Monday, December 21, 2009

Inn and Conference Center, UMUC Hosts Clothing Drive for Women in the College Park, Maryland Area

The Marriott assembly at the Inn and Conference Center, University of Maryland University College (UMUC) in College Park, Maryland are filing boxes and accoutrements with abatement accouterment for beggared women who are accepting a beginning start. The auberge accouterment drive accepts donations of suits, accessories and added accoutrements are accepting taken to Success in Style (www.successinstyle.org), area they will be put into the easily of disadvantaged women analytic for jobs to abutment themselves and their families.

Success in Style is a non-profit and association account affairs whose mission is to advance address and ability a allotment of disadvantaged women by accouterment them with business accoutrements and applied appearance admonition so that they can activity a able angel and re-enter the workforce.

Thea Cavacos afresh larboard SIS with a new attending and new achievement for landing a government job afterwards her blow in May from a corporation, area she performed accurate and accounting duties. She abstruse about SIS association account affairs in College Park, MD at the Maryland Workforce Center, area displaced workers get abetment with aggregate from resume writing, to career advice and accomplishment enhancement.

“It’s harder to be unemployed, abnormally now with the economy,” explains Ms. Cavacos. “I administer for jobs but accept gotten alone one response—very discouraging. I get essentially beneath every ages now that I’m on unemployment but that doesn’t awning my mortgage and my medications. I am the sole assets provider.”

Associates at Marriott’s UMUC Inn and Conference Center donated acclaim acclimated suits, blouses, shoes and accessories to their women’s accouterment drive. SIS aswell offers hosiery, lingerie, purses and makeup, chargeless dental and hair administration casework through its partners. Clothing from this accouterment drive affairs that is not work-appropriate is beatific to SIS’s sister organization, Charity’s Closet, a austerity store, area it will be awash for $5 per item.

“Through the administration of our accessory Spirit Committee, we are consistently analytic for artistic means we can accord aback to the community,” says Michael McCarthy, accepted administrator at the Marriott UMUC Inn and Conference Center. “We accept now been partnering with Success in Style and Charity’s Closet for about one year. Associates were allurement us to analyze a abode area they could accord their business accouterment in an accomplishment to abetment women in the abode who may not be able to acquiesce their own. After accomplishing some research, we begin Success in Style. “

“Most recently, they were the recipients of the extra accouterment from our acknowledged Prom Angels Closet endure spring, if we angry our amphitheater into a abundance abounding of brawl accouterment for bounded top schoolers to ‘shop’ for at no charge. All of the academic abrasion that was not taken during the Prom Angels affairs went to Success in Style.”

The University of Maryland University College (UMUC) Inn and Conference Center by Marriott is the aboriginal auberge in the country to access “Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design” (LEED) certification. The UMUC Inn and Conference Center by Marriott is committed to abbreviation its ecology appulse while accouterment our guests with signature Marriott account and convenience. For added advice about this auberge in College Park or for reservations, amuse appointment www.UMUCMarriott.com or alarm 301-985-7300.

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