(Birmingham, Mich) – Featuring the designs of world-renowned designer Jeff Garner of Prophetik, The Uptown Group (TUG) will host the “Green Breeze Fashion Show for Land Conservation” – showing going green not only helps our environment but it’s fashionable too. The unique green fashion show is Saturday, July 24 (Doors open 7 p.m. /Show at 8 p.m.) at the Royal Oak Music Theatre. Proceeds from the event benefit The Greening of Detroit and The Community House.

“The Green Breeze Fashion Show for Land Conservation” will bring the distinctive, all-sustainable fashion lifestyle line of Jeff Garner of Prophetik to the runway for the evening. Organized by TUG (The Uptown Group) – a collection of young professionals dedicated to making a difference in Southeastern Michigan through fun and innovative social events, cultural programs and community outreach – the evening will offer guests an evening of fashion, on-site vendors, food and music.

Celebrities who support the green movement have also been invited to the event. Celebrity guests already scheduled to attend the event, include actor Thomas Ian Nicholas of “American Pie,” “Rookie of the Year,” and “The Chicago 8,” as well as Alexandra Rush, a Michigan native who has appeared in GQ Magazine, “Sex and the City 2,” “Celebrity Apprentice,” and “Real World Brooklyn.” Local rockers Catfish Mafia add their amazing rock and roll grass music as the featured artists during the show and StyleLine editor Karen Buscemi will serve as emcee at the beginning of the show.

“TUG is excited to be working with Jeff Garner not only for his commitment to eco-friendly fashion, but also because he has a passion for teaching and educating children about living an environmentally-conscious way of life while growing the connectedness of people, resources and organizations around the world,” said Sarah Szirtes, chair of the Green Breeze Fashion Show. “We are also very excited and thankful to have such wonderful sponsors working with us on the event, including Mijo-a’ Beauty Studio, Figo Salon, Whole Foods Market, Kashi, Arbonne, Shaklee, Center for Yoga, StyleLine, Media Genesis, Premier Pet Supply, Achatz Handmade Pies, City Style, B’drizzled Gourmet Popcorn, Butzel Long, The Cupcake Station, Michigan Green Safe Products, The Inn at Black Star Farms, The Townsend Hotel, Envo Water, Eco Posh Events, Rock Out Entertainment, Clark Hill PLC, and Healthcall of Detroit.”

Prophetik is focused on environmentally friendly materials including organic cottons, hemp, flax, Greenspun (recycled bottles) and organic pigment dyed, GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) certified fabrics. The label has been part of London Fashion Week’s Esthethica for the past several seasons, and the line not only focuses on sustainability with fabrics and production, but also in the heart of giving, raising funds and awareness for a select charity each season.

Tickets ($100 VIP – includes runway seating, VIP gift bag & 2 drinks; GA seating – $25 & $50; GA Student & Balcony seating – $15) for “The Green Breeze Fashion Show for Land Conservation” are now on sale and may be purchased at the Royal Oak Music Theatre box office or on-line at www.theuptowngroup.org , www.tickets.com, Center for Yoga (Birmingham, West Bloomfield, Ann Arbor), Figo Salon (Birmingham), and Mijo-a’ Beauty Studio (Rochester Hills).

Student tickets can only be purchased at the Royal Oak Music Theatre box office and students must present ID upon purchase. All ticket proceeds will benefit The Greening of Detroit and The Community House. A portion of ticket purchases are tax-deductible (to the extent covered by law). Doors open at 7 p.m. For more information on The Green Breeze Fashion Show for Land Conservation, email greenbreeze@mediag.com.

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“We have always found Chicago to be a great market and have wanted to expand there for some time,” said Media Genesis CEO Brad Frederick. “We are extremely excited about the opportunities in terms of reach and growth a second office can bring to the company.”

And Chicago isn’t the only place Media Genesis has stretched its geographical horizons to. Recently, Media Genesis has taken on a project in Texas for the Fort Worth Housing Commission, traveling to do a photo shoot in Colorado for BSST, provided an analysis and website design for Dana Holding Company in Ohio, and developed a website for the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania using Microsoft SharePoint.

“The stability of Media Genesis has always been based on our diversification of project type, client size and industry, and now through expansion of our geographic presence and reach.” Frederick said.

Media Genesis specializes in services ranging from consulting, interactive multimedia, audio/video, application development, E-learning, online promotion, and hosting.

For more information about our new Chicago office please call 312.985.6375, or visit www.mediaG.com.

Students were able to listen to several speakers on the topics of leadership and technology. Dubeauclard’s session was titled, Finding your Path and Musings on Technology and Marketing.

The goal of the conference was for students to gain knowledge and skills that are applicable in the workplace. Students were also able to network with peers, faculty, staff and community members, and participate in a team-building challenge course.

Other speakers present at the conference included:

• Christine Platz: Senior Consultant, Ernst and Young
• Naimah N. Wade: Wayne State Executive Development Center
• Ryan Hertz: Executive Director, Pontiac Hope Hospitality & Warming Center
• Debra Dansby: Senior Vice-president and COO, MEDC
• Kenneth Rogers: Executive Director, Automation Alley
• Bryan K. Barnett: Mayor, Rochester Hills
• Phil Bertolini: CIO, Oakland County
• Dara Munson: President and CEO, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit
• Kevin Schnieders: CEO and President, Educational Data Systems, Inc.
• Charlie Wollborg: Founding Partner, Curve Detroit

Media Genesis is one of the largest and oldest independent web development companies in Michigan, specializing in services ranging from consulting, interactive multimedia, audio/video, application development, E-learning, online promotion, and hosting. For more information, visit www.mediaG.com.

The Center for the Study of Citizenship was created about nine years ago to pursue the study of citizenship through an international and multidisciplinary approach. The center promotes citizenship in order to develop more engaged and knowledgeable citizens.

As an executive board member, Dubeauclard is tasked with acting as an advisor to the director in regards to providing financial support and management, strategic planning, program development and recruitment of mission relevant speakers, national and international promotion, and advocacy. The center chose Dubeauclard to become part of the executive board because of his enthusiasm and vision on the topic of citizenship.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Ability to support the CSC goal to promote interdisciplinary research and intellectual exchange about citizenship within a global community of scholars; students; political, community and business leaders; and the general public
• Ability to provide specialized skills and advice in areas such as legal, financial and/or public relations
• Seat on one of the three subcommittees; Fundraising, Marketing and Public Relations, or Strategic Planning
• Capability of providing strategic advice to the CSC, and assisting it in adjusting programs to new conditions and opportunities
• Willingness to serve as an advocate and representative of the CSC in the community, and to represent citizenship communities to the CSC

At Media Genesis, Dubeauclard’s role includes oversight of sales, creative departments and strategic partnerships. He often writes and speaks on Internet-related subjects and is a member of several academic and corporate boards. He also has three citizenships; France, Canada and the United States.

The CSC executive board is comprised of people in business, academia, research, medical, law, etc.
Some other executive board members include:

• M. Safwan Badr:  Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Detroit Medical Center
• Amy B. Bloom: Social Studies Consultant, Oakland County School District
• Mark Goldsmith: Judge, Oakland County 6th Circuit Court
• Juliette Thorpe Okotie-Eboh: Senior Vice President of Public Affairs for MGM Grand Detroit
• Robert O’Neil:  Distinguished Professor, University of Virginia Law School, Director, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression
• Richard L. McCormic: President, Rutgers University
• Hon. Fred M. Mester: Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit Court of Michigan

Since its conception in 1968, Focus: Hope has constantly worked to bridge the racial divide in southeast Michigan through their Commodity Supplemental Food Program, career training program and the HOPE Village Initiative, which supports the academic achievement of children living in Detroit neighborhoods.

Focus: Hope diagnosed some key items needed in a new website. Aside from having a more modern-looking and contemporary site, it was important that the site relied on a new architecture to deliver relevant content to their many varied, but each important, audiences.

Ability to add content frequently (and quickly) was deemed a necessity, so Media Genesis built a .NET based custom content management system (CMS). Outreach to donors and potential donors is of utmost importance, so Media Genesis customized their third party donation system so donors no longer have to leave the site to make a donation.

Other specific highlights include a dynamic news/volunteer/video section, unique front page content, and a group of stylistically tied, but graphically different interior pages.

Media Genesis is one of the largest and oldest independent web development companies in Michigan, specializing in services ranging from consulting, interactive multimedia, audio/video, application development, E-learning, online promotion, and hosting. For more information, visit www.mediaG.com.

The Detroit Residential Parcel Survey, www.DetroitParcelSurvey.org, was a response to the urgent need for data on Detroit’s residencies, their structure, condition and vacancy, to report to and empower neighborhood stabilization activities.  Fifty University of Michigan students and Detroit residents worked in three-person teams to rate the condition of individual residential parcels on each Detroit street.

Media Genesis worked with the Detroit Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Response (FPR), Data Driven Detroit (D3), and Community and Legal Resources (CLR) to create a web-based data display interface for the retrieval of the Detroit Residential Parcel Survey results.   Media Genesis designed and built the website, and developed the search functionality allowing users to easily learn about their neighborhood’s and city’s housing conditions.

www.DetroitParcelSurvey.org allows for wide-reaching access to a landmark survey of Detroit’s residential property, one that provides government officials, community organizations and individuals unprecedented access to the City of Detroit’s residential statistics.

Media Genesis is continuing to combine efforts with Data Driven Detroit to create an increasingly engaging and informative website, working to provide additional types of reports and detailed visualizations of the survey data. New functionality will include more extensive search capabilities as well as result-based graph generation.

Media Genesis is one of the largest and oldest independent Web development companies in Michigan, specializing in services ranging from consulting, interactive multimedia, audio/video, application development, E-learning, online promotion, and hosting. For more information, visit www.mediaG.com.

One D is part of a regional, civic initiative that launched in November 2006 to support progress in Southeast Michigan. It is lead by Edsel B. Ford II and CEO’s of eight organizations – Detroit Renaissance, Detroit Regional Chamber, New Detroit–The Coalition, Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau, United Way for Southeastern Michigan, Metropolitan Affairs Coalition, Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, and Cultural Alliance of Southeastern Michigan.
Nowadays, One D is working to feature nonprofit organizations and their ongoing efforts to change the Southeast Michigan region. Featuring over 200 programs on OneD.org, there’s several organizations supporting indicators including Quality of Life, Race Relations, Economic Prosperity, Regional Transit and Educational Preparedness.

The OneDScorecard.org is one initiative that is undergoing an overhaul to feature a relevant and statistical, objective view of the region as it compares to other Metropolitan areas, including Washington DC, New York, Chicago, Seattle and other large cities.

Visit OneD.org and OneDScorecard.org.

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Media Genesis recently built a new home for the Detroit Housing Commission. Unlike the great work the DHC does every day, this home is online.

The Detroit Housing Commission is a government-created organization in Detroit working to assist Detroiters in finding affordable, quality housing. The DHC selected Media Genesis to update an aging web presence as part of a larger organization-wide push.

The new DHC site features a new clean and modern design. Other features include:

• A section that displays the properties available from the DHC.
• The site checks the eligibility of potential public housing applicants.
• The property pages update the waitlist status for individual properties.
• An online bid module provides extra functionality online.
• The entire site is manageable on a custom-built CMS.

Media Genesis also worked with the DHC to create a site-wide security plan that protects users’ information when they use this site.

The result is a website with which the DHC can better serve citizens in the area and grow as an organization while the city continues its recovery.

DETROIT – For many, the idea of foreclosure is overwhelming, embarrassing and frustrating, yet it is becoming a reality for thousands of families across the country.

But now, there is a trustworthy community resource to help homeowners through this process. www.ForeclosureDetroit.org is a tool to help people learn the facts, realize they are not alone, and most importantly take action.

The Detroit Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Response (FPR), an initiative of the Detroit Economic Growth Association, developed the web site to help families stay in their homes and avoid becoming the victim of mortgage rescue scams.

“The biggest impediment to people losing their homes is that they don’t take action,” said Diane McCloskey, FPR director of communication and community initiatives. “Less than 40 percent of people facing foreclosure take action. We want this web site to be a catalyst for action and to enforce that wherever you are in the foreclosure process, it is never too late to be informed and learn about your options.”

www.ForeclosureDetroit.org includes:

• A resource center for finding free foreclosure prevention counselors and links to lender and servicer contacts
• An interactive module on the homepage that helps consumers find resources at different stages of the foreclosure process
• Important information about how to avoid mortgage rescue scams

The Detroit Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Response is an independent public/private model that is a clearinghouse to share tools, resources and recommendations to leverage and enhance the work of partners throughout the City of Detroit to reduce the effects of the foreclosure crisis on families and neighborhoods.

Media Genesis designed, programmed, and created the logo/branding for the ForeclosureDetroit.org website. MedigG also developed a content management system for the nonprofit so they could easy update the content and images on their site.

The Power of Peace Network (PPN) is a recently launched Web site, www.ThePowerofPeaceNetwork.com, that hopes make this communication a reality. The site utilizes modern technology to share locally produced stories and media in pursuit of peace.

The Power of Peace Network Web site is supported by The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and acts as a portal for people to interact with peace-related issues in their local area and also learn about what other countries are facing.

At www.ThePowerofPeaceNetwork.com users can:

• View discussions around the world via the interactive map on the homepage.
• Create a profile and start connecting with people who share similar interests about peace related topics.
• Start a blog about issues that concerns them.
• Upload files like presentations, articles and YouTube links to a profile or groups.
• Visit WikiPeace to view or edit a list of peace related organizations and videos.

The Web site was created by Media Genesis, a Troy Internet solutions company.

Visit www.ThePowerofPeaceNetwork.com and register today. For more information, please email powerofpeace@mediaG.com.

UNESCO is an agency of the United Nations that was founded in 1945 to promote international co-operation among its Member States and Associate Members in the fields of education, science, culture and communication.

Media Genesis is one of the largest independent internet solutions companies in Michigan, offering a host of services from web sites, to e-learning, to online marketing. For more information, please visit www.mediaG.com.