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Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS Shoes.

TOMS Shoes rethinks its ‘buy one, give one’ model of helping the needy

Development & Education

TOMS Shoes was one of the first to pioneer the “guilt-free” consumption model. When you buy a pair of TOMS shoes, the California-based company will give a pair to a child in need. Aid watchers criticized this “band-aid” effort to fight poverty. Now TOMS is changing its style a bit.

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