Dress for Success and Covestro: A Flash SkillShare Partnership

Dress for Success Pittsburgh is a local nonprofit that empowers women who are entering and returning to the workforce across Southwestern PA through clothing, connections, and confidence. The organization partnered with a team of Covestro employees through CCCE for a “Flash SkillShare” opportunity to help them gather, analyze, and present crucial data in an effective and economical way.

Dress for Success quickly pivoted with COVID-19 to a Typeform system to collect information from clients and to track services. However, they needed to report that quarterly and annual data to funders and stakeholders, as well as monthly operations. The organization also quickly moved their Connections resource center online, which “houses” employment resources, resume assistance, and job readiness materials but needed to capture its usage and impact.

Erram Ahmed, Mobile Services Coordinator, was delighted with the project and partnership success…

For the FEMCon (Female Empowerment Mobile Convention) Team, it was incredibly important that we accomplish as much as possible for our goals within our own team to keep the financial focus of our efforts on our clients. However, for the more technical part of our needs, we had no idea who to turn to or even what exactly it was that we needed. The COVESTRO [SkillShare] team was able to not only identify what technical outcome we needed but were also able to build that product for us.

We had just a day and a small but mighty team that, despite their many different backgrounds, was able to be resilient and utilize everyone’s talents to the maximum to save the FEMCon team countless hours of work and money! Now the FEMCon team has a live database that informs an incredibly crucial part of the process for the FEMCon Life & Career Resource Fair that wants to go beyond what has ever been done before.