The Dansko Foundation’s Long-Time Support Continues

Dansko Inc. is a designer of comfort footwear located in Jennersville, Pennsylvania. The company supports local and global charities through the Dansko Foundation, which is funded by proceeds from the Dankso web store. A long-time supporter of Wings For Success, this year the Dansko Foundation generously granted Wings $2000 in operating funding and $10,000 worth of new shoes.

Dansko donates these shoes throughout the year based on the inventory needs of Wings and the company’s product line availability. The donations include a wide range of styles and sizes, including general-purpose, nursing, and work shoes.

Many Wings clients do not have adequate footwear for interviews and the workplace. Donations from the public help to meet this need, but handling all of the sizes and styles required can be a challenge. Even more challenging is ensuring a good inventory for women entering healthcare jobs and jobs requiring a lot of time one one’s feet, such as beauty schools. Dansko’s donation will help dozens of women with the finishing touch to their work attire.

About Dansko

It began with a uniquely designed and patented Danish clog, discovered by company founders Mandy Cabot and Peter Kjellerup, in a tiny shop in Denmark in the late 1980s. This husband and wife team, then professional horse trainers, flipped over their discovery of “the perfect barn shoe” and, quite literally, put them through two years of “acid-testing.” Mandy and Peter found these shoes to be extraordinarily comfortable, virtually indestructible, and attractive enough to wear almost anywhere. They were the only shoes they ever wore. Mandy and Peter secured the exclusive rights to the stapled clog product line from Denmark, and “Dansko, Inc.” was up and running in 1991. Pairs were shared, new designs designed, new collections developed, the good word spread, and within a few short years Dansko footwear was distributed in over 3500 retail locations.