Issue 46 | March 2023
Coats & Kicks Drive
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This past December, Hudson team members worked with Airport Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (ACDBE) partner Dirty Soles Footwear Group to collect coats and shoes for families in the greater Newark, NJ area. The collection was part of Dirty Soles’ annual Coats & Kicks drive, which seeks to provide essential items to those in need during the winter season.
Dirty Soles is a Newark-based organization that offers services in footwear manufacturing (incl. sales, marketing, business development, social media and influencer marketing, educational programming and shoe design) and is Hudson’s ACDBE partner at Newark International Airport Terminal A. Hudson team members set up a collection center for the Coats & Kicks drive at the Hudson corporate office in East Rutherford, NJ throughout the month of December.
In January, several members of the Hudson team volunteered to join Dirty Soles in distributing the hundreds of items that had been collected. New and gently used coats and shoes, as well as bags of food were given out. Thanks to Dirty Soles, the Hudson team, and other community members that donated their items and time to the cause, over 300 much-needed items were handed out.
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