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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Education

Keep Genesee County Beautiful Partners with Keep America Beautiful for School-Based Recycling Education in Flint Schools
Keep America Beautiful and its local Flint, Michigan, affiliate Keep Genesee County Beautiful recently announced the launch of an integrated recycling education and awareness initiative for the 10,000 school students affected by the Flint water crisis.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep Erie County Beautiful Becomes Newest Keep America Beautiful Affiliate
On March 1, Keep Erie County Beautiful became the 12th Keep America Beautiful affiliate in Pennsylvania.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep America Beautiful Volunteer Spotlight: Rick and Sharon Hendry
Rick Hendry of Brunswick, Georgia, claims, “Everyone has interest and a passion. No matter what your physical abilities are no matter how little time you have ... you can do something in line with your passion.” For Rick and his wife Sharon, their passions are recycling and community service. The couple retired to Brunswick four years ago and quickly jumped in to helping the community.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Volunteer Spotlight: Elouise McMillian
“A Servant’s Heart” is one of Elouise McMillian’s favorite phrases, and describes her beautifully.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep Virginia Beautiful's "Shiver in the River"
The Polar Bears were splashing around Virginia's cold James River on Saturday, Jan. 28, as Keep Virginia Beautiful produced another successful "Shiver in the River" frigid fundraiser and cleanup event.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep Charleston Beautiful, Compost Rangers Help Alleviate Local Food Waste
That’s why Keep Charleston Beautiful (KCB) and its volunteers, armed with a Keep America Beautiful/Lowe’s Community Partners Grant, began working with The Compost Rangers in connecting schools, restaurants and local businesses to a grassroots compost initiative in Charleston.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep Indian River Beautiful's Captain Forster's Preserve Restoration Project
The 100-acre Captain Forster Hammock Preserve in Vero Beach, Florida, is one of only a few corridors that connect estuary habitat along the Indian River Lagoon to the ocean, continuing through all of the natural phases of estuary, dune and coastal habitat.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep Riverside Clean & Beautiful Conducts Major Fall Cleanup Events
Over 300 Keep Riverside Clean & Beautiful (KRCB) volunteers participated in the City of Riverside, California’s Festival of Lights on Nov. 25. The volunteers passed out programs, picked up litter, monitored the event barricades, and worked as a team to make the festival a clean and green event.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Volunteer Spotlight: Keep Indianapolis Beautiful's Susan Matthews
Keep America Beautiful is driven by the work and passion of more than 620 community-based affiliates and millions of local volunteers. But our work wouldn't get accomplished without grassroots volunteers, such as Keep Indianapolis Beautiful (KIB) board member Susan Matthews, who work in their local communities to transform public spaces into beautiful places.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep Manatee Beautiful Celebrates America Recycles Day with a SandBlast!
A professional sand sculpture team called Team Sandtastic built an 80-ton “Wildlife & the Arts” exhibition sculpture at the Manatee Public Beach on Anna Maria Island in Manatee County, Florida, in celebration of Keep Manatee Beautiful’s SandBlast 2016.

More from Keep America Beautiful

  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.