Donate for a Good Cause

In an effort to ensure that job seekers in our community have professional interview clothing, the Charlottesville Community Job Fair is sponsoring a Career Clothes for Job Seekers clothing drive. The goal is to provide all women and men job seekers in need of a professional clothing at least one outfit that they can wear when they attend the 2010 Charlottesville Community Fall Job Fair on Wednesday, Sept. 29 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at John Paul Jones Arena.

Donations of gently used career apparel are needed now. Check your closets for “interview appropriate” items that you have not worn in the last year and ask your friends and neighbors to do the same.

Clothing can be dropped off on hangers at the Virginia Workforce Center, 2211 Hydraulic Road beginning today-Sept. 24 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. The donations will be given to job seekers at the Workforce Center during the weeks leading up to the fair and there will be an image room available at the arena on the day of the job fair.

Wish List
Women’s Apparel Needs:
Skirt and pant suits
Separates—jackets, skirts and pants in all sizes
Dress shoes—black pumps, 1-3 inch heels (all sizes—clothes toe, no sling back)
Dress scarves; business appropriate jewelry

Men’s apparel needs:
Dress suits—dark neutrals for all sizes
Sport coats—dark neutrals for all sizes
Khakis and dress pants—neutrals for all sizes
Dress shirts—long sleeves, no print for all sizes
Dress ties—conservative stripe
Dress belts—black or brown in all sizes
Dress shoes—black or brown in all sizes

For more information, contact Bonnie Rogers, Image Investment Institute at (434) 326-1115 or or Holly Lee, city of Charlottesville/Economic Development at (434) 970-3117 or .