Leann Schmidt from Apply Designs: For donating her time and talent in developing the PittsburghsGotSole web site so we could get the word out to Pittsburghers about our shoe drive. I would also like to thank Leann for her on-going “physical” volunteer efforts with collecting, sorting and packing shoes and for organizing shoe collections.

Webmasters.com: For their generous donation of a web-hosting site for our PittsburghsGotSole web site.

Vital Signs Staff (Steve Burkett, Bob Jakub and Ed Crail): For donating design time and talent in creating the PittsburghsGotSole logo; promoting the PittsburghsGotSole shoe drive and for their physical volunteer efforts at collecting, sorting, packing and moving shoes.

Dr. Carol Utay: For donating all 4 of her Total Learning Center locations for shoe donation sites, sending out PR to promote our effort and for the amazing numbers of donated shoes. We appreciate all of the help your staff’s at each location provided to us. Thanks for the team effort!

Fort Cherry Elementary For donating 407 pairs of shoes in the first of 2 shoe drives. This is a small school of just 600 students! Way to go Rangers!

Steve Mitnick: For donating all 6 of his Store Express Storage locations for shoe donation sites, advertising the PittsburghsGotSole shoe drive on his store signage and for the multiple bags of shoes. Also, a big thank you to all of the wonderful Store Express staff at each of your locations. It takes a village to make a huge pile of shoes!

Visit Pittsburgh: For acting as a shoe donation site, promoting the shoe drive to all of it’s members and for the special shoe collection event in combination with their SportsWorks Carnegie Science Center Event.

Joy Pekar Miller and the Pittsburgh Chapter of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE): For adopting PittsburghsGotSole as their project. NOBLE has donated to our effort by way of volunteers, donating car loads of shoes; monetary and in-kind donations. They are a true example of our Pittsburgh, “down home” generosity at it’s best!!

Crossroads Church of Christ: For acting as our McMurray shoe donation site and for the numerous bags of donated shoes from the congregation.

Homestead Park United Methodist Church: For acting as a shoe donation site and for the many bags of shoes the congregation donated.

Dorothy Coll, Two Men and a Truck: For her generous donation of 20 large wardrobe boxes.

Giant Eagle: For their generous donation of 200 large, clear bags.

Charlie Brickner and Cassie Majewski: For making PittsburghsGotSole their middle school community service project and for collecting lots of shoes to help us send to Haiti.

Greentree Rotary Club: For their generous $100.00 donation to be used toward shipping costs and for all of the donated shoes.

The Streams Elementary School: For acting as a donation site and for collecting shoes for our combined PittsburghsGotSole and Soles4Souls Haiti
effort.

Marcie Henry, Holly Fitzgerald, The Harbor Creek School District and the amazing 5th and 6th graders from Clark Elementary School: For celebrating your 100th day of school by honoring PittsburghsGotSole with a huge number of shoes (all the way from Erie, PA.) Good job Clark Elementary!

The W.PA. African American Chamber of Commerce: For promoting the PittsburghsGotSole effort with their members.

Donna Baxter/The Soul Pitt: For promoting the PGS shoe drive on her award winning web site.

W.PA. Minority Supplier Development Council: For promoting our combined PittsburghsGotSole & Soles4Souls Haiti shoe effort to their members.

Anna Marie Gire, SW PA. Women’s Yellow Pages and Women Supporting Women Today: For promoting the PittsburghsGotSole shoe drive to your large network of women, and your shoe donations.

Suzanne Froelich, Ladies Power Lunch: For promoting the PGS shoe drive to all of the members of our great Ladies Power Lunch group.

Debra Dion Krischke, Womens Network/Paintball Community: For promoting PittsburghsGotSole with her large women’s network, the paintball community and for collecting shoes for our effort.

Penny/Ray Kearcher: For their generous shoe and monetary donation.


Diversity Business Resource Center (DBRC): Thank you to Christina Damiano and the Riverside Center for Innovation for setting up a donation site and the large number of shoes that the tenants donated.

Famous Footwear at Robinson Town Centre: For the donation of the many shoe boxes to help send our shoes to Haiti.

Renaissance Hotel: For their multiple shoe bag donations.

Hyatt Regency Hotel (Airport location): Thanks to Lauren, Emily and the entire Hyatt staff who supplied us with many donated shoes!

Daisy Troop #22011: You rock Daisy Troop #22011! Thank you so much for working so hard to help us send shoes to Haiti! If I knew how to sew, I would create a Golden Shoe Award Patch for you because you sure earned it.

Jewart’s Gymnastics School: A huge thank you to the entire staff and students at Jewarts Gymnastics School who provided us with mountains of shoes and monetary donations to assist with our shipping costs! I give you a perfect 10 for your efforts!

Oxford Athletic Center in Wexford, PA.: Thanks so much to Beth Yankel and the many Oxford members who graciously donated shoes and monetary donations to help PittsburghsGotSole and our Haiti effort.

Dunkin Donuts (Market Square location): We thank you for making our Shoe Packin Party not only fun, but delicious! Everybody loves Dunkin Donuts and Munchkins!

Starbucks (Robinson Mall location): Thank you so much for providing your very delicious and required coffee to our “shoe packers”. No doubt those boxes were much faster, thanks to you!

All of our great Pittsburgh TV/Newspaper/Radio Stations/Blog Sites: For posting our Pittsburgh Haiti shoe drive effort to your web/blog sites.

Any and ALL Pittsburghers: Who have taken the time and made the effort to donate shoes to this worthwhile cause. We may not have all of your individual names to list here, but please know we appreciate your donations to help the people of Haiti. Sure makes me proud to be a Pittsburgher!