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Impact100 Louisville 2022 Annual Grant Awards
Local nonprofit organizations receive $450,000 

 Louisville, KY — On November 3, 2022, the Louisville chapter of Impact100 granted 7 local nonprofit organizations grants totaling $450,000. Impact100 Louisville voted on Thursday night during their first in-person event to award grants to these nonprofits:

$100,000 – Educational Justice

$100,000 – The Louisville Leopard Percussionists

$100,000 – Hildegard House

$100,000 – Smoketown Family Wellness Center

$16,666 – Uniting Partners for Women and Children

$16,666 – Blackacre Conservancy

$16,000 – I Would Rather Be Reading

The Impact100 membership model is unique but effective. At least 100 women, donate $1,000 to create a $100,000 impact grant. Each member was able to hear a 3-minute presentation from each of the nonprofits. After the presentations, members use their electronic devices to vote on their top 4 nonprofit organizations. An independent CPA firm collected and tallied the votes to decide the grant recipients. These grants were awarded in five focus areas: Arts and Culture; Education; Environment, Recreation, or Preservation; Family; and Health and Wellness.

The Louisville Leopard Percussionists: Suite of Instruments
Arts and Culture
With the suite of instruments funded by this grant, we can double the number of children we serve each year and introduce a new academic program, Leopard Learners.  

 Educational Justice: Mentors to Bridge the Gap of Educational Equity
Education
The Educational Justice Advocate Program provides free tutoring to under-resourced youth and engages high-achieving high school students as tutors and mentors to bridge the gap of educational inequity.

 I Would Rather Be Reading: Mindful Literacy Expansion
Education
With Mindful Literacy, a standards-aligned curriculum for literacy and social-emotional learning, students gain confidence and improve their attendance, academics, and graduation rates.

 Blackacre Conservancy: Restroom Expansion and Sunset Trail Improvements
Environmental, Preservation, or Recreation
The installation of restroom facilities and improvement of the Sunset Trail will make Blackacre more accessible for the Louisville community to enjoy.

 Smoketown Family Wellness Center: Hiring a Community Healthcare Worker
Family
Community healthcare workers improve health beyond a doctor’s visit, building trust and connecting families to resources.

Hildegard House: Expansion Project
Health and Wellness
A meaningful life and a peaceful, dignified death for at least 68 more people per year.

Uniting Partners for Women and Children: Staffing Development and Hiring Development Director
Health and Wellness
Increased staffing will provide additional programming support, and an increased donor base will secure the organization’s future.

For more information or to speak with a member of the Impact100 Louisville board please contact info@impact100louisville.org or visit www.impact100louisville.org

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Full-Service Marketing Agency Mediaura Acquires ONYX Design

Deal Expands Mediaura’s Team, E-Commerce Capabilities

JEFFERSONVILLE, Indiana, Nov. 3, 2022 – Mediaura announced today that the full-service digital marketing agency based in Jeffersonville, Indiana, has completed its acquisition of e-commerce web developer and designer ONYX Design of Los Angeles, California.

“Through uniting Mediaura and ONYX Design, we are excited to enhance our existing e-commerce offerings and add highly skilled professionals to our team,” said Andrew Aebersold, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Mediaura. “We are also thrilled to now be able to offer in-house marketing expertise to our new clients.”

With Mediaura’s retention of ONYX Design’s employees and clients, Mediaura is set to expand by 20%, further establishing itself as a digital marketing leader in the health care, food and beverage, and e-commerce industries.

Since 2003, Mediaura has helped businesses cultivate their online presence by creating authentic brands, building beautiful websites and apps, and boosting their business via digital marketing. ONYX Design specializes in the building and maintenance of e-commerce sites, including those that utilize Shopify and WooCommerce.

Over the past two years, Mediaura has worked with ONYX Design as a partner agency. With this acquisition, Mediaura is now assuming the contracts for ONYX Design’s portfolio of elite e-commerce clients, who are based across the United States and in Canada.

“Mediaura and ONYX have had a great business relationship for years. From our first meeting, it was apparent that the Mediaura team was exceedingly capable and diligent. I am very excited about ONYX joining Mediaura, because this is an amazing growth opportunity for our clients, our team, and both companies,” said Ray Sarno, founder and CEO of ONYX Design

Mediaura is retaining ONYX’s full-time employees, bringing Mediaura’s employee total to 22.

About Mediaura

Mediaura is a full-service digital marketing agency founded in Louisville, Kentucky, and now headquartered in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Since 2003, Mediaura has helped businesses cultivate their online presence by creating authentic brands, building beautiful websites and apps, and boosting their business via social media, search engine optimization, content marketing, and B2B lead generation. Mediaura represents clients across a wide range of industries, with a particular focus on those specializing in health care, food and beverage, and e-commerce.

About ONYX Design

ONYX Design is an elite web design and development firm based in Los Angeles, California, that services ambitious e-commerce brands. ONYX provides a wide range of services to clients and agencies, including building, improving, maintaining, migrating, and optimizing e-commerce websites.

MEDIA RELEASE: OCTOBER 26, 2022

City celebrates end of $20.9-million Jeff Digs project

Jeffersonville, Ind. – Mayor Mike Moore joined city officials and project leaders to celebrate the completion of the Jeff Digs project on Wednesday.

Jeff Digs is the City of Jeffersonville’s largest public infrastructure project to date. The purpose was to correct downtown Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) issues, decades in the making.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPO) required the city to control the overflows to the Ohio River.

“Investing in our sewers today will position us for even more growth tomorrow,” Mayor Mike Moore said, “We knew this would not come without its headaches, but the Jeff Digs project was just what the city needed to meet the terms of the federal mandate and improve overall downtown flooding.”

In February 2021, work began at the intersection of 8th and Ohio. The project route was approximately a mile and a half.  It made its way to Wall Street through Spring and 7th and then south on Wall Street along Chestnut and then continued east on Chestnut to Graham. At times digging reached as deep as 25 feet.

The project was completed on October 10, 2022, and totaled $20.9 million.

“We completed this project without raising sewer rates and we did it for millions of dollars less than what was first talked about,” Moore said. “Everyone in Jeffersonville wins.”

The City of Jeffersonville launched the jeffdigs.net site to keep the community and residents living in the area up to date. Text alerts were sent out on a weekly basis with road closures and updates. Public meetings were held and city officials were available for questions and comments.

The project was intended to efficiently revitalize the city’s wastewater infrastructure and protect local waterways in the growing Jeffersonville community for the next 75 years.

The City is now in compliance with EPA with controlling CSOs.

Many key players helped successfully pull this off on time. The City would like to thank Utility Director Len Ashack, City Engineer Andy Crouch, Jacobi, Toombs & Lanz, Mac Construction, and numerous contractors involved.

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MORE INFORMATION: (502) 295-3738

PROJECT BACKGROUND

The first sewers were constructed in Jeffersonville in approximately 1900. As was common practice at the time, these sewers were built as combined sewers, a sewer system that carries both wastewater and stormwater in the same pipe.

As is typical in many CSO communities, Jeffersonville’s combined sewers are located primarily in the older, downtown area of the city, with approximately 989 acres spanning from Main Street west to the city’s corporate limits with the Town of Clarksville being served by combined sewers.

Fast forward to today, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has required the City of Jeffersonville to control the sewer overflows to the Ohio River and the Jeff Digs project did just that.

In August 2009, the Jeffersonville Sanitary Sewer Board ratified a Consent Decree with the EPA, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM). The Consent Decree was accepted by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana in November 2009.

The Consent Decree is a federally enforceable, legally binding agreement that resolves alleged violations of the Clean Water Act for untreated overflows from Jeffersonville’s combined sewer system.

IU Southeast welcomes community to IUS Fest on October 29

NEW ALBANY, Ind. (Oct.19, 2022) – Indiana University Southeast is opening its campus to alumni and families throughout the region for IUS Fest on Saturday, October 29, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The new event is a mixture of homecoming and fall festival, two time-honored traditions where the campus welcomes back alumni and engages students in celebrating all that is IU Southeast.

Activities will include trunk-or-treat, touch-a-truck, pumpkin painting, carnival games, spooky science experiments for the kids, animal encounters, food trucks, an alumni beer garden and much more.  There is no charge for admission and there will be free food trucks while supplies last.

At noon, celebrate senior day with the IU Southeast Grenadier Volleyball team as they take on Brescia University in the Activities Building. Across the campus will be a cornhole tournament; registration for the event is at 11:00, followed by the competition at noon.

“We are excited to welcome back our alumni and invite families from our community to celebrate fall at IU Southeast,” said Joe Glover, interim vice chancellor of advancement, alumni and external affairs. “We thank our sponsors for helping make this event possible and hope to see as many people as possible from the area showing their IU pride and come celebrate the best of the season.”

For a complete roster of events and to download and print a map of the schedule and locations for the events, go to www.ius.edu/ius-fest. Maps and food vouchers will be available on the day of the event at the information booth, located on Southern Drive, in front of the Activities Center on the south end of the campus.

Sponsors of the event include the Indiana University Alumni Association Kentuckiana Region, Clark Memorial Hospital, Libs Paving Company, and Duke Energy.

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About IU Southeast:  IU Southeast is one of seven campuses of Indiana University. Offering more than 130 degree programs and concentrations, the scenic 180-acre campus is located less than 15 minutes from downtown Louisville, Kentucky. It currently has an enrollment of more than 4,000 students and employs more than 400 faculty members. About 400 students now live on campus in five fully furnished, lodge-style residence halls. Through an agreement with the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Indiana University Southeast offers in-state tuition to students enrolled from eight counties in the Louisville region. For more information, visit www.ius.edu. IU Southeast is a tobacco-free campus.

The theme for our 2022 celebration will be “80 Years of Women in the Military”

CLARKSVILLE, IN (October 17, 2022) – Female Veterans will be the focus of the Town of Clarksville’s annual Celebration of Veterans on Sunday, November 6^th.  The event will be held from 2:00-3:00 pm at the Veterans Place Memorial located behind Town Hall.

The theme for our 2022 celebration will be “80 Years of Women in the Military,” and will feature a nearly all-female line-up of speakers, singers, and other participants.  The keynote address will be presented by Lt. Col. Amy McGrath, USMC Ret.  McGrath served more than 20 years in the United States Marine Corps., flying more than 89 missions as a pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan.  She later went on to run for Senate and started a non-profit organization.

The event will also include a color guard, the playing of TAPS, and a performance of harpist and singer Erin Hill, a harpist & singer based out of New York City, Chicago, and Louisville, KY. She’s had a #1 album on the Billboard world chart and has played with Cyndi Lauper, Kanye West, Enya, Moby, Sinead O’Connor, a-ha, Josh Groban, and Jewel.  She has also performed for celebrities, two First Ladies, and royalty.

All local Veterans and residents are welcome to attend this special celebration.

WHAT: Celebration of Veterans

WHEN: Sunday, November 6^th – 2:00-3:00 pm

WHERE: Veterans Place Memorial (Behind Town Hall) – 2000 Broadway Street, Clarksville IN

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