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Prince George’s County - Maryland Chapter

The Prince George’s County Chapter of Top Ladies of Distinction, Inc. is continuing to grow by leaps
and bounds with an influx of new Top Ladies, new Top Teens and new partnerships.

Over the last two years, the chapter
has inducted 34 new Top Ladies and
39 Top Teens.
The chapter now has a record number
of Top Teens – 43 – with six new
Teens joining the chapter in its first-
ever winter induction in December.

Lady Jaki Scott, Status of Women chair, greets the The record membership of Teens has
women at United Communities Against Poverty in been matched with the addition of
Capitol Heights, Maryland before the chapter begins new Top Ladies. Nine Top Ladies
its “Preparing for a Successful Interview” seminar. joined the chapter in 2015, and the
chapter had its biggest induction
group to date with the addition of 25
new Top Ladies in 2016.

The larger membership has allowed the Prince George’s

County Chapter to expand its community service
aspirations. This year, the chapter signed a
memorandum of understanding with United
Communities Against Poverty in Capitol Heights,
Maryland. Also known as Shepherd’s Cove, UCAP
provides emergency shelter, housing, food and
counseling for women and children in Prince George’s
County. The Top Ladies have been working intensely
with UCAP through its Status of Women thrust, donating
business attire, shoes and accessories for the women at
the shelter and holding a series of workshops for the

women aimed at getting them “Back to Work,” including
ones on resume writing, preparing for job interviews
and dressing for success.

In another first for the chapter, the Prince George’s County The Top Ladies delivered seven
Top Ladies and Top Teens launched their first recycling trash bags of bottle caps at Mom’s
initiative by collecting bottle caps. For six months, the Organic Market in the chapter’s first
Ladies and Teens hoarded soft plastic caps, gathering
enough to fill seven large trash bags. The chapter gave the recycling initiative.
caps to the Mom’s Organic Market in Alexandria, Virginia,
where the grocery store will send them to a plastics
processing plant to be melted down and turned into plastic
lumber, containers and compost bins. The chapter’s first
Community Beautification recycling project was so
successful that participating schoolchildren have
continued collecting bottle caps long past the chapter’s

December due date.

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