{"id":4689,"date":"2013-06-20T19:33:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T23:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/clemsonworld\/?p=4689"},"modified":"2013-06-20T19:33:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T23:33:18","slug":"bangs-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/bangs-to-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangs\u2122 to \u2018help\u2019: Hannah C. Davis \u201909"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can help satisfy your social conscience with a pair of shoes, thanks to the efforts of Hannah Davis.<br \/>\nAs founder and president of Bangs\u2122, a retail shoe line, Davis has shown how a for-profit can partner with nonprofits to create positive change. Bangs\u2122 partners with nonprofits whose projects focus on self-reliability and empowerment through education and cultural understanding, turning away from handout methodology.<br \/>\nShe pairs each of her four different styles of shoes \u2014 each a different color \u2014 with causes that directly address world issues. Buy a blue pair of shoes and clean water initiatives are helped; red goes toward disaster relief efforts; khaki helps fight world hunger; and green shoes\u2019 proceeds fund educational projects.<br \/>\nDavis graduated with a degree in political science with a minor in Mandarin. She traveled in China for six weeks during a study abroad program and fell in love with the country. After graduation, Davis taught English for a year in Jiangsu Province.<br \/>\nInspiration for the design of Bangs\u2122 shoes was found in the olive green, army-style shoes worn by thousands of construction and field workers across China. Davis developed the ideology behind the Bangs\u2122 brand to connect people to a philosophy she was passionate about. In fact the name \u201cBangs\u201d came from the Mandarin character for the word \u201chelp,\u201d which phonetically is spelled b-a-n-g.<br \/>\nOne of the company\u2019s marketing strategies is University Outreach. Bangs\u2122 ambassadors in 20 universities in the Southeast participate to raise awareness of the social enterprise. Student Leah Esposito is the Clemson Bangs Team Leader.<br \/>\nMore about Bangs and its products is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangsshoes.com\">www.bangsshoes.com<\/a>.<br \/>\nTo hear more about Davis&#8217;s story, check out her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangsshoes.com\/pages\/story\">TED X talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can help satisfy your social conscience with a pair of shoes, thanks to the efforts of Hannah Davis. As founder and president of Bangs\u2122, a retail shoe line, Davis has shown how a for-profit can partner with nonprofits to create positive change. Bangs\u2122 partners with nonprofits whose projects focus on self-reliability and empowerment through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[2690],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumniprofiles","tag-spring-2013"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/Davis_Hannah-e1398975912435.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4689"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}