One Love Louisville campaign gets its own website
Promotes the Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods’ violence prevention efforts
LOUISVILLE (May 24, 2016) – Since January 2015, the Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods (OSHN) has been home to “One Love Louisville,” a campaign and comprehensive action plan to reduce community violence and preventable deaths such as homicide, suicide and drug overdoses in Louisville.
Now, One Love Louisville has its own stand-alone website to better promote and share its anti-violence resources with the community. The website Onelovelou.org was built by the local experiential data and design firm, Kale & Flax. They provided their services as part of Mayor Greg Fischer’s 2016 Give A Day week of service.
“One Love Louisville has to reach different demographics in different ways. Using innovative digital approaches to getting the word out about how our city can come together around violence prevention is a critical aspect of tackling 21st century challenges,” said Mayor Fischer.
Kale & Flax provided nearly $12,000 (about 100+ hours) worth of in-kind effort to create the One Love Louisville micro-site for the Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods. This micro-site is community-driven, and aims to embody the spirit, vision and energy behind One Love Louisville.
“When we talk about violence prevention, we’re talking about everybody in the city of Louisville coming together and taking ownership to find ways that we can prevent violence city wide,” said Rashaad Abdur-Rahman, OSHN Director.
Many of the in-kind hours were performed during the Kale & Flax overnight Hack-a-thon, in partnership with the Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods and Valley Tech, a group of high school coders from Valley High School. Mayor Fischer and other stakeholders visited the Hack-a-thon on May 17 to discuss development of the site.
“We’re really proud to collaborate with the Mayor and the OSHN team on the One Love Louisville campaign. As a progressive city, investing our energy into the people who can help curb violence is everyone’s responsibility, because we’re all in this together,” said Kale & Flax founder and creative principal, Tarik Nally.
