Blake Mycoskie is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded TOMS Shoes. After visiting Argentina and seeing children without shoes, suffering from blisters and infections, he was inspired to start TOMS which donates a new pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair sold. TOMS has now donated over 10 million pairs of shoes globally, achieving Mycoskie's goal of using business to continually give and help disadvantaged children.

1. Social Entrepreneur
Blake Mycoskie

2. Introduction to Blake Mycoskie
• Born August 26, 1976
• American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist
• Founder and Chief Shoe Giver of Toms Shoes

3. Blake Mycoskie
• Mycoskie was born in Arlington
• He graduated from St. Stephen's Episcopal School in Austin in 1994.
• He launched his first business, EZ Laundry

4. History and Impacts of his venture
• In 2006, Mycoskie visited Argentina and met an American woman who was
part of a volunteer organization which provided shoes for children in need
• Spent several days traveling from village to village with the group
• He saw the real effects of being shoeless: the blisters, the sores, the
infections
• He was inspired and went back to the United states

5. Shoes for Better Tomorrows
• Designed as a for-profit business which could continually give new shoes to
disadvantaged children
• Donate a new pair of shoes for every pair of shoes sold.
• Shoes For A Better Tomorrow, later shortened to TOMS
• The company had donated more than 10,000,000 pairs of shoes to people in
need.

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7. Credits and Sources
• By coneksteam (Sherman Tan, Haward Low, Ercole Mok, Evane loh, Ian
Emmanuel Yeeeeeeeeee )
• Source: https://goo.gl/6vAdyk