Why Become an Affiliate?

2. Why Become an Affiliate? Programs Resources Metrics

3. Keep America Beautiful Programs • Litter Prevention • Cigarette Litter Prevention • Littering is Wrong, Too

4. Keep Lexington Beautiful Cigarette Litter Prevention • $8,000 grants from Keep America Beautiful • Target: Hospitals, restaurants, golf course • Canisters, pocket ash trays, auto ash trays • 60-80% reduction in cigarette litter

5. How has Keep America Beautiful helped? Litter: Littering law changed • KLB sought change • Option for civil or criminal citation • 2012 General Assembly House Bill 63 • Ordinance 146-2012

6. Keep America Beautiful Programs • Beautification • Great American Cleanup  National Partners  Supplies • Graffiti Hurts  Grants

7. Great American Cleanup 2013  48 events  3005 volunteers  7,202 pounds of litter collected  30.5 miles of streets, roads, cleaned  35 acres of parks cleaned

8. Keep America Beautiful Programs Waste Reduction America Recycles Day IWanttobeRecycled Recycle-Bowl RecycleMania

9. Waste Reduction • 2013 America Recycles Day paper shred event • 570 cars, 27,000 pounds of paper shredded, recycled • 1,100 pounds of cardboard collected

10. Waste Reduction-Recycle-Bowl 2013 • 19 Public/Private schools competed • 4,180 pounds of aluminum cans collected • National competition: Lexington schools took 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th and 8th place in Kentucky • Partners: KLB, Wise Recycling, Central KY Fiber, City of Lexington

11. Keep America Beautiful Resources • Grants • Cigarette Litter Prevention • Waste Management Think Green • DOW Community Paint • UPS Community Tree Planting • Dr. Pepper/Snapple Public Park Recycling Bin • Troy Bilt Taking Root • Lowes Community Improvement

12. Lowes Community Improvement Richmond Road Stream Project • $20,000 grant in 2012: 84 tons of honeysuckle, 1.5 tons of trash removed, 100 native trees, shrubs planted • 2013: 40 volunteers removed .5 tons of trash, provided maintenance for trees & shrubs

13. 2013 Richmond Road

14. Keep America Beautiful Resources • Information  KAB Affiliate Forums  Webinars  National Conference  Staff  Social Media, story telling  KAB Youth Council

15. Keep America Beautiful Resources • National Partners  Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Lowes, DOW, GLAD, Phillips 66, Troy-Bilt, Waste Management, UPS, Altria, Alcoa, Dart, LG Electronics, Wrigley and more

16. Keep America Beautiful Metrics  Community Appearance Index  Great American Cleanup  Lowes Grant Survey  Cigarette Litter Prevention  Community Value-Annual Report

17. Community Value • 2013 – 52 events • Value of volunteers: $99,231.48 (Independent Sector) • In-kind donations: $3,950 • Private donations: $10,250 • Government costs: $11,150 • Cost-Benefit ratio: 10.18:1

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