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Our mission is simple…to provide joy to the homeless with new socks. Our vision is to be able to provide every homeless person in the United States with a few new pairs of socks every year. We started… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
There are several reasons why the homeless desperately need new socks:
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There are many people in the Philadelphia area and across the country who have collected socks, run sock drives or in general have helped with our mission of providing new socks for the homeless.
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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.
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Our primary outreach began in the greater Philadelphia area, however we now provide new socks to shelters across the United States whenever we can.
Over 181,693 pairs of new socks have been distributed to shelters as of June 26th, 2016! Read More
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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. Read More
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The Joy of Sox earned GreatNonprofits Top-Rated Award for 2018. It is the one and only people’s choice award where volunteers, donors, and people served by nonprofits are asked to share stories of inspiration, express their appreciation. Thanks everybody!
The Joy of Sox earned GuideStar Exchange's PLATINUM Participant level. This is really exciting because GuideStar is the nonprofit industry's #1 source of information for foundations, grantmakers and donors. Clicking on the image takes you to our Guidestar page.
