Keep America Beautiful Affiliate Stories

Through our programs and public-private partnerships, we help to strengthen communities. Keep America Beautiful works with corporations, government and civic entities, educational institutions, nonprofits and other organizations to address complex challenges on both a local and national scale. Our partners contribute more than financial support — they contribute ideas, in-kind support, and the time and power of volunteers — all to help us empower stronger communities. Each and every day, Keep America Beautiful helps turn public spaces into beautiful places, helping to drive positive social, environmental and economic change.  By working together, we can be successful in improving our communities.

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Green Infrastructure

Keep Nacogdoches Beautiful Celebrates America Recycles Day with Ribbon Cutting
Keep Nacogdoches Beautiful celebrated recycling -- and America Recycles Day -- with a Nacogdoches County Chamber of Commerce ribbon-cutting to announce its enhanced electronics recycling trailer. With help from two local sign makers, Keep Nacogdoches Beautiful (KNB) enhanced its electronics recycling trailer with a decorative wrap, creating an education tool in the process.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep Genesee County Beautiful Brings Brand New Playground to Flint
The landscape at Flint, Michigan's Sarvis Park recently changed for the better to include a brand new playscape, thanks to the work of Keep America Beautiful Affiliate Keep Genesee County Beautiful, its loyal volunteers, and many community organizations.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

"The Kids Keep Blount Beautiful" Community Edible Garden in Tennessee
Keep America Beautiful Affiliate Keep Blount Beautiful (KBB) received a $5,000 Community Partners Grant from Lowe’s and Keep America Beautiful to plant community edible gardens at two Blount County, Tennessee, schools.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep Phoenix Beautiful 9/11 Day of Service
Keep Phoenix Beautiful, in partnership with the City of Phoenix, 911Day.org and Cities of Service, conducted a 9/11 Day of Service event to honor the brave heroes of that day and to launch Keep Phoenix Beautiful’s Community Garden.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep America Beautiful Goose Island Migration Week Partnership Kicks Off in New York City, Philadelphia
Goose Island Beer Company stopped by New York City on July 29 and Philadelphia on Aug. 5 as part of its Migration Week Tour, which brings the popular Goose Island craft beer to more than 25 cities across the country and throughout the world, encouraging friends and patrons to meet their brewers and enjoy their beers. During five of the week-long tour stops, Keep America Beautiful community-based affiliates and partners are conducting community improvement volunteer events.

Green Infrastructure

Keep Lexington Beautiful and Keep Charlotte Beautiful Drastically Decrease Cigarette Litter in Respective Communities
Communities that implemented Keep America Beautiful’s Cigarette Litter Prevention Program (CLPP) in 2016 saw an average reduction of 60 percent in cigarette litter. Two affiliates, Keep Lexington Beautiful (KLB) in Lexington, Kentucky, and Keep Charlotte Beautiful (KCB) in Port Charlotte, Florida, were no exception.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep Golden Isles Beautiful Encourages Girl Scout’s Effort to Prevent Stormwater Drain Debris
Chelsea Yates, an ambitious 11-year-old, has jump-started a movement to remind people that littering around public storm drains negatively effects the environment -- namely, marine life -- by posting notices on roadside storm drains in Brunswick, Georgia.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep Cincinnati Beautiful's Price Hill Vacant Lots Occupied Project Give Properties New Life
Keep Cincinnati Beautiful's Price Hill Vacant Lots Occupied Project put unused vacant property to good use by planting trees, along with other food-bearing plants, to give these properties new life, while providing access to healthy, natural food to residents of Price Hill.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Liberty International Underwriters Volunteer at Ellis Island
Members of Keep America Beautiful’s headquarters’ staff joined volunteers from Liberty International Underwriters (LIU) and the National Park Service to beautify the north end of Ellis Island in New York Harbor.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep America Beautiful Brings Great American Cleanup to Hometown of Stamford, CT
Keep America Beautiful, in collaboration with the East Side Partnership, lived up to its call-to-action to #cleanYOURblock by conducting a Great American Cleanup event on June 20 at a number of locations in Stamford, Connecticut, home of its national headquarters.

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  1. America Recycles Day
    America Recycles Day, a Keep America Beautiful national initiative, is the only nationally recognized day and coast-to-coast community-driven...

  2. Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup
    Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup is the nation’s largest community improvement program with an estimated 50,000 events occurring from...

  3. Keep America Beautiful Recycling Grant Programs
    Keep America Beautiful, Inc., established in 1953, is the nation’s largest volunteer-based community action and education organization. With a network...

  4. Keep America Beautiful Affiliate Stories
    Through our programs and public-private partnerships, we help to strengthen communities. Keep America Beautiful works with corporations, government...

  5. Keep America Beautiful Community Improvement Grant Programs
    Keep America Beautiful partners provide grant funding for a variety of community improvement programs, ranging from graffiti eradication to...

  6. Keep America Beautiful's Cigarette Litter Prevention Program
    Keep America Beautiful reports an average 54 percent reduction of cigarette litter in the communities implementing KAB’s Cigarette Litter Prevention...

  7. Keep America Beautiful Education Initiatives
    Keep America Beautiful’s national programs change attitudes and behaviors; above all, they educate and teach individual responsibility toward one’s...

  8. Recycle-Bowl
    Recycle-Bowl is the first comprehensive nationwide recycling competition for elementary, middle and high-school students. Recycle-Bowl was created to...

  9. Vision for America Award
    Keep America Beautiful's Vision for America Award is presented annually to distinguished leaders of honored corporations, whose personal and corporate...

  10. National Planting Day
    National Planting Day is a nationwide initiative to plant and garden sustainably with native species.