Dress Me for Success Corporate Challenge

Our Dress Me for Success Corporate Challenge kick-off is taking place on Tuesday, September 1. We would like to thank Clarins Canada, Deloitte & Touche, Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP, McCarthy Tetrault, and Kimpton's Pacific Palisades Hotel, for being our first five confirmed Challengers. If your company is interested in participating in this exciting event please email vancouver@dressforsuccess.org.

News: AGM

On Monday, June 22 we held our Annual General Meeting. We would like to announce the appointment of Katrina Caroll-Foster, Michelle Jickling and Liz Sperandeo to our board of directors.

Continuing directors are Debbie Gregg (Chair), Brenda Benham (Past Chair), Jennifer Chow (Secretary), Beth Fisher (Treasurer), Brenda Crump, Ed des Roches, Becky Knapton, Louise Kozier, Cheryl Nakamoto, Marie-Helene Pelletier, Sally Nelson, Don Prior and Diane Rapatz.

News: Share the Love with divine.ca

We would like to thank all of our volunteers, friends and supporters for voting for Dress for Success® Vancouver in the Share the Love contest hosted by divine.ca. Twelve Canadian organizations out of the hundreds that applied, were selected to take part in this event. Thanks to your votes we placed 4th Nationally with 13.55% of the votes and $1177.61!

Cool Facts: Deborah Twocock Moonlights as Actor

Many Dress for Success® Vancouver friends and volunteers have mentioned that they saw Deb on TV! If you haven't seen this commercial featuring Deb, for the British Columbia Association of Optometrists, you can watch it here.

News: Dress for Success® Featured on Jeopardy

Dress for Success® was a clue in a recent episode of Jeopardy! You can visit http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3057 to view the question in the first Jeopardy round. We were in the Do-Gooders category for $800!

News: Bobbi Brown Cosmetics

Bobbi Brown Cosmetics helped us once again with a donation of $3000 directed to Dress for Success® Vancouver. Deb met Bobbi Brown at the Dress for Success conference a couple of years ago in New York City. Bobbi Brown Cosmetics has helped Dress for Success in the past by donating cosmetics for client use.

News: Trade in Your Watch

For the month of June you can trade in your own watch and save $25.00 off the purchase of a Roots watch valued at $95 or higher. Roots will repair and re-battery all of the trade-ins and donate them to us to give away to our clients. This promotion is only available in Canada and is taking place at participating roots retailers. For more information about this event please visit the roots website.