Donate old running shoes?
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Tribro posted 39 weeks ago.
Soles for Souls I've seen around quite a bit. They have a bin at our local run shop. http://www.soles4souls.org/
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beads1985 posted 39 weeks ago.
I have brought them to events that had shoe drop offs but I have sent them in to be donated as well.
There was an article in Runners World about shoe donations including the one Tribro listed above.
Here is the article and listing for several donor sites to choose from.
Recycle Your Running Shoes
RUNNER'S WORLD SHOE DONATION
A complete listing of all organizations that accept used running shoes.
PUBLISHED 08/28/2006
Runner's World has continued its commitment to find a place for your old running shoes. We sought out worthy organizations that will take your used running shoes and bring them to the less fortunate in throughout the world. If you would like to contribute, here are a few places you send your old running shoes.
Soles4Souls
Shoe companies, retailers, and individuals can donate footwear both new and used to those in need around the world. Soles4Souls has coordinated relief efforts for the Asian Tsunami and Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Ike, netting over 1 Million pairs donated for these disasters.
Send your old running shoes to:
Alabama (Primary Warehouse Facility)
Soles4Souls, Inc.
315 Airport Road
Roanoke, AL 36274
Tennessee
Soles4Souls, Inc.
619 Old Hickory Blvd.
Old Hickory, TN 37138
Nevada
Soles4Souls, Inc.
Foreign Trade Zone #89
6620 Escondido Street
Las Vegas, Nevada 89119
For more information, go to www.soles4souls.org, call (615) 391-5723, or e-mail info@giveshoes.org.
Hope Runs
Hope Runs is a non-profit group working in Kenya and Tanzania, using athletics, education, and social entrepreneurship to empower AIDS orphans. They accept donations, including running shoes.
Visit www.hoperuns.org for details.
Shoe4Africa
Shoe4Africa is a charitable organization whose mission is "empowerment through sports and education, creating unique health initiatives, and promoting Aids awareness."
Note: All shoe donations from America must be sent via Airmail.
Send your old running shoes to:
Shoe4Africa
c/o Monicah Kiplagat
PO Box 6943
Eldoret, Kenya
Visit www.shoe4africa.org or e-mail info@shoe4africa.org for more information.
Nike Reuse-A-Shoe
Grinds your old running shoes into material that makes athletics and playground surfaces.
Send your old running shoes to:
Nike Recycling Center
c/o Reuse-A-Shoe
26755 SW 95th Ave.
Wilsonville, OR 97070
For more information about Nike Reuse-A-Shoe, go to: nikereuseashoe.com or call 800-344-6453.
One World Running
Since 1986, a group of runners in Boulder, Colorado, has collected, washed and sent to Third World countries new and "near-new" athletic shoes along with other athletic equipment.
For more information about One World Running, and what kind of shoes you can send to them, please visit the One World Running Blog or call (303) 473-1314 or (303) 828-4391.
The Shoe Bank
Founded in 1989, the Shoe Bank provides shoes for twenty thousand people every year - primarily children, both here and abroad.
Send your old running shoes to:
Michael Barringer
Shoe Bank
205 Becky Lane
Rockwall, TX 75087
For more information about the Shoe Bank, go to www.shoebank.org or contact Michael Barringer at 971-771-7658 or michaelbarringer@sbcglobal.net
Heart and Sole
Provides new and gently used shoes to the poorest of the world's people. Since the project began in 1999, more than 6,000 pairs of shoes have been shipped around the world.
Send your old running shoes to:
Ann Cook
A314 East Fee Hall
College of Osteopathic Medicine
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1316
For more information go to www.com.msu.edu or contact Ann at Ann.Cook@hc.msu.edu
Warren Striders Track Club, Inc.
Provides running shoes to local and area low/moderate income families who often are unable to purchase adequate running shoes to their children.
Send your old running shoes to:
Jack Thornton, Jr.
Head Coach/Program Director
P.O. Box 3440
Warren, Ohio 44485
For more information, go to warrenstriderstrackclubinc.com, or contact Jack Thornton, Jr. at 330.372.6252 or jthorntonjr1@msn.com
Sole Responsibility
A non-profit organization formed by a group of runners in Ottawa, Canada who donate gently used running and walking shoes overseas.
Send your old running shoes to:
Sole Responsibility
83 Place Road,
Ottawa, Ontario
K1L 5B9
For more information, go to www.soleresponsibility.org/ or contact Jennifer North at 613-240-4300
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kylie posted 39 weeks ago.
Some great info here! Another one I often do is donate them to a local kid's tri group. It is a group of inner city kids, and where runners and triathletes stop using shoes there are still plenty of miles where they are better than the converse the kids sometimes run in.
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Hello all,
Through this forum I was just forced to realize that my beloved running shoes are past their prime. I love these shoes. I have taken such good care of them and they still look and feel amazing (expect the white isn't so white anymore and I've been getting blisters out of no where). :)
So as I'm realizing that these guys will now become the shoes I just throw on when I need to run an errand I've also started to think about how many pairs of old shoes like these that I'll quickly compile in a few years.
Knowing that these shoes are not functioning as I need them to anymore is it inappropriate to want someone else to get more use out of them? If they don't work for me then why should I want to give them to someone else? But someone else may not have a shoe at all....
So as I struggle with this---does anyone donate their old running shoes to an organization that they would recommend? And what are your thoughts on this?