In the 40-foot long basement in an apartment in East Flatbush, Pheona Grant and Chanel Adams are unpacking a box of high heels from Atlanta. The two women had just received a box of shoes for The Slim Heart Campaign’s annual charity event, the Soul to Sole Shoe Drive brunch. The event collects dress shoes that The Slim Heart Campaign will clean and distribute to various prom drives and dress giveaways happening around New York City. This year, the event is being held in Bushwick at The Crisis Bar on April 7 from 12 p.m. until 5 p.m.

Adams, a producer and executive assistant at CBS Channel 2 News, founded The Slim Heart Campaign and held the first shoe drove eight years ago, along with her high school friend and the organization’s vice president, Grant, who’s a manager at an animal hospital. Adams, Grant, and their third friend Janella French-Kenton, an ACS worker, organize and run the shoe drive together in order to give back to the community.

Adams came up with the idea because she has a penchant for shoe-shopping herself. “Chanel’s the shoe-crazed of the group. I would say Chanel, then Janella, then me,” Grant said. She estimated that the first shoe drive received around 450 pairs their first year, and it has steadily increased each year.