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BIOBlake Mycoskie is the Founder and Chief Shoe Giver of TOMS Shoes, and the man behind the growing One for One movement. As of April 2010, TOMS has given over 1,000,000 pairs of new shoes to children in need through giving partners around the world. Mycoskie's unique vision for the future came into focus in 2006, when on vacation in Argentina he witnessed firsthand the hardships facing children growing up barefoot. He felt a need to help, and the One for One movement was born. He returned the following year with friends and family to hand-place 10,000 pairs of new shoes on children. In 2007, only a year after its beginning, TOMS Shoes was honored with the prestigious People's Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. And two years later, TOMS and Blake Mycoskie were the proud recipients of the Secretary of State's 2009 Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE), presented by Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton. |
