Category: 4Opportunity

52,000 Shoes Distributed in Lebanon

A couple years ago, we partnered with Cisco in Beirut, Lebanon to provide over 600 Skechers shoes to children in several communities and orphanages. Due to the country’s economic crisis, our partners there have said over and over how dire the need is for donations for children. So on August 4, 2020, when Beirut was […]

Soles4Souls Launches New Partnership With Neuff Athletic

Last month, Soles4Souls launched a partnership with Neuff, an athletics and triathlon retailer based in the United Kingdom. The company has a long history of selling equipment, however, it’s founding in 1966 was always based more on fully supporting athletes and their development. After the founder, Dr. Alan Neuff, passed away over 2 years ago, […]

Inspired by Kindness

On September 26, Maya Reiter will be hosting a no-contact drive-thru shoe drive as she gets closer to her 25k goal. For nearly two years, the teen and her mom, Deanna have been collecting shoes in Ontario, Canada, and they’re only 7,000 pairs short of their goal.   Maya and Deanna were inspired after watching […]

Thanking our Healthcare Workers in Singapore

Last year, after years of growth and outreach in Singapore, Soles4Souls opened its first warehouse there. Having a presence there has allowed us to directly receive donations from our international partners. Bata, one of the world’s leading shoemakers and a long-time partner of Soles4Souls, has been instrumental in allowing us to serve the region. Recently, […]

Boy Scout Collects Over 1,400 Shoes for Shoe Drive

If there’s one thing a global pandemic hasn’t stopped, it’s our amazing volunteers hosting shoe drives around the country. Even with having to minimize social interactions, our volunteers have stepped up in collecting shoes– whether that means handing out flyers and collection bags or utilizing drop-off boxes. One of those volunteers, 14-year-old Adam Benson of […]

A Community Drive

When Judy Green, President of CrossRidge Women’s Club in Glen Allen, Virginia, initially heard about Soles4Souls, she was excited about how she could get all her members involved. But when COVID-19 prompted stay-at-home orders, her initial vision for doing a shoe drive solely within the club changed.    “At the beginning of quarantine, we talked […]

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– […]

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 […]