Community Service Project Overview:

Yes She Can Inc. is a new non-profit organization dedicated to developing job skills and employment opportunities for teen girls and young women with autism. Our first venture is Girl AGain, a boutique where we sell gently used American Girl dolls, clothes, furniture, accessories, and books. The store will employ both people with and without disabilities in an inclusive setting.

We need donated American Girl brand merchandise to sell in our store.

We are looking for good condition used or new merchandise. Our employees and volunteers will clean the dolls and the clothes, arrange complete outfits, determine prices, display the products, and work on inventory management, marketing, and customer service in the store. We will be developing training programs and processes to teach each job task. The goal is todevelop skills and confidence so that Girl AGain employees can then find meaningful employment with conventional enterprises.

Our mission is not only about helping people with disabilities, it is also about culture change: helping our whole community to accept and include people who are differently abled.

We are looking for your help in collecting good condition merchandise by conducting collection drives.

The person or group selecting this project will need to prepare a plan to include:1. method of promoting her campaign for Girl AGain2. method of collecting donations3. arranging to give to Girl AGain4. and hopefully, experience working with Girl AGain employees and volunteers

Yes She Can Inc. has recommendations and can assist with this work. This should be a fun and rewarding project, an opportunity to not only provide the basis for work but to also have first hand experience in working side by side with our employees.

Contact information:Marjorie Madfis, President, Yes She Can Inc.35 Hubbard Drive | White Plains, NY 10605914-428-1258

Girl AGain, a venture of Yes She Can Inc, an American Girl resale boutiquefollow us on Twitter: @GirlAGainResaleLike us on Facebook GirlAgainBoutique

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Background:

The challengeLess than 20% of adults with developmental disabilities are employed today - that is an 80% UNemployment rate!! (And those that do have jobs are working part time and often for less than minimum wage.) Very few businesses, both large and small, make any effort to hire people with autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities. Furthermore, many people with autism have skill to perform the job but are lacking the workplace social skills and resilience to keep the job.

The needThere is a need to develop job skills and workplace social skills for people with autism in a safe and accommodating workplace where training is the key mission, rather than maximizingprofits. However the training must be in a realistic environment that replicates conventional for-profit retail businesses, and where skill development is transferable to traditional business enterprises.

There is a need for businesses to demonstrate success with employment of people with developmental disabilities, to create models for training and human resource management, and for integration and inclusion with “typical” employees.

The opportunityCreate a business where there is market demand, product supply and employee expertise, and where we can leverage the expertise to create a differentiated competitive advantage.

American Girl resale.

Expertise: My daughter and may other young women like her have great expertise in American Girl product line. They know each American Girl historical doll's story, their outfits including the retired ones, they love to interact with the dolls and read their books. They love going to the American Girl store for tea and shopping. They are very loyal customers and always will be. So like any good business strategy, we will take this passion and put it to work.

Market demand: There are thousands of girls ages 3-12 in Westchester County demand for used and lower cost or rare and out of circulation merchandise. And there is a robust secondary market already to meet this demand. What differentiates us is our attention to detail and in the atmosphere we will create in our store.

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Supply: There is a large secondary market for American Girl; about 100,000 listings on eBay and thousands on Craig's list as well as merchandise sold at yard sales and consignment shops. American Girl has been in business for more than 25 years so girls who bought AG in 1993 at age 8 are now 28 years old, and have long outgrown their interest. There is plenty of merchandise sitting in attics and basements unused and ready for donation.

The beauty of the resale business is that there are many tasks that need to be done and employees can either specialize in what they like best or choose to expand their skills. Micro-tasks include: sorting through donated clothes and created complete outfits (skirt, shirt, jacket,shoes, sox for example); pricing products competitively by comparing prices on eBay; cleaning dolls; researching the doll's original hair style and styling the doll hair; price tagging the merchandise; shooting photos for Facebook; posting content on Pinterest; logging inventory, and much more.

There is opportunity to develop training processes using proven methodologies from education and incorporating technology that can enable self-directed learning, repetition, and progression and reward.

The goal is to have many employees have 3 to 12 month employment experiences at Girl Again and then find employment at another business where they can use their skills and havea successful career.

Our store opened in February, 2014. We have been holding workshops at the Madfis home toprepare the merchandise for resale and placement in the boutique. Lots more work can be done when we get more merchandise.

We would love your help!

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