Soles4Souls mourns the loss of our CFO and long-time staff member, Robert Adams-Ghee.

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Category: Impact Stories

Building Blocks

The following is the story of Ginette Derisier from Haiti, one of many individuals profiled in the forthcoming book, Shoestrings: How Your Donated Shoes and Clothes Help People Pull Themselves Out of Poverty, by Soles4Souls President and CEO Buddy Teaster. GETTING AHEAD IN HAITI ISN’T EASY Not long ago, Ginette Derisier and her family were […]

Donating Shoes is Now Easier than Ever!

When you clean out your closet and donate your gently worn shoes to Soles4Souls, you are helping to create meaningful opportunities for people in need all over the world. We utilize gently-worn shoes and clothing as a resource for individuals to start and sustain a small business of their own in places where job opportunities […]

K•Swiss Gives Back to Soles4Souls During Play Tennis Month!

K•Swiss, the fastest growing tennis footwear brand in the United States specialty channel, has partnered with Soles4Souls in honor of Play Tennis Month.   For each Ultrashot shoe sold, $5.00 will be donated to Soles4Souls, which could help us provide five new pairs of shoes to people in need! During the campaign, the Ultrashot shoes are […]

Case Study: McKennon Law Group

McKennon Law Group PC, a law firm in Newport Beach that represents policyholders in their insurance disputes with insurers, hosted a summer shoe donation drive in honor of Soles4Souls’ “Go Green” initiative.   Give Shoes Give Love Go Green is a campaign aimed at keeping shoes out of landfills and instead utilizing them to create meaningful […]

Case Study: Aaron Brown, Weichert Real Estate

Wayzata, Minnesota real estate agent Aaron Brown recently spearheaded a shoe donation drive to help those in need around the world as part of Soles4Souls.   After hearing about Soles4Souls through the NALA’s cause marketing program, Aaron Brown and the staff at Weichert, Realtors-Advantage collected over 1,500 pairs of shoes.   The secret to their […]

A Commitment to Change

Working in partnership with NicaRise, an organization in Nicaragua committed to creating sustainable economic change, Soles4Souls will begin supplying entrepreneurs with a consistent supply of high-quality, affordable shoes and clothes so that they can begin earning an income. To say that launching a new micro-enterprise operation was an easy task, however, would be deceiving.   […]

Change is Possible

This past holiday season, we had three amazing families leave the comforts of their homes to celebrate the season with us in Haiti to give back through the gift of shoes. Among them were Laura and Mark Howard and their 12-year-old daughter Kaia.   The Howards and their three children live in East Tennessee, a […]

Three Women

Our first encounter with Jounise Isma couldn’t have been more powerful.   Jounise lives in Haiti. She is a part of Soles4Souls’ micro-enterprise program and has created a small business selling shoes to provide for herself and her family.   Our director of Donor Services, Kelly Modena was recently traveling in Haiti with one of our most devoted volunteers, Michele James, […]

Detroit Teen Collects 10,000 Pairs for Soles4Souls’ Ten2Give Program

A love of running and cross-country taught Detroit teen Prateek Bhola about the importance of a good pair of shoes from a young age. When a cluster of growth spurts caused an excess of unusable shoes in Prateek’s closet, the high school student realized that there are millions of people that go every single day […]