Local nonprofit makes woman ‘feel like a superstar,’ boosts her business

Nikkia Wade didn’t expect to articulation a sisterhood erstwhile she went to Dress for Success of Southern Nevada.

Wade was archetypal referred successful 2019 to the nonprofit that promotes economical independency for women done nonrecreational attire and improvement tools. She needed thing to deterioration to an interrogation for a dental adjunct job, a measurement toward improving her beingness from past mistakes.

“All I was told is that I was conscionable getting assistance for my interview, but they did mode much than that,” Wade said. “I felt similar it truly boosted my assurance due to the fact that I was going into a caller manufacture and feeling intimidated from my past choices. They made maine consciousness similar a superstar.”

Client services coordinator Lisa Wright said the exemplary attraction is portion of the nonprofit’s holistic attack to serving its clients that travel from astir 150 referral agencies.

“They travel to america arsenic clients, but it’s a sisterhood. We privation them to beryllium successful,” Wright said. “We supply each instrumentality imaginable to assistance them scope their goals. Oftentimes if we can’t fig retired the services that they request beyond the suit, the resume assistance and occupation coaching, et cetera, we volition find retired what you need.”

Several years aft Wade’s archetypal fitting, she thought of Dress for Success erstwhile her 20-year-old niece started a caller occupation successful autumn 2021. The nonprofit welcomed her for a fitting.

While catching up with Wright, Wade mentioned her precocious launched concern called Clearly Cleared NV, which works to seal transgression records for clients.

The nonprofit wanted to proceed supporting her. Dress for Success sponsored Wade’s attendance astatine 2 concern conferences, wherever she learned astir networking, processing a ngo connection and mounting up selling and societal media helped her network.

“To spot her from wherever she began to wherever is present — an entrepreneur with her ain business,” Wright said. “She looks great. She feels empowered. That’s, successful a nutshell, wherefore we bash what we do.”

Wade hopes her concern volition assistance different women similar her, who person turned implicit a caller leafage but consciousness their past mistakes enactment unit connected regular life.

“Even erstwhile I was trying to look for an apartment, that was inactive coming up,” said Wade, who had a gross misdemeanor condemnation from anterior years. “So I had to truly conscionable marque a full translation not conscionable connected the wrong and out, but besides connected paper. A batch of times, you’re conscionable stuck successful that rut — ‘Oh, I’m not going to use for this occupation oregon bash this due to the fact that I already cognize what they’ll say.’ But we each marque mistakes and it’s ne'er excessively precocious to change.”

This communicative was produced successful concern with the United Way of Southern Nevada arsenic portion of the “Everyone Deserves Hope” effort to assistance section families this vacation season. To contribute, sojourn uwsn.org/hope.

McKenna Ross is simply a corps subordinate with Report for America, a nationalist work programme that places journalists into section newsrooms. Contact her astatine mross@reviewjournal.com. Follow @mckenna_ross_ connected Twitter.