MARCH 2017 26 | FRONTDOORSMEDIA .COM GIVING IN STYLE CONTINUED FD: You’ve mentioned using fashion to bring more awareness to Lyme disease. How do you see philanthropy and fashion fitting together? Ally: When creative people are successful in their field they have an obligation and a duty to be philanthropic. It gives more sustenance to certain crafts if you are marrying them with philanthropy. If a percentage of sales can benefit a certain cause or donating fashion show tickets to different fundraisers, there is an opportunity to use fashion for good. There are a lot of ways the fashion world can contribute. I particularly like it when brick and mortar stores bring awareness to causes by donating proceeds from a particular item’s sales to a certain charity. Fashion can be a machine to bring awareness. FD: What’s next for you? Ally: I am starting my own podcast, with PodcastOne. I believe people have a toolbox in coping with different things so I intend to bring in experts who I respect from different fields to share with us what is in their toolbox. Yolanda Foster, a fellow Lyme disease survivor and advocate will be one of my first guests. Her book is coming out soon and she has tremendous vulnerability by telling her story. Tyler Butler is the Society and Fashion Writer for Frontdoors Media. She is the founder of 11Eleven Consulting, a boutique consulting firm focused on aiding companies in developing meaningful and innovative corporate social responsibility programs. She has a extensive background in both publishing and philanthropic roles. She is also the first Frontdoors Ambassador — a Frontdoors Media initiative we will be announcing soon. Photo credit: Felice+Whitney Agency @tylerjbutler

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