Ladies' Home Journal Employees Give a Lift to Soles4Souls

On August 27, LHJ staff members were out in force in front of New York's Madison Square Garden to collect shoes from the nearly 20,000 attending the Kellie Pickler/Taylor Swift concert. Result was the pictured overflow, and they were coupled with 500-plus shoes donated by LHJ parent Meredith Corp.'s New York employees--the same group that collected 1,600 pounds of clothing for a Family Circle campaign with Goodwill Industries (min, August 24, 2009).

Shoes beneficiary is Nashville-based Soles4Souls, a favorite cause for American Idol alumna Pickler. It began in the aftermath of the December 4 tsunami in Southeast Asia that killed an estimated 250,000 and left many more homeless.