Category: Our Reach
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.
Posted: May 9, 2015 by TomCostelloJr
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.
Posted: October 31, 2013 by TomCostelloJr
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.
Posted: May 4, 2012 by TomCostelloJr
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!
Posted: August 2, 2011 by TomCostelloJr
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.