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Donate New Children’s Shoes
Like clothes, shoes provide underprivileged children the confidence they need to go about their daily lives. A pair of shoes not only helps to protect a child’s feet, but also allows kids to engage in sports and other healthy activities.
K.I.D.S. works primarily with the shoe industry charity Soles4Souls and selected companies to meet many of our agencies’ needs for footwear.
In 2010, K.I.D.S received more than $ 15 million dollars worth of new shoes from the non-profit Soles4Souls and industry leaders such as Stride Rite, Robeez, and Ugg Australia.
Donor Spotlight: Stride Rite Children’s Group, Inc.
The Stride Rite Children’s Group, part of the Performance + Lifestyle Group of Collective Brands, Inc., markets leading brands of premium children’s footwear in the United States, including stride rite® , Robeez for stride rite®, Saucony® Kids, Keds® Kids and Sperry Top-Sider® Kids, among others. Stride Rite Children’s Group’s mission is to be the first choice for premium authentic footwear brands that kids love and moms trust.
Stride Rite and K.I.D.S. have had a successful charitable relationship for five years, and in 2010 Stride Rite provided $3.9 million in new shoes to over 280 nonprofit agencies in the K.I.D.S. network. This relationship, and Stride Rite’s charitable giving, have made a deep impact on children and families throughout the United States and globally, including much-needed support to children affected by natural disasters in both Haiti and Japan.
