Tag: homelessness

Company profile: TOMS Shoes

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Company: TOMS Shoestomslogo
Products: Shoes, sunglasses, apparel
Causes: People in need

Happy New Year!! Slightly belated but sincere wishes for good health, happiness and love in 2019.

In a prior entry, I talked about Bombas socks. In this entry, I’m going to focus on TOMS Shoes. Because what goes better with socks than shoes! OK, so much for my sense of humor. Moving on . . .

TOMS is well-known for providing a pair of shoes for someone in need for every pair you purchase. But it goes so much further. In their words, TOMS provides:

shoes, sight, water, safe birth and bullying prevention services to people in need.

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Season of Gifts #4: Bombas

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Company: Bombas Bombas Logo
Products: Socks
Causes: Homelessness

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts highlighting retailers that sell excellent gifts in time for Christmas gift-giving, while meaningfully supporting important causes. I previously highlighted Kiva.org,  Uncommon Goods, and Alex and Ani. In this post I highlight socks retailer Bombas.

Socks are hot. They’re everywhere as gifting options this year – both for yourself and others. I see ads for socks everywhere. Some with clever designs. Some with clever sayings. You’ve seen the ads on Facebook, the ones that feature the bottom of a pair of socks that say, “If you can see this” on one on, and “bring me wine” on the other. (Note to self: tag my husband later.) All that to say, that you don’t have to feel sheepish giving socks as gifts this year. Socks are in!

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With the sock trend alive and well, Bombas is capitalizing with their well made, technologically advanced creations. And what’s even better, Bombas donates
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