Seven Dearborn, Ohio County Companies Have New Web sites Due to Beneficiant Grant

The grant funds paid for 2 years of web site internet hosting and area registration.

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(Dearborn County, Ind.) – Seven Dearborn and Ohio county companies and organizations have new web sites due to a partnership among the many Duke Vitality Basis, Purdue Middle for Regional Growth, Dearborn & Ohio Counties Broadband & Digital Inclusion Activity Power, and One Dearborn Financial Growth. 

The brand new enterprise web sites belong to: 

“Little Purple Academy really appreciates the chance to be part of this grant program! Getting our web site designed and operational permits us to attach with our present households and supply them details about upcoming actions. It additionally offers potential new households that want care for his or her little ones one other technique to join with us and see what companies we provide,” says Melissa Watkins, proprietor of Little Purple Academy. 

PCRD awarded a $15,000 Duke Vitality Basis Digital Inclusion Grant to One Dearborn, which shaped the brand new Dearborn & Ohio Counties Broadband & Digital Inclusion Activity Power to establish a finest use of the funds according to the Southeastern Indiana Regional Planning Fee’s 2022 Regional Digital Inclusion Plan. The duty drive members settled on serving to native companies and non-profits with out web sites enhance their on-line presence by creating, generally, their first ever web site.  

The grant funds paid for 2 years of web site internet hosting and area registration. Absolute Net Advertising and marketing proprietor and process drive volunteer Bebe Kinnett was chosen to design and create the companies’ new web sites.  

At a coaching session hosted on the Lawrenceburg Neighborhood Middle in June, process drive members taught the enterprise homeowners and managers the fundamentals on how you can edit and replace their new web sites, together with just a few methods and tips about how you can carry out higher in search outcomes and on-line critiques. Reneisha Rudder, the Financial Resiliency Coordinator and Digital Fellow for the Southern Indiana Regional Planning Fee, was additionally there to help with coaching. 

“The web site program aligned properly with One Dearborn’s enterprise retention and enlargement actions. Our new process drive and this program helped enterprise homeowners develop a stronger on-line presence and enhance their potential to market themselves to a broader viewers, which can assist them proceed to develop,” mentioned Mike Perleberg, government director of One Dearborn.  

The Dearborn & Ohio Counties Broadband & Digital Inclusion Activity Power will proceed working extra methods within the SIRPC Digital Inclusion Plan, which might be considered at www.sirpc.org/broadband/digital-inclusion-plan.  

For extra info on One Dearborn or to entry the Dearborn County Regional Financial Growth Plan, go to www.1dearborn.org/reviews.