Toe-tally Awesome Sock Drive

🧦 Toe-tally Awesome: The First Step of Our Grassroots Adventure! Hello, wonderful humans! We are so excited to finally launch the official kickoff of the Toe-tally Awesome Sock Drive ! This whole venture is fueled by a simple idea: Keeping Portland Kind, one cozy foot at a time. It’s been an adventure getting to this point, and we wanted to share a little behind-the-scenes look at the first steps of our grassroots movement. Stepping Up Our Game (and our Admin) The "awesome" isn't just in the socks; it's also in the logistics! The past few weeks have been a deep dive into the fascinating world of online fundraising and community organizing. We’ve been learning the ropes of building a toe-tally robust digital platform. Special shout-out to Givebutter for making the fundraising side so smooth! Getting the donation page set up felt like finding the perfect pair of socks—seamless and exciting. Now, every single dollar donated goes directly toward purchasing new, warm s...

  Fall in PORTLAND means ONE THING: the RAIN is back.   And while we all cozy up, for our NEIGHBORS experiencing HOMELESSNESS, that rain is a CONSTANT, SERIOUS THREAT to their HEALTH.   Wet, cold FEET can quickly lead to PAINFUL INFECTIONS and FROSTBITE.   That’s why the SINGLE most REQUESTED—and VITAL—ITEM in the HOMELESS community is CLEAN, DRY SOCKS.   That’s also WHY we’ve launched the TOE-TALLY AWESOME SOCK DRIVE!   Our GOAL: WARMTH, DRYNESS, and COMMUNITY.   Our MISSION is SIMPLE: to COLLECT and DISTRIBUTE enough SOCKS and HYGIENE supplies to make a REAL DIFFERENCE this HOLIDAY SEASON.   The BIG NUMBER: we aim to RAISE enough MONEY to purchase **$1,000** WORTH of SOCKS.   Why **$1,000**?   Because the INCREDIBLE folks at BOMBAS have OFFERED us a 20% DISCOUNT on BULK ORDERS over that amount.   This means every DOLLAR you DONATE goes EVEN FURTHER!   The DISTRIBUTION: we...