A woven community empowered by purpose.
When you purchase a pair of shoes from Poppies with Purpose, our hope is to ignite courage and connection for you and your loved one facing a cancer diagnosis, one colorful shoe at a time.
Discover the BrandFriday October 3rd, 2025 Runway For Recovery celebrated their 19th show and the room was electric! We are celebrating their mission all month long and donating 20% of sales directly to Runway for Recovery. Join us!
For those that Love Taylor Swift, you can be part of the Orange Era while walking with a bigger purpose to support those impacted by Leaukemia and Kidney Cancer.
We love a purposeful color and each one of our shoe colors has meaning and comfort!
I created a purposefully colored shoe brand to ignite those same feelings of bravery and connection for those impacted by cancer, while donating along the way. Join us!
The steady Staple Navy Blue Shoe stands for strength for those impacted by colon cancer not only for the month of March but all year long.
Personalize your Poppies? Yes please! Add the extra love with our charms to create a personalized pep in your step.
Lets connect and do great work together. Stay updated and hear about new colors, partnerships, Poppies for Patients and more.
The Signature Pink shoe was created to mimic the original shoe that brought courage, color and connection through a breast cancer journey.
Knock Out Orange is here to bring brightness and awareness to those impacted by Kidney Cancer and Leukemia. Let's be bright, bold and brave together!
It all started with a breast cancer diagnosis and the bravery found from wearing pink shoes.
The Signature Pink Shoe® was designed to spark bravery, courage and connection for you or a loved one facing a breast cancer diagnosis. Whether you wear our shoes for your own journey, send them to a loved one as a gift of support, or to honor someone who fought a courageous cancer battle, we hope our pink shoes ignite the power to be strong and brave with every step taken.
Shoes arrive in a hand made, recycled canvas duster bag this is a bright and colorful pattern from the 1950’s, that was the original “duster” belonging to the grandmother of the founder.
Want to personalize them to make them extra special? Check out our charms and add a small detail with deeper meaning.
March is Colon Cancer awareness month.
The Staple Navy Blue Shoe was created to ignite courage, bring comfort, and be a statement of strength while creating awareness through color for Colon Cancer.
You might be wearing these to brave your own Colon Cancer journey, to support someone currently fighting or to honor a loved one who fought their own courageous battle. We are cheering you on!
We hope these shoes bring the steady strength and courage needed, every step of the way.
For up to date information on prevention and treatment, check out www.colorectalcancer.org
Our Knock Out Orange Shoe is here to be bright, and bold while sparking the strength and bravery for those impacted by Kidney Cancer and/ or Leukemia.
Like our other pink and navy purposefully colored shoes, we hope the bright orange color brings connection and support to a cancer journey, but with a daily reminder to be BOLD. You are BRAVE and you can be the BRIGHT pop pf color needed on any cancer journey.
The world will see you coming and going, and will want to know your bold story. We say “Share it!”
Don’t know their shoe size? No problem.
You can give the gift of courage and colorful connection anytime with an electronic gift card or beautifully printed hard copy in the mail.
Let us know in the notes if you’d like a physical gift card to hand deliver or an electronic version to be emailed.
Share in the power of giving Poppies!
We started donating pink Poppies in 2023 and it soon become an annual tradition, thanks to people like you.
What started with an email to friends and family asking if they’d help donate pink shoes over the holiday season, has quickly turned into a cherished bi-annual tradition.
When you choose to purchase Poppies for Patients, you contribute TWO pairs of shoes to our tote bag that we fill up and deliver to MGH and Dana Farber for patients to enjoy two times a year, December and May.
Thank you for donating and helping us bring a cheerful, bright spot to those impacted by this disease!
We love personalization.
Share some meaningful letters for initials or symbols (heart, butterfly, flower etc) that describe you or your gift-ee and we will create a charm stack trio, making your Poppies unique and one of a kind.
The right heel will have three charms stacked, giving you the extra pep in your step for anything coming your way!
LET FREEDOM RING! Freedom from cancer.
Celebrate your Americana red, white and blue in our Staple Navy Blue Shoe as we continue to bring awareness to colon cancer through our navy shoes.
Wear or share The Staple Navy Blue Shoe and bring courage, comfort, and a statement of strength while bringing the navy blue color awareness to Colon Cancer.
Did you know? March is colon cancer awareness month. Wear our Staple Navy Blue Shoe anytime and know you’re adding purpose with every step.
10% of Proceeds Pledged to Female Cancer Researchers
When you purchase a pair of shoes from Poppies with Purpose, our hope is to ignite courage and connection for you and your loved one facing a cancer diagnosis, one colorful shoe at a time.
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We donate various percentages, annually to non profits like Runway For Recovery, who’s mission is to have a direct impact on families facing a cancer diagnosis on a daily basis. Let’s walk together so we can have more thrivers, rocking their colorful shoes, telling their cancer story.
Our shoes are intended for anyone needing a colorful boost of courage and connection in their life but most importantly during their cancer journey. Cancer can rob us of many things, but it cannot take away our spirit. Why not send strength and ignite courage through solidarity with our meaningful colors to those that need it most!?
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