{"id":9535,"date":"2012-07-13T16:31:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T16:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=9535"},"modified":"2012-07-13T16:31:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T16:31:14","slug":"young-alums-san-antonio-boutique-serving-through-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2012\/07\/young-alums-san-antonio-boutique-serving-through-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Young alum’s San Antonio boutique serving through sales"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EvolveOn the surface, northern San Antonio’s\u00a0Evolve<\/a>\u00a0boutique may look like just another trendy clothing store. Its owner admits that Evolve is a “girly store,” featuring fashions that follow the latest trends. But a closer look finds there’s something more beneath the surface<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Founder Victoria Santoscoy, BBA ’09, sells apparel and accessories following the fair trade model she learned about at Baylor. As a business major,\u00a0Santoscoy took a course called “Poverty in Waco” from Dr. Jimmy Dorrell, BA ’72, MA ’93, that taught about the idea of fair trade — typically, using business to help impoverished people improve their standard of living by providing a market in which they can sell their products at a fair price.<\/p>\n

Evolve’s merchandise comes from all over the world, including from people in Africa and the Far East as well as local San Antonio residents. Santoscoy told NSIDE San Antonio<\/a><\/em> that she envisions the store as one\u00a0“that could be a part of the community \u2013 a place you would gladly call a neighbor,” and she takes pride in being able to use her gifts and her degree to give back.<\/p>\n

Sic\u00a0\u2019em, Victoria!<\/p>\n

You might also like:<\/strong><\/em>
\n*\u00a0\u2018Sales for Social Impact\u2019 class teaches students how to use business to benefit impoverished communities<\/a>\u00a0(June 2012)<\/em>
\n*\u00a0Alum\u2019s textbook company promises to give a book to a child in need for every book sold<\/a>\u00a0(Feb. 2011)<\/em>
\n*\u00a0Young grad\u2019s company uses water bottle sales to provide water for those in need<\/a>\u00a0(Nov. 2009)<\/em>
\n*\u00a0Young alum\u2019s fashion industry connections to help impoverished women<\/a>\u00a0(June 2009)<\/em><\/p>\n

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On the surface, northern San Antonio’s\u00a0Evolve\u00a0boutique may look like just another trendy clothing store. Its owner admits that Evolve is a “girly store,” featuring fashions that follow the latest trends. But a closer look finds there’s something more beneath the surface. Founder Victoria Santoscoy, BBA ’09, sells apparel and accessories following the fair trade model […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}