I help immigrant women tell their stories – through shoes. The Shoe Project was hatched over dinner with a sponsor, and Elizabeth Semmelhack, Senior Curator of The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto. We came up with a plan to exhibit stories and shoes that illuminate the voyage to Canada. I’ve since met two dozen brilliant…
Don’t throw out the corks from all those wine bottles you went through on Thanksgiving! We’ve told you before about how to recycle them, but here’s an even better way to use them to do good this holiday season. I saw this on Dawn Carroll’s Facebook page. Dawn is the co-founder of the Over My…
Okay, now here is a brilliant idea. You know your kids (and you!) don’t need half the treats they collect, so help them sell their stash back to a local dentist participating in the Halloween Candy Buy-Back program. Dentists register to pay a dollar a pound, then they send all the goodies off to the…
Last week, I got a call from my friend, Stacy Everett, who has been a volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps in Kenya since June 2011. She wanted to see if, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, StyleSubstanceSoul would help her promote a project she was working on in Africa. When you hear what…
We are all about Shopping with a Conscience so we’re thrilled that there are so many great companies giving to breast cancer-related charities this month.
