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Falls of the Ohio

Falls of the Ohio. The original Louisville challenge to greatness. Now is the time to accept a new challenge. The campaign for long term funding for the arts and culture in Greater Louisville. Our Vision: Challenge to Greatness.

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Falls of the Ohio

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  1. Falls of the Ohio • The original Louisville challenge to greatness.

  2. Now is the time to accept a new challenge The campaign for long term funding for the arts and culture in Greater Louisville

  3. Our Vision: Challenge to Greatness • Greater Louisville changes the world through creativity, imagination and innovation woven into every aspect of our community.

  4. Our Mission: Challenge to Greatness • Establish a solid financial foundation for arts and culture in our community.

  5. Call to Action • You take the pledge: “I am challenged to greatness.”

  6. Our challenge: • Integrate arts and culture into the overall planning and development of the region and its infrastructure. • Expand the breadth and depth of the art and cultural offerings. • Ensure not only the future viability of arts and culture, but the social, spiritual and economic vitality of the region.

  7. Our challenge: • Combine economic development efforts with arts and cultural educational institutions to create an educated and creative workforce. • Strengthen the touchstones of creativity, art, science, culture and education for the future of our children and our grandchildren.

  8. Accept the challenge, and our rewards will be great: • Creativity on a massive scale • Regional prosperity • The cultural hub of the region • Creative workers, innovative businesses and lots of visitors • Expanded economic development

  9. Accept the challenge, and our rewards will be great: • New expressions of creativity • Jobs • Enlivened community and enhanced charm • Holistic learning environment • Creative kids who problem solve creatively • Joy, life and excitement in every part of the community

  10. The facts tell the story: • High school students test scores increase in direct relationship to cultural experience. • Nearly 8 million people visit cultural attractions annually. • Over 15,000 jobs are already supported by the cultural community. • Cultural tourists spend 45% more time in town than other tourists.

  11. It is time for each of us: • Each person, each cultural organization, each business—take the pledge: “I am challenged to greatness”Help move Greater Louisville to a future made brighter by the fully realized potential of its rich cultural heritage.

  12. Start today. • Take the pledge and meet the Challenge to Greatness!

  13. Greater Louisvillians, • Greater Louisville institutions, • Greater Louisville businesses • This is a start of a long list of those that had/have accepted and embrace/embraced a Challenge to Greatness and have impacted/are impacting the world

  14. Pee Wee Reese Wendy Whelan Diane Sawyer David Jones Meriwether Lewis D.W. Griffith Daryl Griffith Paul Hornung Hunter Thompson My Morning Jacket People

  15. Victor Mature Zachary Taylor John James Audubon John Patrick (Groggan) Mary Travers Pat Day Marion Sunshine Marjorie Weaver John Martin Marsha Norman Isaac Murphy People

  16. Matt Winn Thomas A. Edison Jim Porter Mary T. Meagher Henry Vogt Fontaine Talbot Fox Helen Humes Jonah Jones Annie Fellows Johnston Jon Jory People

  17. Dian Fossey Muhammed Ali Wendell Cherry Justice Brandeis John Banward Dr. Burt Monroe Leo Burmeister Pee Wee King (Julius F. A. Kuczynski) Ed Hamilton Fuzzy Zoeller Kutz & Kleinert Etta James Thomas Merton People

  18. Lionel Hampton Lee Luvisi Thomas Alva Edison Hobart Henley Colonel Sanders Ned Beatty Tom Cruise Dr. Robert Smith Dr. Susanne Ildstad Leon Bibb Dr. Wiliam DeVries People

  19. Frederick Law Olmstead The Hill Sisters (Mildred, Patty, and Jessie) Mary Anderson Irvin S. Cobb Enid Yandell Foster Brooks Tod Browning Mary Ann Currier Tori Murden McClure Wendell Berry Sam Gilliam People

  20. Dr. William Henry Shepherd Irene Dunne Henry Watterson Hull Robert Worth Bingham Bob Thompson Buck and Bubbles (Ford Washington and John Sublett) Marlene Grissom People

  21. Businesses • Humana • Churchill Downs • Louisville Slugger • Brown-Forman • Jarvik 7

  22. Institutions • The Falls of the Ohio • Actors Theater of Louisville • School for the Blind • Louisville Zoo • Actors Theatre of Louisville • The Speed Art Museum • The Portland Museum • The Louisville Ballet • The Louisville Orchestra

  23. Start today. • Take the pledge and meet the Challenge to Greatness! “Culture is the measure of a civilization.” — W.E.B. DuBois

  24. A challenge to greatness.

  25. A challenge to greatness. Will YOU take the pledge?

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