{"id":223268,"date":"2026-03-17T05:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/223268\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T05:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:40:11","slug":"donate-a-gently-used-dress-to-help-ensure-local-students-are-prom-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/223268\/","title":{"rendered":"Donate a ‘Gently Used’ Dress to Help Ensure Local Students Are Prom Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prom has become a major high school milestone and a symbolic exit of an important period in life. But it\u2019s no secret that the event can be quite expensive.<\/p>\n

Valley Health Team is is hosting The Cinderella Project, a dress collection to provide free prom dresses to local high school students.<\/p>\n

For some students, the mounting price leaves the dream night out of reach.<\/p>\n

Valley Health Team, a health center devoted to primary care services in underserved urban and rural communities, is working to change that.<\/p>\n

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The organization is hosting The Cinderella Project, a dress collection to provide free prom dresses to local high school students.<\/p>\n

Valley Health is requesting community donations of \u201cbeautiful and trendy but gently used prom dress(es).\u201d<\/p>\n

Community members can drop off dresses at Jones Cleaners in Fresno from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Wednesday, March 18.<\/p>\n

The drive aims to collect 1,000 dresses, providing a variety of options for participating students.<\/p>\n

As students select a dress, personal will assistances will be available to help and snacks will be available.<\/p>\n

Additionally, students will receive hair and make-up tips, participate in a mini-charm session and a high heel clinic, receive a prom night safety tip sheet, and participate in raffle drawings.<\/p>\n

The event will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, March 19, at Elegant Bride Boutique<\/a>, 5091 N. Fresno St., Suite 10, in Fresno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prom has become a major high school milestone and a symbolic exit of an important period in life.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-223268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}