Free Prom Dresses for Girls in Utah
Tax deductible
Who we are
Celebrate Everyday is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that loans out prom and wedding dresses to girls in need for free! We have over 1000 dresses in our inventory and have loaned out over 150 dresses since our founding in 2016!
We were started when founder, JoCee Porter, was volunteering at Big Brothers Big Sisters. She noticed that many of the girls in this program were unable to afford prom dresses, and often settled for wearing dresses that didn't fit very well and they didn't feel comfortable or beautiful in, or worse, many girls couldn't even get a dress at all; resulting in girls not attending prom and other important events. Prom, although not required, is a great event in high school allowing girls to get to dress up and feel beautiful. We at Celebrate Everyday, don't think financial issues should inhibit any girl wanting to attend prom.
The Problem
Since beginning our operations we have served over 100 girls and we began to wonder why weren't able to serve more girls. We discovered that a majority of the girls who need our service most aren't able to take advantage of it, because they don't have cars, resources, or active parents/caregivers to travel to our location to pick a dress for these special events.
Our Current Solution
To solve this problem we have been fitting as many dresses as possible into our cars (our college student beater cars) which we drive to homeless shelters, low income schools, refugee centers, special needs pageants, etc. and set the dresses up at their location for these girls in need to use.
This solution takes hours of work from both Celebrate Everyday and the organizations we serve. Because of these time requirements, we are currently limited in the number of schools and communities we can visit-resulting in serving fewer girls than we would like.
Our Load before taking the dresses to be worn at the homeless Youth Prom
A Better Solution (where you come in)
An improved solution is to get a bus (or trailer) that would contain racks with hundreds of dresses, that we would drive around and park at different schools and locations, for girls to go inside and pick out their perfect dress!
This bus (or trailer) would allow us to better serve girls, by bringing our inventory to them and keeping the dresses in better condition to be used for years to come!
Help us create a new innovative solution for all girls to get prom dresses free of cost!
Timeline
If funded we will buy the bus (or trailer) by January and will have it remodeled and renovated by March, the beginning of Prom season to start serving as many girls as possible.
Any additional money we raise will go back into Celebrate Everyday and our cause to provide all girls access to formal wear for prom! No-one gets a salary at Celebrate Everyday, which allows us to use all of our money to directly help and serve girls in need!
Help us provide a way for any girl to look and feel like a million bucks without spending a cent!
Celebrate Everyday is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that loans out prom and wedding dresses to girls in need for free! We have over 1000 dresses in our inventory and have loaned out over 150 dresses since our founding in 2016!
We were started when founder, JoCee Porter, was volunteering at Big Brothers Big Sisters. She noticed that many of the girls in this program were unable to afford prom dresses, and often settled for wearing dresses that didn't fit very well and they didn't feel comfortable or beautiful in, or worse, many girls couldn't even get a dress at all; resulting in girls not attending prom and other important events. Prom, although not required, is a great event in high school allowing girls to get to dress up and feel beautiful. We at Celebrate Everyday, don't think financial issues should inhibit any girl wanting to attend prom.
The Problem
Since beginning our operations we have served over 100 girls and we began to wonder why weren't able to serve more girls. We discovered that a majority of the girls who need our service most aren't able to take advantage of it, because they don't have cars, resources, or active parents/caregivers to travel to our location to pick a dress for these special events.
Our Current Solution
To solve this problem we have been fitting as many dresses as possible into our cars (our college student beater cars) which we drive to homeless shelters, low income schools, refugee centers, special needs pageants, etc. and set the dresses up at their location for these girls in need to use.
This solution takes hours of work from both Celebrate Everyday and the organizations we serve. Because of these time requirements, we are currently limited in the number of schools and communities we can visit-resulting in serving fewer girls than we would like.
Our Load before taking the dresses to be worn at the homeless Youth PromA Better Solution (where you come in)
An improved solution is to get a bus (or trailer) that would contain racks with hundreds of dresses, that we would drive around and park at different schools and locations, for girls to go inside and pick out their perfect dress!
This bus (or trailer) would allow us to better serve girls, by bringing our inventory to them and keeping the dresses in better condition to be used for years to come!
Help us create a new innovative solution for all girls to get prom dresses free of cost!
Timeline
If funded we will buy the bus (or trailer) by January and will have it remodeled and renovated by March, the beginning of Prom season to start serving as many girls as possible.
Any additional money we raise will go back into Celebrate Everyday and our cause to provide all girls access to formal wear for prom! No-one gets a salary at Celebrate Everyday, which allows us to use all of our money to directly help and serve girls in need!
Help us provide a way for any girl to look and feel like a million bucks without spending a cent!Organizer
JoCee Porter
Organizer
Ogden, UT
Celebrate Everyday (Free prom dress rentals)
Registered nonprofit
Donations are typically 100% tax deductible in the US.
