Yellow Keen bus driving through red, mountainous desert landscape
Yellow Keen bus driving through red, mountainous desert landscape

KEEN Impact

Making a KEEN Effect Since 2003

Every KEEN boot, sandal, and sneaker you buy has a positive effect, funding organizations to protect the planet and making the outside and trades more accessible to all.
See our latest Impact Report.

Graphic of Maui outlined with red heart in the middle over yellow background
Graphic of Maui outlined with red heart in the middle over yellow background

KEEN EFFECT IN ACTION

Sending Love and Funds to Maui

Our hearts go out to those affected by the devastating wildfires in Maui. We’ve contributed $20,000 to help with relief efforts. Please join us by donating to the Maui Just Recovery Fund.

Newspaper headline that reads "Welcome to the PFC free club"

‘Forever Chemical’ Free!

We want forever shoes, not “forever chemicals." So we gave PFAS the boot.

Group of adult and child volunteers holding tools while completing trail work in a forest
Group of adult and child volunteers holding tools while completing trail work in a forest

For People

We help fund organizations making the outside and trades more accessible.

Saving Alaskan Artifacts from Climate Change
Saving Alaskan Artifacts from Climate Change
6 MIN READ
doing good for people
Comfort Meets Caring
Comfort Meets Caring
1 MIN READ
doing good for people
Hooked on a Purpose
Hooked on a Purpose
1 MIN READ
doing good for people
Chad Brown, a Black veteran fly-fisherman, and founder of Soul River Inc.
Fly Fishing While Black
6 MIN READ
doing good for people
What's the KEEN Effect?
What's the KEEN Effect?
4 MIN WATCH
doing good for people
Wild Diversity staff on a recent kayak trip
Be You. Be Wild. Be an Ally.
5 MIN READ
doing good for people
a Ukrainian child in a refugee shelter in Romania
Love to Ukraine
1 MIN READ
doing good for people
Building Strider bikes for kindergartners
Building More Than Bikes
3 MIN READ
doing good for people
Newport sandals next to a pile of trash on the beach that has been sorted by color.
Newport sandals next to a pile of trash on the beach that has been sorted by color.

For Planet

We use our resources to reduce our impact on the planet and protect key resources.

Let’s Leave No Trace!
Let’s Leave No Trace!
4 MIN READ
doing good for planet
Here for Street Dogs
Here for Street Dogs
3 MIN READ
doing good for planet
Voluntourism With Turtles
Voluntourism With Turtles
4 MIN READ
doing good for planet
What's the KEEN Effect?
What's the KEEN Effect?
4 MIN WATCH
doing good for people
A parent and child picking up litter
The Future Planet-Helpers
4 MIN READ
doing good for planet
The Tongass rainforest in Alaska
Protecting the Lungs of the Planet
3 MIN READ
doing good for planet
Friends walking and picking up trash in the city
Plalk With Us
6 MIN READ
doing good for planet
The KEEN Corps trail clean-up challenge
Happy Trails. Clean Trails.
7 MIN READ
doing good for planet
hands adding laces to a shoe that is being built on a craft table with scissors and a ruler.
hands adding laces to a shoe that is being built on a craft table with scissors and a ruler.

For Product

We find innovative ways to make our shoes that reduce our impact on the planet.

Join Us. Go PFAS Free.
Join Us. Go PFAS Free.
7 MIN READ
doing good for product
FAQ: Is KEEN’s Wool Ethically Sourced?
FAQ: Is KEEN’s Wool Ethically Sourced?
2 MIN READ
doing good for product
Detox Journey: Solving Solvents
Detox Journey: Solving Solvents
4 MIN READ
doing good for product
Sitting by a firepit in winter boots with KEEN.WARM Recycled P.E.T.
Warmth From Waste
3 MIN READ
doing good for product
Chemicals We Avoid
Chemicals We Avoid
1 MIN READ
doing good for product
A person's feet in the air
KEEN-parison: Shoes Made With Recycled Materials
4 MIN READ
doing good for product
Sneakers made with plant-based soles
Upcycling Garbage
4 MIN READ
doing good for product
Consciously Created for a Better Planet headline on an image of a shoe
How We Consciously Create
3 MIN READ
doing good for product
Magazine headline that reads "$1 million donated to indian ocean tsunami relief"

The Tsunami That Started It All

4 MIN WATCH: The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami and set our values in motion.