The Perfect Prom Project
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The Perfect Prom Project (PPP) a charitable prom organizations
serving Illinois
and surrounding states.
The purpose of the Perfect Prom Project is to reach out to the Champaign-Urbana, Illinois community by providing free prom
dresses and accessories for high school girls that may not be able to otherwise afford them. http://www.dailyillini.com/media/storage/paper736/news/2005/08/23/Features/600-Registered.Students.Organizations.To.Line.The.Quad-968679.shtml?norewrite200608131525&sourcedomain=www.dailyillini.com
The Perfect Prom Project is a registered organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
.
The project was founded in June 2005 by its first president, Autumn Griffin. The Perfect Prom Project held its first annual prom boutique in April 2006 and its second boutique in April 2007. At the boutiques, high school girls from Champaign County, Illinois
and surrounding communities selected from over 300 new and gently used prom gowns. 40 dresses were given away at the first annual boutique; 80 dresses were given away at its second. Participants also took home accessories including shoes, purses, make-up, shawls, and more.
The project was inspired by similar initiatives that are happening across the country and plans to give away dresses every spring. Other projects giving away free prom attire for high school students can be found on Youth Noise, AfterProm.org, WordPress.com, and The Glass Slipper Project website - the latter of which also connects persons interested in starting their own charitable prom organizations
.
The Perfect Prom Project has received coverage in the Daily Illini
http://www.dailyillini.com, News Gazette http://wwww.news-gazette.com, UI7 television station http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/service/ui7.html, WCIA http://www.illinoishomepage.net/, and ABC
News Channel 15 WICD-TV http://www.wicd15.com/.
Charitable Prom Organizations
Charitable prom organizations are groups, primarily in the United States, that give away prom dresses to high school girls that may not be able to otherwise afford them. One such group, The Glass Slipper Project, works with Chicago area girls. The project is discussed on the website for the Oprah...
serving Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
and surrounding states.
The purpose of the Perfect Prom Project is to reach out to the Champaign-Urbana, Illinois community by providing free prom
Prom
In the United States and Canada, a prom, short for promenade, is a formal dance, or gathering of high school students. It is typically held near the end of the senior year. It figures greatly in popular culture and is a major event among high school students...
dresses and accessories for high school girls that may not be able to otherwise afford them. http://www.dailyillini.com/media/storage/paper736/news/2005/08/23/Features/600-Registered.Students.Organizations.To.Line.The.Quad-968679.shtml?norewrite200608131525&sourcedomain=www.dailyillini.com
The Perfect Prom Project is a registered organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
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The project was founded in June 2005 by its first president, Autumn Griffin. The Perfect Prom Project held its first annual prom boutique in April 2006 and its second boutique in April 2007. At the boutiques, high school girls from Champaign County, Illinois
Champaign County, Illinois
Champaign County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 201,081, which is an increase of 11.9% from 179,669 in 2000.. It is the 10th most populous county in Illinois...
and surrounding communities selected from over 300 new and gently used prom gowns. 40 dresses were given away at the first annual boutique; 80 dresses were given away at its second. Participants also took home accessories including shoes, purses, make-up, shawls, and more.
The project was inspired by similar initiatives that are happening across the country and plans to give away dresses every spring. Other projects giving away free prom attire for high school students can be found on Youth Noise, AfterProm.org, WordPress.com, and The Glass Slipper Project website - the latter of which also connects persons interested in starting their own charitable prom organizations
Charitable Prom Organizations
Charitable prom organizations are groups, primarily in the United States, that give away prom dresses to high school girls that may not be able to otherwise afford them. One such group, The Glass Slipper Project, works with Chicago area girls. The project is discussed on the website for the Oprah...
.
The Perfect Prom Project has received coverage in the Daily Illini
Daily Illini
The Daily Illini, commonly known as the DI, is an independent, student-run newspaper that has been published for the community of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1871...
http://www.dailyillini.com, News Gazette http://wwww.news-gazette.com, UI7 television station http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/service/ui7.html, WCIA http://www.illinoishomepage.net/, and ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
News Channel 15 WICD-TV http://www.wicd15.com/.