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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
CONTACT: Josh Spradling
1-800-CLEAN-TX
Texas Brings Home National Beautification Awards
(AUSTIN, TEXAS) - Keep America Beautiful, the nation's largest volunteer-based community action and education organization, recently recognized Texas organizations, schools, and agencies with 19 national awards for their commitment to beautification, waste reduction, and litter prevention.
The Keep America Beautiful (KAB) Awards were handed out during the organization’s national conference in Washington D.C. this December to recognize the best of the best among its network of affiliates and volunteers across the country. The state affiliate Keep Texas Beautiful (KTB) was honored as a Diamond Level affiliate, one of only six state affiliates to receive such recognition, for its successful promotion of the KAB mission and program support to local community affiliates.
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) received two awards for its support of KTB - the Department of Transportation Partner Award and the Great American Cleanup Department of Transportation Partnership Award. The awards were created to recognize the high value KAB places on public-private partnerships. TxDOT annually partners with KTB and its more than 340 affiliate communities to support programs that remind Texans not to litter.
Community affiliates such as Keep Austin Beautiful, Keep Plano Beautiful, and Keep Houston Beautiful were awarded Affiliate Awards for their successful initiatives to educate the public about litter prevention and encourage grassroots volunteer efforts to clean and beautify communities. Numerous schools and organizations received additional awards for their efforts.
“Our community affiliates and volunteers are some of the most dedicated you will find anywhere,” KTB President Steve Hazlewood says. “They should inspire all of us to do our part to keep the great state of Texas a clean and beautiful place.” Hazlewood also noted that if you look into these communities they are very prosperous. "I believe there is a strong link between being a KTB/ KAB affiliate and economic prosperity for a community."
Like KAB, KTB holds a statewide awards program that recognizes the efforts made by individuals and groups to enhance their community and protect the Lone Star State’s environment. Keep Texas Beautiful is currently accepting 2008 KTB Awards nominations through February 19, 2008. For more information, visit www.ktb.org.
About Keep America Beautiful, Inc.
Keep America Beautiful, Inc., is the nation's largest volunteer-based community action and education organization. With a network of nearly 1,000 affiliate and participating organizations, Keep America Beautiful forms public-private partnerships and programs that engage individuals to take greater responsibility for improving their community environments. To learn more about Keep America Beautiful, visit www.kab.org.
About Keep Texas Beautiful
Keep Texas Beautiful, a statewide grassroots nonprofit, educates and engages Texans to take responsibility for improving their community environment. KTB works with government, businesses, civic groups, and volunteers to ensure that every Texan has the opportunity to take individual responsibility for making Texas the cleanest, most beautiful state in the nation. For more information visit www.ktb.org.
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2007 Keep America Beautiful National Awards
State Affiliate Recognition Award
Recognizing Keep America Beautiful State Affiliates who have successfully initiated the Keep America Beautiful State Affiliate Guidelines to promote the Keep America Beautiful mission statewide and offer program support to local affiliates.
Diamond Level
Keep Texas Beautiful
Department of Transportation Partner Award
These awards honor State DOTs for their support of Keep America Beautiful State Affiliates through joint Partnership Projects and exceptional programming.
Texas Department of Transportation
Great American Cleanup Department of Transportation Partnership Award
These awards honor State DOTs for their support of Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup.
Texas Department of Transportation
Affiliate Awards
Recognizing outstanding Keep America Beautiful Affiliates and their successful initiatives to educate the public about litter prevention and encourage grassroots volunteer efforts to clean and beautify communities, thereby improving the quality of life.
First Place
Keep Austin Beautiful Previously unrecognized (>200,000)
Keep Lake Jackson Beautiful Previously recognized (50,000 or less)
Second Place
Keep Plano Beautiful Previously unrecognized (>200,000)
Distinguished Service Citation
Keep Dickinson Beautiful Previously unrecognized (50,000 or less)
Keep Houston Beautiful Previously unrecognized (>200,000)
Keep Pearland Beautiful Previously recognized (50,001 -200,000)
National Awards for Beautification & Community Improvement
Recognizing outstanding programs that promote beautification and community improvement.
First Place
Travis Elementary, Grand Prairie Youth Group/School
Second Place
Grand Prairie High School A.P.E.S., Grand Prairie Youth Group/School
Distinguished Service Citation
Keep Plano Beautiful, Plano Government Agency
Dickinson Elementary, Grand Prairie Youth Group/School
National Awards for Litter Prevention
Recognizing outstanding programs that promote litter prevention through education, public awareness and hands-on learning.
First Place
Keep McAllen Beautiful, McAllen Nonprofit/Civic/Community Organizations
Dickinson Elementary, Grand Prairie Youth Group/School
National Awards for Waste Reduction
Recognizing outstanding programs that promote waste reduction through wise waste handling practices like reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Distinguished Service Citation
BVSWMA/City of College Station, College Station Government Agency\
Rogers Award
Recognizing Keep America Beautiful Affiliates and their partners' outstanding public service announcements that advance the local and national goals of Keep America Beautiful.
Distinguished Service Citation
Keep Haltom City Beautiful, Haltom City Local TV Advertising
Cigarette Litter Prevention Program Award
The Cigarette Litter Prevention Program (CLPP) is KAB’s broad-based effort to achieve significant reductions in cigarette butt litter, which is the largest source of litter in the U.S. Communities were cited for their efforts to engage public-private partnerships and use proven strategies to achieve substantial reductions in cigarette litter. First-Time Implementation (for communities that had their first CLPP during 2007) and Expanded Implementation (for communities that expanded a previously existing program) were given National Awards for their efforts.
First-time Implementation, Second Place
Keep Abilene Beautiful, Abilene
Great American Cleanup National Award
These awards honor Keep America Beautiful Affiliates for staging hands-on education programs, involving sponsor volunteers/products/services during their community improvement activities, and recognizing and document their support.
Outstanding Sponsor Support
Keep San Angelo Beautiful
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