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 Reynoldsburg Beautiful Unveils New Dr Pepper Snapple Group Park Recycling Bins
Residents visiting Reynoldsburg, Ohio's JFK, Huber and Civic parks will be seeing cleaner public parks thanks to a significant grant made possible by Dr Pepper Snapple Group (NYSE: DPS) in collaboration with Keep America Beautiful.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep Virginia Beautiful Partners with Virginia DOT to Promote the Adopt-a-Highway Program
Keep America Beautiful statewide affiliate Keep Virginia Beautiful (KVB) recently announced a partnership with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) to help support the agency's Adopt-a-Highway program.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful Completes Successful Great American Cleanup Event
Earlier in May, Keep America Beautiful Reno, Nevada-based affiiliate Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful (KTMB) hosted its 11th annual Great Community Cleanup -- a local initiative of the Great American Cleanup, the nation's largest community improvement program.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep Massachusetts Beautiful and TripAdvisor Team Up to Spruce Up Ridge Hill Reservation
An army of volunteers from TripAdvisor’s Needham headquarters turned out on May 5 to remove plants from the grassland meadows just inside the entrance to Needham's Ridge Hill Reservation with the help of Keep Massachusetts Beautiful.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Trainer Spotlight: Keep Forsyth County Beautiful's Kevin Smith
The Georgia Adopt-A-Stream program recently named Kevin Smith of Keep America Beautiful affiliate Keep Forsyth County Beautiful (KFCB) its 2016 "Trainer of the Year."

Green Infrastructure

Coca-Cola/Keep America Beautiful Recycling Bin Grant Brings 42 New Bins to Downtown Des Moines
Recycle DSM (Des Moines), a partnership between the City of Des Moines, Iowa, and Operation Downtown, added 42 new recycling bins for the City's Downtown. The new bins, which were provided by a Coca-Cola/Keep America Beautiful Public Space Recycling Bin Grant, are placed in the Historic East Village and the Western Gateway.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep Brevard Beautiful Removes More Than 15 Tons of Debris During Annual Trash Bash
Remarkable results are pouring in from the Great American Cleanup events that are happening during Keep America Beautiful Month (April).

Social Impact & Volunteering

Great American Cleanup Project Benefits Martin Nature Park in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City's Martin Nature Park recently received a facelift as city, state, nonprofit and private industry teamed up to celebrate the Great American Cleanup, during Oklahoma’s Arbor Week.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan Supports Keep Maryland Beautiful's Affiliation with Keep America Beautiful
Members of the Maryland Housing and Community Development Neighborhood Revitalization team joined Deputy Secretary Tony Reed and Keep America Beautiful's Senior Vice President/Recycling Brenda Pulley in Baltimore's Waverly neighborhood on March 20 for the launch of Keep Maryland Beautiful, coinciding with the launch of Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Keep the Rez Beautiful, Americorps Team Up for Nature Area Planting
More than 40 dedicated AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) volunteers from the Vicksburg, Mississippi, Southern Region Campus assisted Keep The Reservoir Beautiful (KRB) volunteers Bob Stribling and Jerry Palmer in a Great American Cleanup beautification project around the Brandon Reservoir area.

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

  2. 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...

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

  4. Keep America Beautiful Affiliate Stories
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  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.