Donate-a-Shoe program fills key need for homeless

Corporate Giving story for The Commercial Appeal.

November 14, 2008.

Jake Lawhead, president and owner of Breakaway Running, likes to keep it local, whether it’s his training for the next St. Jude Marathon or his company’s charitable contributions.

Since January 2007, the specialty running store has been accepting donated running shoes and distributing them to such charities as Idlewild Presbyterian’s “More Than a Meal” program, First Presbyterian Church’s Clothes Closet and Memphis Leadership Foundation’s “Refugee Empowerment” program … (read more)