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Toms Founder Blake Mycoskie's Fashion-Forward Childhood

In adolescent angst lies true meaning. "Whether Hello Kitty diaries, homecoming photos, or some crappy high-school poetry, they reveal profound things about the people we've become," says Dave Nadelberg, cocreator of Sundance ...READ»

For Every Job, There's Always A Riskier One

No matter who you ask, someone else's job is always scarier.READ»

Toms Shoes CEO Blake Mycoskie On Social Entrepreneurship, Telling Stories, And His New Book

After achieving meteoric success with his buy-one-give-one model of shoe retailing, the Toms founder is reflecting on what other businesses can do to give back--and even giving back a little more himself.READ»

Better World Books Takes A Page From Toms Shoes' "One For One" Playbook

The book recycler and reseller has already given away $10 million to help improve literacy. Now it's giving away a book every time you buy one.READ»

Toms Glasses: The Newest Buy-One-Give-One Product From Toms Shoes

The shoe company wants to take its model for tying consumption to helping the developing world far beyond just canvas footwear. First up: these $135 hand-painted sunglasses.READ»

Companies Play The Giving Game

Since launching its buy-one-give-one model in 2006, Toms Shoes has donated more than 1 million pairs to kids in need. Today, the company asks us to bare our soles to raise awareness, but its influence has spread far beyond footwear. Here, a look at companies inspired to share the wealth by donating an item for each one sold.READ»

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TOMS vs. BOBS: How Skechers Shot Themselves in the Foot

This week Skechers copied the concept behind for TOMS shoes by launching BOBS. Just like TOMS, when you buy a pair of BOBS, Skechers would donate another pair to a child in need. In doing so, they set themselves up for online ridicule, but also drew a powerful distinction between those that do good because of the meaning behind it and those that do it simply for marketing purposes.READ»

Blake Mycoskie, Founder and Chief Shoe Giver of TOMS Shoes

After seeing countless shoeless impoverished children in Argentina, Blake Mycoskie started TOMS Shoes in 2006 with a simple idea: If you buy one pair of shoes, TOMS gives one pair of shoes to someone who needs them.READ»

TOMS Shoes Generation Y Strategy

TOMS Shoes Generation Y Strategy:             Generation Y wants it all: to shop, socialize, and save the world all at the same time. TOMS Shoes, the popular shoe company ...READ»

TOMS Shoes Teaches Consumer Empathy With a Day Spent Barefoot

The shoe company that provides one pair of shoes for children in need for each pair sold encourages its audience to participate in its brand promise with the global event One Day Without Shoes.READ»

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Abject Object Recycles Shoes and Puts Women Back on Their Feet

A new initiative by Project H Design in Los Angeles uses waste from TOMS Shoes and puts homeless women to work.READ»

Objects of Design

These pieces will make you the most aesthetically attuned gift giver around.READ»

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