There is so much to share with you here on the TOMS blog, so you might notice a few new authors.

Each semester, we will be pulling a couple campus club members to share their experiences from the ground and this Fall, we have Harris from UNC and Michael from a high school in Maryland. We also have a great new addition to the TOMS family on the giving side, Jessica Shortall. Jessica’s role at TOMS is to head up TOMS shoe giving around the world, including lots of travel to Ethiopia and a complete obsession with podo (she dreams about it at night). She will be providing great insight into TOMS giving initiatives.

Jessica in Ethiopia

If you have a TOMS story that you would like to share, whether it be a photo of you and your TOMS at the top of a mountain, or a funny encounter with a stranger who didn’t know the One for One story, or an organization you’ve been inspired to start because of TOMS… we want to share it here on the TOMS blog. Email Ashley.Powell@TOMSshoes.com!

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The best thing a person can do after buying a pair of TOMS is to wear them. That is why we are encouraging everyone involved with the TOMS Campus Club in Chapel Hill to wear their TOMS on December 3rd. We have made this date an unofficial TOMS Day on our campus; as a reward for students who wear their shoes we are giving away coupons and gift certificates donated by local businesses. Let me explain how this works- we sent out an e-mail and created a Facebook event telling people to wear their TOMS on Thursday December 3rd. The exec committee of our club will be walking around campus all day writing down e-mail addresses of the people we see wearing TOMS. At the end of the day, the committee will get together, share e-mail addresses, and draw names randomly out of a hat. The winners will be notified via e-mail and they will receive their prizes at our next campus club meeting. By flooding our campus with people wearing TOMS, people will begin talking. Our goal is to have everyone at UNC know what TOMS are and what they stand for and the best way to accomplish this is to get people talking!

On a side note, our club is finally on track to become an official campus club! We are waiting to receive word that we have been approved. Once we are recognized by the university, we will be able to hold events on campus much easier and reserve rooms under our own name. The aim of this semester is to establish our club on campus and build a foundation for next semester’s club to build off of. I love every new experience that the UNC TOMS Club brings me!

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Maddi, a past TOMS HQ intern, the TOMS Campus Club, and the SIFE Business Club did an extraordinary job at planning and executing a successful, fun, and memorable campus event. Kudos from TOMS HQ!

To see more photos on Facebook click here!

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It all started a few months back when the TOMS movement walked into my life quite unexpectedly.  Late one night in early January to be exact;  I was poking around the internet, I can’t recall how but I happened to find myself on the TOMS Shoes website. Instantly I was hooked, ideas shot through my head, “Who are these people?”  “Wow! These shoes are awesome, I want a pair!”  “I wish I could be a part of this.”  Little did I know that I could be.  I looked around the site even more and found a link to get involved.  “That’s it! I’ll do it.”  I watched the mission video and learned all I could, dreaming of being in Africa giving shoes to children in need and seeing their smiling faces.  Quickly I applied to be a Campus Club member and waited anxiously for TOMS to contact me back.  A few tedious days later I got an email from TOMS.  I was so ecstatic, I was contacted by TOMS!  A few weeks later I was on the TOMS team making a difference in the world.  Since that first moment I have been tested to my limits, organizing barefoot walks and Style Your Sole events.  TOMS has really made me realize what I am capable of.

These days you can usually catch me in a pair of my TOMS, the Dave Matthews edition are my favorite!  You can ask any of my friends, more than once I have told them the TOMS story of how it started and what they do.  I am working hard at transforming my community and still dreaming of that day I will be helping kids and seeing their smiling faces.

We’re excited to have Michael keep us updated this semester on TOMS events and stories from his high school in Maryland! Visit the Get Involved section of the TOMS website to apply to be a campus club member.

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“Are you wearing socks?”  Wriggling my toes in my brand new corduroy TOMS, I had certainly brought something different to my Tennessee high school.  I had discovered them a few weeks before when visiting my best friend’s family in Los Angeles.  No, these were not socks.  They were my first pair of TOMS and this was my first opportunity to spread my knowledge of the One for One movement.  Two years later, I’m a sophomore at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and I’m still spreading the word.  Although nobody mistakes TOMS for socks anymore, I’m still finding people every day who have never heard of them.  I was stalking the TOMS Web site, looking for anything new to read, when I discovered the Campus Clubs program.  I am now a Campus Club member at UNC and we are busier than ever with our fledgling club of about 150 students (one of the fastest growing clubs on campus)!  A few weeks ago, Blake came to Chapel Hill and we filled all 300+ seats of Gerrard Hall.  I had spent an entire afternoon a few days before the event finger painting a plywood cube in our quad, a popular advertising method here.  Finally, on the day of Blake’s visit, I was standing up in front of the crowd and could see about 60 people lingering outside the back doors just to catch a glimpse of one of the most successful entrepreneurs.  I was in shock that TOMS had become so popular so fast, and that our club was taking off this quickly.  Now, our club is preparing several events for the rest of the year in order to put TOMS on the rest of our fellow Tar Heels and on even more children!  I can’t wait to see where this year takes us.

We’re excited to have Harris keep us posted on what’s happening on the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill campus! Visit the “Get Involved” section of the TOMS Web site to apply to join a TOMS Campus Club!

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