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- For more than a dozen years now, I’ve devoted every day to making Detroit a better place to live, work and play. As a strategic business marketing professional and business advisor, I’ve worked alongside a global entrepreneur to develop concepts and companies in the restaurant, media, retail, entertainment, homeland security and technology industries. I also helped my family start a successful company in my hometown of New York City. And, as director of marketing for an international franchise, I supported the marketing and public relations efforts of more than 500 franchise owners, then co-founded a marketing firm that helped more than 175 business owners.
Because my love for my people and of all children runs deep, I decided to apply my professional experience and business acumen to help in a broader, more meaningful capacity. Lord knows I get so tired hearing about all the problems we face and endure, when what we really need to start talking and being about is solutions.
So, three years ago, while still hard at work in and on Detroit, I started to research and write a business plan for UniTee Design. As a youth enrichment and ethnic empowerment enterprise, its primary mission is to rally Black Unity so we can find and deliver better ways to ensure our youth have more academic successes. I truly believe education is critical to improving, if not ensuring our future. And the most effective way to teach our children is together, one community, one parent and one person at a time.
I didn’t think it wise to rely on George or General Motors to give our young generation all they need to succeed, so I decided to produce and sell designer tee-shirts that represented the beautiful colors of our unity to fund leading youth education programs, and would create awareness, dialogue and, most of all, movement in my (and our) mission.
While it took a long leap of strong faith to jump from a well paying job and fruitful career, and put my own monies and my family’s well being at risk (including my beautiful newborn daughter’s), my sole goal now and every day is to improve the quality of our children by promoting and supporting their quality of life and learning.
I’m inspired to know there are a lot of people who value the urgency we all should have in improving youth education. Recently, I helped form a new non-profit organization called The Better Detroit Youth Movement, a coalition of positive-minded individuals and groups who are committed to working together to uplift the quality of life and learning for and with our city’s children.
While strides have been made, there’s still so much we can and must do. Here’s how you can learn more about The BDYM (www.betterdetroityouth.org) or UniTee Design and its programs, products and mission (www.uniteedesign.com).
I ardently believe all our children really need is all of us.
R. Lee Gordon
President / Co-Director
UniTee Design, Inc. / The Better Detroit Youth Movement
www.uniteedesign.com / www.betterdetroityouth.org
rgordon@uniteedesign.com / rgordon@betterdetroityouth.org
Toll Free: 888.OUR.RBG.TEES / Phone: 313.516.8384 / Fax: 313.342.6324
- Personal Website:
- http://www.uniteedesign.com
- Offerings (Healing, Art, etc.):
- Marketing Communications, Strategic Business Development, Youth Education Research, Advocacy and Program Development
- Goals (Personal, Planetary, etc.):
- Uplift the quality of learning and life for our children
- Important Teachers:
- All of them and you . . .
- Favorite Books:
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, The Bible, Native Son, Etc.
- Favorite Music:
- R&B, Jazz,
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