Dress for Success and 'Mamma Mia!' Host Clothing Drive 9/26

A public clothing and accessory drive to benefit Dress for Success will be held at the Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway home of global smash hit musical, Mamma Mia!.  Mamma Mia! stars, FedEx volunteers and a specially-designed FedEx Special Delivery truck will help collect donations to benefit disadvantaged women as they re-enter the workforce.  Donors can enter to win a Mamma Mia! package, including dinner, tickets to the show and other prizes.

Most needed items are handbags, accessories, new white blouses, plus-sized suits, career blazers.  The clothing drive occurs Wednesday, September 26 from 5PM-8PM.  The Winter Garden Theatre is located at 1634 Broadway at 50th Street, New York.

The general public is invited to donate to the drive.  Companies located in midtown are encouraged to hold office drives and add their collections to the event on Wednesday evening.  For companies interested in participating, please call 212-532-1922 x41.

This public drive is being held in conjunction with Dress for Success' annual affiliate conference, which brings together more than 100 leaders from 86 Dress for Success affiliates from across the country.  This year the three-day leadership conference takes place in New York City with  executives attending the conference and a special performance of Mamma Mia! on Wednesday, September 26.

Dress for Success is an international not-for-profit organization that promotes the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and the career development tools to help women thrive in work and in life. Since starting operations in 1997, Dress for Success has expanded to more than 80 cities in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands and the UK. To date, Dress for Success has helped more than 350,000 women work towards self-sufficiency. Visit www.dressforsuccess.org to learn more.

FedEx Special Delivery is a charitable program designed to enrich and support communities in which FedEx operates and where our employees live and work every day.  In order to help meet the broad needs of each community, FedEx Special Delivery aligns with local non-profit organizations to bring the FedEx worldwide delivery network and logistical expertise to local communities.  Since the program launched in 2004, the vehicles and FedEx volunteers have helped organizations collect and transport more than 1 million pounds of food, 250,000 pieces of clothing and 400,000 toys.

Seen by more than 30 million people around the world, Mamma Mia!, is celebrating six sold-out years at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre, and is also currently playing record-breaking engagements in Las Vegas and on National Tour in the United States. The original West End production has played more than 3,500 performances, an international tour has played in more than 30 cities, and the feature film of Mamma Mia! will be released in the summer of 2008.