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Make a Difference This Socktober With Just One Pair of Socks
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Be A Part Of An Annual Movement That Helps Kids In Foster Care
This October, you can create lasting change with something as simple as a pair of socks. While many items fill donation bins, socks remain the least donated but most requested essential. New socks provide dignity, warmth, and comfort to children in foster care and those experiencing homelessness.
Since 2011, Socktober has grown into a global movement, showing that small actions can create a big difference. By covering shipping costs, you ensure every donated pair of Bombas socks reaches the children who need them most—making it a perfect starting place to make a real impact.
What Is Socktober?
Socktober is Foster Love’s annual campaign to provide new socks, the most requested item in foster care, to children and youth across the nation. Each October, Foster Love partners with Bombas to distribute socks and raise awareness for kids who often go without life’s basic essentials. Through this effort, a simple pair of socks becomes a powerful symbol of comfort, dignity, and hope.
Help Us Ship 57,500 Pairs Of Socks Nationwide!
What Makes Foster Love’s Socktober Unique?
Why Should You Support Socktober?
Socks Are the Most Needed Item
Foster care agencies across the country report that socks are their number one requested, yet least donated, item. Many children enter foster care with little more than the clothes on their backs, making new socks a small but essential comfort. During Socktober, Foster Love partners with agencies nationwide to ensure every child has access to this simple item that provides warmth, dignity, and care.
It Directly Impacts Children In Foster Care
Many children in foster care arrive without basic clothing. Your support ensures they receive clean socks and other necessities that bring comfort and dignity.
Foster Care And Homelessness Are Connected
Over 50% of the current homeless population has spent time in foster care. By distributing socks, you’re aiding communities impacted by the foster care system and spreading awareness about the challenges kids in foster care face.
It’s A Movement With Proven Impact
Since 2011, Socktober has united families, schools, and workplaces worldwide to support people in need and create lasting change.
The Impact Of A Single Donation
Warm Socks = Happy Feet!
Every day counts this October, and with your help, we can give children in foster care the basic necessities they need to be happy, healthy, and warm.
And it can all start with one pair of socks.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
The foster care system touches every part of our society. When you look at any social issue, whether it is fighting poverty, homelessness, sex trafficking, the school-to-prison pipeline, educational inequality, children who’ve experienced foster care are represented in those groups in outstanding numbers.
Foster Love is a leader in foster care innovation. Together with the community, we advocate for children in care lifting their voices and coming up with solutions for the problems they face. When you get involved with Foster Love, you are part of the solution, bringing value resources to children who need it most.
Donations and funds raised are used to support essential programs which are distributed to children in foster care through our foster agency partners.
100% of all donations go directly towards the sponsored program. Foster Love is committed to ensuring that your support is directly reaching children in foster care nationwide. For more insight on our financials, please review our financial documents.
There are plenty of ways you can help children in foster care. Donating towards a Foster Love service project or program is a direct way you can bring hope and solve an immediate need.
Feel free to ask any questions you may have regarding Foster Love and any of our programs. Our team is available to address your submissions within 1-2 business days. If you need immediate assistance, please call us directly at 714-784-6760.
Give with Confidence
We started a team building company to fund our charity and donate all our profits. Instead of relying only on donations, we use support from corporations, a handful of large donors and foundations to cover our operational costs. This means 100% of your donation goes directly to helping children.
