Bridges to Success Clothing Drive

Here's an opportunity to clean out your closets *and* help others:

A message from Fashion Retail Management:
COLUMBIA COLLEGE COMMUNITY: MAKE FIRST IMPRESSIONS COUNT!

Is your closet ready to EXPLODE?
Why don't you clean out the back of your closets and help put those clothes in the front of someone else's future?

WHO WE ARE
We are Fashion Retail Management seniors who are engaged in a service-learning project with Bridge To Success. Bridge to Success is a partner of Heartland Alliance and a program of Heartland Human Care Services.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

ALL sizes (especially large sizes) of men’s and women's business appropriate attire
Shoes & Handbags
Jewelry
Ties & Belts

DONATIONS MUST BE ON HANGERS (sorry no folded donations except sweaters)!
Donations must also be CLEAN AND READY TO WEAR

WHEN
Donations will be accepted October 29th through November 9th.

WHERE

1104 S. Wabash Suite 301 Mike Bright, Film Office

1006 S. Michigan Suite 400 Chris Peak, Fashion / Retail Management Office

600 S. Michigan Suite 907C Allison Ratliff, SFPA Dean’s Office

624 S. Michigan Suite 700 Naomi Couch, AEMM Office

623 S. Wabash Suite 703A Lynda Roddy, Fashion Design Office


Have a question? Contact Dana Connell, dconnell@colum.edu

WHY
Donations help Bridge To Success maintain a clothing inventory large enough to wardrobe over 2,000 individuals annually.

Bridge to Success is currently the only workforce training program that offers services to both men and women in the Chicagoland area.

The Fashion Management students and Bridge Success appreciate your help.

"HHCS's mission is to achieve freedom from want, fear, and injustice for people marginalized by poverty, displacement, or situations of vulnerability by developing and providing a continuum of services that meet basic needs, build strengths, safeguard human rights, and provide opportunity for positive change."

THANK YOU FOR MAKING A DIFFERENCE!

And many thanks to our Columbia building partners who are accepting the donations in their offices!

Dana D. Connell, Faculty Fashion/Retail
Arts, Entertainment and Media Management

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Unions representing 12,000 screenwriters asked members on Monday to authorize a strike at any time after their contract expires at the end of this month. If granted, authorization would set the stage for Hollywood's first industrywide walkout since writers struck in 1988...Negotiations between the guilds and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the makers of films and television programs, have been stalled over issues including the payment of residuals for the use of movies and shows after their initial screening.

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