My group decided that we would base our group proposal on the charity Dress for Success. Dress for Success focuses on providing the necessary tools for disadvantage women to obtain jobs. Some of the things they provide are professional attire, career development tools and a network of support. The people that benefit the most from this charity are underprivileged women from underdeveloped neighborhoods that were never given a chance and now have a chance to succeed in life. This charity is important because it helps the vast minority. It is important to others because it helps them help themselves.
Our plan to obtain funding from Echoing Green revolves around the ideas and goals of this charity. The plan is to setup a place in South Bronx. It will be near a subway station for easy accessibility. The primary target of this location is the people surrounding the area. The funding will be used to setup this location. Eventually, this location will be self-sustaining through donations from successful clients.
Overall, this charity seeks to solve a social need.
Our group has already decided to base our group proposal on “Dress for Success.” Dress for Success is about providing clothing amongst other things to help women get the jobs that they need and improve their skills overall in order for them to be successful at their work places.
The scope of who can benefit from this is pretty broad. Any women who needs help in securing a job can benefit from this. Age, race, etc. are not considered. Women who have no experience can gain experience by obtaining basic office skills training from Dress for Success. Elder women who lost their jobs recently can network with Dress for Success and might have chances of getting the jobs that they want. Of course, professional clothing will be provided by Dress for Success to the best of their abilities in order to help these ladies get the jobs that they need.
This project is very important to many women. In a society where the number of working women has been constantly increasing the past decades, helping in this area will mean helping a huge number of the population. There can be many reasons why these women need jobs. Maybe, they have gone down the wrong paths in their youths. Maybe something happened to their family. There can be countless reasons, but the truth is that these women are up against the wall and helping them might mean saving their lives in more than one way.
Imagine a super rich person asking Dress for Success for free clothes and you will see the reason why that rich person would never do that. The reason is because it’s humiliating. If a person is not pushed against a wall, he/she would not ask for help or beg for help. That’s why the people who come to Dress for Success would be those that actually need the help.
Clothes from Dress for Success would be donations from donors who are not asking for anything back. People that go to success for help would not only have to go through the process of asking for help but they are not given everything that they like. They will be given the best that Dress for Success thinks is appropriate for the person. Therefore, this is not shopping, this is asking for professional advice on how to better their career and get out of their slump in life.
I will convince funders that my project in worth investing in because they will know that their money will be going to a good cause. Their money will not be wasted on something worthless and they know exactly where the money is going. Also, funders can deduct the donations on their taxes. It is better to put the money on something worthwhile compare to giving it to Uncle Sam.
Mr. Kwa,
You do a nice job of describing your Echoing Green project. In the future, please take the time to edit and proofread your work.
Thanks,
Emmett Green