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Dress for Success celebrates new women’s career center with ribbon cutting
by Ryan Feyre | Jan 20, 2025 | Hampden County, Local News, Photo Slider, Springfield SPRINGFIELD — Jess Roncarati-Howe remembers the days when Dress for Success Western Massachusetts was operating out of an old dentist’s office in the now-defunct Eastfield Mall. “Just over a year ago, we were rammed into an old dentist’s office that, no matter how hard our volunteers worked, looked like an old dentist’s office,” said Roncarati-Howe, the executive director for Dress for Success Western Massachusetts. Those days, however, are long gone for the highly regarded nonprofit organization, whose goal is to empower unemployed and underemployed women...
Dress for Success Western Massachusetts opens new career center in downtown Springfield
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Dress for Success Western Massachusetts is celebrating 25 years of business in 2025, and they celebrated by cutting the ceremonial ribbon at their new career center. “That outfit started my career,” said Eliana Gutierrez. One outfit and one person at a time. Dress for Success Western Massachusetts has opened a new women’s career center in downtown Springfield, and the women in attendance were walking examples of the positive work they have done over the last 25 years. Gutierrez is now a legislative aide for State Representative Carlos Gonzalez, but at the ribbon cutting today, she shared...
Mayor Sarno, city and state officials join Dress for Success Western Massachusetts for ribbon cutting celebration at new Downtown Career Center
Mayor Domenic J. Sarno and city and state officials joined with Dress for Success Western Massachusetts (DFSWM) on Wednesday morning for a special ribbon cutting celebration at DFSWM’s new Career Center located at 45 Lyman Street in Springfield. Mayor Sarno was honored to join Dress for Success Western Massachusetts Executive Director Jess Roncarati-Howe, DFSWM Board President Tracy Friedenberg, O’Dell Womens Center Director Margaret Tantillo, and founder of the Western Massachusetts Dress for Success organization Doreen Fadus to celebrate this exciting milestone for DFSWM as they continue to enhance their services to empower women in our community. State Representatives Carlos Gonzalez,...
O’Dell Women’s Center presents $250K to eight non-profits serving low-income women from Springfield
We at Dress for Success Western MA want to express our deepest gratitude to the O’Dell Women’s Center for their generous support! Your grant helps us empower women in our community, giving them the tools they need to achieve financial independence and success. We are honored to be recognized alongside such incredible organizations—Girls Inc. of the Valley, United Way of Pioneer Valley, South End Community Center, The Gray House, Inc., HCS Head Start, Hope for Youth and Families, and Parent Villages—all working hard to create positive change in our community. We are truly grateful for your generosity and for helping...
Dress for Success Western Massachusetts to Open New Women’s Career Center
By BusinessWest Staff January 9, 2025 SPRINGFIELD — Dress for Success Western Massachusetts (DFSWM) is celebrating the opening of its new Women’s Career Center and the completion of its newly constructed office spaces, program areas, and boutique at a ribbon-cutting ceremony to be held on Wednesday, Jan. 15 at 11 a.m. at 45 Lyman St., Springfield. The ceremony will mark a significant milestone in the organization’s 25 years of carrying out its mission to empower women and non-binary people to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire, and the development tools they need to thrive in...
Join the Dress for Success Wester MA 25th Anniversary Club!⭐
Thanks to supporters like you, Dress for Success of Western Massachusetts serves hundreds of women and non-binary people in Western Mass every year. Your support and belief in our cause keeps us going strong. 25 years strong, to be precise! In honor of our 25th Anniversary, we’re launching a new peer-to-peer campaign to raise $25,000 to help fund our continuum of workforce readiness programming. We would love it if you could participate. Will you join the DFSWM 25th Anniversary Club? Our goal is to recruit at least 25 of supporters to collect donations of $25 or more...
Common Threads 2025 ~ 25th Anniversary Celebration!
For more information on sponsorship, please contact Jess Roncarati-Howe at westernmass@dressforsuccess.org
Dress for Success Receives Grant for Women’s Career Center
Investment in the Future Dress for Success of Western Massachusetts (DFSWM), the area’s only workforce-development organization focused exclusively on the needs of women and gender non-conforming people, is expanding its programming to include a new women’s career center in downtown Springfield. The organization recently received a three-year, $133,000 grant from the Women’s Foundation of Boston to help fund this expansion.