Soles4Souls - Regional Donation Center CO

Apr 2021

A great foundation! Emory, the Director of Colorado Operations is so sweet, kind and passionate about Soles4Souls. You all know you have a half dozen pairs of shoes you haven't and (let's be honest) won't wear. Trust me, the "right occasion" never comes. Call your friends, you know they have some too, gather up these shoes and donate them to Soles4Souls. Change someones life today! (Plus, with the extra space, you can buy a new pair that you WILL wear!) Lol!

Aug 2019

This non-profit organization fights poverty by collecting new and used shoes, how cool is that! This allows them to create jobs in poor and disadvantaged communities via direct donations and by provisioning selected micro-enterprise programs. Since they began in 2006, they've distributed over 35 million pairs of shoes in 127 countries and all 50 US States, impressive! They are various ways to help, simply by donating your used shoes, volunteering or even traveling to meet micro-entrepreneurs. I recently volunteered just a few hours of my time, and with a few others, we loaded a truck with 27,642 pairs. The organizators were very good at providing feedback once our "job" was completed and it was great to know that with this truck they can provide a full year of food, shelter and education for 35 families (plus the fact that they don't end up in landfill). Families came to help, there were jobs for kids also! They were having fun climbing on the mountain of bags full of shoes and pushing them to the bottom so that they could easily be picked up by adults. Too often, giving to charities is very abstract, here you really see the impact of your help. In this case, the truck was then going to a warehouse in Wadley, AL, where the shoes are sorted before being shipped to entrepreneurs around the world. Just one step between donation and distribution, which allows to give a lot more to the person who needs it the most. Visit their website to find a way to donate shoes, and you can even host a shoe drive if you have more time.