Santa Ana Homeless Get Hundreds of New Socks Thanks to a Villanova Intern for The Joy of Sox®
Santa Ana homeless get hundreds of new socks thanks to Joy of Sox intern and team of volunteers. Ken Steinhardt, of The Orange County (CA) REGISTER covered the sock pass out that Eliza Clark orchestrated. Eliza Clark of Newport Beach helped improve the comfort of homeless people in Santa Ana, Wednesday morning, Nov. 22, as […]
The Joy of Sox Earned 2017 TOP NONPROFIT Award From Great Nonprofits
The Joy of Sox® would like to extend a really special thanks to all of their fans, donors, interns, sock angels, volunteers, and board members who helped them earn this very prestigious award. The award is special because only a small percentage of nonprofits get the Top-Rated rating. According to the certificate: “Your community has […]
One Million Warm Dry and Happy Toes Challenge for the Homeless™ by The Joy of Sox
One million is a BIG number…a really BIG number. But that’s the number of toes that the nonprofit The Joy of Sox® hopes to make warm, dry and happy as a result of a mailing campaign that was conducted on September 23rd at Villanova University as part of their annual St. Thomas of Villanova Day […]
August 2017 Newsletter – The Joy Of Sox
The August 2017 newsletter for The Joy of Sox® has been published and features four short sections about how they are providing new socks for the homeless. The first section of “What’s Goin’ On” talks about their global impact – they recently handed out socks on the streets on London, UK. The next section talks […]
New Storage Facility for The Joy of Sox
The Joy of Sox® recently consolidated all its inventory of new socks into one location in King of Prussia, PA. The nonprofit, who gives new socks to the homeless, needed the additional space to store their sock donations and the boxes of socks that volunteers put together ready for distribution to shelters. Tom Costello, Jr, […]
Sock Emoji Adopted by The Joy of Sox
There are emoji for lots of thing like ⚾️ baseballs and🎈 balloons. And coming soon is an … emoji for SOCKS. So The Joy of Sox, as an Official Bronze Sponsor, adopted the Socks Emoji. The socks emoji is not officially released yet, but will be available on your favorite device this spring. According to […]
Map of places The Joy of Sox has sent new socks for the homeless
What do London, UK, San Diego, CA, Charleston, SC, New York, NY, Bear, DE and Gambell, Alaska all have in common? They are all places that The Joy of Sox® have recently sent new socks for the homeless and needy! Clicking on the map will take you to their “map page” where you can see […]
People Magazine’s PeopleNow Features The Joy of Sox’s Tom Costello Jr
People Magazine’s PeopleNow ran a human interest story for their hometown hero segment about Tom Costello Jr and The Joy of Sox. The story consisted of an article by Cathy Free and a short TV interview via Skype by PeopleNow host Andrea Boehlke. On the show Tom respondents to three questions from Andrea Why were […]
Some Facts about New Socks for the Homeless
Why new socks for the homeless? If you were asked what do you do with your old clothes when they wear our, or go out of style, like most people you’d probably say you donate them. But what do you do with your old socks? Mmmm. You probably trash them because they have holes in […]
Villanova University helps The Joy of Sox provide new socks for the homeless
For the 2016 St Thomas of Villanova Day of Service the university’s women’s field hockey team helped The Joy of Sox® with a special project (pictures below). The Joy of Sox is a nonprofit with the simple mission of providing joy to the homeless by giving them socks. They receive a lot of their donations […]
