{"id":14771,"date":"2016-11-15T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14771"},"modified":"2016-11-14T23:56:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T04:56:48","slug":"turns-out-donating-shoes-isnt-all-that-helpful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/turns-out-donating-shoes-isnt-all-that-helpful\/","title":{"rendered":"Turns Out Donating Shoes Isn\u2019t All That Helpful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/111516_0454_TurnsOutDon1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"492\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brands like TOMS donate a pair of shoes to children in need, for every pair bought. The Economist looked at the impact this had:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While 90% of children wore the shoes, communities that received the free shoes didn&#8217;t see any increase in shoe ownership, health, or self-esteem.<\/li>\n<li>It seems that all the free shoes did was cause individuals to throw away perfectly good existing shoes.<\/li>\n<li>On the bright side the freebies didn&#8217;t hurt the local shoe retailing industry, as some would have expected.<\/li>\n<li>But critics who believe that aid fosters dependency were given some ammunition. Those who received free shoes were more likely to believe that others should provide for their family.<\/li>\n<li>TOMS, the company that deserves acclaim for funding the impartial study, is responding to the findings by requiring children to contribute to community building projects in return for the shoes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the study and its findings at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/finance-and-economics\/21709563-new-studies-should-cool-warm-glow-surrounding-shoe-donations-free-two-shoes?frsc=dg%7Ce\">The Economist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brands like TOMS donate a pair of shoes to children in need, for every pair bought. The Economist looked at the impact this had: While 90% of children wore the shoes, communities that received the free shoes didn&#8217;t see any increase in shoe ownership, health, or self-esteem. It seems that all the free shoes did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/111516_0454_TurnsOutDon1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14771"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14774,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771\/revisions\/14774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}