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  Keep Oakland Beautiful - Volunteer Opportunities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Keep Oakland Beautiful is an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful (KAB), a national nonprofit organization.
Measurability and accountability are cornerstones of Keep America Beautiful, Inc. (KAB) and its affiliates.  KAB’s Litter Index is an essential part of the planning and education process to address the littered conditions of cities nationwide.
Keep Oakland Beautiful is housed in the Department of Facilities and Environment > Keep Oakland Clean and Beautiful Division.
www.keepoaklandbeautiful.com   (506 words)

  
 Keep America Beautiful - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Keep America Beautiful, Inc. is a national non-profit group that promotes "engaging individuals to take great responsibility for improving their local community environments." [1]
KAB is a network of affiliate organisations including towns, cities, counties and states that develop and implement local and regional programs.
Keep America Beautiful was founded in 1953 by group of businessmen from the beverage and packaging industries who were concerned that government would make them responsible for solving the litter problem by regulating their industries.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Keep_America_Beautiful   (677 words)

  
 Keep Ohio Beautiful - keepohiobeautiful.us | KOB Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Keep Ohio Beautiful, Inc. (KOB) is a state-level nonprofit organization empowering Ohio communities to take greater responsibility for improving their environment through litter prevention, beautification and waste reduction.
Keep Ohio Beautiful supports and promotes all Keep America Beautiful litter prevention, community improvement education programs, and awareness events and campaigns through Ohio KAB Affiliates.
Keep Alliance Beautiful, Keep Wickliffe Beautiful, Keep Toledo/Lucas County Beautiful and Jefferson County Recycling and Litter Prevention.
www.keepohiobeautiful.us   (450 words)

  
 Keep America Beautiful   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The keystone of Keep America Beautiful is its success at changing individual behavior and attitudes about litter—from cigarette butts and misplaced trash to abandoned cars.
For over 50 years, Keep America Beautiful and its over 500 affiliates in cities across America have proven the value of this process for reducing litter and making lasting community improvements.
Keep solid waste where it belongs: reduce, reuse, and recycle.
www.kabtoolbox.org   (410 words)

  
 Keep Iowa Beautiful   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Keep Iowa Beautiful is not a legislating or lobbying organization.
The Keep Iowa Beautiful board of directors is comprised of dedicated Iowans who are proud to support the KIB mission.
Keep Iowa Beautiful is a 501c(3) charitable organization financed through donations of both in-kind materials/services and dollar donations from individuals, foundations, organizations and corporations.
www.keepiowabeautiful.com /facts.html   (383 words)

  
 Keep America Beautiful Inc. Hometown U.S.A. Award
KAB was founded in 1953 as a private organization with the purpose of building and sustaining a national cleanliness ethic.
Keep America Beautiful Day, which began in 1971 as "Scouting Keep America Beautiful Day," was originally cosponsored by KAB and Boy Scouts of America as a massive national cleanup and recycling program.
It originated in 1971 as "Scouting Keep America Beautiful Day." KAB Day was eventually extended to a weeklong observance (usually the fourth week of April).
www.scouting.org /boyscouts/resources/21-377/index.html   (942 words)

  
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Being a member of KAB is important in order to help further the program’s effectiveness and heighten public awareness of KAB in the community.
KAB’s efforts at improving our community through education on litter prevention, distribution of recycling information and beautification is of great benefit to our community.
KAB is an award winning, certified affiliate of the national organization Keep America Beautiful, Inc. and concentrates much of its efforts to public education in the areas of  litter prevention, proper solid waste handling, and beautification.
www.ktnb.org /morris.htm   (1295 words)

  
 Keep America Beautiful - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Keep America Beautiful, founded in 1953, is an organization best known for the famous "Crying Indian" public service advertisement (PSA) which launched on Earth Day in 1971.
Today, Keep America Beautiful is the nation's largest community improvement organization, with over 560 affiliate organizations (similar to local chapters) and over 15,000 participating communities in their signature annual event - the Great American Cleanup.
KAB focuses on three key issues: litter prevention, waste reduction (recycling) and community beautification (tree planting, community gardens).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Keep_America_Beautiful   (201 words)

  
 Keep America Beautiful   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Wilson County is an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, Inc., a national, non-profit, public education organization dedicated to improving waste handling practices in American communities.
KAB of Wilson County, housed and staffed by Wilson County, works with area volunteers to improve the visual environment of the county through litter abatement and beautification projects; to educate both children and adults about environmental issues affecting Wilson County, and to promote reuse, source reduction and recycling, particularly in the business community.
Annual Awards: KAB annually honors volunteer groups or individuals in the fields of recycling, litter pickup, beautification, environmental education and source reduction at their annual meeting in January.
www.wilson-co.com /kab.html   (537 words)

  
 Contact Keep Stamford Beautiful
Keep Stamford Beautiful, Inc. will enhance the quality of life and economic development of the community by instilling pride, positive attitude and behavior change regarding natural resource conservation, littering, recycling, proper solid waste management and beautification.
Keep Stamford Beautiful, Inc. completed the required certification process with Keep America Beautiful, Inc., and received affiliate status on November19, 1998.
Keep Stamford Beautiful, Inc. filed and received a 501(C)3 not for profit status from the Department of the Treasury.
www.keepstamfordbeautiful.org /contactus.htm   (108 words)

  
 Keep America Beautiful Affiliates :: NM Clean & Beautiful
These 20 programs are a part of more than 500 programs nationwide who have made the commitment to implement the Keep America Beautiful System in their communities, because they recognize the value and enjoy the benefits of the affiliate network — a network that provides responsible and long-term solutions to local quality of life issues.
Working with all segments of their communities, KAB affiliates can leverage public and private dollars, the talents and time of volunteers, and donated goods and services to maximum effect.
Currently, KAB affiliates are returning an average of $10 to their communities in the form of measurable benefits for every $1 of government monies invested in that local affiliate program.
www.nmcleanandbeautiful.org /about/affiliates.php   (190 words)

  
 Neighborhood Services - Keep America Beautiful
Keep America Beautiful, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating individuals about litter prevention and ways to reduce, reuse, recycle, and properly manage waste materials.
In qualifying for a President’s Circle Award, Keep Glendale Beautiful has met Keep America Beautiful’s standards of excellence by conducting an annual Litter Index and engaging volunteers to take greater responsibility for their community environment.
In addition, award recipients must conduct activities in Keep America Beautiful’s three core focus areas of litter prevention, waste reduction, and beautification/community improvement.
www.ns.ci.glendale.ca.us /kaba.asp   (218 words)

  
 KEEP ATLANTA BEAUTIFUL
Keep Atlanta Beautiful, an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, Inc., serves Atlanta by developing and implementing public education and community improvement programs that make a cleaner and greener Atlanta.
The Keep Atlanta Beautiful Board of Directors meets at noon on the third Tuesday of each month at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, 731 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30308.
Keep Atlanta Beautiful, Keep Georgia Beautiful, Home Depot, Davey Tree Expert Company, and 11 Alive participated in the 16th annual “Bring One for the Chipper” program and recycled 400 Christmas trees on January 7, 2006.
www.keepatlantabeautiful.org   (509 words)

  
 Keep America Beautiful The Nation's Largest Community Improvement Network
Keep America Beautiful volunteers launched the 2006 Great American Cleanup with their hands and their hearts as the nation's largest community improvement program swept into Biloxi, Miss., to help remove storm debris and clean up that hurricane ravaged area of the Gulf Coast on March 2.
"The Great American Cleanup embodies America's can-do spirit with millions of volunteers taking the environment into their own hands.  Americans are rallying together to clean up graffiti, eliminate litter and preserve our waterways to create a cleaner, safer and more beautiful environment for generations to come," said G. Raymond Empson, president of Keep America Beautiful.
In addition, according to a 2005 Keep America Beautiful survey, 92 percent of Great American Cleanup organizers noted that their communities, neighborhoods and residents felt safer after volunteers united to clean and beautify the local environment.
www.kab.org /programs.asp?id=291&rid=68   (501 words)

  
 Keep America Beautiful The Nation's Largest Community Improvement Network
The Scotts Company and Keep Orlando Beautiful create a community green space in Orlando.
Keep America Beautiful Salutes Winners of 2006 National Awards.
Keep America Beautiful® and Great American Cleanup ™ are registered trademarks of Keep America Beautiful, Inc.
www.kab.org   (109 words)

  
 KEEP NASSAU BEAUTIFUL, INC. Nassau County Florida
KNB is charitable and educational for the purpose of educating citizens in ways of improving the community’s appearance.
Establish and maintain a continuing litter control program utilizing the Keep America Beautiful System, a behavioral approach to changing attitudes and habits about proper solid waste handling.
Keep Nassau Beautiful, Inc. is a registered not-for-profit 501(c) 3 corporation.
www.keepnassaubeautiful.org   (248 words)

  
 Keep Athens Beautiful   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful to be honored as a
First Place Rogers Award Winner at Keep America Beautiful’s 52nd National Conference in Orlando, Florida on December 9, 2005 in the category of Local Televison Advertising for its "Cigarette Fairy" advertisement.
Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful was chosen for this award, in part, for its ability to create a collaborative force among a diversity of organizations and highlight an area of the community in need.
www.keepathensbeautiful.org /awards.html   (759 words)

  
 Keep Brevard Beautiful
Keep Brevard Beautiful values the personal satisfaction of the thousands of volunteers that take personal responsibility and work to maintain our beautiful, clean community.
We all generate trash, and to be a responsible and proud citizen we should be responsible for our own trash using the carry in carry out theory.
My name is Michael Hazlett and I am the President and CEO of American Recycled Plastic, Inc. I also proudly serve as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Keep Brevard Beautiful.
www.keepbrevardbeautiful.org   (417 words)

  
 Keep California Beautiful
The Keep America Beautiful Affiliate Awards have been announced and three of our California Affiliates have been recognized for their outstanding work.
Keep California Beautiful (KCB) is a statewide non-profit environmental education organization chartered by the state in 1990.
This year Garcia signed on, gratis, to be the poster boy for the “Don’t Trash California” campaign sponsored by Keep California Beautiful, the non-profit association charged with promoting litter prevention throughout the state by promoting individual responsibility.
www.keepcaliforniabeautiful.com /mediacenter.html   (1487 words)

  
 Keep Stamford Beautiful Projects
In Stamford, Keep Stamford Beautiful, Inc. has sponsored cleanups and daffodil planting in the South End, the West Side, Waterside, the Cove, Springdale and Glenbrook.
Keep Stamford Beautiful, Inc. will evaluate and coordinate the cleanups; providing bags, gloves, dumpsters, rakes brooms and shovels for the activity.
Keep Stamford Beautiful, in partnership with the Office of Operations, CLandP and SNET, will conduct a public awareness campaign regarding the posting of illegal signage.
www.keepstamfordbeautiful.org /projects.htm   (1014 words)

  
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Welcome to Keep Cocke County Beautiful's website, your information source for litter prevention, beautification and solid waste reduction.
And we believe that recycling is a choice that we can embrace to keep our landfill empty and hauling fees lower.
Keep Cocke County Beautiful is an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful.
www.keepcockecountybeautiful.com   (287 words)

  
 Keep Georgia Beautiful   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
At Keep Georgia Beautiful we know that clean land, water and air are important to Georgians.
Created by Governor George Busbee in 1978, Keep Georgia Beautiful, became the first state affiliate of Keep America Beautiful.
Become involved with your local KAB affiliate or contact us for more information on how you can improve your local environment.
www.keepgeorgiabeautiful.org /who_we_are.html   (289 words)

  
 Keep Columbus Beautiful
Keep Columbus Beautiful is a City of Columbus community improvement program that is a unique arm of the Refuse Collection Division of the Columbus Department of Public Service.
KAB specifically cited the Columbus organization for its construction and dedication in May of 2005 of the Children’s Green Space in Livingston Park adjacent to Children’s Hospital.
With more than 500 affiliates, Keep America Beautiful, Inc., is a national, non-profit public education organization dedicated to empowering local people to take responsibility for enhancing their community environment since 1953.
refuse.ci.columbus.oh.us /kcb   (368 words)

  
 Keep Pickens Beautiful
Keep Pickens Beautiful is a group of concerned citizens striving to develop a clean and beautiful environment for Pickens County.
A part of the Keep America Beautiful Program, KPB seeks to improve the quality of life by eliminating litter, recycling, beautification, education and increased public awareness.
Keep Pickens Beautiful is more than ten years old.
www.keeppickensbeautiful.com   (274 words)

  
 Keep Cincinnati Beautiful > Programs
In 2002, Keep America Beautiful asked its 500 Affiliates to plant Liberty Gardens in public spaces across the United States to honor those that died during 9/11 and in remembrance of all those who have paid, and are still paying, the ultimate price to keep us free.
Keep Cincinnati Beautiful is working with the Cincinnati Park Board to design and install Cincinnati's Liberty Garden on the small hillside above the Vietnam Memorial on St. James in Eden Park (corner of St. Paul and Alpine Place off of Victory Parkway.)
The Libery Garden would never have been possible were it not for a genereous donation from Keep Cincinnnati Board Member Christine Schoonover and her husband George Verkamp.
www.keepcincinnatibeautiful.org /Programs/liberty_garden.html   (241 words)

  
 Keep Sugar Land Beautiful: healthier, safer, more livable environment
KSLB, an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful and Keep Texas Beautiful, provides award-winning programs facilitated by volunteers, which help to motivate community members to improve their neighborhoods and create a more livable environment.
Keep Sugar Land Beautiful's 5th Annual Old West Sporting Clays Tournament will be held on Friday, February 16, 2007 at the American Shooting Center, 16500 Westheimer Parkway, Houston, Texas.
Keep Sugar Land Beautiful and the City of Sugar Land will hold their annual Christmas Tree Recycling Event on Saturday, January 6, 2007, at Eldridge Park.
www.kslb.org   (364 words)

  
 Uwharrie Chair Company "Keep America Beautiful" Childs Chair - Pine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Keep America Beautiful collection offers a graceful fan-back style on chairs and other seating pieces.
Hand-crafted from premium, kiln-dried pressure-treated pine, the Keep America Beautiful Collection will offer comfort and class for years to come.
Today the Uwharrie Mountains and Uwharrie National Forest are known for their abundance of wildlife, deep recreational lakes, and peaceful, natural beauty.
www.patiolife.com /pr/795/Keep_America_Beautiful_Childs_Chair.html   (495 words)

  
 Keep Ohio Beautiful - keepohiobeautiful.us | About Us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
This competitive program recognized individual, corporations, civic groups, government agencies and certified KAB communities, for their outstanding efforts in litter prevention, recycling and beautification.
In 1997, Keep America Beautiful honored the KOB's Executive Coordinator with the "Professional Leadership Award," given to a coordinator who has provided strong leadership to the local affiliates and promotes the KAB philosophy.
The volunteer board met at least quarterly to assure that KOB continued to be in good standing with KAB.
www.keepohiobeautiful.us /KOB_AboutUs.htm   (651 words)

  
 KEEP PHOENIX BEAUTIFUL
Keep Phoenix Beautiful is an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful and a non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization (formerly known as Phoenix Clean and Beautiful).
Keep Phoenix Beautiful has also formed a Litter Task Force made up of a cross section of business, industry, government, and associations that have come together to address the problem of litter in our community.
Keep Phoenix Beautiful thanks all of the wonderful volunteers that came out for our North Mountain Park event on March 25th.
phoenix.gov /ENVPGM/phxclean.html   (1821 words)

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