Thrifty Belle O' The Ball

If you missed the Alpha Chi Omega dress drive on April 4th, you need not fret! There are plenty of other ways you can donate your old prom (or Birthday Ball, or formal, or homecoming) dresses and ensure that they're put to good use.

The Priceless Gown Project is a Baltimore organization dedicated to providing prom dresses for high school students who can't afford to buy their own. They accept clean, lightly-used gowns, and then set up an annual boutique for local girls to pick out free prom outfits. While this year's dress drive and boutique are now closed, the organization will soon be collecting more gowns for the 2010 prom season.

Other organizations across the country host similar projects. Here are a few along the East Coast:
Connecticut: Princess and the Prom
Massachusetts: Fairy GodMother Project of Massachusetts
New Jersey: Catherine's Closet, Inc.
New York: Gowns for Girls, Operation Fairy Dust, The Cinderella Project
Pennsylvania: Fairy Godmothers, Inc.