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Sock Drive Daily Count Basket in a K-8 School

A basket to collect new socks during a sock drive. Very cool!
We Make Homeless Toes Happy Toes

We Make Homeless Toes Happy Toes
The homeless are in dire need of socks

They need socks ALL YEAR – not just between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Helping out at St. Francis Inn, Philadelphia

Volunteers Erica and Chris helping in the kitchen after handing out socks.
Pairing factory donated socks

Pairing donated socks for delivery to shelters.
6ABC News clip

Mission

Our mission is simply…to provide new socks for the homeless. We started in Philadelphia and are planning to help provide new socks for the homeless all across the United States. The Joy of Sox does three things: 1. Raises Funds (to buy new socks) We raise funds from individuals, companies and foundations. 2. Collects new [...]

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Stories from the streets

Moose, Will, Nate, Eric, and the Man on Crutches and many others all have stories to tell about socks. On this page we’ll relate stories from street about the importance and necessity of socks for the homeless. Send in your stories. You are encouraged to sent in your stories from the streets. Please use the [...]

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Joy The Sock Puppet®

Yes…we have a mascot. And she’s a sock puppet. And her name is Joy. Joy The Sock Puppet®. She is also the Official Spokes-Puppet for The Joy of Sox. Joy lives in a drawer of a bureau. A Sock drawer. She has several homeless friends including Moose, The Rev, Nate and Laura (and [...]

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How we got started

St. Vincent’s Church, Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, where it all started.

A few years ago, Tom Costello Jr, founder and Chief Sock Person, and his wife were volunteering at a soup kitchen in Philadelphia. Here is the story Tom tells about that day that lead to the formation of The Joy of Sox^®with the mission of simply providing socks for the homeless.

I was really homelessphobic to the point that I would cross the street to avoid facing a homeless person. I even didn’t want to go into the City for fear that I might come across someone homeless.

One year my wife dragged me to a shelter in the Germantown section of Philadelphia to help serve meals around Christmas. I had a mild panic attack in the parking lot. I didn’t want to get out of my car. Sweaty palms, rapid heart beat.

“So a homeless person getting some clothing from a charitable organization may get just about everything “ except socks.” Learn More

Our Reach

Sock Drawers

Our chapters, affiliates, or offices in other locations are not called chapters, affiliates, or offices; rather they are called… “Sock Drawers.” Presently we have developing Sock Drawers in: Arizona – Tuscon (Wayne Daley) California _ Santa Cruz (Pat Lorenzo) Illinois – Chicago (Gwen) Missouri – St. Louis (Lisa Martino) New Jersey – Princeton (Jerry Trapp [...]

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Who We’ve Helped

Organizations Benefiting from The Joy of Sox Afghanistan Some Marine installation (location unknown) Arizona Tucson – MAN Tucson California Los Angeles – Delancy Street Foundation Santa Cruz – Santa Cruz Coalition Maryland Baltimore – Back on My Feet Massachusetts Boston – Back on My Feet Boston – Bridge Over Troubled Water Cambridge – Youth on [...]

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Sock Drives

Conducting sock drives is a fun activity and a great way to both raise awareness of the plight of the homeless and the problems they have from not having new socks. Sock drives can be held in your school, church, workplace, favorite store…or anyplace. We have found that various classes, grades or departments can get [...]

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Happy Toes

The goal of our 1.2 Million Happy Toes Initiative – Philadelphia is to provide one pair of new socks ever month to every homeless person around the Philadelphia area. The name comes from, and this takes some math so bear with us, the fact that there are approximately 10,000 homeless in Philadelphia and the surrounding [...]

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