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Our Mission
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 in Philadelphia and have provided new socks for the homeless all across the United States. The Joy …
Learn MoreHow we got 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 …
Learn MoreStories 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 …
Learn MoreWhy socks?
There are several reasons why people experiencing homelessness desperately need new socks:
- People very rarely donate new socks to those experiencing homelessness
- The number one needed article of clothing is new socks
- Numerous health problems
Our Reach
Sock Angels
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.
Our Reach
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.
Our Reach
Who We’ve Helped
Organizations Served By The Joy of Sox
Our primary outreach began in the greater Philadelphia area, however we now provide new socks to shelters across the United States whenever we can.
Impact
Over 181,693 pairs of new socks have been distributed to shelters as of June 26th, 2016!
Our Reach
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.
Great Nonprofits
The Joy of Sox earned GreatNonprofits Top-Rated Award for 2020. 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!
Guidestar PLATINUM Level
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.