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Entries Tagged as 'The Giving Side'

NOLA shoe drop on good morning america, tomorrow sept 3rd!

September 2nd, 2009 No Comments

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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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de argentina

November 6th, 2008 No Comments

A group of Shoe Drop volunteers in Argentina with Alejo!

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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 [...]

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USA Shoe Drop Day 2 – 3

October 24th, 2008 No Comments

Click more to see all of our pictures!

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USA shoe drops

October 21st, 2008 No Comments

Day 1 in Gulfport, MS… click more to see photos!

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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!!!

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