Dress for Success NSW & ACT is a small but mighty not-for-profit, that can provide bespoke partnership experiences depending on your organisation’s goals. We partner with companies across a wide range of industries, delivering clear business benefits. 

We create mutually beneficial, collaborative partnerships that raise your business profile. Not only that, by taking direct, grassroots action to support women in your community your employees will experience high levels of engagement and boosted job satisfaction, and demonstrate why you are a workplace of choice. 

Our Partners

 

Transformation Partners

Success Partners

Pro Bono Partners

 

Event Sponsors

Small Business, Big Impact Corporate Supporters

Partner with us

Dress for Success NSW & ACT offers a range of partnership opportunities that align with your business and employee engagement strategies, needs, and goals.

We understand that one size does not fit all, so we tailor partnership offerings to suit each individual organisation’s needs. Before embarking on any partnership discussion, our team want to understand what your organisation’s ESG, CSR, and DEI goals are, so that we can collaborate to create a partnership with shared goals and values.

To learn more, contact our Philanthropy and Partnerships Manager at partners@dfsnswact.org.

Become a Retail Partner

For retailers, entrepreneurs, or one-off sales; becoming a Dress for Success retail partner is the ultimate way to give back and connect to an incredible community of supporters. 

Through our retail partnerships, we bring customers, employees, and brands together behind an inspiring cause. By taking direct, grassroots action to support women’s empowerment, employees experience high levels of engagement and boosted job satisfaction, and show why your workplace is an employer of choice.  

Further, customers see your brand taking real steps towards gender equality, which boosts retention, creates loyal advocates, and cements you as a preferred brand. This drives better results and a competitive advantage in a crowded marketplace. 

To pitch your retail partnership idea contact our Philanthropy and Partnerships Manager at partners@dfsnswact.org. 

Sponsor our events

Popular with our supporters AND members of the public, our designer bargain pop-up sales see new and regular Dress for Success supporters shopping for a worthy cause.  

There is no better way to snap up fantastic bargains, empower women into employment, AND support our sustainability mission as well as the circular economy. 

With multiple pop-up sales organised across the calendar year and our three showrooms (Sydney, Newcastle-Hunter, and the Illawarra), sponsorship is an incredible way to engage our community and support women across NSW. 

Our 2024 sponsorship opportunities include:

To learn more, contact our partnerships team at partners@dfsnswact.org. 

Get your staff involved

Dress for Success NSW & ACT can work with your employees who want to share their time and experience for the good of the community. Whether it is through team building, holding your own event with us as charity partner, or hosting a clothing drive, we are here to help you get your employees involved. 

To learn more visit www.dfsnswact.org.au/fundraise-for-success, or contact our fundraising team at fundraising@dfsnwsact.org. 

The following are partners of Dress for Success NSW & ACT:

  • CBIZ Women's Advantage (CWA)’s mission is simple: Women helping women succeed in business. Through CWA, CBIZ has been a proud partner of Dress for Success since 2008 with financial contributions, volunteer hours, clothing donations, and affiliate board service. Additionally, through its exclusive Dress for Success Leadership University, CBIZ creates and delivers leadership development training to affiliates around the world, and is a proud supporter of the International Women’s Day campaign - Your Hour Her Power.

  • Launched in 2013, Canva is an online design and visual communication platform with a mission to empower everyone in the world to design anything and publish anywhere.

  • Chanel is a private company and a world leader in creating, developing, manufacturing and distributing luxury products. Founded by Gabrielle Chanel at the beginning of the last century, Chanel offers a broad range of high-end creations, including Ready-to-Wear, Leather Goods, Fashion Accessories, Eyewear, Fragrances, Makeup, Skincare, Jewellery and Watches. Chanel is also renowned for its Haute Couture collections, presented twice yearly in Paris, and for having acquired a large number of specialised suppliers, collectively known as the MĂ©tiers d’Art. Chanel is dedicated to ultimate luxury and to the highest level of craftsmanship. It is a brand whose core values remain historically grounded on exceptional creation. As such, Chanel promotes culture, art, creativity and “savoir-faire” throughout the world, and invests significantly in people, R&D, sustainable development and innovation. At the end of 2022, Chanel employed over 32,000 people worldwide.

  • Clayton Utz partners with community organisations to address disadvantage and facilitate positive change in the community. They work our Community Partners to provide assistance and support that is substantial and integrated by matching their needs. Clayton Utz arrange employee volunteers (supported by Community Leave); hold goods collections to ensure essential items reach those in need; hold fundraising events; and provide a range of pro-bono and in-kind support, including the use of office space for Community Partners to hold meetings, events, and briefings.

  • Established in 2011, the Greater Charitable Foundation funds practical, life-changing initiatives, with a key focus on enhancing the financial wellbeing of individuals, families and communities. It does so by partnering with Australian-based charitable organisations, throughout Greater Bank's area of operations, to provide significant opportunities designed to improve life outcomes.

  • The IMB Bank Community Foundation strives to engage and connect with their communities through volunteer organisations, not-for-profit groups and charities, funding projects that help create more liveable communities and better outcomes for the people living in them. Working together, the Foundation can help the places we call home thrive.

  • Orica Kooragang Island and Kurri Kurri are committed to playing an active part in their community, supporting initiatives which bring benefit to the community. The Orica Kooragang Island and Kurri Kurri Community Investment Programs aim to invest in causes, events, and programs which reflect their vision and values.