Author: Soles4Souls

Supply Chain Leader Moves Over 100,000 Shoes

When other companies around the world share our core beliefs in serving others through sustainable solutions, we find a way to partner with them. XPO Logistics, a leading global provider of supply chain solutions, immediately wanted to know how they could help further our mission. And recently, they did just that, by shipping four ocean containers […]

Taking Care of Our Partners

For years, Soles4Souls has been able to provide opportunities for women in countries like Haiti and Honduras to make a sustainable income and support their families and communities. And if it weren’t for our in-country partners, like Raul, Sam and Paul, none of it would be possible. Our partners are the gateway to our entrepreneurs– […]

A Shoe Drive Tradition

When Elliott Zugel was eight years old, she was watching Disney Channel and saw a commercial about collecting shoes. The commercial wasn’t about Soles4Souls or any company for that matter, but it sparked an idea.   After talking with her parents, Elliott decided she wanted to start her own shoe drive, and through their research– […]

Shoes for Safety

Thirty years ago, the idea to preserve a single resident occupancy (SRO) building in Los Angeles, sparked a mission. Years later, that mission grew into 25 more buildings with 1,787 units — all for the purpose of housing a very specific demographic– those who have faced chronic homelessness. Across Los Angeles County, 60,000 people are homeless, and […]

Giving as a Business Model

There are few apparel brands that center their business model completely around giving. For Bombas, that’s been their philosophy since day one and because of that, they’ve been able to donate 35 million items to more than 3,500 giving partners. Soles4Souls has been fortunate to have Bombas as a long-standing partner, where we’ve been able […]

Providing Comfort for Nurses

For Michelle Burdette, a Registered Nurse in San Antonio, Texas, serving others is just what she does —not only in her career but also in her free time. She’s traveled on multiple trips with Women Orthopaedist Global Outreach (WOGO), which helps transform lives in underserved communities by performing joint reconstruction for individuals burdened by arthritis and […]

100,000 Shoes for the Frontlines

For a company that’s used to primarily running through its brick and mortar, having to quickly adjust to stores closing was something DSW had never experienced before.   “There are all these new considerations in terms of health and safety, convenience offerings and being more aggressive with value because we know that times are tough […]

Bridgestone Indonesia and Soles4Souls Join Forces to Turn Recycled Tires into Shoes

Soles4Souls Asia and PT Bridgestone Indonesia, a group company of Bridgestone Corporation, the world’s largest tire & rubber company, today announced a new 2-year partnership (2020 – 2022) for an exciting sustainable project to create new shoes out of recycled tires. The partnership will be set in motion on June 5 in celebration of World […]

Collect 70,000 pairs of shoes? No problem.

Rod Meeker can tell you a thing or two about shoe drives. The Northeast Ohio native is on his third 25,000 pair drive, and he’s not stopping any time soon. To date, he has collected around 70,000 pairs of gently used shoes.   Rod’s involvement with Soles4Souls started back in 2016, when he began his […]

Going Barefoot. Standing Together.

From Soles4Souls President & CEO, Buddy Teaster.   Today is National Go Barefoot Day, a day Soles4Souls uses to generate awareness of the power of a pair of shoes in our daily lives. A day in which instead of putting yourself in someone else’s shoes, you put yourself in the place of someone who isn’t […]