Award for organizing a one-day conference for women from a local homeless shelter, with the help of 20 volunteers from her PWG. The conference included career workshops and access to professional attire. Local companies were so impressed with the conference that they offered employment opportunities to women at the homeless shelter after the event. Ms. Sugar received a $500 savings bond from Dress for Success Worldwide, a $250 gift card from dressbarn and a $250 gift card from Banana Republic.
"It was an incredible experience to help other women feel good about themselves and to give them the tools they need to succeed in the workplace," said Ms. Sugar.
Dress for Success Memphis received the 2007 PWG Affiliate Achievement Award for implementing outstanding initiatives such as engaging PWG members in the recruitment process with the Each One Reach One campaign, implementing officer positions for their PWG, and growing their PWG membership. Dress for Success Memphis received a $250 gift card from dressbarn, a $250 gift card from Banana Republic and $2500 from Robert Half International, a sponsor of the Success Summit.
National and international supporters of our Professional Women's Group include: Robert Half International, FranklinCovey, BorrowSmart, Smiles for Success and A Hand UP Coaching.
"We were extremely honored to receive the Achievement Award and plan to further improve our PWG program this year," said Susan Kyles, Executive Director for Dress for Success Memphis. "We believe that our PWG members are committed to making a difference by helping other women in our community."
The Achievement Awards were part of the 2007 Professional Women's Group Success Summit, a leadership conference for coordinators and nominated delegates representing local Professional Women's Groups. The PWG is an international networking association for Dress for Success clients who have recently entered the workforce and was created to promote employment retention and career advancement.
About Dress for Success
Dress for Success is an international not-for-profit organization that promotes the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and the career development tools to help women thrive in work and in life. Since starting operations in 1997, Dress for Success has expanded to more than 80 cities in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands and the UK. To date, Dress for Success has helped more that 350,000 women work towards self-sufficiency. Visit
www.dressforsuccess.org to learn more.
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