Charitable Prom Organizations
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Charitable Prom Organizations are springing up all across the United States. Organizations in several states are giving away prom dresses to high school girls that may not be able to otherwise afford them. One notable organization, The Glass Slipper Project [1], has collected thousands of dresses for Chicago area girls since its inception. The project is discussed on the website for the Oprah show [2] and in the Chicago Tribune [3]. Similar organizations across the country include Operation Fairy Dust [4] in New York, the Princess Project [5] in San Francisco, and The Perfect Prom Project [6] at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The following listing of prom projects going on across the country was compiled from Youth Noise[7] After Prom.org [8] and The Glass Slipper Project:
- California (Fullerton)- The Prom Project- Sponsored by YWCA of North Orange County
- Alabama (Birmingham) - The Magic Wand Project
Arizona (Flagstaff) - Fairy Godmothers
- Arkansas (Dover) - Becca's Closet
- California (San Francisco Bay Area) - The Princess Project
- California (Los Angeles) - The Cinderella Project
- California (Sacramento) - Cinderella's Closet
- California (Santa Barbara) - Belle of the Ball
- California - Becca's Closet
- Canada (Toronto, Ontario) - Inside the Dream
- Canada (Toronto, Ontario) - The Corsage Project
- Canada (Lower Mainland - Vancouver, B.C) - The Cinderella Project
- Colorado (Denver) - Prom Dress Exchange
- Colorado (Denver) - Becca's Closet
- Colorado (Colorado Springs) - Becca's Closet
- Connecticut (Norwich) - Becca's Closet
- District of Columbia - Fairy Tale Closet
- Florida (Crawfordville) - Sequin Dreams Project
- Florida (Palm Harbor) - The Cinderella Project
- Florida - Becca's Closet
- Georgia (Atlanta) - The Enchanted Closet
- Hawaii - Becca's Closet
- Illinois (Chicago) - The Glass Slipper Project
- Illinois (Central Illinois) - The Perfect Prom Project
- Illinois (Rockford) - Becca's Closet
- Indiana (Carmel) - Becca's Closet
- Iowa (Indianola) - Becca's Closet
- Kentucky (Hyden) - The Fairy God Foundation
- Kentucky (Jackson) - Becca's Closet
- Louisiana (Sulphur) - Becca's Closet
- Maine - Becca's Closet
- Maryland (Baltimore) - The Priceless Gown Project
- Massachusetts - Fairy Godmother Project
- Massachusetts - Becca's Closet
- Michigan - Becca's Closet
- Minnesota - The Paperbag Princess
- Mississippi - for Hattiesburg Senior High School Hurricane Katrina Victims
- Nevada (Reno) - Aly's Prom Closet
- New Hampshire (Allenstown) - The Cinderella Project
- New Jersey (tri-state area) - Catherine's Closet
- New Jersey (tri-state area) - Becca's Closet New Jersey
- New York (NYC) - Operation Fairy Dust
- New York (NYC) - Gowns for Girls
- New York (NYC) - Catherine's Closet
- New York (NYC)- Becca's Closet
- New York (NYC)- Fairy Godmothers of Greater Rochester
- North Carolina - Becca's Closet
- Ohio (Cleveland) - My Fairy Godmother, Inc.
- Oklahoma - Becca's Closet
- Oklahoma - Prom Wishes, Inc.
- Oregon - Becca's Closet
- Oregon - Abby's Closet
- New Hampshire - The Cinderella Project
- Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) - The Cinderella Project
- Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) - Fairy Godmothers Inc.
- Tennessee - Becca's Closet
- Texas (Austin and Dallas) - Prom Shop Project
- Texas (Central Texas)- Keri's Fairy Godmother Foundation
- Texas (Austin) - Project Princess
- Texas (Houston) - Fairy Godmother Project
- Utah - Becca's Closet
- Virginia - Becca's Closet
- Virginia - Fairy Tale Closet
- Virginia (Virginia Beach & South-East Virginia) - Fairy Godmothers Inc., of Virginia
- Washington - Becca's Closet
- Washington (Seattle) - The Ruby Room
- Washington (Seattle The Eastside) Cinderella's Trunk
- Washington (Vancouver) - Cinderella's Trunk
- Washington, DC and Northern Virginia Fairy Tale Closet
- Wisconsin - Becca's Closet
[edit] References
- Event Fashion Large Updated List of Free and Low Cost Gown Sources
- The Glass Slipper Project (organization's website) 2006
- The Glass Slipper Project Oprah's Angel Network April 15, 1999
- Where to Donate Used Clothes by David Jackson, February 3, 2004
- Operation Fairy Dust 2006
- Princess Project 2006
- The Perfect Prom Project by Autumn Griffin, July 20006
- [9]
- www.cinderellastrunk.org
- The Tyra Banks Show - "ANTM: Where are they now?" August 17, 2006
- Cinderella's Closet of Northern Kentucky http://www.cinderellasclosetnky.org/