Balancing Professionals To Support Dress For Success® Triangle NC

Raleigh, NC (May 16, 2008) —Balancing Professionals, LLC is pleased to announce its decision to support Dress for Success Triangle NC, a nonprofit organization that promotes the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support, and career development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.

“Balancing Professionals is about helping people thrive in work and in life through the creation and utilization of more flexible work arrangements like part-time, telecommuting, and job-sharing, so Dress for Success was a natural fit as a philanthropy for us to focus our support,” says Kella Hatcher, co-founder of Balancing Professionals. “Not only do we enjoy dedicating our own volunteer time to Dress for Success Triangle NC, but because our organization reaches many professional women, we are in a wonderful position to promote its mission and find opportunities to collect clothing.”

Founded in New York City in 1997, Dress for Success has affiliate organizations all over the world, but it is new to the area, having just received approval in February, 2008 to open a Triangle location. Thanks to the efforts of the founder, Pat Nathan, who recently returned to the Triangle and is leading the launch of this affiliate, things are off to a great start with over 1,000 suits already collected and a small army of volunteers ready to lend a hand.

About Dress for Success®

Since 1997, Dress for Success has served almost 400,000 women around the world, and each year it reaches more than 40,000 women. Each Dress for Success client receives one suit when she has a job interview and can return for a second suit or separates when she finds work. An important part of Dress for Success is its employment retention programs and a Career Center which helps women find and keep jobs. Dress for Success serves clients by referral only, and women must have an interview scheduled before receiving clothing. Clients come from a continually expanding and diverse group of non-profit and government agencies including homeless shelters, immigration services, job training programs, educational institutions and domestic violence shelters, among many other organizations. More than 2,600 organizations throughout the world send women to Dress for Success for professional apparel and career development services. For more information or to contact Dress for Success, go to: http://dressforsuccess.org/affiliate.aspx?sisid=133&pageid=1

About Balancing Professionals

Balancing Professionals, LLC (www.balancingprofessionals.com), advises companies on creating a win-win, flexible workplace and connects businesses to a pool of high-caliber, part-time professionals. Operating in the Triangle area of North Carolina, the firm was founded in 2004 by Kella Hatcher and Maryanne Perrin, respectively an attorney and an engineer/MBA who had navigated careers as part-time professionals prior to joining efforts to promote part-time opportunities for others. Balancing Professionals has helped a variety of companies capitalize on the changing workplace including clients in the pharmaceutical, technology, manufacturing, non-profit, and professional services industries.

Media Contact:

Kella Hatcher
Balancing Professionals
(919) 412-4602
kella at balancingprofessionals dot com