Hi.  My name is Jacob, and I’m a runner.  A few months back I was looking at my running shoes in my closet thinking, “it’s such a waste that I have so many shoes that I can’t use for running anymore.”  That made me start thinking that if I had that many pairs of mileage-worn shoes just sitting in my closet, then other runners must have them as well.  So, I came up with this crazy idea of collecting runner’s shoes and giving them to the local homeless people in the areas where big races occurred.  And the Shoe Shed was born.

 

We’re a non-profit group, as you probably guessed, and 100% of our proceeds go toward collecting shoes and distributing them to the local homeless.  There are other organizations that collect post-race running shoes, but most of those groups send their shoes overseas (which of course is great too!)  But I wanted runners to know that the shoes they shed directly benefit people in their local areas.