My Nonprofit Reviews

Sock It To Em Sock Campaign began merely as an idea that came out of the “blue” to Susan Elizabeth Lee while shopping for 2011’s Thanksgiving Dinner. Not being able to let go of the idea she emailed all of her girlfriends and said, “Let’s gather socks for those experiencing homelessness between now and end of December and we’ll take them to some shelters in early January.” Phillis Shimamoto was one of those friends. That year 575 pairs of socks were collected and delivered to the Denver Rescue Mission, The Gathering Place and Colorado Coalition for the Homeless and it was in doing so we discovered that socks are the number one clothing need for those who are experiencing homelessness. At that point we decided we needed to make the Sock It To Em Sock Campaign as big as we could in order to get socks on as many feet as the homeless as possible which resulted in the reality that we now have Sock Ambassadors in 39 states and we have been able to provide over 250,000 pair of socks to those in need.