Prom Dress Drive UPDATE!! Prep 2 Prom = SUCCESS!

  SistaGirlz!! We called and you answered! The Prep 2 Prom Dress Drive was a major SUCCESS! The young ladies were super excited to be a part of the event.  Many of them had never been given the opportunity to dress up and the looks on their faces when they tried on the dresses were pricelesss!

This event was truly a team effort! When we first started collecting dresses, we were two weeks into the drive and only had 15 dresses! My co-workers at Power 105.1 really came together to help solicit donations.  Shouts out to Lady O for using Twitter and helping to get the drive announced on our sister stations in NYC, Q104 and Lite fm( and for lugging all of those dresses around NYC  at 7am).  Free allowed us to  Twitter her 46,000 friends and Ed Lover did a sermonette that spurred the SistaGirlz into action!!

The NY Children’s Services division did an outstanding job in rounding up the participants as well as volunteers! Props to Dominique Jones and Donnesa Williams for their tireless efforts and fabulous attention to detail!  Thanks to Gabrielle Barnes of Divas in the City for all of her help with securing the venue and Tracy Rahn for snacks and beverages.  Plus a big thanks goes to all of our presenters: MIC Women’s Health, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorrority, Inc., Spry Lee Scott, Needra Najeeulah of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Veronica New York Eyebrows, and my Power 1051. SistaGirlz, Free and Malikha Mallette!  It was a wonderful day! 

We collected approximately 500 DRESSES!! I can honestly say I don’t want to see another dress, at least not for a while! LOL! Click the link below and see more flix from the event. Due to privacy issues, we couldn’t do alot of photography of the young ladies. Those pictured are 18 and have signed releases.

Prom Dress Pictures***Click Here

 

And we must thank our sponsors!!