Fundraising

Carrie Green found Funds2Orgs during an online search for fundraising ideas, then held off on starting the first Happy Birthday Cha Cha Cha shoe drive fundraiser. A goal of 2,500 pairs of shoes “seemed unattainable,” she wrote. She went ahead anyway. “I am so glad I went for it,” she added in a February 2026... READ MORE

The Fayette County Food Shelf, a nonprofit food pantry in Fayette, Iowa, planned to try a shoe drive fundraiser once. It kept going: Funds2Orgs records show payments to the food shelf every year from 2017 through 2025, totaling $31,598. The two 2025 payments alone came to $10,000 for 710 bags of shoes. In its reply... READ MORE

In 2020, VolunTeen, a youth volunteer group in Bel Air, Maryland, collected more than 6,900 pairs of shoes in a teen volunteer shoe drive fundraiser. Funds2Orgs’ records say the money would go back to Harford County. Funds2Orgs featured VolunTeen in a short video the next spring. It reported that the group had raised more than... READ MORE

The Girls on the Run Pocono shoe drive fundraiser started with shoe bins at local small businesses, WNEP reported. As the Pennsylvania council’s own testimonial puts it, its drop-off locations did two jobs: they raised money, and they told new people about Girls on the Run. Funds2Orgs has said it partnered with Girls on the... READ MORE

MarySue Engebretson’s community named Palmer Park after two of her brothers. When her family set out to update the park’s playground with all-inclusive, accessible equipment, the cost was steep, and the group raising the money was small. They needed another approach. In 2025, the Northwoods American Legion Post 94 Playground Fund, based in Crandon, Wisconsin,... READ MORE

The Penn Wynne Library Association once collected so many shoes for its library shoe drive fundraiser that it had to store them in an attic. A Funds2Orgs staff note recorded that detail in 2019. That collection was one part of a long run. Funds2Orgs records show payments to the association every year from 2017 through... READ MORE

Cindy Ceracche was a bit skeptical at first. For the group’s first shoe drive fundraiser, a fellow Twin Tiers Honor Flight volunteer invited Cindy and several others to her home to sort a giant pile of shoes on her deck. They matched the pairs, rubber-banded them together, and put 25 pairs in each bag. “I... READ MORE

After helping organize Forest Hills cheerleading’s 2019 shoe drive fundraiser, Kristen Turner had one clear change in mind: decide where people could drop off their shoes before launching the fundraiser’s Facebook page. The parent coordinator’s reasoning was practical. As she wrote in her follow-up, “collecting only at people’s homes would have been unrealistic.” A public... READ MORE

A school shoe drive fundraiser can begin with children holding signs. An animal rescue can invite participation with a puppy beside its collection display. A student team can gather at a truck full of bagged shoes and see what its community helped collect. These are scenes from our partner video. They show how different groups... READ MORE

It’s 4:45 on a Saturday afternoon in October. The bounce house is humming, the trending song is on its ninth loop, and a line of second graders is waiting for their turn to soak the vice principal with a wet sponge. Over by the front gate, a parent volunteer works the math and quietly hopes... READ MORE

Danielle Jackson kept noticing shoe shops as she traveled through Uganda in 2019. After asking people at home to contribute footwear, she was now seeing small businesses selling shoes in another part of the world. The connection meant something to her. A shoe drive fundraiser helped her raise money for the mission trip. In Uganda,... READ MORE

Follow The Need International brought its community in The Villages, Florida, together to collect more than 9,400 pairs of shoes in a fundraiser supporting Guatemala. At pickup, volunteers gathered beside a Funds2Orgs truck for a group photograph, with the collection total displayed in the video for the Follow the Need shoe drive fundraiser. The June... READ MORE