Evening of Hope at Easton Town Center

For the sixth year, ZenGenius had the pleasure of assisting Nationwide Children’s Hospital Foundation in producing “Evening of Hope” benefiting the Center for Child and Family Advocacy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

The Center for Child and Family Advocacy (CCFA) is a unique and first-of-it’s-kind organization that is serving as a National model. CCFA serves kids and families that have experienced sexual abuse. CCFA is a one-stop-shop for treatment, counseling, investigation and prosecution of sexual and violent crimes against children. It's the first, but CCFA partners everyday with organizations around the country to set up similar programs. It's truly a jewel in Columbus's crown. We are honored to support their critical works!

“Evening of Hope” is held at Bon Vie at Easton Town Center. We work with S&G Tent Rental to install a one-of-a-kind 3,000 sq. ft. modular tent on the patio and street in front of the restaurant. LIVE! Technologies provides A/V services and excellent sound for the band. This year, we were entertained by the body-moving sounds of Conspiracy, who truly rocked the house (tent)!

Guests dined on awesome nibbles from Bon Vie, including a beautiful raw bar by Paul Ahrens of Precise Ice. Please stay tuned for another update with pictures from the event. Again, we would like to thank everyone that makes this evening such a rousing success including event co-chairs, Rachel and Scott Friedman, Brooke and Brendan O’Neill, and Sarah Windels Ziegler. Without their efforts to promote the event, “Evening of Hope” would not be such a hit!

“Evening of Hope” is produced in conjunction with Abigail and Leslie Wexner with the generous support of Premier Sponsor Grange Insurance and Presenting Sponsors Easton Community Foundation and Bravo Development, Inc. With the support of Time Warner Cable.

Happy Earth Day

Zen Genius celebrates Earth day 365 days a year.
We try our best to live a green lifestyle at our office by recycling our paper, ink cartridges and magazines. You can find us emailing each other often to cut down on paper consumption. We scheme up creative ways to keep items out of land fills. For instance, we recently found ourselves sitting on thousands of used votive holders with wax still crusted inside them. Instead of throwing them all away we asked our gurus to step forward and help us clean them. Now we have gleaming votives for years and years to come.
We are also proud to have completed our application for Columbus GreenSpot, a local effort encouraging individuals and companies to create a more sustainable city.
This month we even had one of our visual gurus, Tim Levan, create a green scape at the front window in our office building. Repurposing items found in our storage space Tim truelly turned trash into treasure.
They are little steps but it's the little things that count! What little steps are you taking?

Are we having fun yet?

Of course we are having fun! That's one of our favorite things about our unique and passionate team at ZenGenius. We enjoy having fun, bonding and growing together as a team.

One of the unique ways we work to improve our team synergy and purpose is by working with a Business Coach. We choose Victoria Vetere from Enlightened Life Coaching to work with us throughout the year to focus on improving communication, collaboration and defining and focusing on our goals. This has been a new experience for us all and a great chance to grow.

Victoria lead us through a workshop at the creative SPARK space in Downtown Columbus. What a wonderful space to explore our goals and have fun at the same time. Yes, this is work.

We took some time to focus our intentions, define our goals and express our individual and team goals. In the end we came out with a clearly focused set of objectives that everyone believed in.

We also had a chance to feed our faces and load up on all of the snacks and candy we wanted.

Working with Victoria has been a great experience. Not only has it been fun but it has also been a great reminder to balance our lives and remember we are here for a purpose. Remembering
to balance our work and travel with moments to allow the inspiration to find us as well.
Our clients often tell us we bring a sense of calm and reassurance to all of our projects.
That's certainly a wonderful compliment and our goal is to help our clients sleep better at night knowing that we are here to help and can accomplish miracles. We are a creative rock!

PROUDLY INTWITTERING THE "ZG FLY GIRLS"

"Yes, we are sexy. But, we are not just pretty, plastic or fancy fiberglass girls.
We care deeply about our environment and the world around us."

ZenGenius is proud to intwitter the ZG Fly Girls. These
gorgeous Patina mannequins will be the new hosts and
spokesmodels for the ZenGenius Twitter site.
The ZG Fly Girls were selected from a range of mannequins, forms and other inanimate
but highly sophisticated freeze models and objects that turned out for the auditions.
The ZG Fly Girls were selected for their natural beauty, passion for fashion, pop culture and their whole hearted intention to use their new found voices to help improve our planet.
"It's not just to help all of the millions of mannequins and abstract forms that are out there,
it's to help all of the other dolls, appliances, furniture, toys, plants, animals and even the people that co-exist together. We believe if we everyone continues talking about and believing in changing the way we do things we can improve the way we ultimately function and live together on the Earth and within our vast Universe" stated Sophia, the wisest Fly Girl.
You can follow the ZG FlyGirls at http://twitter.com/zengenius

"Essentially we are pleased that mannequins are finally finding a voice and getting some credit. We have nothing against the Old Navy mannequins that are receiving all of the press as of late. We just feel that if you are going to use the power to communicate you should focus on working to make the world better and educate the people that do not get it. Yes, we are hotter than the Old Navy mannequins. And they may have won the popularity contest and have a larger audience and all. But we are still Fly!" added Envia, the slightly bitter and jealous fly girl.

The ZG Fly Girls are classic Patina mannequins from one of the worlds greatest manufacturers of fashion mannequins, forms and decoratives. Check them out:
http://www.patinav.com/

Mannequins across the world are doing their part to speak up. New mannequins are being introduced made from new materials and packed and shipped with eco-friendly materials.
Mannequins made from Soy Beans?
http://grenekersolutions.com/green.cfm



Lightweight, affordable and recyclable mannequins made in the USA from!
http://www.ozmannequins.com/

Want to learn more about mannequins? Visit the VM+SD website and do a search on Mannequins. You'll discover hundreds of articles and vendors!
http://vmsd.com/search/node/mannequins

Homeless mannequins? Yes, this is a growing concern. There are thousands of homeless and miscared for mannequins all across the world. Although mannequins have ended up in the landfills for centuries that is no longer an option. Mannequins have often been bruttally compacted, shredded and even tossed and left in dumpsters. This madness has to end. This is an easy solution to keep another substantial item from filling our landfills.
If you know of a homeless, abused or orphaned mannequin looking for a home. Drop us a note or send us a picture to: info@zengenius.com or call (614) 220-9040.

Don't forget to follow the ZG Fly Girls! Twitter.com/zengenius