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65 YE AR S OF DOING BE AUTIFUL THINGS
This is our home. Help me keep it beautiful.
LET’S TALK ABOUT AMERICA In celebration of our 65th anniversary, Keep America Beautiful® reintroduced ourselves to America with a new public service advertisement (PSA)— “Let’s Talk About America”—which made its national launch in 2018. With this PSA, Keep America Beautiful is demonstrating to a new generation of community stewards—those who were not alive when the historic “People Start Pollution. People Can Stop It.” campaign was released in the 1970s—that it continues to make a substantial economic, environmental and social impact.
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n 1953, America was in a post-war economic boom. With more packaged goods came a new problem— litter—and in 1953, national nonprofit Keep America Beautiful® was formed to address the issue of an increasingly littered landscape.
Keep America Beautiful launched what became a 20-year public service advertising (PSA) campaign reaching tens of millions of Americans.
In 1960, we began collaborating with the Ad Council, initially using the character Susie Spotless to promote anti-littering efforts with taglines like “Every litter bit hurts” and “Don’t be a litterbug.”
And the future? We indeed live in a challenging time. We face environmental tests that are altering life on earth as we know it. As a nation, we’re more divided than ever before. Yet, Keep America Beautiful retains its neutral, nonpartisan approach to improving the communities we live in and love. We focus on individual responsibility and tri-sector partnerships, believing that this sense of shared, universal responsibility easily encourages alignment among corporations, government, community leaders, and individuals for the benefit of entire communities. During the past 65 years, Keep America Beautiful has grown from a public awareness slogan to the nation’s largest community improvement organization. We have expanded our footprint into more than 600 communities—large and small, urban and rural.
Through the 1960s, the Keep America Beautiful message of beautification and cleanliness reached across America and, on Earth Day in 1971, Keep America Beautiful unveiled the “People Start Pollution, People Can Stop It” PSA. The award-winning “Crying Indian” PSA, featuring the actor Iron Eyes Cody paddling through polluted waters and shedding his iconic tear, is often credited for the awakening of our nation’s environmental consciousness.
Keep America Beautiful brings people together to transform public spaces into beautiful places—as it has done yesterday and today and will continue to do so for future generations.
The history of Keep America Beautiful and the legacy of our PSA campaigns are intertwined. That was yesterday— the foundational years of Keep America Beautiful.
Sincerely,
Today, it is truly an honor to be at the helm of Keep America Beautiful as we celebrate 65th anniversary of this iconic organization’s inception. The reach and scale of the PSA model still allows us to influence millions of Americans. “Let’s Talk About America,” the name of our 65th anniversary PSA, conveys the present—and our future—while paying tribute to our past. As the leading national nonprofit focused on keeping communities clean, green, and beautiful, we’re proud to see communities thrive as the result of our work. In 2018, the Keep America Beautiful affiliate network, comprised of more than 600 community-based organizations, delivered $386 million in direct economic benefits to the communities we serve through our rigorous programming efforts.
Helen Lowman President and CEO Keep America Beautiful
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Monique Oxender Chief Sustainability Officer, Keurig Dr Pepper Chair Keep America Beautiful Board of Directors
OUR TIMELINE
65 Years of Improving Communities
Keep America Beautiful forms when a group of corporate and civic leaders meet in New York City to bring the public and private sectors together to develop and promote a national cleanliness ethic.
The first public service announcement (PSA) on litter prevention appears.
TV star David Janssen places litter into the Owens-Illinois Forest Products Division’s litter box at the Bob Hope Desert Classic.
The “Captain Cleanup” cartoon hits the scene to rid the country of litter.
Developed after the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, Liberty Gardens inspired special places of natural beauty and honor across America.
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Transitioning from the GLAD Bag-A-Thon, KAB launches the Great American Cleanup.
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Georgia Clean & Beautiful becomes first Keep America Beautiful statewide program. “The Crying Indian” PSA first aired on Earth Day in 1971.
Susan Spotless appears in a series of PSAs that remind us that “every litter bit hurts.”
Canine TV star Lassie, with Lady Bird Johnson, appears as mascot for KAB anti-littering campaign. Introduction of the Clean Community System, precursor of the Keep America Beautiful System.
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Take Action, an educational program to help get teens involved in their communities, launches.
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KAB issues the first National Environmental Stamp, featuring a painting of Iron Eyes Cody by Bob Timberlake.
“Back By Popular Neglect” PSA brings Iron Eyes Cody campaign back into the nation’s eco-consciousness.
KAB, in partnership with the U.S. EPA, creates “Close the Loop, Buy Recycled.”
Waste in Place, Keep America Beautiful’s first teacher curriculum supplement, is launched.
A baby surrounded by trash is the image used for KAB’s “For Future Generations” PSA.
Brad Hauter’s 5,551-mile Mow Across America highlights Great American Cleanup.
KAB takes the helm of America Recycles Day (Nov. 15), dedicated to promoting recycling in the U.S.
Keep America Beautiful honors Owens-Illinois with its 33rd annual Vision for America Award, honoring one of KAB’s founding corporate partners.
KAB launches RecycleBowl, the national recycling competition for K–12 students.
In partnership with the USDA’s People’s Garden initiative, KAB launches National Planting Day.
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KAB and GLAD launch the GLAD Bag-a-Thon program, precursor to the Great American Cleanup.
KAB presents the first Vision for America Award to The Coca-Cola Company.
A new animated PSA series featuring KAB MAN introduces KAB to a contemporary audience.
The Cigarette Litter Prevention Program launches to address the nation’s most littered product.
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The Ad Council and KAB introduce “I Want To Be Recycled,” the PSA designed to motivate Americans to recycle right.
2018 In celebration of our 65th anniversary, Keep America Beautiful reintroduced ourself to America with a new PSA— “Let’s Talk About America.”
Bud Light and Keep America Beautiful teamed up to “Do Good. Have Fun.” with community improvement projects in more than 50 communities.
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Keep America Beautiful affiliates, partner organizations, corporate partners, and millions of volunteers work collaboratively to:
• Clean and restore nature trails, recreation areas, and playgrounds to encourage play and physical activity;
• Remove litter and debris from roadsides, highways, shorelines, and waterways;
• Recycle aluminum cans, plastic bottles, electronics, paper products, scrap tires, and clothing;
• Rebuild public spaces in • Plant trees, flowers, and gardens communities struck by natural to strengthen a community’s green disasters; and infrastructure; • Restore urban, suburban, and rural business districts and thoroughfares.
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We’re proud of our results. The daily actions of our volunteers, affiliates and supporters lead to a cleaner, greener, and more beautiful America.
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Gwinnett County, GA Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful volunteers participate in the 4th Annual Great Gwinnett Wetlands cleanup at Bromolow Creek and Wetlands in Duluth, Georgia, where they picked up litter and removed invasive plants that choke the health of the wetland.
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Total volunteer hours across all Keep America Beautiful programs. Our volunteers committed the equivalent of 1,385 years to improve their communities.
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Richmond, VA Volunteers gather litter and recyclables at “Shiver in the River,” a benefit for Keep Virginia Beautiful, at Historic Tredegar on the James River. (Photo courtesy of David Parrish Photography.)
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Pounds of recyclables, litter, and debris collected by our volunteers throughout the country.
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Indianapolis, IN Volunteers plant a tree at Washington Park on Indianapolis’ near east side as part of Keep Indianapolis Beautiful’s 10K Trees Initiative, in partnership with Citizens’ Energy Group.
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Number of trees, plants, shrubs, flowers, and bulbs planted.
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Austin, TX A volunteer brings his haul back to shore during a Keep Austin Beautiful Clean Lady Bird Lake event. These bi-monthly cleanups are conducted at 25 locations along the shoreline and on watercraft.
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Miles of rivers, lakes, shorelines, and wetlands cleaned and improved, longer than the combined length of the coastline of the United States and the shorelines of the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes.
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Knoxville, TN The streets of Knoxville were cleaner after volunteers participated in the first annual North Knoxville Community Cleanup.
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Miles of streets, roads, and highways cleaned, improved or beautified, which is longer than the entire United States Interstate Highway System.
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Cincinnati, OH Keep Cincinnati Beautiful’s Young Professionals Council creates the “Cincinnati IS Beautiful” mural on the Hopple/75 Interchange.
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Acres of parks, public lands, playgrounds, and trails cleaned and beautified, which is similar to cleaning up all of New York City’s Central Park for 243 days.
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New York, NY An employee volunteer from Pernod Ricard USA plants flowers at The Good Life Garden in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Pernod Ricard volunteers helped to rebuild this community garden during Pernod Ricard’s Responsib’ALL Day, which they collaborated on with Keep America Beautiful at different sites throughout the country. (Photo courtesy of Margaret Fox, Margaret Fox Photography)
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As an organization, Keep America Beautiful provided $386 million in economic benefits to the communities we serve in 2018.
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Our programs are researchbased, measurable, and designed for local implementation by our affiliates to improve community environments. And through the engine of volunteerism—more than 12.1 million hours in 2018—the return on investment for our partners is exceptional.
We keep America beautiful, so Americans can do beautiful things.
By partnering with us, corporate sponsors demonstrate responsible leadership to their employees and customers.
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OUR PROGR AMS
1,086,719 volunteers activated
61m lbs
of recyclables collected
22,059 trees planted
55,440 mi of roads, shorelines & waterways improved and beautified
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Jupiter, FL As part of Keep Palm Beach County Beautiful’s 2018 Great American Cleanup, 24 volunteers participated in a shoreline cleanup at the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area.
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Great American Cleanup The 2018 Great American Cleanup®(GAC), the nation’s largest community improvement program, celebrated its 20th year with more than 26,000 events in communities across the country. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
The theme—#cleanYOURblock—was a call to action to engage more volunteers and participants in events nationwide. Once an individual joined a local event, they would be inspired to organize similar events “on their own block” with neighbors, family and friends. Keep America Beautiful®, along with national sponsors and partner organizations, engaged volunteers across the country who logged 9.4 million volunteer hours in helping to clean public spaces; improving and beautifying roads, shorelines and waterways; and planting trees, flowers, and gardens. In total, 24.7 million pounds of litter and 68 million pounds of recyclables were collected. National sponsors of the 2018 Great American Cleanup included Altria, Dow, The Glad Products Company, Lowe’s, McDonald’s, and Niagara Bottling. To celebrate Earth Day with the GAC in mind, Keep American Beautiful partnered with EarthX, the world’s largest environmental expo, conference and film festival, for EarthXRecycling in Dallas, Texas. Keep America Beautiful also conducted the seventh annual National Planting Day, sponsored
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by Dickinson’s Witch Hazel, which celebrates the critical nature of native plants and trees in enhancing biodiversity, rebuilding ecosystems, and supporting pollinator health. Here are some examples of the breadth of activity that takes place every year during the GAC: • More than 4,000 volunteers alone participated in Keep Austin Beautiful Day, a county-wide service day in Austin, Texas. The event spanned 125 sites, including trails, greenspaces, waterways and community gathering spaces. • On Earth Day, I Love A Clean San Diego activated over 6,000 volunteers who improved and beautified 113 parks, beaches and community spaces during the 16th annual Creek to Bay cleanup. Overall, volunteers removed more than 175,000 pounds of trash and debris from San Diego County. • Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful hosted its 12th annual Great Community Cleanup. More than 850 volunteers removed 97,000 pounds of trash and pulled 31,000 pounds of invasive weeds. This event focuses on the cleanup of illegal dumpsites and removal of invasive weeds in the open spaces surrounding Nevada’s Truckee Meadows.
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1,069,300 lbs of e-waste collected
389,300
beverage containers collected
24,334 lbs of clothing, textiles and shoes collected
156,381lbs of paper and newspapers collected
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Lawrenceville, GA In celebration of America Recycles Day 2018, Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful and Gwinnett County Solid Waste Management teamed up to host a community recycling event at Coolray Field, home field of the Gwinnett Stripers, the Triple-A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves.
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More than a day, Keep America Beautiful® is proud to have ARD—Nov. 15 and the weeks surrounding it—as one of our national programs that connect local communities to our national movement. Through ARD, Keep America Beautiful, along with its community-based affiliates, partner organizations and ARD national sponsors, provides an educational platform to raise awareness about the value of reducing, reusing, and recycling, as well as the economic, environmental and social benefits of recycling. Keep America Beautiful President and CEO Helen Lowman was one of 44 U.S. recycling industry stakeholders who signed a pledge on ARD to “work together to build on our existing efforts to address the challenges facing our nation’s recycling system and identify solutions that create a more resilient materials economy and protect the environment.” The commitment was made at the inaugural U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Summit, “Building a More
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Resilient System Together,” hosted by Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. Keep America Beautiful, and presenting sponsor Keurig Dr Pepper, conducted the “State of Recycling” Forum in Washington D.C. on ARD, which focused on the topic “Cleaning Up Recycling: Motivating Individuals to Recycle.” The annual Forum, for the first time, featured a facilitated Town Hall Focus Group Panel of consumers who shared their views about the difficulties of recycling at home and on the go directly with industry leaders who play specific roles in each step of the recycling process. The group discussion included individual recyclers and nonrecyclers, MRF operators, haulers, recycling end-market and local government officials with recycling programs. Prior to the focus group panel, Wesley Schultz, Ph.D. Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, California State University, presented “Promoting Recycling Behavior: What Works.”
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on-site Keurig Dr Pepper seed bomb projects
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Pernod Ricard USA employees engaged
92% of HR executives agree that nonprofit engagement improves leadership skills
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Brooklyn, NY A Pernod Ricard USA volunteer painting at the Good Life Garden in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, during Pernod Ricard’s Responsib’ALL Day.
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Employee Engagement Powered by people, Keep America Beautiful® works with some of the world’s leading companies to give purpose and meaning to corporate volunteerism. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Keep America Beautiful’s Employee Engagement services provide opportunities for responsible organizations to galvanize their employees and build morale and teamwork through curated activities such as community cleanups; creation of public and community gardens; on-site corporate waste and recycling assessments; among other initiatives that help strengthen the quality of life in the communities where employees live, work, and play. In 2018, Pernod Ricard USA, a leading premium spirits and wine company, collaborated with Keep America Beautiful for the company’s eighth annual Responsib’ALL Day. One day each year, Pernod Ricard USA employees collectively invest volunteer hours in their home communities to show their commitment and contribution to society. In the northeast, employees collaborated with community leaders and local Keep America Beautiful affiliates and partners to beautify local parks and recreation centers.
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Keep America Beautiful partnered with Heineken USA’s corporate office as part of the company’s Day of Giving program. Through a hands-on beautification activity, a group of employees designed and created steppingstones with mosaics made from recycled glass tiles. The completed stones were distributed to local partners that maintain gardens and outdoor spaces. In association with the 2018 National Planting Day, Keep America Beautiful organized 14 service projects at seven Keurig Dr Pepper locations. Employees created or enhanced community gardens in targeted communities, as well as constructed seed balls to be distributed and grown in various gardens and at schools, hospitals and churches. The projects were designed to help the company and its employees create a lasting impact within their communities.
OUR PROGR AMS
1,700+ communities have implemented the CLLP
$295,000
from the grant program given to 42 organizations
10,000 litter stands in public settings through 2019
50 %
less cigarette litter in communities with the CLLP
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Stamford, CT A litter stand was placed at the Mill River Park, adjacent to Keep America Beautiful headquarters, as part of the 2018 Cigarette Litter Prevention Program.
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Cigarette Litter Prevention Program Keep America Beautiful® has taken aim at aggressively reducing cigarette litter through its Cigarette Litter Prevention Program® (CLPP), which launched in 2002. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Since its inception, the program has been implemented in more than 1,700 communities. Throughout its history, the CLPP has helped reduce cigarette litter in the communities in which it has been implemented by an average of 50 percent. The 2018 CLPP Grant Program distributed grants from Keep America Beautiful, totaling $295,000, to 42 organizations, including Keep America Beautiful community-based affiliates, local governments, business improvement districts, downtown associations, parks and recreation areas, and other organizations dedicated to ending litter and beautifying communities. In addition, the CLPP unveiled new marketing resources designed by agency Leo Burnett to provide messaging that will encourage behavior change through education and awareness. The creative resources are suited for out-ofhome advertising and carry the campaign message “Cigarette litter doesn’t go away on its own—help us Keep America Beautiful.” The tactical extensions will be pilot tested in 2019 in Columbus, Ohio, and Memphis, Tennessee,
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through targeted placement of messaging, distribution of portable ashtrays, and placement of permanent ashtrays in high-traffic areas. Recognizing the presence of ash receptacles correlates with lower rates of cigarette butt littering, Keep America Beautiful began its work Philip Morris USA to place 10,000 litter stands in public settings through 2019. Adult smokers are being given the opportunity to enter locations (city and zip code) on a map to indicate where they would like to see a litter stand installed. As stands are placed, an interactive map will populate showing locations that have been selected. “Having these specific community partners joining together in a project of this magnitude is huge for our state,” said Keep Golden Isles Beautiful Executive Director Lea King-Badyna. “We really feel like this program can be easily copied by other coastal communities.” The CLPP is supported by funding from Philip Morris USA, an Altria company, RAI Services Company, and the Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company.
OUR PROGR AMS
44 grassroots initiatives funded by Lowe’s Community Partners Grant Program
$2 m
worth of 2018 Duracell 9V Battery Grants and batteries given to 42 affiliates
34 grants funded by the Keurig Dr Pepper Park Recycling Bin Grant Program
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Phoenix, AZ Keep Phoenix Beautiful was one of 42 Keep America Beautiful community-based affiliates to receive a 2018 Duracell/ Keep America Beautiful 9V Battery Grant.
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Community Impact and Recycling Bin Grants Keep America Beautiful® Community Impact Grant and Recycling Bin Grant programs, funded by corporate and foundation partners, strengthen our network of affiliates by addressing local needs and promoting volunteerism. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
The Coca-Cola Public Spaces Recycling Bin Grant and the Keurig Dr Pepper Park Recycling Bin Grant programs continued to make it more convenient for people to recycle on college campuses, parks, beaches, and other public spaces.
local Anheuser-Busch wholesalers for initiatives ranging from invasive species removal to riverbank stabilization and stream buffers, all designed to improve the health and vitality of local watersheds.
During 2018, The Coca-Cola Company and The Coca-Cola Foundation, with the help of Keep America Beautiful, The Recycling Partnership and The Closed Loop Fund, donated their 1 millionth recycling bin. The Keurig Dr Pepper Park Recycling Bin Grant Program funded 34 grants with a total distribution of more than 935 new recycling bins in public parks.
The 20 UPS Community Tree & Recovery Tree Planting Grants were distributed with an emphasis on planting native trees or fruit trees for local consumption. Grants are also provided to affiliates whose communities have lost significant trees as a result of a natural disaster.
Lowe’s Community Partners Grant Program funded 44 grassroots initiatives in 2018. Since the partnership began in 2011, more than 2,100 Lowe’s Heroes volunteers have helped our affiliates establish and maintain more than 2,300 community gardens and build and restore more than 3,100 playgrounds and recreational areas. The Anheuser-Busch Watershed Grant Program provided grant funds and participation from
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The Hefty ® Energy Bag™ Grant Program, led by Dow and Reynolds Consumer Products, offered two grants in 2018, which included support for a new program launch in Lincoln, Nebraska, and a program expansion in Cobb County, Georgia. Forty-two affiliates received 2018 Duracell 9V Battery Grants, which featured the distribution of 9V batteries, valued at more than $2 million, which is among the largest in-kind donations Keep America Beautiful has received in its 65year history.
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80 trees planted in Florida to replace those lost by Hurricane Irma
479
volunteers worked on CRRFÂ grant initiatives
40,621lbs of litter and debris were collected in eight communities served
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Archer, FL Keep Alachua County Beautiful in Florida used a Community Restoration and Resiliency Fund grant to restore five cemeteries damaged by Hurricane Irma, including the Bethlehem Methodist Episcopal Cemetery (pictured here) in Archer, Florida.
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After first responders leave a devastated area, residents are left with significantly altered community spaces and limited financial resources to restore those public spaces in the aftermath of a natural disaster.
throughout the cemetery have made regular maintenance impossible. Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful (KTTB) in Florida, also hit by Hurricane Irma, planted 80 trees to replace those lost in the storm in partnership with Hillsborough County Natural Resources Department.
Managed and administered by Keep America Beautiful, the fund provides long-term support in the form of grants to rebuild vital public spaces: Hurricane Matthew caused much damage to parks, greenways, community gateways, Main Import Pond, a local neighborhood park in the Street/downtown areas, open spaces and more. City of Port St. Lucie, Florida. The funding helped Eight grants, ranging from $2,500 to $20,000, restore the natural habitat, and the presence were provided to eight affiliates for a wide variety of trees is helping to slow down and temporarily of projects. For example, Keep Alachua County store runoff, while promoting filtration and Beautiful in Florida used its grant for a unique decreasing flooding and erosion. project in which it helped restore communityKeep the Hawaiian Islands Beautiful (KHIB) worked maintained cemeteries. The Bethlehem Methodist with Friends of Kamalani and Lydgate Beach Park, Episcopal Cemetery, Evergreen Cemetery, Starkwhich is between Kauai’s two major population Nelson Cemetery, and other local cemeteries centers. In April 2018, massive tree trunks were were devastated by Hurricane Irma. Dozens of flushed out of the Wailua River Basin, resulting in trees were split, uprooted, or were dead and wood, brush, and trash consistently flowing out of rotting, and they threatened several headstones the adjacent Wailua River and into Lydgate Beach within the cemeteries, some of which date as far Park’s protected ocean water swimming ponds. back as 1836, and, in some cases, blocked access The CRRF grant supported the restoration activity to graves. Branches and limbs of trees landed in the area because of this major flooding event.
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OUR PROGR AMS
2,600 students were taught Keep America Beautiful curriculum by AmeriCorps volunteers in Mississippi in 2018
2,000,000+
youth were reached and educated across the country
1,130,000 lbs of recyclables recovered during 2018 Keep America Beautiful Recycle-Bowl®
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Rock Hill, SC Many Keep America Beautiful affiliates, such as Keep Rock Hill Beautiful (pictured here), conduct classroom presentations to educate and empower the next generation of environmental stewards.
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Youth and Education Education and behavior change are the cornerstones of Keep America Beautiful®. We strive to educate and empower generations of community and environmental stewards through our expanding National Youth Advisory Council (YAC) and Keep America Beautiful Schools programs. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
We strive to educate and empower generations of community and environmental stewards through our expanding National Youth Advisory Council (YAC) and Keep America Beautiful Schools programs. Seven students participated in the third year of the YAC, which provides a unique opportunity for high school students from diverse backgrounds across the nation to participate in a servicelearning and leadership development program. The students were selected to contribute to and inform Keep America Beautiful on programs, while acting as ambassadors and leaders for youth service in their communities. Furthermore, this year’s council piloted a new program structure to develop personal service projects. Through the Keep America Beautiful communitybased affiliate network and educational programs, more than 2 million youth were reached and educated across the country.
to influence positive behavior, foster social responsibility and respect for the environment, and enrich their students’ learning experiences. KAB Schools is a youth initiative offering schools easy-to-use educational programs which provide measurable results and are youth driven. There are three learning service-learning projects, including a Waste Audit, Litter Free Places, and Trashless Tree Trails. This program was implemented in schools seeking Keep America Beautiful Schools Certification. In Dallas, Trinidad Garza Early College High School, L.G. Pinkston High School, L.G. Pinkston High School, Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Academy, and Sunset High School were all certified in 2018.
The 2018 Keep America Beautiful Recycle-Bowl®, a national recycling competition, completed its final year with the participation of 720 schools representing more than 260,000 K–12 student and teachers. In total, 1.13 million pounds of recyclables Waste in Place is the Keep America Beautiful were recovered during the four-week program. educational resource developed for preThe winning school, Kirk Middle School of Newark, th kindergarten through 12 grade students and Delaware, recycled 30.85 pounds of materials per educators. The program continued to offer handsstudent. The competition will be incorporated into on activities related to ending litter, improving PepsiCo’s Recycle Rally moving forward. recycling, and beautifying communities. The materials were used by educators nationwide
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2018
400 leaders from communitybased affiliates, business leaders, policymakers, and other experts
80
individuals recognized from Keep America Beautiful’s affiliate network and other partner organizations
20+ picnic tables and benches provided by the “Build and Grow”affiliate volunteer project for Dallas-area fire stations
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Dallas, TX Keep America Beautiful President and CEO Helen Lowman presents the 2018 Iron Eyes Cody Award to Ron Aldridge, executive vice president of the Mississippi Beverage Association.
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National Conference and Awards Keep America Beautiful® presented its 2018 National Conference in Dallas, Texas. The premier educational and networking event brought together nearly 400 leaders from the Keep America Beautiful national network of community-based affiliates, business leaders, policymakers, and other experts. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
The conference featured Doug McKenzie-Mohr, Ph.D., internationally recognized author and founder of Community-based Social Marketing. McKenzie-Mohr discussed barriers to behavior change, as well as how to develop and evaluate community-based social marketing initiatives to overcome those barriers. His keynote was followed by a session with California State University of San Marcos Psychology Professor Wesley Schultz, Ph.D., a Keep America Beautiful board member, who focused on communitybased behavior change case studies.
• Sherrie Bossung, former director of employee engagement and volunteer strategy at Eli Lilly and Company, received the Lady Bird Johnson Award, named after the former first lady. Bossung partnered with Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, for more than a decade, including on development of the Eli Lilly and Company Global Day of Service. • Ron Aldridge, executive vice president of the Mississippi Beverage Association and longtime board member of Keep Mississippi Beautiful (KMB), received the Iron Eyes Cody Award, created in honor of Keep America Beautiful’s landmark PSA of the 1970s. Aldridge’s contributions to KMB and local Mississippi affiliates spurred KMB to rename its volunteer award the Aldridge Volunteer of the Year Award.
An additional highlight of the conference was the annual “Build and Grow” affiliate volunteer project, sponsored by Lowe’s. Working with the local affiliate Keep Dallas Beautiful, and with the assistance of Lowe’s Heroes volunteers, • Keep America Beautiful presented its annual conference attendees constructed picnic tables Young Professional Award to Tim Hair of Midland, and benches that were delivered to Dallas-area Texas. Hair is a landscape architect who helped fire stations to enhance their outdoor living spaces. create a local program that partners with schools to plant trees. NATIONAL AWARDS Keep America Beautiful recognized the work of more than 80 individuals, including community leaders from the affiliate network and other partner organizations during the National Awards Ceremony. Among the individuals recognized with highest honors were:
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• The Sue Smith Professional Leadership Award, named in honor of the former director of education of Keep America Beautiful, was given to Susan Carmichael, who retired as executive director of Alabama’s Montgomery Clean City Commission after 40 years of service.
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Through volunteer commitment, and the support of our network of community-based affiliates and trisector partnerships of government, business and nonprofits, Keep America Beautiful® continues to build on its legacy of education and collective action to achieve
environmentally healthy, socially connected, and economically sound communities. The tri-sector partnerships have been a common thread throughout the history of Keep America Beautiful and is an essential ingredient of our success.
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Keep America Beautiful gratefully acknowledges the corporations, nonprofits, associations and government agencies whose special grants, sponsorships and in-kind contributions significantly advanced our mission in 2018.
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“Our future rests in the inherently sustainable attributes of our glass products and our unparalleled ability to respond to the changing needs of the brands we serve.” ANDRES LOPEZ, CEO, O-I
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Vision for America Award The Keep America Beautiful® 2018 Vision for America Award was presented to Andres Lopez, CEO, Owens-Illinois, in New York City on behalf of O-I and its global workforce. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::
The Award is presented annually to distinguished leaders whose personal and corporate commitments have significantly enhanced civic, environmental, and social stewardship throughout the United States.
Innovation Institute’s certification is based on five categories: material health, material re-utilization, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness. Nearly 90 percent of the company’s glass operations were certified across product categories and for certain container colors in the beer, non-alcoholic beverage, spirit, wine, and food markets.
As the makers of glass containers, the world’s most natural and sustainable package, Owens-Illinois (O-I) has been committed to sustainability throughout its more than 100-year history. Founded by Michael J. Owens, inventor of the automatic bottle-making machine, O-I has a global footprint including 78 manufacturing plants in 23 countries. The company serves some of the world’s most loved food and beverage companies.
Another celebrated move by O-I was its partnership with The Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative to re-introduce the O-I presented “A Love Letter to Glass” in returnable, refillable celebration of the company receiving the Vision for America Award. View O-I’s bottle. The bottle, corporate video here: made mostly from http://bit.ly/LoveLettertoGlass recycled O-I glass, is designed to be separated from the traditional bottle deposit system so that it can be reused. This system will result in significant savings in energy use and water needed to manufacture new bottles.
“I am honored to accept this important award on behalf of our more than 26,000 employees. We are proud to produce natural, sustainable and innovative packaging solutions for the world’s leading food and beverages,” said Andres Lopez, CEO, O-I. “Our future rests in the inherently sustainable attributes of our glass products and our unparalleled ability to respond to the changing needs of the brands we serve. As the world’s biggest purchaser of recycled glass, we strive every day to improve our impact on the planet and its people.” Glass recycling and reuse contribute significantly to reducing glass packaging’s carbon footprint. Across the company, O-I is dedicated to reducing its overall impact on the planet through its products and processes. O-I incorporates recycled glass, referred to as cullet, in making new products. Every 10 percent of cullet used in O-I’s production can cut carbon emissions by 5 percent and reduce energy use by 3 percent. In 2018, O-I was named the first food and beverage packaging company to receive gold-level certification on the Cradle to Cradle Product Scorecard for material health. Cradle to Cradle Products
Keep America Beautiful also recognized O-I’s efforts in the development of the industry’s U.S. trade association, the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) and for serving as a founding member of the Glass Recycling Coalition (GRC). O-I is one of the founders of Keep America Beautiful, partnering with us on litter prevention and recycling initiatives. The company also helps fund local programs that encourage community members to collect glass and return it to glass recovery centers.
Keurig Dr Pepper Chief Sustainability Officer and Keep America Beautiful Board Chair Monique Oxender (left) presents the Vision for America Award to Andres Lopez, CEO, O-I (right). (Photo by Kate Eisemann, Kate Eisemann Pictures) ::: 41 :::
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Our Corporate and Foundation Partners Advance Our Mission Keep America Beautiful gratefully acknowledges the following corporations, foundations and individuals that have generously contributed to us in 2018. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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$50,000-$99,999 Carton Council McDonald’s USA, LLC Niagara Bottling, Inc. Northrop Grumman Corporation Rubbermaid Commercial Products Wrigley Company Foundation $25,000-$49,999 The Clorox Company Dr. Scholl Foundation Ernst & Young LLP Foodservice Packaging Institute, Inc. International Bottled Water Association McKinsey & Company, Inc. MillerCoors National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) Nestlѐ Waters North America, Inc. Plastics Industry Association PwC Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Steel Recycling Institute
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$10,000-$24,999 American Iron & Steel Institute Bank of America Merrill Lynch BNP Paribas Constellation Brands Crédit Agricole Deloitte Delta Air Lines, Inc. Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. Dickinson’s Witch Hazel Skincare Evercore gategroup Goldman, Sachs & Co. H&M Heineken USA A. T. Kearney Latham & Watkins LLP Merrell Morgan Stanley Pratt Industries
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PurePoint Financial Ravago Americas LLC Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP Saucony TerraCycle Tito’s Handmade Vodka Williams & Jensen, PLLC
$5,000-$9,999 Aon Chatham Financial Corp. Ciner Resources Duracell Inc. Earth Friendly Products The Alta and John Franks Foundation Insurance Auto Auctions Inc. Irio Kim and Carolyn Jeffery Helen Lowman Mionetto USA H.O. Peet Foundation PolyOne Corporation Trinseo LLC UL Environmental $2,500-$4,999 Beer Institute Boylan Bottling Campbell Soup Company Constellation Energy Derma E DipJar Paul Duffy Egon Zehnder International Glass Packaging Institute Henkel Corporation Jennifer Jehn Pfizer Inc Michael Saunders B.S. Slosberg, Inc. Auctioneers & Appraisers Thomas and Lucille Tamoney Tomra North America Vanguard Group Staffing, Inc. We also thank the many donors who have contributed up to $2,500 to Keep America Beautiful.
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2018 Board of Directors & Officers Monique Oxender* Chief Sustainability Officer Keurig Dr Pepper Board Chair Thomas H. Tamoney, Jr.* Of Counsel Day Pitney LLP Board Secretary Tom Waldeck* President & CEO Keep Phoenix Beautiful Board Treasurer Tim Carey Senior Director, Sustainability PepsiCo Carolyn Crayton Founder Keep Macon—Bibb Beautiful Steve DePalo Director Restaurant Sustainability McDonald’s USA, LLC Kanika Greenlee Executive Director Keep Atlanta Beautiful Commission Jennifer J. Griffin, Ph.D. Professor of Strategy and the Raymond C. Baumhart, S.J. Professor of Business Ethics Loyola University Chicago’s Quinlan School of Business
Jim Hanna Director of Datacenter Sustainability Microsoft
Victor Mehren* Chief Operating Officer, US Business Mars Wrigley Confectionery
Kim Jeffery* Operating Executive North Castle Partners
N. Brian Peace* Corporate Administration Executive Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
Anne Johnson Principal and Vice President of Global Corporate Sustainability Resource Recycling Systems
Gregory H. Ray Senior Vice President, Manufacturing Philip Morris USA Inc.
Jon Johnston Retired U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Greg J. Jozwiak* Corporate Vice President, Integrated Supply Chain Dow Bruce A. Karas* Vice President Environment and Sustainability Coca-Cola North America Group Maureen Knightly Director, Trade Associations The Boeing Company Helen Lowman* President & CEO Keep America Beautiful Missy Marshall Executive Director Keep Tennessee Beautiful
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Shannon Reiter President Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Steve Russell Vice President, Plastics Division American Chemistry Council P. Wesley Schultz, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology California State University, San Marcos Robin Wiener President Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. James W. Woods Senior Director, Communications American Iron & Steel Institute Directors Emeritus Richard D. Hofmann Stephen K. Lambright A. Maurice Myers
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Our Affiliate Network: Focused on People and Their Beautiful Places The heartbeat of Keep America Beautiful® is the work and passion of our more than 600 state and community-based affiliates, their local leaders, and the millions of volunteers who drive our movement forward every day. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::
Keep America Beautiful affiliates carry out our mission at the state, county and local community levels. Our network was strengthened in 2018 with the addition of 14 new community affiliates—including Baltimore, Maryland, and Rochester, New York—in 11 states. By engaging millions of volunteers and promoting individual responsibility and collective action, our network unlocks a community’s potential by offering innovative programs that address an array of diverse local needs. For every dollar invested by local government, Keep America Beautiful affiliates significantly multiply the impact of that investment in goods, services, volunteer engagement and public awareness in the community. Overall, Keep America Beautiful and our affiliates delivered more than $386 million in community benefits to the communities and people we served in 2018.
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ALABAMA Keep Alabama Beautiful Hartselle Beautification Association Keep Albertville Beautiful Keep Athens-Limestone Beautiful Keep Auburn Beautiful Keep Birmingham Beautiful Commission Keep Daphne Beautiful Keep Etowah Beautiful Keep Guntersville Beautiful, Inc. Keep Mobile Beautiful Keep Opelika Beautiful, Inc. Keep Phenix City Beautiful Keep Saraland Beautiful Keep The Shoals Beautiful Keep Troy Beautiful Keep Tuscaloosa Beautiful Keep Vestavia Hills Beautiful Montgomery Clean City Commission Operation Green Team/ Keeping Huntsville Beautiful
ARIZONA Keep Arizona Beautiful Keep Casa Grande Beautiful Keep Phoenix Beautiful Keep Scottsdale Beautiful
ARKANSAS Keep Arkansas Beautiful Keep Bryant Beautiful Keep Camden Beautiful Keep Clarksville Beautiful Keep El Dorado Beautiful Keep Fayetteville Beautiful Keep Fort Smith Beautiful Keep Jacksonville Beautiful Keep Little Rock Beautiful Keep North Little Rock Beautiful Keep Ozark Beautiful Keep Sherwood Beautiful Keep Van Buren Beautiful Keep West Memphis Beautiful Pine Bluff/Jefferson Co Clean & Beautiful
CALIFORNIA Keep California Beautiful I Love a Clean San Diego, Inc. Keep Bakersfield Beautiful
Keep Downey Beautiful Keep Glendale Beautiful Keep Los Angeles Beautiful Keep Moreno Valley Beautiful Keep Oakland Beautiful Keep Riverside Clean & Beautiful Keep San Jose Beautiful Looking Good Santa Barbara
COLORADO Keep Colorado Springs Beautiful, Inc. Keep Denver Beautiful Keep Edgewater Beautiful Keep Englewood Beautiful Keep Milliken Beautiful Keep Pueblo Beautiful Assoc. Keep Thornton Beautiful Keep Woodland Park Beautiful
CONNECTICUT Keep New Milford Beautiful Keep Norwalk Beautiful Knox Park Foundation
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Keep Washington DC Beautiful
DELAWARE Keep Delaware Beautiful
FLORIDA Keep Florida Beautiful Keep Alachua County Beautiful Keep Broward Beautiful Keep Brevard Beautiful, Inc. Keep Calhoun County Beautiful, Inc. Keep Charlotte Beautiful, Inc. Keep Citrus County Beautiful, Inc. Keep Clay Beautiful, Inc. Keep Collier Beautiful, Inc. Keep Ft. Pierce Beautiful Keep Highlands County Beautiful Keep Highway Park Beautiful Keep Indian River Beautiful Keep Jacksonville Beautiful Keep Key West Beautiful Keep Lake County Beautiful Keep Lake Placid Beautiful ::: 4 5 :::
Keep Lee County Beautiful, Inc. Keep Miami Beautiful Keep Miami Gardens Beautiful Keep Manatee Beautiful, Inc. Keep Martin Beautiful Keep Nassau Beautiful, Inc. Keep North Miami Beautiful Keep Orlando Beautiful Keep Palm Beach County Beautiful Keep Panama City Beach beautiful Keep Pasco Beautiful Keep Pensacola Beautiful, Inc. Keep Pinellas Beautiful, Inc. Keep Polk County Beautiful, Inc. Keep Port St. Lucie Beautiful Keep Putnam Beautiful, Inc. Keep Sarasota County Beautiful Keep Tallahassee Beautiful Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful Keep Taylor County Beautiful Keep Volusia County Beautiful Keep Wakulla Beautiful Keep Winter Haven Clean and Beautiful Keep Winter Park Beautiful Lakeland Clean and Beautiful Santa Rosa Clean Community System, Inc.
GEORGIA Keep Georgia Beautiful Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful Inc. Keep Albany-Daugherty Beautiful Keep Alpharetta Beautiful Keep Atlanta Beautiful Commission Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful Keep Barrow Beautiful Keep Bartow Beautiful Keep Carroll Beautiful Keep Chatham County Beautiful Keep Chatsworth-Murray Beautiful Keep Charlton Beautiful Keep Cobb Beautiful Keep Columbia County Beautiful Keep Columbus Beautiful Commission Keep Conyers-Rockdale Beautiful Keep Covington/Newton Beautiful Keep Crisp Beautiful Keep Dade Beautiful Keep Dawson County Beautiful Keep Decatur County Beautiful Keep Dekalb Beautiful, Inc. Keep Douglas County Beautiful Keep Douglasville Beautiful Keep Dublin/Laurens Beautiful, Inc. Keep East Point Beautiful
COMMITMENT AND SUPPORT
Keep Effingham County Beautiful, Inc. Keep Elbert County Beautiful Keep Forest Park Beautiful Keep Forsyth County Beautiful Keep Fort Stewart/Hunter Army Airfield Beautiful Keep Golden Isles Beautiful Keep Grady County Beautiful Keep Habersham Beautiful Keep Hall Beautiful Keep Haralson Beautiful Keep Jackson County Beautiful Keep Jones Beach Beautiful Commission Keep Kennesaw Beautiful Keep Liberty County Beautiful Keep Lowndes/Valstoda Beautiful Keep Macon-Bibb Beautiful Commission Keep Madison County Beautiful Keep Marietta Beautiful Keep McIntosh Beautiful Keep Meriwether County Beautiful Keep Milledgeville and Baldwin County Beautiful Keep Morgan County Beautiful Keep Newman Beautiful Keep North Fulton Beautiful, Inc. Keep Oconee County Beautiful Commission Keep Our Mountains Beautiful Keep Paulding Beautiful Keep Peach County Beautiful Keep Peachtree City Beautiful, Inc. Keep Pembroke Beautiful Keep Pickens Beautiful Keep Polk Beautiful Keep Randolph County Beautiful Keep Roberta/Crawford Beautiful Keep Rome/Floyd Beautiful Keep Roswell Beautiful Keep Savannah Beautiful Keep Screven Beautiful Keep Smyrna Beautiful Keep South Fulton Beautiful, Inc. Keep Statesborough-Bulloch Beautiful Keep Sumter Beautiful Keep Thomas County Beautiful Keep Tift Beautiful Keep Toccoa-Stephens Beautiful Keep Troup Beautiful Keep Walton Beautiful Keep Ware County Beautiful Keep Warner Robins Beautiful Keep Vienna Beautiful
HAWAII Keep The Hawaiian Islands Beautiful Keep Hawaii Beautiful Keep Honolulu Beautiful Keep Kalaupapa Settlement Beautiful Malama Maui Nui Nani ‘O Wai Anae KAB Program
ILLINOIS Keep Illinois Beautiful, Inc. Keep Carbondale Beautiful, Inc. Keep Centralia Beautiful, Clean & Green Keep Champaign Beautiful Keep Midlothian Beautiful Keep Moline Beautiful Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful Keep Oak Park Beautiful Keep Peoria Beautiful Keep Rock Island Beautiful Keep Salem Beautiful Keep Vermilion County Beautiful Keep West Cook Beautiful
INDIANA Keep Brown County Beautiful Keep Evansville Beautiful Keep Indianapolis Beautiful Keep Stockwell Beautiful Keep Terre Haute Beautiful
IOWA Keep Iowa Beautiful Keep Columbus Beautiful Keep Council Bluffs Beautiful Keep Northeast Nebraska Beautiful Keep Scott County Beautiful/ILiveHere
KANSAS Keep America Beautiful Topeka/Shawnee County Keep Dodge City Beautiful Operation Brightside, Inc.
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Keep Covington Kenton County Beautiful Keep Lexington-Fayette County Beautiful Keep The Bluegrass Beautiful Pride, Inc.
LOUISIANA Keep Louisiana Beautiful, Inc. Keep Abbeville Beautiful Keep Abita Beautiful Keep Ascension Beautiful Keep Assumption Beautiful Keep Baton Rouge Beautiful, Inc. Keep Bossier Beautiful Keep Calcasieu Beautiful Keep Cenla Beautiful Keep Covington Beautiful Keep Deridder Beautiful Keep Desoto Beautiful Keep East Feliciana Parish Beautiful Keep Eunice Beautiful Keep Evangeline Beautiful Keep Grambling Beautiful Keep Greater Lake Charles Beautiful Keep Hammond Beautiful Keep Jefferson Parish Beautiful Keep Lacombe Beautiful Keep Lafayette Beautiful Keep Lincoln Parish Beautiful Keep Livingston Parish Beautiful Keep Madisonville Beautiful Keep Monroe Beautiful Keep Morehouse Beautiful Keep Natchitoches Beautiful Keep New Orleans Beautiful Keep New Roads Beautiful Keep Opelousas Beautiful Keep Ouachita Parish Beautiful Keep Pearl River Beautiful Keep Slidell Beautiful Keep St. James Beautiful Keep St. John Beautiful Keep St. Martin Beautiful Keep St. Mary Parish Beautiful Keep St. Tammany Beautiful Keep Tangipahoa Parish Beautiful Keep Terrebonne Beautiful Keep Union Beautiful Keep Vernon Parish Beautiful Keep Washington Parish Beautiful Keep West Baton Rouge Beautiful Keep West Feliciana Beautiful Keep West Monroe Beautiful Shreveport Green
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MARYLAND Keep Maryland Beautiful Keep Annapolis Beautiful Keep Baltimore Beautiful Keep Prince George’s County Beautiful
MASSACHUSETTS Keep Massachusetts Beautiful Keep Mansfield Beautiful Keep Natick Beautiful Keep North Attleborough Beautiful Keep Springfield Beautiful
MICHIGAN Keep Michigan Beautiful, Inc. Keep Detroit Beautiful Keep Genesee County Beautiful
MISSISSIPPI Keep Mississippi Beautiful/PAL Keep Bay Saint Louis Beautiful Keep Byram Beautiful Keep Canton Beautiful Keep Clarksdale Beautiful Keep Cleveland Beautiful Keep Clinton Beautiful Keep Columbia and Marion County Beautiful Keep Columbus/Lowndes Keep Copiah County Beautiful, Inc. Keep Corinth-Alcorn Beautiful Keep Desoto County Beautiful Keep Diamondhead Beautiful Keep Flora Beautiful Keep Greenville Beautiful Keep Harrison County Beautiful Keep Hattiesburg Beautiful, Inc. Keep Indianola Beautiful Keep Jackson Beautiful, Inc. Keep Jones County Beautiful Keep Kosciusko Beautiful Keep Leake County Beautiful, Inc. Keep Lincoln County Beautiful Keep Madison The City Beautiful Keep Mendenhall Beautiful Keep Meridian/Lauderdale County Beautiful
Keep Monroe County Beautiful Keep Morton Beautiful Keep Natchez/Adams County Beautiful Keep New Albany/Union County Beautiful Keep Oxford/Lafayette County Beautiful Keep Pascagoula Beautiful Keep Pearl Beautiful Keep Picayune Beautiful Keep Pike County Beautiful Keep Ridgeland Beautiful Keep Simpson County Beautiful, Inc. Keep Starkville Beautiful Keep The Rez Beautiful Keep Tupelo Beautiful Keep Vicksburg Beautiful Keep Waveland Keep Yazoo City Beautiful
MISSOURI Keep Cape Beautiful Keep Kansas City Beautiful
MONTANA Bright & Beautiful Keep Miles City Beautiful
NEBRASKA Keep Nebraska Beautiful Grand Island Area Clean Community System Keep Alliance Beautiful Keep Beatrice Beautiful Keep Cass County Beautiful Keep Chadron Beautiful Keep Columbus Beautiful Keep Creighton Beautiful Keep Freemont Beautiful Keep Keith County Beautiful Keep Kimball Beautiful Keep Lexington Beautiful Keep Lincoln & Lancaster County Beautiful Keep Loup Basin Beautiful Keep Nebraska City Beautiful Keep Norfolk Beautiful Keep North Platte/Lincoln County Beautiful Keep Omaha Beautiful, Inc. Keep Rushville Beautiful Keep Schuyler Beautiful Keep Scottsbluff-Gering Beautiful Keep Sidney Beautiful
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NEVADA Keep Las Vegas Beautiful Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful
NEW JERSEY Keep Jersey City Beautiful
NEW MEXICO New Mexico Clean & Beautiful Artesia Clean and Beautiful Farmington Clean & Beautiful Keep Alamogordo Beautiful Keep Albuquerque Beautiful Keep Bloomfield Beautiful Keep Bosque Farms Beautiful Keep Carlsbad Beautiful Keep Chaves Beautiful Keep Clovis Beautiful Keep Dona Ana County Beautiful Keep Gallup Beautiful Keep Las Cruces Beautiful Keep Las Vegas Beautiful Keep Luna County Beautiful Keep Rio Rancho Beautiful Keep Roswell Beautiful Keep Ruidoso Beautiful Keep Ruidoso Downs Beautiful Keep Santa Fe Beautiful Keep Tucumcari Beautiful Keep Tularosa Beautiful Keep Valencia County Beautiful
NEW YORK Glen Cover Beautification Commission Keep Albany Beautiful Keep America Beautiful of Rome Keep Brookhaven Beautiful Keep Islip Clean, Inc. Keep Mohawk Valley Beautiful Keep New York City Beautiful Keep Rochester Beautiful Keep Rockland Beautiful Keep Western New York Beautiful
NORTH CAROLINA Keep North Carolina Beautiful
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Greensboro Beautiful, Inc. Keep America Beautiful of Nash/ Edgecombe Co. Keep Ashe Beautiful Keep Belmont Beautiful Keep Bessemer Beautiful Keep Bladen Beautiful Keep Brunswick County Beautiful Keep Catawba County Beautiful Keep Charlotte Beautiful Keep Clay County Beautiful Keep Davidson County Beautiful Keep Durham Beautiful Keep Eden Beautiful Keep Fayetteville Beautiful Keep Franklin Beautiful Keep Gastonia Beautiful Keep Greenville Beautiful Keep High Point Beautiful Keep Iredell Clean/KAB Keep Maxton Beautiful Keep McDowell Beautiful, Inc. Keep Mecklenburg Beautiful Keep Moore County Beautiful Keep New Hanover County Beautiful Keep Onslow Beautiful Keep Randolph County Beautiful Keep Richmond County Beautiful Keep Shelby Beautiful Keep Wilkes Beautiful Keep Wilson County Beautiful Keep Winston-Salem Beautiful, Inc. Wake County Keep America Beautiful
OHIO Keep Ohio Beautiful City of Cuyahoga Falls, Litter Prevention & Recycling City of Newark Litter Prevention & Recycling Geneva Clean and Green Green Youngstown Hancock County SWMD Environmental Services Keep Akron Beautiful Keep Allen County Beautiful Keep Alliance Beautiful Keep Belmont and Jefferson Beautiful Keep Cincinnati Beautiful, Inc. Keep Clark County Beautiful Keep Clermont County Beautiful Keep Cleveland Beautiful Keep Columbus Beautiful Keep Darke County Beautiful Keep Defiance Beautiful
Keep Delaware County Beautiful Keep Euclid Beautiful Keep Grove City Beautiful Keep Hardin County Beautiful Keep Hilliard Clean & Green Keep Hudson Beautiful Keep Knox County Beautiful Keep Lake Milton Clean & Beautiful Keep Lakewood Beautiful Keep Logan County Beautiful Keep Lorain County Beautiful Keep The Mahoning Valley Beautiful, Inc. Keep Marion County Beautiful Keep Mayfield Heights Beautiful Keep Mentor Beautiful Keep Middletown Beautiful, Inc. Keep Montgomery County Beautiful Keep Morrow County Beautiful Keep Perrysburg Beautiful Keep Reynoldsburg Beautiful Keep Southeast Ohio Beautiful Keep Toledo/Lucas County Beautiful, Inc. Keep Whitehall Beautiful Keep Wickliffe Beautiful
OKLAHOMA Keep Oklahoma Beautiful Ardmore Beautification Council, Inc. Keep Broken Arrow Beautiful Keep McAlester Beautiful Oklahoma City Beautiful, Inc.
PENNSYLVANIA Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Keep Allentown Beautiful Keep Blair County Beautiful Keep Centre County Beautiful Keep Chester County Beautiful Keep Erie County Beautiful Keep Harrisburg/Dauphin County Beautiful Keep Lancaster County Beautiful Keep Norristown Beautiful Keep Northeast Pennsylvania Beautiful Keep Philadelphia Beautiful Keep Pittsburgh Beautiful Keep York Beautiful Reading Beautification, Inc. Westmoreland Cleanways and Recycling
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SOUTH CAROLINA Keep South Carolina Beautiful Keep Aiken County Beautiful Keep America Beautiful of Anderson County Keep Bamberg County Beautiful Keep Beaufort County Beautiful Keep Berkeley County Beautiful Keep Charleston Beautiful Keep Colleton County Beautiful Keep Darlington County Beautiful Keep Dorchester County Beautiful Keep Edisto Beautiful Keep Florence Beautiful Keep Georgetown Beautiful Keep Greenville County Beautiful Keep Greenwood County Beautiful Keep Hampton County Beautiful Keep Hanahan Beautiful Keep Horry County Beautiful Keep The Midlands Beautiful Keep Newberry Beautiful Keep North Charleston Beautiful Keep North Myrtle Beach Beautiful Keep Oconee Beautiful Association Keep Orangeburg County Beautiful Keep Williamsburg Beautiful Keep York County Beautiful Rock Hill Clean and Green Sumter County Keep America Beautiful
SOUTH DAKOTA Keep Yankton Beautiful, Inc.
TENNESSEE Keep Tennessee Beautiful Keep Anderson County Beautiful Keep Bartlett Beautiful Keep Blount Beautiful Keep Bristol Beautiful Keep Carter County Beautiful Keep Chester County Beautiful Keep Cleveland & Bradley County Beautiful Keep Cocke County Beautiful Keep Coffee County Beautiful Keep Fayetteville/Lincoln County Beautiful Keep Greene Beautiful Keep Henry County Beautiful Keep Jackson Beautiful Keep Johnson City Beautiful Keep Jonesborough Beautiful Keep Kingsport Beautiful
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Keep Knoxville Beautiful, Inc. Keep Lakeland Beautiful Keep Maury Beautiful Keep McMinn Beautiful Keep McNairy County Beautiful Keep Monroe County Beautiful, Inc. Keep Morristown Hamblem Beautiful, Inc. Keep Putnam County Beautiful Keep Roane Litter Free (KAB) Keep Sevier Beautiful Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful Keep Tipton County Beautiful Keep Union County Beautiful Keep Williamson Beautiful Memphis City Beautiful Commission Metro Beautification & Environmental Commission Scenic Cities Beautiful Cmsn/ Chattanooga KAB
TEXAS Keep Texas Beautiful Angelina Beautiful/Clean, Inc. Keep Abilene Beautiful Keep Allentown Beautiful Keep Alpine Beautiful Keep Alvin Beautiful Keep Angleton Beautiful Keep Arlington Beautiful Keep Athens Beautiful Keep Aubrey Beautiful Keep Austin Beautiful Keep Beaumont Beautiful Keep Big Spring Beautiful Keep Brazos Beautiful, Inc. Keep Brownwood Beautiful Keep Brownsville Beautiful Keep Burleson Beautiful Keep Cedar Hill Beautiful Keep Colleyville Beautiful Keep Coppell Beautiful Keep Copperas Cove Beautiful Keep Corpus Christi Beautiful Keep Cuero Beautiful Keep Dallas Beautiful, Inc. Keep Denison Beautiful Keep Denton Beautiful, Inc. Keep Dickinson Beautiful Keep Duncanville Beautiful Keep El Paso Beautiful, Inc. Keep Fort Worth Beautiful Keep Galveston Beautiful Keep Garland Beautiful Keep Grand Prairie Beautiful
Keep Grapevine Beautiful Keep Greenville Beautiful Keep Haltom City Beautiful Keep Harlingen Beautiful Keep Houston Beautiful Keep Irving Beautiful Keep Katy Beautiful Keep Killeen Beautiful Keep Lake Jackson Beautiful Keep Laredo Beautiful Keep Lewisville Beautiful Keep Longview Beautiful Keep Lubbock Beautiful, Inc. Keep McAllen Beautiful, Inc. Keep Mesquite Beautiful, Inc. Keep Midland Beautiful Keep Muenster Beautiful Keep Nacogdoches Beautiful Keep Odessa Beautiful Keep Pearland Beautiful Keep Plano Beautiful Keep Port Arkansas Beautiful, Inc. Keep Richland Hills Beautiful Keep Richwood Beautiful Keep Rowlett Beautiful Keep San Antonio Beautiful Keep San Saba Beautiful Commission Keep Sanger Beautiful Keep South Padre Island Beautiful Keep Southlake Beautiful Keep Sugar Land Beautiful Keep Temple Beautiful Keep Tyler Beautiful Keep Utopia Beautiful Keep Van Alstyne Beautiful Keep Victoria Beautiful Keep Waco Beautiful, Inc. Keep Weston Lakes Beautiful Keep Whitehouse Beautiful Keep Wichita Falls Beautiful
VIRGINIA Keep Virginia Beautiful, Inc. City of Chesapeake Hampton Clean City Commission Keep Buchanan County Beautiful Keep Hopewell Beautiful Keep James City County Beautiful Keep Norfolk Beautiful Keep Portsmouth Beautiful Keep Prince William Beautiful, Inc. Keep Southwest Virginia Beautiful Keep Suffolk Beautiful Keep Virginia Beach beautiful
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Keep Wise County Beautiful Keep York County Beautiful Newport News Public Works Recycling Richmond Clean City Commission Waste Watchers of the Eastern Shore
WEST VIRGINIA Keep West Virginia Beautiful Keep Fayetteville Beautiful
WISCONSIN Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful, Inc.
WYOMING Keep Casper Beautiful Keep Gillette Beautiful International KAB Affiliates
BAHAMAS Bahamas National Pride Association Keep Abaco Beautiful
BERMUDA Keep Bermuda Beautiful
CANADA Keep Hamilton Beautiful Take Pride Winnipeg!
About Keep America Beautiful Keep America Beautiful® envisions a country in which every community is a clean, green, and beautiful place to live. The organization provides the expertise, programs and resources to help End Littering, Improve Recycling, and Beautify America’s Communities, and is driven by the work and passion of more than 600 state and community-based affiliates, millions of volunteers, and the support of corporate partners, social and civic service organizations, academia, municipalities, elected officials, and individuals.
OUR MISSION To inspire and educate people to take action every day to improve and beautify their community environment.
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