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Carolene Mays to Chair Touchstone Awards!

Girls Inc. of Greater Indianapolis is pleased to announce that Carolene Mays will chair the 2010 Touchstone Awards luncheon! As a former Touchstone honoree herself, Mays represents the strong, smart, and bold qualities celebrated at the Touchstone Awards, and her involvement will ensure the event is memorable..

Mays is the publisher and president of the Indianapolis Recorder, the nation’s fourth-oldest African American newspaper, and the Indiana Minority Business Magazine. Since taking over the Recorder in 1998, Mays has been a catalyst for change, redesign, and growth of the newspaper, increasing its readership dramatically by over 50% to nearly 100,000. Mays also served three terms as Indiana state representative of District 94, retiring in November 2008.

Read more about Carolene Mays’ accomplishments and community involvement.

Please save the date for the 2010 Touchstone Awards to be held Wednesday, July 28 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown.
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We’re Making “HERstory” in 2010!

The 2010 Touchstone Awards will honor greater Indianapolis women who make herstory – history for girls – by blazing trails in their personal and professional lives. Girls Inc. of Greater Indianapolis made herstory in 2009 by serving more than 2,500 greater Indianapolis girls with our educational, empowering programs – twice the number we served in 2008!

Stay tuned this spring for the announcement of our 2010 Touchstone Award honorees!

What is a Touchstone?

A touchstone is a small tablet of black stone used to compare precious and base metals, by analyzing the streak when each is rubbed across its surface. In use since 500 B.C., touchstones revolutionized the concept of the value of currency.

A more modern definition speaks to a standard of quality by which others are measured. This "setting of the bar" embodies the spirit of the women who are honored each year with a Touchstone Award. Since 1987, we have recognized excellence in some of greater Indianapolis’s most strong, smart, and boldSM women with awards named after the touchstone.