By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated September 27, 2023
In 2016, Brittney Griner founded BG’s Heart and Sole Shoe Drive, and this has been an annual initiative ever since.
Griner was inspired after driving home from practice, as she kept seeing homeless Arizonians living without shoes in the summer. Initially, she started by simply driving “around with shoes in her trunk in case she saw someone in need.” This idea expanded into
