Category: 4Opportunity

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 […]

Creating New Ways to Give Back

Our partners at Zappos are key to making donating shoes easy — they provide free shipping of gently used shoes and clothing to Soles4Souls, which is crucial to helping support those in need. And in times like today, it is even more important that we can support those impacted by the health and economic crisis.  […]

Engaging a Community Through Shoes

It’s not every day that you see a garage filled with 4,500 shoes, but for Audrey Ramos of Layton, Utah, it’s hardly been used for cars since 2015.    “I call it my She-Shoe-Shed,” she laughs.   Audrey works as the store manager for Brighton Collectibles in Farmington, Utah. Brighton, which has 180 stores nationwide, […]

The Power of Sustainable Brands Partnering Together

For many companies, shifting how they operate during this time has proven challenging, but many have taken the opportunity to get creative and give back. Junkluggers in Warrenton, Virginia, has implemented safe methods for doing their work and protecting employees, all while continuing to support charities like Soles4Souls. Junkluggers helps provide sustainable disposal services by […]

How One Small Business is Engaging Customers

For many small businesses, navigating how to keep customers engaged while stores are closed has proven challenging. In Arlington, Virginia, Formula Running Center has worked hard at keeping their audience engaged while staying at home. “Despite having to temporarily close due to COVID-19, FRC has been putting its ‘best foot forward’ to stay engaged with […]

One Girl’s Collection, Another Woman’s Treasure

At Soles4Souls, the majority of the work we do would be impossible without volunteers. Suriya & Surina Gadh, twin sisters from Miami, Florida, have collected 5,214 pairs over the last two years for Soles4Souls and fundraised over $2,000. Shoe drives like theirs support our micro-enterprise program, which supplies gently used shoes to business owners in […]

You Can Change The World, One Person At A Time

Hello! My name is Denise, and I am on the Soles4Souls Global Experiences Team. I have the privilege of facilitating several of our travel trips a year, and even more so, the honor of being present with both our travelers and shoe recipients in country. One of my favorite pastimes is listening to a person share […]

There’s Hope Now That Things Are Going To Get Better

On a normal morning in Villanueva, a municipality outside of San Pedro Sula in Honduras, Merary Majado opens the doors to her home– not for visitors, but for business. Lines of shoes are carefully organized on her windowsill, and before she’s been able to settle into the day, customers arrive. For Merary, her days start […]

NALA Collects Shoes For Soles4Souls For Their 10th Year

All throughout the year, individuals and groups make a huge difference for Soles4Souls by collecting and donating their gently used pairs of shoes. The NALA, an organization that supports a range of professionals from legal workers to restaurants and doctors, as well as offering marketing programs to businesses, has been working with Soles4Souls for almost 10 years, […]