Safeway Women's Networking Group Volunteer Day - October 30th

Yesterday was Safeway Volunteer Day at Dress for Success® Vancouver Headquarters. The Safeway Women's Networking Group steamed clothes, sorted, merchandised, and culled the racks. They were a spirited group with lots of pep and were positive throughout the day. Thank you to Safeway and the Safeway Women's Networking Group!

Pricewaterhouse Coopers Volunteer Day

The mountain that our brave PwC volunteers began to sort

The PwC crew doing a fabulous job of modeling while sorting

Last week our friends at Pricewaterhouse Coopers provided us with wonderful volunteers who not only setup our sewing corner and our new stereo system, but also began tackling the monumental mountain of clothing in the pink room. They were troopers and managed to have fun while staying on task. Thank you to the PwC volunteers for being such good sports and doing a great job!

Wear Else: October 23 - November 18

Wear Else is supporting us from October 23 to November 18. Three Wear Else locations will collect gently used Holiday Wear for Alumni of the Dress for Success® Vancouver program. These women are about to attend their first holiday events at their place of employment and Wear Else would like you to help us assist our Alumni in looking and feeling confident and beautiful!

Wear Else encourages you to bring in a gently worn holiday dress or pant suit between October 23 and November 15. In turn, Wear Else will present you with a $50 Gift Card to spend on a new Holiday Look for yourself! It's their way of thanking you for helping them to help others! On November 18th, after all the Holiday Outfits are collected, the 4th Ave location will host a special Holiday Styling Event for the Dress for Success® Vancouver Alumni. These lovely ladies will have the opportunity to choose one of the beautiful hoilday outfits that YOU donated. What a great way to go into the Holiday Season! You can drop off your holiday garments at either our West 4th, Park Royal or Oakridge locations!

High Heel Appeal DVD Launch Party Tonight!

We know this is short notice - but if there are any shoe lovers out there (as if you aren't all shoe lovers) On Thursday, October 22 (tonight!) at CIRCA (1050 Granville) from 7 pm-9 pm John Fluevog shoes will be modeled as part of a DVD Launch party. The DVD is an instructional one on "how to choose and walk in high heels". Tickets are $8.00 and there is a signature martini being offered, the "High Heel Appeal-tini". Suzanne Fetting - the creator of the above mentioned DVD, has offered half of her DVD sales to Dress for Success Vancouver. It would be great if some of you could attend and give your support to this young woman in her business.

Shop at iGive.com to benefit Dress for Success® Vancouver

You can help Dress for Success® Vancouver while shopping! Shop at iGive.com and a percentage of your purchase will be donated to us. Over 700 stores participate in the iGive donation program, including Amazon.com, eBay, Staples, JCPenney, Barnes & Noble, Overstock.com, drugstore.com, Office Depot, QVC, Expedia, Home Depot, HSN, Best Buy, Drs. Foster & Smith, Gap, Buy.com, & NORDSTROM. To shop and qualify for a donation, you must be logged in as an iGive.com member and you must reach the store through iGive.com or iSearchiGive.com.

Jewellery by Suzan Lee

Suzan Lee is one of our extraordinary volunteers who has been tirelessly working on our volunteer appreciation initiative and helping us with some administrative office work. Suzan has also found the time to put her jewellery crafting skills to use while hand-beading her creations and donating them to the shop for clients. Suzan's necklaces and earrings have been flying out of our shop for several weeks and Suzan wants your help to determine which jewellery is the most popular so that she can ensure the 'must haves' are always in plentiful supply. If you are a Dress for Success Vancouver volunteer and have noticed that certain styles are more popular than others please let Suzan or a staff member know.

Corporate Challenge Wrap Up

On Thurday October 1st, the Corporate Challenge Wrap Up event was held at the Pacific Palisades hotel. The event ran smoothly and was hugely successful thanks to our wonderful volunteer committee, without whom this event would not be possible.

Guests had a blast playing the mystery auction, shopping the Showcase, enjoying the delicious appies, winning door prizes, and listening to Rosalyn Taylor O'Neale's heartwarming words. Challengers were enthusiastic participants in the scavenger hunt and in the fashion show that followed. Thank you guests and Challengers for making the Wrap Up so much fun and for showing your support! This wonderful evening was undoubtedly one of the highlight's of the year.

We raised a total of $16,700 over the course of the Challenge.

Dress me for Success Corporate Challenge - Raffle Winners

On Tuesday, September 29th, the names were drawn for the Dress Me for Success raffle. And the winners are:

Kim Elliot - Won a Clarins Gift Basket

Christina Suh - Won a Whole Foods Gift Certificate

Janice Everett - Won an AG Hair Gift Basket

Mike Inglehart - Won a Victoria Getaway

Linda Godin - Won the Tourist in Your own Town prize

Ting Khuolle - Won the Football Fanatics prize

Wayne Martell - Won Chevron Gift Cards

Brian Feeney - Won the Zoom Whitening prize

Congratulations to all of our lucky raffle winners.

Tonight the Dress Me for Success Corporate Challenge wrap up event is taking place at the Pacific Palisades. If you don't have a ticket, don't worry because tickets are available at the door for only $20.00, which gets you a drink and a chance to win one of our amazing door prizes. Just by attending you could win a stay at one of these glamorous hotels: Opus Hotel, Wickaninnish Inn, and Moda Hotel. The total value of this year's door prizes is over $4,000!

Date: October 1st

Time: 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Place: Pacific Palisades Hotel - 1277 Robson Street, Vancouver, B.C.