While we pride ourselves on the great socks we make, we are more proud about contributing anyway we can to various charitable groups and to the communities around us. Every year we donate thousands of socks and dollars to national and local charities and community events. A few of the groups we work with are listed below.

The OIWC is an association of women engaged in or impassioned by the outdoors whose vision is to seek equality for, and provide power, influence, and opportunity to women in business to increase their influence and recognition and to generate champions who can serve as mentors to inspire younger women.

The OIWC conducts forums and seminars at the Outdoor Retailer Trade Show, provides a web site, an electronic newsletter, and experiential events that provide working knowledge about the practice and skills of business. In addition, the OIWC provides a hot line, trade show access, web access, on- site visits, resources on other women’s groups, and books for advice, expertise, and partners that provide perspective on success and the people who achieved it. Each year the OIWC recognizes a woman who has exhibited outstanding mentoring qualities with the Pioneering Woman Award. For more information, check out www.oiwc.org

THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION was founded in 1993 by Evelyn H. Lauder, Senior Corporate Vice President of The Estee Lauder Companies Inc., as an independent, not-for-profit 501(c) (3) organization dedicated to funding innovative clinical and genetic research. The Foundation supports scientists at leading medical centers worldwide whose research is focused on achieving prevention and a cure for breast cancer in our lifetime.

Fox River donates five percent of net profits for sales of its Fox River for Women line. In addition, every package of Fox River^® for Women^™ socks includes information for women about the importance of breast cancer early detection. For more information about The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, visit
www.bcrfcure.org

Team Survivor Northwest (TSNW) is a grassroots non-profit organization founded in 1995 that provides fitness and health education programs to enable women cancer survivors, in any stage of treatment or recovery and at any fitness level, to take an active role in her ongoing physical and emotional healing. For more information on the golf tournament or about TSNW, visit their website at
www.teamsurvivornw.org.

The Annual Cancer Survivorship Walk, benefits The Wellness Community of Greater St. Louis. Walkers participate to celebrate their own survivorship or in memory or in honor of someone special who has been touched by cancer.

The mission of The Wellness Community is to help people with cancer and their loved ones enhance health and well being by providing a professional program of emotional support, education and hope. All services are provided free of charge. For more information, visit www.wellnesscommunitystl.org.

Fox River was the official sock sponsor of world-renowned explorer Will Steger’s Arctic Transect 2004—An Educational Exploration of Nunavut expedition. Fox River provided socks for the entire Arctic Transect team as well as funding.

The team’s two-year mission is to provide authentic adventure learning through exploration and discovery, creating an awareness of global climate change and indigenous cultures of the Arctic, generate increased understanding of ecological interrelationships through a multidisciplinary curriculum giving learners a deeper understanding of their environment, and emphasize global stewardship through online learning as explorers transect the Canadian Arctic by dogsled. To find out more, visit www.polarhusky.com.

The goal of the Khumbu Climbing School (KCS) is to lower the injury and fatality rate among the climbers (Nepali) who work and climb in the high Himalaya by improving the safety techniques of the Nepali climbers. The program is based on instruction, practice, application and testing of technical climbing skills.

The inaugural school in 2004 provided instruction, practice and testing of climbing skills. The instructors were able to assess the skill level of the participants and tailor the instruction. The 2004 school was able to produce a 40 minute video in Nepali focusing on the fundamentals of belaying and rope work.

Western guides focused on presenting climbing as they were introduced to it: recreationally. The sense of enjoyment that one receives from climbing is as much of the message as the technical skills. For more information, visit
www.alexlowe.org.

During the past 10 years, Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa has funded thousands of mammograms for women living in our community. As part of their fundraising effort they hold their Walk/Run & Wag for the Cure, a chance for survivors, loved ones, and pets to get out and walk or run to raise money to fund mammograms for women in Northern Iowa.

The HERA Women's Cancer Foundation was founded by Sean Patrick, an ovarian cancer survivor and climber. HERA is designed to be a different foundation where no money is paid for salaries or overhead, enabling the Foundation to give at least 90% of the money raised directly to ovarian cancer research and to aide women and their families battling this disease. Because of the generous donations of sponsors to date, more than 90% of the money raised has gone directly to research and programs. HERA’s Climb for Life raises money for research and to bring awareness to the disease. http://ovariancancer.jhmi.edu

The Adaptive Sports Center (ASC) of Crested Butte, Colorado is a non-profit organization that provides year-round recreation activities for people with disabilities and their families. www.adaptivesports.org.

Freestyle America camps offer USSA freestyle competitors a complete schedule of training programs that focus on the technical skills and acrobatic fundamentals of freestyle skiing and freeride aerials. Freestyle America strives to provide the finest coaching at North America's best training destinations, with safety always a priority. Competency, difficulty, and high scoring competitive performances in freestyle skiing are a building block process. The focus is technical skill development, the goal is competitive success. www.freestyleamerica.com.

Each winter, the Verizon Luge Challenge gives thousands of people age 10 and up a unique opportunity to experience the thrill of Luge first-hand at popular ski resorts around the country. It's an exhilarating way to get acquainted with the fastest Winter Olympic sport in a fun, family-oriented atmosphere during peak weekend throughout the ski season. Participants are given the chance to speed down a simulated Luge track carved into a ski slope, riding plastic replicas of the real Luge ice sleds. USA Luge Olympic athletes and coaches are on-hand at each event to provide expert instructional clinics and training demonstrations. Luge Challenge provides the public an interactive setting to shake hands with past and future Luge Olympians.
www22.verizon.com/About/Community/sponsorships/usaluge/challenge

Chip in for a Cure raises money to support breast cancer research. In the last four years, the FUTURES Golf Tour, the official developmental tour of the LPGA, has supported fundraising efforts by participating in a tournament at Blue Fox Run Golf Course in Avon, CT and Pro-Am events.
http://www.cigna.com/general/about/community/futuresgolf.html

Alison Gannett, champion extreme skier, adventurer and environmentalist
www.alisongannett.com

Fox River is a proud sponsor of the WEDALI (We Eat Dust…And Like It) Adventure Racing Team. WEDALI is an up-and-comer in the world of adventure racing. Justin Bakken, Scott Lund, Paul Bronkhorst, Ellen Farseth, and Scott Erlandson (all with ties to the Midwest) make up the team and recently placed 6th in the U.S. Adventure Racing National Championship. For more information on Team WEDALI, visit www.wedali.com.

Wayne Grevey, champion professional skier

Maegan Carney, champion freestyle skier