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We are not just an industry, we are a community.
Our 80-year legacy is to take care of each other, especially in hard times.
Now, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Two Ten is experiencing 10X the number of emergency […]

The industry’s foundation teams up with Wolverine Worldwide, Inc. to kick off critical, national fundraising effort
WALTHAM, MA March 23, 2020 — In response to rapidly increasing industry need for e […]

In response to the growing Covid-19 crisis, Sperry will support the footwear industry’s charitable foundation
WALTHAM MA, March 25:  Sperry, the heritage footwear brand, will donate over 3000 pairs of shoes to Tw […]

Tom Vernarsky and his team at Shoe Carnival in Evansville, IN, started with one house.  Over nine years later, he’s built entire neighborhoods.

Tom, recently retired from Shoe Carnival, has been involved wi […]

In 2019, Payless Shoes closed all of its 2,000 stores and cut 16,000 jobs. The fallout was difficult for their employees, as the benefits and pay they depended on literally disappeared. Since Payless’ closure in J […]

Preparing for the new year was the theme at the Portland WIFI Chapter gathering on Thursday night, January 16th, in the lobby lounge of the Woodlark Hotel downtown Portland. Women from KEEN, Columbia, SOREL, N […]

Happy 2020!

We hope you had a wonderful holiday season, spent with your loved-ones and perhaps lending a helping hand in your community to spread the holiday cheer. We sure did! As part of […]

Two Ten Footwear Foundation partnered with Footwear News and their FN Labs to celebrate our 80th anniversary with a series of opinion pieces written by footwear people from across the industry.  
Some Things N […]

Two Ten Footwear Foundation partnered with Footwear News and their FN Labs to celebrate our 80th anniversary with a series of opinion pieces written by footwear people from across the industry.  
The Strength o […]

Two Ten Footwear Foundation partnered with Footwear News and their FN Labs to celebrate our 80th anniversary with a series of opinion pieces written by footwear people from across the industry.  
Why We Should C […]

Two Ten Footwear Foundation partnered with Footwear News and their FN Labs to celebrate our 80th anniversary with a series of opinion pieces written by footwear people from across the industry.  
The Power of a H […]

Two Ten Footwear Foundation partnered with Footwear News and their FN Labs to celebrate our 80th anniversary with a series of opinion pieces written by footwear people from across the industry.  

The Power of […]

This past week, Two Ten Footwear Foundation teamed up with Puma volunteers to participate in The Salvation Army’s Angel Tree program. As part of the Footwear Cares community service initiative, Puma sent teams o […]

A Letter to Our Fellow Members of the Footwear Industry

For 80 years the Two Ten Footwear Foundation has been providing emergency financial assistance and scholarships to employees and their families in our […]

By David DiPasquale
Interim President, Two Ten Footwear Foundation
November 12, 2019

After 39 active years as a volunteer and Board member of Two Ten Footwear Foundation, I came into the office as Interim […]

Last month, the RG Barry team in Columbus, Ohio organized a company-wide Week of Giving, featuring a variety of cook-offs, a raffle with incredible prizes, and an end-of-week tailgate party to raise funds for the […]

Under a blazing late summer sky, Two Ten Footwear Cares® volunteers from Lacoste teamed up with Why Not Care® volunteers to clean up and repaint tennis and handball courts in the LES (Lower East Side) of New Y […]

The 2018 hurricane season was above-average in its destructive power and the number of hurricanes it produced, totaling fifteen named storms and $50.2 billion in damage. Two weeks before the first of the storms […]

Presented every five years, the Bob Campbell Lifetime Achievement Award honors an individual whose great leadership and philanthropic accomplishments have made a difference to the Two Ten Footwear Foundation and […]