ADVISORY/Celebrity Stylist Partners With Mervyn's California to Kick Off Los Angeles Stop of Community Closet.News/Assignment Editors ADVISORY...for Tuesday (May 9) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Local Women On Welfare to Benefit From Retailer's Award-winning Program to Clothe 2,000 California Women in 2000 Actresses Kim Delaney (NYPD Blue NYPD Blue is an Emmy Award-winning hour long-running American television police drama set in New York City. It was created by Steven Bochco and David Milch and inspired by Milch's relationship with a former member of the New York City Police Department Bill Clark (who ), Holly Robinson Peete Holly Robinson Peete (born September 18, 1964, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (known before her marriage as Holly Robinson) is an American actress and author. (For Your Love), Trina McGee-Davis Trina McGee-Davis (born September 6, 1969 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States) is an American actress. Her mother was a classical pianist and her father, while often being absent from the family life, was a Haitian photographer and political activist. (Boy Meets World) and Maria Conchita Alonso (The Running Man, Predator 2) will join celebrity stylist Phillip Bloch aboard the nationally renowned Mervyn's California Community Closet to clothe 130 local women transitioning off welfare. The Community Closet --a 72-foot tractor-trailer converted into a department store-on-wheels-- gives away free brand new Hillard & Hanson career wear to women working to get off welfare. Mervyn's will kick off the event with an 11:00 a.m. press conference May 9th at the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Central Library, 630 West 5th Street, (truck will be parked on Flower Street between 5th and 6th streets). The women who participate in Mervyn's Community Closet program are pre-selected by local nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. agencies including the Los Angeles Urban League, CHARO Alliance for Welfare to Work Program, Goodwill Industries, Crystal Stairs and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales . The mission of the Community Closet is simple: Enhance the marketability of women making the transition from public assistance to the workforce by providing free, brand new clothes that go a long way to improving self-esteem and motivation and ultimately lead to successful employment.
DATE: Tuesday, May 9th
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: In front of the LA Central Library, 630 West 5th Street (truck
will be parked on Flower Street between 5th and 6th Streets).
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