Charitable Prom Organizations are springing up all across the country. Organizations in several states are giving away prom dresses to high school girls that may not be able to otherwise afford them. One notable organization, the Glass Slipper Project [1], has collected thousands of dresses for Chicago area girls since its inception. The project is discussed on the website for the Oprah show [2] and in the Chicago Tribune [3]. Similar organizations across the country include Operation Fairy Dust [4] in New York, the Princess Project [5] in San Fransisco, and the Perfect Prom Project [6] at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In the United States, a prom, short for promenade, is a formal dance held at the end of the of the high school academic year. ... The Oprah Winfrey Show is the longest-running daytime television talk show in the United States, and is hosted, produced and owned by Oprah Winfrey. ... The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois. ... The Perfect Prom Project is one of many charitable prom organizations in place across the United States. ... The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, also known as UIUC and the U of I (the officially preferred abbreviation), is the flagship campus in the University of Illinois system. ...

The following listing of prom projects going on across the country was obtained from Youth Noise:

• Alabama (Birmingham) The Magic Wand Project

• Arizona (Flagstaff) Fairy Godmothers

• California (San Francisco Bay Area) The Princess Project

• California (Los Angeles) The Cinderella Project

• California (Sacramento) Cinderella's Closet

• California (Santa Barbara) Belle of the Ball

• Canada (Toronto, Ontario) Inside the Dream

• Canada (Toronto, Ontario) The Corsage Project

• Canada (Lower Mainland - Vancouver, B.C) The Cinderella Project

• Colorado (Denver) Prom Dress Exchange

• Florida (Crawfordville) Sequin Dreams Project

• Florida (Plantation) Becca's Closet

• Georgia (Atlanta) The Enchanted Closet

• Illinois (Chicago) The Glass Slipper Project

• Illinois (Champaign County) the Perfect Prom Project

• Massachusetts Fairy Godmother Project

• Nevada (Reno) Aly's Prom Closet

• New Jersey (tri-state area) Catherine's Closet

• New York (NYC) Operation Fairy Dust

• New York (NYC) Gowns for Girls

• Ohio (Cleveland) My Fairy Godmother, Inc.

• New Hampshire The Cinderella Project

• Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) The Cinderella Project

• Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) Fairy Godmothers Inc.

• Texas (Austin and Dallas) Prom Shop Project

• Texas (Houston) Fairy Godmother Project

• Washington (Seattle) The Ruby Room

• Washington (Seattle The Eastside) Cinderella's Trunk

• Washington, DC and Northern Virginia Fairy Tale Closet

References

The Glass Slipper Project (organization's website) 2006

The Glass Slipper Project Oprah's Angel Network April 15, 1999

Where to Donate Used Clothes by David Jackson, February 3, 2004

Operation Fairy Dust 2006

Princess Project 2006

The Perfect Prom Project by Autumn Griffin, July 2006