KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFULWHO WE AREWHAT WE DOTAKE ACTIONWHAT’S HAPPENINGDO BEAUTIFUL THINGSOUR GOALS The 2020 Keep America Beautiful National Litter Study is the most comprehensive study of litter in America. Since 1969 Keep America Beautiful has been the trusted source for scientifically rigorous, fact-based, non-partisan reporting on litter in America. At Keep America Beautiful, we believe in the shared responsibility to build

and maintain

KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL 2020 NATIONAL LITTER STUDY The 2020 Keep America Beautiful Litter Study is the most comprehensive study of litter in America. It is a follow up to the landmark 2009 study, which builds on a history of science-based litter research started by Keep America Beautiful in 1969. The study uses world class methodology and is led by academics, professional social scientists,

and

COMMUNITY GRANT OPPORTUNITIES Keep America Beautiful to Award over $1.2 Million in Community Improvement Grants . Keep America Beautiful®, the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization, has announced the launch of a new national grant program to support communities and its nearly 700-member affiliate network in preventing littering, promoting recycling, and building clean, green, and beautiful NEWS & HAPPENINGS FROM KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL The latest news from Keep America Beautiful. Sign up for our newsletter to stay up-to-date with everything happening around the country and in your community. 21 WAYS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 2021 GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP The Keep America Beautiful® Great American Cleanup® (GAC) is the nation’s largest community improvement program. The GAC, taking place in the spring (March 20-June 20), beautifies and unifies communities across the country in a grassroots spring-cleaning movement. Through the 2021 Great American Cleanup, Keep America Beautiful encourages all individuals to join the movement and KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL VOLUNTEER PORTAL Keep America Beautiful envisions a country where every community is a clean, green, and beautiful place to live. This is why we have programs, such as the Great American Cleanup® and America Recycles Day®, that strive to end littering, improve recycling, and beautify communities across the United Sates. With the power of our affiliate

network

WEBINAR SERIES: ZERO-WASTE COMMUNITIES Across the United States, businesses, investors, elected officials, regulators, consumers, and communities are coming together to explore the idea around a waste-free world. The Keep America Beautiful webinar series, “Exploring the Transition to Zero-Waste Communities,” is a 2021 convening discussion designed to explore the vision around re 2021 SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT CALENDAR JANUARY This document is a resource to assist during your 2021 social media planning. This kit contains a list of national days and months with accompanying hashtags , as well as one post per month. MEMPHIS CITY BEAUTIFUL COMMISSION GIVES NEW LIFE TO Memphis City Beautiful Commission partnered with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation to collect illegally dumped tires to be recycled into materials for a walking trail. In total, Memphis City Beautiful Commission along with its partners and hundreds of volunteers collected over 26,000 tires within 3 square miles of T.O BEING A GOOD NEIGHBOR: A GUIDE TO REDUCING AND MANAGING … Restaurateurs have a long and proud history of being good neighbors. Part of that history involves proper management of waste, including preventing and reducing litter in and KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFULWHO WE AREWHAT WE DOTAKE ACTIONWHAT’S HAPPENINGDO BEAUTIFUL THINGSOUR GOALS The 2020 Keep America Beautiful National Litter Study is the most comprehensive study of litter in America. Since 1969 Keep America Beautiful has been the trusted source for scientifically rigorous, fact-based, non-partisan reporting on litter in America. At Keep America Beautiful, we believe in the shared responsibility to build

and maintain

KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL 2020 NATIONAL LITTER STUDY The 2020 Keep America Beautiful Litter Study is the most comprehensive study of litter in America. It is a follow up to the landmark 2009 study, which builds on a history of science-based litter research started by Keep America Beautiful in 1969. The study uses world class methodology and is led by academics, professional social scientists,

and

COMMUNITY GRANT OPPORTUNITIES Keep America Beautiful to Award over $1.2 Million in Community Improvement Grants . Keep America Beautiful®, the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization, has announced the launch of a new national grant program to support communities and its nearly 700-member affiliate network in preventing littering, promoting recycling, and building clean, green, and beautiful NEWS & HAPPENINGS FROM KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL The latest news from Keep America Beautiful. Sign up for our newsletter to stay up-to-date with everything happening around the country and in your community. 21 WAYS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 2021 GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP The Keep America Beautiful® Great American Cleanup® (GAC) is the nation’s largest community improvement program. The GAC, taking place in the spring (March 20-June 20), beautifies and unifies communities across the country in a grassroots spring-cleaning movement. Through the 2021 Great American Cleanup, Keep America Beautiful encourages all individuals to join the movement and KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL VOLUNTEER PORTAL Keep America Beautiful envisions a country where every community is a clean, green, and beautiful place to live. This is why we have programs, such as the Great American Cleanup® and America Recycles Day®, that strive to end littering, improve recycling, and beautify communities across the United Sates. With the power of our affiliate

network

WEBINAR SERIES: ZERO-WASTE COMMUNITIES Across the United States, businesses, investors, elected officials, regulators, consumers, and communities are coming together to explore the idea around a waste-free world. The Keep America Beautiful webinar series, “Exploring the Transition to Zero-Waste Communities,” is a 2021 convening discussion designed to explore the vision around re 2021 SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT CALENDAR JANUARY This document is a resource to assist during your 2021 social media planning. This kit contains a list of national days and months with accompanying hashtags , as well as one post per month. MEMPHIS CITY BEAUTIFUL COMMISSION GIVES NEW LIFE TO Memphis City Beautiful Commission partnered with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation to collect illegally dumped tires to be recycled into materials for a walking trail. In total, Memphis City Beautiful Commission along with its partners and hundreds of volunteers collected over 26,000 tires within 3 square miles of T.O BEING A GOOD NEIGHBOR: A GUIDE TO REDUCING AND MANAGING … Restaurateurs have a long and proud history of being good neighbors. Part of that history involves proper management of waste, including preventing and reducing litter in and NEWS & HAPPENINGS FROM KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL The latest news from Keep America Beautiful. Sign up for our newsletter to stay up-to-date with everything happening around the country and in your community. EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FROM KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL Keep America Beautiful Education Programs. Education and behavior change are the cornerstones of Keep America Beautiful ®.We strive to educate and empower generations of community and environmental stewards with curricula and real-world experiences that teach the essentials of proactive community citizenship, including the preservation of our natural resources. NEW COMMUNITIES JOIN KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL AFFILIATE New communities across the country – and the world – continue to join the Keep America Beautiful® affiliate network. To become a certified Keep America Beautiful affiliate, interested groups must fulfill certain requirements, including trainings. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, affiliates certified after March 2020 were trained

virtually.

TEN WAYS TO CELEBRATE KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL MONTH It’s April – and that means it’s Keep America Beautiful® Month! As communities across the country practice social distancing, there are still ways to join the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization and make an impact in your community – virtually. Here are 10 ways to #DoBeautifulThings while keeping yourself and your neighbors healthy and KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL NATIONAL CONFERENCE DETAILS The Keep America Beautiful National Conference, our premier educational, training, and networking event, brings together hundreds of leaders from the nonprofit’s national network of community-based affiliates, civic and business leaders, policymakers, and other experts who share innovative ideas and proven strategies to help end littering, improve recycling, and beautify America’s communities. VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE NETHERLANDS' KEUKENHOF GARDENS Virtual Tour of The Netherlands’ Keukenhof Gardens. Take a spectacular virtual tour of the colorful view of tulips, daffodils, and other flowers blooming at The Netherlands’ beautiful Keukenhof Gardens! See beautiful nature and flowers recorded in 4K ultra HD resolution. We will bring Keukenhof to you! - Keukenhof Virtually

Open.

INTRODUCTION

Model Illegal Dumping and Litter Control Ordinance 3 E. Dead Animals.Animals or portions thereof equal to or greater than 15 pounds in weight that have expired from any cause, except those slaughtered or killed for human use or consumption. LITTER - KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL Litter in America Results from the nation’s largest litter study Key Findings: The Costs of Americans Littering The 2009 National Visible Litter Survey and Litter Cost Study* documents the direct and indirect

costs of litter

GRAFFITI PREVENTION: CREATING A COMMUNITY MURAL Graffiti Prevention: Creating a Community Mural Use a paint-brush mural to help keep graffiti off a wall that is chronically hit or has

a long history of

KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL Hey River North! RNRA is pleased to be participating in The Chicago Cross-Community Clean-Up on Saturday, May 1st with several other neighborhood communities. We’ll be removing trash from our sidewalks from Kinzie to Superior and Wells to State. This good-natured competition was created in partnership with Keep America Beautiful, SOAR, Go4th South Loop, Grand Boulevard Advisory Council KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFULWHO WE AREWHAT WE DOTAKE ACTIONWHAT’S HAPPENINGDO BEAUTIFUL THINGSOUR GOALS The 2020 Keep America Beautiful National Litter Study is the most comprehensive study of litter in America. Since 1969 Keep America Beautiful has been the trusted source for scientifically rigorous, fact-based, non-partisan reporting on litter in America. At Keep America Beautiful, we believe in the shared responsibility to build

and maintain

COMMUNITY GRANT OPPORTUNITIES Keep America Beautiful to Award over $1.2 Million in Community Improvement Grants . Keep America Beautiful®, the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization, has announced the launch of a new national grant program to support communities and its nearly 700-member affiliate network in preventing littering, promoting recycling, and building clean, green, and beautiful NEWS & HAPPENINGS FROM KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL The latest news from Keep America Beautiful. Sign up for our newsletter to stay up-to-date with everything happening around the country and in your community. KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL 2020 NATIONAL LITTER STUDY The 2020 Keep America Beautiful Litter Study is the most comprehensive study of litter in America. It is a follow up to the landmark 2009 study, which builds on a history of science-based litter research started by Keep America Beautiful in 1969. The study uses world class methodology and is led by academics, professional social scientists,

and

GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP PROGRAM The Great American Cleanup® unifies and beautifies communities across the country in a grassroots spring-cleaning movement. Celebrating its 23rd year, the most recent Great American Cleanup created 15,000 opportunities for millions of volunteers to have remarkable results – picking up millions of pounds of litter, cleaning over 100,000 acres of public spaces, and tens of thousands of miles 21 WAYS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 2021 GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP The Keep America Beautiful® Great American Cleanup® (GAC) is the nation’s largest community improvement program. The GAC, taking place in the spring (March 20-June 20), beautifies and unifies communities across the country in a grassroots spring-cleaning movement. Through the 2021 Great American Cleanup, Keep America Beautiful encourages all individuals to join the movement and KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL VOLUNTEER PORTAL Keep America Beautiful envisions a country where every community is a clean, green, and beautiful place to live. This is why we have programs, such as the Great American Cleanup® and America Recycles Day®, that strive to end littering, improve recycling, and beautify communities across the United Sates. With the power of our affiliate

network

2021 SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT CALENDAR JANUARY This document is a resource to assist during your 2021 social media planning. This kit contains a list of national days and months with accompanying hashtags , as well as one post per month. WEBINAR SERIES: ZERO-WASTE COMMUNITIES Across the United States, businesses, investors, elected officials, regulators, consumers, and communities are coming together to explore the idea around a waste-free world. The Keep America Beautiful webinar series, “Exploring the Transition to Zero-Waste Communities,” is a 2021 convening discussion designed to explore the vision around re MEMPHIS CITY BEAUTIFUL COMMISSION GIVES NEW LIFE TO Memphis City Beautiful Commission partnered with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation to collect illegally dumped tires to be recycled into materials for a walking trail. In total, Memphis City Beautiful Commission along with its partners and hundreds of volunteers collected over 26,000 tires within 3 square miles of T.O KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFULWHO WE AREWHAT WE DOTAKE ACTIONWHAT’S HAPPENINGDO BEAUTIFUL THINGSOUR GOALS The 2020 Keep America Beautiful National Litter Study is the most comprehensive study of litter in America. Since 1969 Keep America Beautiful has been the trusted source for scientifically rigorous, fact-based, non-partisan reporting on litter in America. At Keep America Beautiful, we believe in the shared responsibility to build

and maintain

COMMUNITY GRANT OPPORTUNITIES Keep America Beautiful to Award over $1.2 Million in Community Improvement Grants . Keep America Beautiful®, the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization, has announced the launch of a new national grant program to support communities and its nearly 700-member affiliate network in preventing littering, promoting recycling, and building clean, green, and beautiful NEWS & HAPPENINGS FROM KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL The latest news from Keep America Beautiful. Sign up for our newsletter to stay up-to-date with everything happening around the country and in your community. KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL 2020 NATIONAL LITTER STUDY The 2020 Keep America Beautiful Litter Study is the most comprehensive study of litter in America. It is a follow up to the landmark 2009 study, which builds on a history of science-based litter research started by Keep America Beautiful in 1969. The study uses world class methodology and is led by academics, professional social scientists,

and

GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP PROGRAM The Great American Cleanup® unifies and beautifies communities across the country in a grassroots spring-cleaning movement. Celebrating its 23rd year, the most recent Great American Cleanup created 15,000 opportunities for millions of volunteers to have remarkable results – picking up millions of pounds of litter, cleaning over 100,000 acres of public spaces, and tens of thousands of miles 21 WAYS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 2021 GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP The Keep America Beautiful® Great American Cleanup® (GAC) is the nation’s largest community improvement program. The GAC, taking place in the spring (March 20-June 20), beautifies and unifies communities across the country in a grassroots spring-cleaning movement. Through the 2021 Great American Cleanup, Keep America Beautiful encourages all individuals to join the movement and KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL VOLUNTEER PORTAL Keep America Beautiful envisions a country where every community is a clean, green, and beautiful place to live. This is why we have programs, such as the Great American Cleanup® and America Recycles Day®, that strive to end littering, improve recycling, and beautify communities across the United Sates. With the power of our affiliate

network

2021 SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT CALENDAR JANUARY This document is a resource to assist during your 2021 social media planning. This kit contains a list of national days and months with accompanying hashtags , as well as one post per month. WEBINAR SERIES: ZERO-WASTE COMMUNITIES Across the United States, businesses, investors, elected officials, regulators, consumers, and communities are coming together to explore the idea around a waste-free world. The Keep America Beautiful webinar series, “Exploring the Transition to Zero-Waste Communities,” is a 2021 convening discussion designed to explore the vision around re MEMPHIS CITY BEAUTIFUL COMMISSION GIVES NEW LIFE TO Memphis City Beautiful Commission partnered with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation to collect illegally dumped tires to be recycled into materials for a walking trail. In total, Memphis City Beautiful Commission along with its partners and hundreds of volunteers collected over 26,000 tires within 3 square miles of T.O NEWS & HAPPENINGS FROM KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL The latest news from Keep America Beautiful. Sign up for our newsletter to stay up-to-date with everything happening around the country and in your community. GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP PROGRAM The Great American Cleanup® unifies and beautifies communities across the country in a grassroots spring-cleaning movement. Celebrating its 23rd year, the most recent Great American Cleanup created 15,000 opportunities for millions of volunteers to have remarkable results – picking up millions of pounds of litter, cleaning over 100,000 acres of public spaces, and tens of thousands of miles EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FROM KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL Keep America Beautiful Education Programs. Education and behavior change are the cornerstones of Keep America Beautiful ®.We strive to educate and empower generations of community and environmental stewards with curricula and real-world experiences that teach the essentials of proactive community citizenship, including the preservation of our natural resources. LITTERING FACTS, RESOURCES & STATISTICS FROM KEEP AMERICA The organization’s 2020 Study is a follow-up to its landmark 2009 study, which builds on a history of science-based litter research started by Keep America Beautiful in 1969. Key findings include: Nearly 50 billion pieces of litter along U.S. roadways and waterways. Slightly more litter along waterways (25.9B) than roadways (23.7B) NEW COMMUNITIES JOIN KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL AFFILIATE New communities across the country – and the world – continue to join the Keep America Beautiful® affiliate network. To become a certified Keep America Beautiful affiliate, interested groups must fulfill certain requirements, including trainings. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, affiliates certified after March 2020 were trained

virtually.

TEN WAYS TO CELEBRATE KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL MONTH It’s April – and that means it’s Keep America Beautiful® Month! As communities across the country practice social distancing, there are still ways to join the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization and make an impact in your community – virtually. Here are 10 ways to #DoBeautifulThings while keeping yourself and your neighbors healthy and KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL NATIONAL CONFERENCE DETAILS The Keep America Beautiful National Conference, our premier educational, training, and networking event, brings together hundreds of leaders from the nonprofit’s national network of community-based affiliates, civic and business leaders, policymakers, and other experts who share innovative ideas and proven strategies to help end littering, improve recycling, and beautify America’s communities. KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL Keep America Beautiful is celebrating the Great American Cleanup’s 23rd year in 2021, between March 20 to June 20. As the country continues to deal with the pandemic, it is as important as ever to help end litter across our great nation. This means that we should all make sure that waste (including PPE) gets placed in the trash and we

all

INTRODUCTION

Model Illegal Dumping and Litter Control Ordinance 3 E. Dead Animals.Animals or portions thereof equal to or greater than 15 pounds in weight that have expired from any cause, except those slaughtered or killed for human use or consumption. GRAFFITI PREVENTION: CREATING A COMMUNITY MURAL Graffiti Prevention: Creating a Community Mural Use a paint-brush mural to help keep graffiti off a wall that is chronically hit or has

a long history of

KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFULWHO WE AREWHAT WE DOTAKE ACTIONWHAT’S HAPPENINGDO BEAUTIFUL THINGSOUR GOALS The 2020 Keep America Beautiful National Litter Study is the most comprehensive study of litter in America. Since 1969 Keep America Beautiful has been the trusted source for scientifically rigorous, fact-based, non-partisan reporting on litter in America. At Keep America Beautiful, we believe in the shared responsibility to build

and maintain

COMMUNITY GRANT OPPORTUNITIES Keep America Beautiful to Award over $1.2 Million in Community Improvement Grants . Keep America Beautiful®, the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization, has announced the launch of a new national grant program to support communities and its nearly 700-member affiliate network in preventing littering, promoting recycling, and building clean, green, and beautiful KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL 2020 NATIONAL LITTER STUDY The 2020 Keep America Beautiful Litter Study is the most comprehensive study of litter in America. It is a follow up to the landmark 2009 study, which builds on a history of science-based litter research started by Keep America Beautiful in 1969. The study uses world class methodology and is led by academics, professional social scientists,

and

21 WAYS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 2021 GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP The Keep America Beautiful® Great American Cleanup® (GAC) is the nation’s largest community improvement program. The GAC, taking place in the spring (March 20-June 20), beautifies and unifies communities across the country in a grassroots spring-cleaning movement. Through the 2021 Great American Cleanup, Keep America Beautiful encourages all individuals to join the movement and KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL Keep America Beautiful is celebrating the Great American Cleanup’s 23rd year in 2021, between March 20 to June 20. As the country continues to deal with the pandemic, it is as important as ever to help end litter across our great nation. This means that we should all make sure that waste (including PPE) gets placed in the trash and we

all

TEN WAYS TO CELEBRATE KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL MONTHKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL CITYKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL DCKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL GRANTKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL HISTORYKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL LITTERKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL LOGO It’s April – and that means it’s Keep America Beautiful® Month! As communities across the country practice social distancing, there are still ways to join the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization and make an impact in your community – virtually. Here are 10 ways to #DoBeautifulThings while keeping yourself and your neighbors healthy and KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL LAUNCHES COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT Community Improvement Grant Program Supported by Partner Diageo North America as Part of Keep America Beautiful Great American Cleanup. STAMFORD, Conn. (July 8, 2020) – Keep America Beautiful ®, the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization, in partnership with Diageo North America and its Diageo Community Activity and Relief Efforts (“Diageo C.A.R.E.s”) 2021 SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT CALENDAR JANUARY This document is a resource to assist during your 2021 social media planning. This kit contains a list of national days and months with accompanying hashtags , as well as one post per month. VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE NETHERLANDS' KEUKENHOF GARDENS Virtual Tour of The Netherlands’ Keukenhof Gardens. Take a spectacular virtual tour of the colorful view of tulips, daffodils, and other flowers blooming at The Netherlands’ beautiful Keukenhof Gardens! See beautiful nature and flowers recorded in 4K ultra HD resolution. We will bring Keukenhof to you! - Keukenhof Virtually

Open.

MEMPHIS CITY BEAUTIFUL COMMISSION GIVES NEW LIFE TO Memphis City Beautiful Commission partnered with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation to collect illegally dumped tires to be recycled into materials for a walking trail. In total, Memphis City Beautiful Commission along with its partners and hundreds of volunteers collected over 26,000 tires within 3 square miles of T.O KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFULWHO WE AREWHAT WE DOTAKE ACTIONWHAT’S HAPPENINGDO BEAUTIFUL THINGSOUR GOALS The 2020 Keep America Beautiful National Litter Study is the most comprehensive study of litter in America. Since 1969 Keep America Beautiful has been the trusted source for scientifically rigorous, fact-based, non-partisan reporting on litter in America. At Keep America Beautiful, we believe in the shared responsibility to build

and maintain

COMMUNITY GRANT OPPORTUNITIES Keep America Beautiful to Award over $1.2 Million in Community Improvement Grants . Keep America Beautiful®, the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization, has announced the launch of a new national grant program to support communities and its nearly 700-member affiliate network in preventing littering, promoting recycling, and building clean, green, and beautiful KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL 2020 NATIONAL LITTER STUDY The 2020 Keep America Beautiful Litter Study is the most comprehensive study of litter in America. It is a follow up to the landmark 2009 study, which builds on a history of science-based litter research started by Keep America Beautiful in 1969. The study uses world class methodology and is led by academics, professional social scientists,

and

21 WAYS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 2021 GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP The Keep America Beautiful® Great American Cleanup® (GAC) is the nation’s largest community improvement program. The GAC, taking place in the spring (March 20-June 20), beautifies and unifies communities across the country in a grassroots spring-cleaning movement. Through the 2021 Great American Cleanup, Keep America Beautiful encourages all individuals to join the movement and KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL Keep America Beautiful is celebrating the Great American Cleanup’s 23rd year in 2021, between March 20 to June 20. As the country continues to deal with the pandemic, it is as important as ever to help end litter across our great nation. This means that we should all make sure that waste (including PPE) gets placed in the trash and we

all

TEN WAYS TO CELEBRATE KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL MONTHKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL CITYKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL DCKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL GRANTKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL HISTORYKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL LITTERKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL LOGO It’s April – and that means it’s Keep America Beautiful® Month! As communities across the country practice social distancing, there are still ways to join the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization and make an impact in your community – virtually. Here are 10 ways to #DoBeautifulThings while keeping yourself and your neighbors healthy and KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL LAUNCHES COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT Community Improvement Grant Program Supported by Partner Diageo North America as Part of Keep America Beautiful Great American Cleanup. STAMFORD, Conn. (July 8, 2020) – Keep America Beautiful ®, the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization, in partnership with Diageo North America and its Diageo Community Activity and Relief Efforts (“Diageo C.A.R.E.s”) 2021 SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT CALENDAR JANUARY This document is a resource to assist during your 2021 social media planning. This kit contains a list of national days and months with accompanying hashtags , as well as one post per month. VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE NETHERLANDS' KEUKENHOF GARDENS Virtual Tour of The Netherlands’ Keukenhof Gardens. Take a spectacular virtual tour of the colorful view of tulips, daffodils, and other flowers blooming at The Netherlands’ beautiful Keukenhof Gardens! See beautiful nature and flowers recorded in 4K ultra HD resolution. We will bring Keukenhof to you! - Keukenhof Virtually

Open.

MEMPHIS CITY BEAUTIFUL COMMISSION GIVES NEW LIFE TO Memphis City Beautiful Commission partnered with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation to collect illegally dumped tires to be recycled into materials for a walking trail. In total, Memphis City Beautiful Commission along with its partners and hundreds of volunteers collected over 26,000 tires within 3 square miles of T.O GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP PROGRAM The Great American Cleanup® unifies and beautifies communities across the country in a grassroots spring-cleaning movement. Celebrating its 23rd year, the most recent Great American Cleanup created 15,000 opportunities for millions of volunteers to have remarkable results – picking up millions of pounds of litter, cleaning over 100,000 acres of public spaces, and tens of thousands of miles TEN WAYS TO CELEBRATE KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL MONTH It’s April – and that means it’s Keep America Beautiful® Month! As communities across the country practice social distancing, there are still ways to join the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization and make an impact in your community – virtually. Here are 10 ways to #DoBeautifulThings while keeping yourself and your neighbors healthy and CAREERS WITH KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL Founded in 1953, Keep America Beautiful is America’s premier community improvement organization. Keep America Beautiful continues to be the most credible organization in community restoration and resiliency by focusing on public education, mobilizing volunteers and creating partnerships. KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL LAUNCHES COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT Community Improvement Grant Program Supported by Partner Diageo North America as Part of Keep America Beautiful Great American Cleanup. STAMFORD, Conn. (July 8, 2020) – Keep America Beautiful ®, the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization, in partnership with Diageo North America and its Diageo Community Activity and Relief Efforts (“Diageo C.A.R.E.s”) KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL WEBINARS Join Keep America Beautiful on one of their webinars! Webinar Series Exploring the Transition to Zero-Waste Communities. Click below to learn more and sign up today for the webinar series “Exploring the Transition to Zero-Waste Communities” to hear from industry leaders, sustainability experts, and more as they discuss their journey to zero waste and define what it means for cities, towns KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL ANNUAL AWARDS Keep America Beautiful ® conducts two significant awards programs — the Vision for America Award, honoring corporate social responsibility among America’s leading corporations and considered among the most prestigious industry recognition, and our National Awards program, which celebrates achievements by Keep America Beautiful affiliates, individuals, and other community organizations. GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP EVENT DETAILS Advisory . Keep America Beautiful is celebrating the Great American Cleanup’s 23rd year in 2021, between March 20 th to June 20 th.As the country continues to deal with the pandemic, it is as important as ever to help end litter across our great nation. COMMUNITY RESTORATION & RESILIENCY FUND Motivated by the need caused by devastation from natural and environmental disasters, Keep America Beautiful ®, the nation’s iconic community improvement nonprofit organization, launched the Community Restoration and Resiliency Fund.. The fund, which is managed and administered by Keep America Beautiful, provides financial aid, technical support, in-kind donations and other resources to WEBINAR SERIES: ZERO-WASTE COMMUNITIES Across the United States, businesses, investors, elected officials, regulators, consumers, and communities are coming together to explore the idea around a waste-free world. The Keep America Beautiful webinar series, “Exploring the Transition to Zero-Waste Communities,” is a 2021 convening discussion designed to explore the vision around re KEEP MISSISSIPPI BEAUTIFUL CLEANS COMMUNITY AFTER RECORD After record-setting floods along the Pearl River in Mississippi left behind debris and litter, Keep Mississippi Beautiful (KMB) quickly mobilized volunteers – including Governor Tate Reeves and First Lady Elee Reeves – to help the hardest-hit places. Read more. KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFULWHO WE AREWHAT WE DOTAKE ACTIONWHAT’S HAPPENINGDO BEAUTIFUL THINGSOUR GOALS The 2020 Keep America Beautiful National Litter Study is the most comprehensive study of litter in America. Since 1969 Keep America Beautiful has been the trusted source for scientifically rigorous, fact-based, non-partisan reporting on litter in America. At Keep America Beautiful, we believe in the shared responsibility to build

and maintain

COMMUNITY GRANT OPPORTUNITIES Keep America Beautiful to Award over $1.2 Million in Community Improvement Grants . Keep America Beautiful®, the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization, has announced the launch of a new national grant program to support communities and its nearly 700-member affiliate network in preventing littering, promoting recycling, and building clean, green, and beautiful KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL 2020 NATIONAL LITTER STUDY The 2020 Keep America Beautiful Litter Study is the most comprehensive study of litter in America. It is a follow up to the landmark 2009 study, which builds on a history of science-based litter research started by Keep America Beautiful in 1969. The study uses world class methodology and is led by academics, professional social scientists,

and

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FROM KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFULKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL AFFILIATESKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL CITYKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL GRANTSKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL MONTH Keep America Beautiful Education Programs. Education and behavior change are the cornerstones of Keep America Beautiful ®.We strive to educate and empower generations of community and environmental stewards with curricula and real-world experiences that teach the essentials of proactive community citizenship, including the preservation of our natural resources. 21 WAYS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 2021 GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP The Keep America Beautiful® Great American Cleanup® (GAC) is the nation’s largest community improvement program. The GAC, taking place in the spring (March 20-June 20), beautifies and unifies communities across the country in a grassroots spring-cleaning movement. Through the 2021 Great American Cleanup, Keep America Beautiful encourages all individuals to join the movement and KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL VOLUNTEER PORTAL Keep America Beautiful envisions a country where every community is a clean, green, and beautiful place to live. This is why we have programs, such as the Great American Cleanup® and America Recycles Day®, that strive to end littering, improve recycling, and beautify communities across the United Sates. With the power of our affiliate

network

KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL Keep America Beautiful is celebrating the Great American Cleanup’s 23rd year in 2021, between March 20 to June 20. As the country continues to deal with the pandemic, it is as important as ever to help end litter across our great nation. This means that we should all make sure that waste (including PPE) gets placed in the trash and we

all

COMMUNITY RESTORATION & RESILIENCY FUND Motivated by the need caused by devastation from natural and environmental disasters, Keep America Beautiful ®, the nation’s iconic community improvement nonprofit organization, launched the Community Restoration and Resiliency Fund.. The fund, which is managed and administered by Keep America Beautiful, provides financial aid, technical support, in-kind donations and other resources to VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE NETHERLANDS' KEUKENHOF GARDENS Virtual Tour of The Netherlands’ Keukenhof Gardens. Take a spectacular virtual tour of the colorful view of tulips, daffodils, and other flowers blooming at The Netherlands’ beautiful Keukenhof Gardens! See beautiful nature and flowers recorded in 4K ultra HD resolution. We will bring Keukenhof to you! - Keukenhof Virtually

Open.

MEMPHIS CITY BEAUTIFUL COMMISSION GIVES NEW LIFE TO Memphis City Beautiful Commission partnered with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation to collect illegally dumped tires to be recycled into materials for a walking trail. In total, Memphis City Beautiful Commission along with its partners and hundreds of volunteers collected over 26,000 tires within 3 square miles of T.O KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFULWHO WE AREWHAT WE DOTAKE ACTIONWHAT’S HAPPENINGDO BEAUTIFUL THINGSOUR GOALS The 2020 Keep America Beautiful National Litter Study is the most comprehensive study of litter in America. Since 1969 Keep America Beautiful has been the trusted source for scientifically rigorous, fact-based, non-partisan reporting on litter in America. At Keep America Beautiful, we believe in the shared responsibility to build

and maintain

COMMUNITY GRANT OPPORTUNITIES Keep America Beautiful to Award over $1.2 Million in Community Improvement Grants . Keep America Beautiful®, the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization, has announced the launch of a new national grant program to support communities and its nearly 700-member affiliate network in preventing littering, promoting recycling, and building clean, green, and beautiful KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL 2020 NATIONAL LITTER STUDY The 2020 Keep America Beautiful Litter Study is the most comprehensive study of litter in America. It is a follow up to the landmark 2009 study, which builds on a history of science-based litter research started by Keep America Beautiful in 1969. The study uses world class methodology and is led by academics, professional social scientists,

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EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FROM KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFULKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL AFFILIATESKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL CITYKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL GRANTSKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL MONTH Keep America Beautiful Education Programs. Education and behavior change are the cornerstones of Keep America Beautiful ®.We strive to educate and empower generations of community and environmental stewards with curricula and real-world experiences that teach the essentials of proactive community citizenship, including the preservation of our natural resources. 21 WAYS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 2021 GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP The Keep America Beautiful® Great American Cleanup® (GAC) is the nation’s largest community improvement program. The GAC, taking place in the spring (March 20-June 20), beautifies and unifies communities across the country in a grassroots spring-cleaning movement. Through the 2021 Great American Cleanup, Keep America Beautiful encourages all individuals to join the movement and KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL VOLUNTEER PORTAL Keep America Beautiful envisions a country where every community is a clean, green, and beautiful place to live. This is why we have programs, such as the Great American Cleanup® and America Recycles Day®, that strive to end littering, improve recycling, and beautify communities across the United Sates. With the power of our affiliate

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KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL Keep America Beautiful is celebrating the Great American Cleanup’s 23rd year in 2021, between March 20 to June 20. As the country continues to deal with the pandemic, it is as important as ever to help end litter across our great nation. This means that we should all make sure that waste (including PPE) gets placed in the trash and we

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COMMUNITY RESTORATION & RESILIENCY FUND Motivated by the need caused by devastation from natural and environmental disasters, Keep America Beautiful ®, the nation’s iconic community improvement nonprofit organization, launched the Community Restoration and Resiliency Fund.. The fund, which is managed and administered by Keep America Beautiful, provides financial aid, technical support, in-kind donations and other resources to VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE NETHERLANDS' KEUKENHOF GARDENS Virtual Tour of The Netherlands’ Keukenhof Gardens. Take a spectacular virtual tour of the colorful view of tulips, daffodils, and other flowers blooming at The Netherlands’ beautiful Keukenhof Gardens! See beautiful nature and flowers recorded in 4K ultra HD resolution. We will bring Keukenhof to you! - Keukenhof Virtually

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MEMPHIS CITY BEAUTIFUL COMMISSION GIVES NEW LIFE TO Memphis City Beautiful Commission partnered with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation to collect illegally dumped tires to be recycled into materials for a walking trail. In total, Memphis City Beautiful Commission along with its partners and hundreds of volunteers collected over 26,000 tires within 3 square miles of T.O NEWS & HAPPENINGS FROM KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL The latest news from Keep America Beautiful. Sign up for our newsletter to stay up-to-date with everything happening around the country and in your community. ABOUT KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL A leading national nonprofit, Keep America Beautiful inspires and educates people to take action every day to improve and beautify their community environment. We envision a country in which every community is a clean, green, and beautiful place to live. Established in 1953, Keep America Beautiful provides the expertise, programs and resources EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FROM KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL Keep America Beautiful Education Programs. Education and behavior change are the cornerstones of Keep America Beautiful ®.We strive to educate and empower generations of community and environmental stewards with curricula and real-world experiences that teach the essentials of proactive community citizenship, including the preservation of our natural resources. GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP PROGRAM The Great American Cleanup® unifies and beautifies communities across the country in a grassroots spring-cleaning movement. Celebrating its 23rd year, the most recent Great American Cleanup created 15,000 opportunities for millions of volunteers to have remarkable results – picking up millions of pounds of litter, cleaning over 100,000 acres of public spaces, and tens of thousands of miles EVENTS FROM KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL National Conference. The Keep America Beautiful National Conference is the premier annual educational and training forum presented for the benefit of the Keep America Beautiful national affiliate network, volunteers and partner organizations. 21 WAYS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 2021 GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP The Keep America Beautiful® Great American Cleanup® (GAC) is the nation’s largest community improvement program. The GAC, taking place in the spring (March 20-June 20), beautifies and unifies communities across the country in a grassroots spring-cleaning movement. Through the 2021 Great American Cleanup, Keep America Beautiful encourages all individuals to join the movement and CAREERS WITH KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL Founded in 1953, Keep America Beautiful is America’s premier community improvement organization. Keep America Beautiful continues to be the most credible organization in community restoration and resiliency by focusing on public education, mobilizing volunteers and creating partnerships. KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL LAUNCHES COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT Community Improvement Grant Program Supported by Partner Diageo North America as Part of Keep America Beautiful Great American Cleanup STAMFORD, Conn. (July 8, 2020) – Keep America Beautiful®, the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization, in partnership with Diageo North America and its Diageo Community Activity and Relief Efforts (“Diageo C.A.R.E.s”) WEBINAR SERIES: ZERO-WASTE COMMUNITIES Across the United States, businesses, investors, elected officials, regulators, consumers, and communities are coming together to explore the idea around a waste-free world. The Keep America Beautiful webinar series, “Exploring the Transition to Zero-Waste Communities,” is a 2021 convening discussion designed to explore the vision around re KEEP MISSISSIPPI BEAUTIFUL CLEANS COMMUNITY AFTER RECORD After record-setting floods along the Pearl River in Mississippi left behind debris and litter, Keep Mississippi Beautiful (KMB) quickly mobilized volunteers – including Governor Tate Reeves and First Lady Elee Reeves – to help the hardest-hit places. Read more.

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We believe in the shared American responsibility to build and maintain clean, green, and beautiful spaces. That’s why we take action every day to improve and beautify communities across America.

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For more than six decades, we’ve served as our country’s steward of litter prevention. Today, we’ve collected over 62 million pounds of litter and debris.

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