Affinity Gives Back: Soles4Souls - October Initiative

 

Affinity Gives Back  copy-1We're jumping out of our shoes over our first focus on giving back! In October to kick off out giving campaigns, our Affinity team - along with their friends and families - donated over 325 pairs of shoes to Soles4Souls, an organization that turns unwanted shoes into opportunity by providing relief, creating jobs and empowering people to break the cycle of poverty. In addition to the shoe donations we had several monetary donations made. It's not too late - you can make a difference, too.

Resources - Soles4Souls

Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Soles4Souls collects and distributes new and gently worn shoes and clothes across the world. "Turning unwanted shoes and clothes into opportunity" is the charity's main goal. Soles4Souls is dedicated to provide relief in areas including:

  • Sustainability: Collecting shoes and clothes keeps unwanted items and textiles from ending up in landfills while putting them to good use.
  • Health: Shoes and clothes donated can help improve conditions in high-risk areas that don't have access to these essential clothing items. These donations are aimed to help prevent injuries and illness, while providing dignity to people in need.
  • Opportunity: Donated shoes allow children to access a proper education, while helping families build a business to provide for their families and their community through the foundation of small enterprise.

By working with other non-profit regional organizations, Soles4Souls has been able to build a distribution network to reach areas around the world. Local non-profit companies repurpose and redistribute shoes.

Individuals, communities and even footwear companies can contribute to this great cause. Starting a shoe drive for Soles4Souls it's easy, and you can start one in your community or company in 4 easy steps:

  1. Register your drive and get in touch with a Soles4Souls local representative.
  2. Prepare the items for your drive including heavy weight plastic bags, rubber bands to keep the shoes in pairs and donation forms to provide donors. Only 1 donation form is needed per contribution, no matter how big or small it is!
  3. Let people know about the drive! Once registered, Soles4Souls will provide all the tools you need to create awesome campaigns to spread the word in your community and in social media.
  4. Get your donations to Soles4Souls by reaching out to the local representative or dropping them of at select DSW locations. Contributions can also be sent with free shipping by obtaining a free shipping label from Zappos4Good.

While you can organize your own shoe drive, individual donations are also encouraged. You can register for your drive here! If you would like to learn more about how to donate or organize your own shoe drive, download the Soles4Souls toolkit.

For more information on how you can donate through Affinity Gives Back instead, you can do so on our official page for this project. We have gathered all the tools and information necessary to help you contribute.

We hope you help us give back to communities in need through the Soles4Souls October initiative. You can subscribe to our monthly newsletter to stay up to date with this and other upcoming Affinity Gives Back projects.

 


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