Category: Soles4Souls

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 […]

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.  […]

A Tribute to David Graben: Our COO, President and Friend

It is with deep sadness that we announce that David Graben, Soles4Souls President and Chief Operations Officer, passed away Tuesday, May 5, 2020 following a long battle with cancer. On behalf of the Soles4Souls staff around the world and our Board of Directors, we extend our deepest sympathies to David’s family during this time, including […]

Giving Back in Big Ways

Many brands are finding ways to help during the COVID-19 crisis, and some have led the charge in supporting essential workers. In five days, Allbirds donated $500,000 worth of shoes to healthcare workers who asked for a pair online.     The influx of requests for shoes was more than they could have ever anticipated. In […]

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 […]