Once you sign up, your fundraising coach will send you a Funds2Orgs Starter Kit. This kit includes 2500 rubber bands and 100-33 gallon bags, which are enough materials for 100 bags of gently worn, used and new shoes. You will also receive online access to our drive guidelines and marketing material templates which you can customize and print for your organization and drive. Some of the items are as follows: Other tools to assist in your shoe drive During your drive, your coach will be providing you ongoing support for planning the campaign itself to ensure you succeed. We want your group to succeed! Getting started is easy. Fill out the form here and one of our fundraising coaches will be in contact with you soon. CAN’T FIND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR? Name*Email*Your Question*How did you hear about us?PTO TodayReferralShop With Me MommaSocialGoodUSocial MediaSporting Goods BusinessSuccess MagazineThe Non Profit TimesTop NonprofitsUSA TodayWall Street JournalWeb SearchPlease look in your email for a submission confirmation from Funds2Orgs to ensure that your information is properly received.
If I have additional questions, what do I do? We are a customer driven social enterprise and we value your time. We offer 24-48hr email support () and phone support (1-407-930-2979) from our world headquarters to answer your immediate questions, monitored and backed by a live person. We pride ourselves on our representatives and on always answering the phone!An affordable shoe is no laughing matter for Shaquille O’Neal. The 2016 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer thumbed his nose at critics of his Wal-Mart footwear line in a Facebook post on Friday, praising his history of producing budget-friendly shoe options. “Laugh all you want, the Shaq brand has sold over 120 millions pairs of affordable shoes for kids @,” the baller captioned a photo shared on the social networking website. The outing was a very casual one for O’Neal, who was dressed head-to-toe in black sweats and shoes. Laugh all you want, the Shaq brand has sold over 120 millions pairs of affordable shoes for kids @Walmart
Posted by Shaquille O’ Neal on Friday, April 8, 2016 The seven-footer is seen towering over a rack of his sneakers at the retail chain, pointing to his Shaq Zip-Up Basketball and Shaq Retro High-Top models. On the retail giant’s website, his Shaq sneakers are sold for as low as $12.70, and his Reebok Shaq Attaq line is listed at $67.99. O’Neal has been a leader in aligning his name with low-cost footwear manufacturers since his partnership with Payless ShoeSource in 2004. At the time, his Dunkman athletic sneakers were sold for under $40. The athlete wore Reebok for much of his career on the court, winning championship titles with the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat. Still, one of the lowest cost options for footwear from an NBA star came from ex New York Knicks player Stephon Marbury, who in 2006 endorsed a range of Starbury One kicks priced as low as $14.98 through former retail chain Steve & Barry. But it’s Michael Jordan and his Nike-Air Jordan lines that demand one of the highest retail and resale values for athlete endorsed sneakers, costing around $200 at retailers and markups at more than 4,000 percent.
Of course, Jordan and Nike aren’t the only shoes that have ballooned the resale market. Kanye West’s Adidas Yeezy sneakers are in such high demand that industry watchdogs say the footwear has one of the highest occurrences of fraudulent sales in the marketplace. — Sign up for the FN Newsletter —Rihanna modeling her Fenty for Puma collection at Fashion Week Rihanna, who debuted her Fenty for Puma fall collection at Fashion Week, is proving to be a financial lifesaver for the brand. Along with releasing its 2015 sales figures on Thursday, Puma also cited how well Rihanna’s “Creeper” and “Eskiva” sneakers have sold since the company named her creative director in 2014. Via Fashionista:Reporting its 2015 financial results on Thursday, Puma noted that Rihanna’s first shoe designs for the brand have ‘ignited’ its women’s business and helped its footwear category achieve sales growth of 11 percent, bringing in €360.8 million.Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s headline: “Rihanna-Designed Sneakers Help Puma Top Fourth-Quarter Estimates.”
Puma’s overall profits for the year were otherwise down. Rih’s new collection, which includes footwear, is likely to be in high demand once it hits stores later this year. Someone, get me this fur. Puma CEO Bjoern Gulden thanked his lucky stars and praised Rihanna on Thursday, telling reporters, “She can sell sneakers and Puma is onto something here which we haven’t seen yet in the women’s area.”/2017/01/10/business/resale-market-sneakers-red-hot/popout" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="240px">Chris Burns used to be a college English professor. Then, in 2011 he opened his Amazon store, Arch-USA, selling limited edition sneakers.“From Black Friday in November to December 31, 2011, I made $65,000,” he said. In one month, Burns doubled his yearly salary as an English professor. “That was it,” he said. “I walked into the dean's office and I said, 'Hey man, I'm done.'”Prior to that, Burns had sold sneakers on the weekends, at flea markets. He also had his own shoe company and would wear his designs to class.
“The students would be like, 'Aw Professor Burns, you fresh.' And I'd be like 'Yeah, you know.'”Burns said it's not kids buying high-priced sneakers, either. You may develop your taste when you’re a kid, but you can only afford the shoes as an adult.Sneakers aren't just footwear. For some, they're also investments. And some savers invest their hard-earned dollars in their footwear. Just like with a Chanel bag, hold on to a pair of high-end kicks long enough and the price goes up.That's part of the sneaker strategy employed by 29-year-old Ray Islam. He grew up in Brooklyn and the Penny’s he’s wearing are the whitest, most sparkly clean sneakers you have ever seen. Islam said he buys for love, but he just graduated from medical school. He uses his sneakers as a rainy day fund.“I know I got those, so if I sell those I know I'll make $350 and I'll be fine,” he said.He maintains an online web presence where he sometimes sells his shoes under the name Ray's Kicks, but he said it's far from full-time work.
Instead, noted Islam, there’s another kind of sneaker investor on the market.“There are other people, where this is their primary source of income,” he said. “For some people this is a real investment.”To see that kind of investor in action, Islam and I head to Sneaker Pawn, which has just relocated to West 14th street in New York's West Village from Harlem. That’s where we run into Perryante Biffle. Biffle buys and flips sneakers. He goes by Pro Knockerz on Facebook, where his page is filled with photos of the shoes he's selling. And the shoebox he’s just brought into the store holds a pair of limited edition Air Max Corks from Nike’s Soho Store.“They just came out about two hours ago,” he said. “That was like my day. I was there from sun up to sun down.”The side of the cork sneakers are marked with a number — 80/100. There are only 100 pairs. Nike says the sneakers retailed for about $200 each. But they’re already sold out and selling online for up to $800.