The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Nationwide Pants Donation Drive

-- May Is "Share The Pants" Month Each Pair of Pants Collected Helps to Create Jobs --

Friendship, empowerment and self-sufficiency are among the themes of the upcoming film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. People across North America are being urged to "Join the Sisterhood" by participating in a unique nationwide project of donating their used jeans to Goodwill Industries - the world's leading nonprofit provider of education, training and career services for people with disabilities, welfare recipients and other job seekers. Inspired by the jeans featured in the film, each pair of pants collected at locations in 60 markets nationwide such as select Goodwill Industry stores, Color Me Mine and Levi's stores will be donated to Goodwill Industries who, in turn, will sell the pants earning revenues to fund its job training and other career services to prepare people for job success.

As of Monday, May 2, people can go to www.sisterhoodofthetravelingpants.com or www.goodwill.org to find their local collection locations.Each person donating a pair of jeans will receive a special "Join The Sisterhood" bracelet in recognition of their contribution, symbolizing their allegiance to one another -- in friendship and philanthropy.

Based on Ann Brashares' best-selling novel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is about a special summer in the lives of four lifelong friends who are separated for the first time. On a shopping trip, they find a pair of thrift-shop jeans that fits each of them perfectly and decide to use these pants as a way of keeping in touch over the months ahead, each one wearing the jeans for a week to see what luck they bring her before sending them on to the next. Though miles apart, the four friends still experience life, love and loss together in a summer they'll never forget.