


The Fashion Footwear Charitable Foundation
powers Shoes for a Cure, the largest fundraising event of the footwear industry, and has raised $65 MILLION over the past 31 years for groundbreaking first-step breast cancer research.
OUR MISSION
The Fashion Footwear Charitable Foundation (FFCF) is a non-profit working to transform the shoe industry's donations of footwear into dollars that fund groundbreaking first-step breast cancer research at leading organizations in the U.S. Shoes for a Cure is the largest fundraising event of the footwear industry, raising $65 million over the past 31 years for this important cause. All donations are tax-deductible and benefit Breast Cancer Research.
BENEFICIARY HOSPITALS
The following institutes have received funding from the Fashion Footwear Charitable Foundation to further first-step breast cancer research.










BOARD OF DIRECTORS

SANDI MINES
President & Chair, FFCF
President, FFANY
VP, Corporate Engagement, FDRA

SARAH LUBAS
Vice Chair, FFCF
VP, Wholesale & Retail Concessions, Burberry

SUSAN ITZKOWITZ
President
Marc Fisher
Footwear

JOHN HERON
President, Børn
Berkshire Hathaway Shoe Holdings

JILL HATTON
Head of Business
Development, Sales

FARYL GILSTON
Founder
& CEO
Faryl Robin

MATT PRIEST
President
& CEO
FDRA

BRENDA CHRISTMON
Sr. Director, Brand Communications
Rack Room Shoes

CARRIE RUBIN
President,
North America
Pentland

KATHY FORSTADT
Director of Sales
Merrell

SANDRA COLON
Head of
Sales
Birkenstock

EMILY ROCKEFELLER
Breast Cancer Advocate, Philanthropist

NABIL ALIFFI
former Chief Brand
Officer
Neiman Marcus

JESSICA ADLER
Vice President of Sales
Merrell
450 Lexington Ave, 4th floor
New York, NY 10017
The Fashion Footwear Charitable Foundation of New York Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization, with an IRS ruling year of 2001. Donations are tax-deductible.
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