As many of you know, TOMS was in New Orleans last week for Style Your Sole Shoe Drops at five local schools. We were fortunate to have Robin Roberts from Good Morning America join us to speak with Blake and help decorate the canvas TOMS with students.
The GMA piece will air some time between 8am [...]
Entries Tagged as 'The Giving Side'
NOLA shoe drop on good morning america, tomorrow sept 3rd!
September 2nd, 2009 No Comments
Tags: blake mycoskie · GMA · Good Morning America · new orleans · New Orleans Shoe Drop · Shoe Drop · style your sole · volunteer
a volunteer perspective from the new orleans shoe drop
September 1st, 2009 1 Comment
I just plopped myself down on the bed in my Venice apartment after a long day of travel. It took all day to get back from my Shoe Drop in New Orleans this past week, and this is the first moment I’ve had to really relax and reflect on a week of giving with TOMS. [...]
Tags: blake mycoskie · children · giving · giving first-hand · inspiration · intern · new orleans · New Orleans Shoe Drop · schools · shoes · toms shoes · volunteer
new orleans shoe drop: a volunteer experience
April 30th, 2009 1 Comment
Hi! I’m Ana Maria, and I work on the giving side of TOMS. The best part of my job is traveling to new destinations and hand placing shoes on children’s feet with other passionate volunteers.
Students in New Orleans, LA were fitted with their own pair of new TOMS shoes this past week. They put marker [...]
Tags: get involved · giving · guest blogger · new orleans · shoes · volunteer · volunteering
de argentina
November 6th, 2008 No Comments
A group of Shoe Drop volunteers in Argentina with Alejo!
Tags: Alejo · argentina · Shoe Drop · The Giving Side · volunteer
guest blogger: ana maria from friends of TOMS
November 6th, 2008 4 Comments
My name is Ana Maria. I work on the “shoe-giving” side of TOMS and Friends of TOMS (TOMS’ non-profit). My most sincere apologies for not personally updating you all on the USA Shoe Drops throughout the past two weeks. It was an amazing whirlwind full of fun, smiles, early mornings, sharpie [...]
Tags: ana maria · The Giving Side · usa shoe drop
USA Shoe Drop Day 2 – 3
October 24th, 2008 No Comments
Click more to see all of our pictures!
Tags: gulfport · usa shoe drop
USA shoe drops
October 21st, 2008 No Comments
Day 1 in Gulfport, MS… click more to see photos!
Tags: gulfport · Shoe Drop · usa shoe drop
feedback from USA shoe drops
October 21st, 2008 No Comments
Our first USA Shoe Drop kicked off today in Gulfport. We just received an email from a student nurse who attended,
” I was one of the student nursing students at Gaston Point Elementary School
today in Gulfport, MS. I just wanted to say thank you for
doing what you did. Those children were so excited and that [...]
Tags: gulfport · Shoe Drop · usa shoe drop
Friends of TOMS Info Night
October 17th, 2008 No Comments
Thank you to everyone who came out last night for Friends of TOMS Info Night at the Pop Up Store!
And a BIG special THAAAANK YOU to our sponsors (we raffled away over $1,700 worth of prizes!):
Causecast for filming (we will let you know when its posted!)
Domenico Wines
Stronghold
Aviator Nation
eCookie
Yas
Equator Books
Alexandra Wagner Skin Care
Urban Escape
Abbot-Kinney Festival [...]
Tags: Events · pop up store · The Giving Side
WEEKLY UPDATE
October 13th, 2008 1 Comment
We are going to give you guys weekly updates on our running total of how many shoes TOMS has given to children in need thanks to your purchases:
To date, TOMS Shoes has given over 85,575 pairs of shoes!
AWWWEEESSSOOOMMMEEE!!!
