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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Environment

Keep Brevard Beautiful and Partners Launch New Lagoon Friendly Lawns Program to Combat Nutrient Pollution
Protecting Florida’s Indian River Lagoon, one of the most biologically diverse estuaries in North America, can now start right in a Brevard County resident’s backyard with Keep Brevard Beautiful’s new Lagoon Friendly Lawns program.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep Golden Isles Beautiful Volunteer Spreads Message: Cigarette Butts are Litter Too
Realizing both land and sea are adversely affected by cigarette waste, Keep America Beautiful affiliate Keep Golden Isles Beautiful (KGIB) utilized a third Cigarette Litter Prevention Program grant to continue a community-wide comprehensive cigarette litter prevention program, “This is Litter Too.”

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep Mississippi Beautiful’s “Wildflower Trails” are Taking Bloom
Mississippi is well known for its natural beauty. But over the years, the amount of native wildflowers has dwindled because of the common threats of habitat loss and invasive plants.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep America Beautiful's Volunteer Spotlight: J.D. Franklin
J.D. Franklin, a volunteer for Keep Riverside Clean & Beautiful, exemplifies what it means to be a hardworking man who cares about bettering his community. J.D. has always been conscious of the need to have a beautiful environment for all, evidenced by his involvement in Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep Knoxville Beautiful Collaborates on Goose Creek Cleanup
Keep America Beautiful affiliate Keep Knoxville Beautiful (KKB) and the Tennessee Clean Water Network (TCWN), with a grant from the Aslan Foundation, are working in tandem to clean up Goose Creek, an impaired urban creek in and around Mary Vestal Park in South Knoxville.

Social Impact & Volunteering

First Annual Great Massachusetts Cleanup Yields Nearly 33 Tons of Trash
The first annual Great Massachusetts Cleanup wrapped up at the end of May with impressive results. Thanks to the efforts of nearly 9,000 volunteers and municipal leaders in 50 communities across the state, there are at least 33 fewer tons of trash and litter in Massachusetts.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep Virginia Beautiful Announces 2016 "30 Grants in Thirty Days" Winners!
To honor its commitment to the Commonwealth, Keep America Beautiful affiliate Keep Virginia Beautiful announced “30 Grants in Thirty Days” recipients for 2016 each day during the month of June.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful Announces Winners of 2016 Great American Cleanup - Gwinnett Challenge
On the heels of its three-month-long Great American Cleanup campaign, North Georgia-based Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful is delighted to celebrate some stellar results from thousands of outstanding environmental stewards.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep America Beautiful Affiliate Keep Cincinnati Beautiful Launches Alleyway Mural Project
Keep Cincinnati Beautiful (KCB), known for helping to reduce blight, crime and graffiti through its public Arts Programs, is partnering with nonprofit ArtWorks, to create12 murals in the Over-the-Rhine (OTR) Main Street district alleys.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep America Beautiful's Volunteer Spotlight
Abbey Carver, an inspiration, community activist and grassroots organizer, founded Cruceño Cleanup, an ad-hoc group of volunteers that picks up trash from in and around Las Cruces, New Mexico, at least once a week.

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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.