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 financial assistance applications since the beginning of March and doesn’t show any signs of slowing. This dramatic … Read More
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 with Habitat for Humanity for nearly a decade and over that time he and his crew have helped build 53 houses. For 2020, … Read More
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 June 2019, hundreds of former Payless employees have reached out to Two Ten for assistance – with more continuing to … Read More
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, Nike, PENSOLE, and others came out to support Two Ten WIFI and gain insight from two engaging guest speakers. Tracy Siegel, Certified Functional … Read More
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 our Footwear Cares commitment to service and helping local communities, the Two Ten Footwear Foundation team participated in The Salvation Army’s annual Christmas Castle … Read More
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 Education. If anyone doesn’t understand that education can break the cycle of poverty, they haven’t met me. I grew up … Read More
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 on Tuesday 12/10 and Friday 12/13 to help organize and bag Christmas presents for 593 local families in need. The Salvation Army’s … Read More
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 industry who need it most. As we prepare for our annual fundraising event, the 80th Anniversary Gala in New York City on … Read More
Convert your unwanted inventory into emergency financial funds to help footwear families who are in crisis right now.
Your participation in our Two Ten Share Your Shoes product donation program will help us respond to rapidly increasing industry need for hardship and crisis relief by generating the financial aid needed for thousands of footwear families who are struggling to make ends meet.
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