A new pair of shoes can give a young person the confidence to do anything, and the pride of walking in as themselves. Lace up a pair and walk with us.
A new pair of shoes is never just shoes. It is dignity, comfort, belonging, and for many of these kids the first brand new thing they have ever owned. We focus on 8th graders because of what comes next. When a student walks into high school in shoes they chose themselves, it changes how they show up. And how they show up changes everything.
Every EVOKicks event is a surprise months in the making. Here's how one comes together, from the communities we choose to the futures we help open up.
Teachers, counselors, and neighbors nominate the schools and youth programs where this would mean the most. We also partner directly with the most underserved communities in the region.
Working through their teachers, we learn each student's shoe size and their dream pair, the shoes they'd never think to ask for. The students have no idea what's coming.
We tie the reveal to a day that already counts, an 8th grade promotion, a career day, a graduation, so the memory lands where it belongs.
In front of their peers, every student is called up and handed the exact shoes they dreamed of. Speeches, cheers, a few happy tears, and the whole room lifts at once.
They hear from people who understand where they are starting from and made it anyway. And they leave with real resources: internships, mentors, scholarships, and careers they'd never pictured for themselves.
A great surprise fades. A changed sense of what is possible does not. So every event brings the people and pathways that carry a student far beyond the day itself.
Speakers who know what it is like to start where these students are share how they got here. Proof that success can have a familiar face.
Real jobs, real internships, real paths a student never knew existed, backed by partners ready to open the door and keep it open.
Scholarships and mentors who stay long after the cheering fades, so one extraordinary day becomes the turning point of a life.
You know the school. You know the students. Tell us where this belongs and we will take it from there.
Nominate now
You know what it is like to start where they are. That makes you the proof a student needs to see. Take the stage, or walk beside them after.
Become a speaker
Fund the shoes, then fund everything that comes after. Or bring your company's careers and scholarships into the room.
Give or partnerThat is our founder's invitation to every brand that believes what we believe. Put your name on a reveal, a school, or the whole program, and put your people in the room on the day it happens. Tell us what you have in mind and we will build the level around it.
Power a single reveal day. Your logo on the event, your team invited to hand out boxes, and photos and a recap you can share.
Adopt a school for the year. Naming recognition at the reveal, a volunteer day for your team, and a report on what your support set in motion.
Put your name alongside EVOKicks across every reveal, with recognition and involvement we shape together.
