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Keep Durham Beautiful

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Empowering volunteers to create a cleaner, greener Durham!

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Mission | Focus

Mission To engage and inspire individuals to take greater responsibility for their community environment Focus Areas Litter Prevention Waste Reduction and Recycling Community Greening: Trees and Gardens Beautification of Public Space Method Nonprofit working in collaboration to build public-private partnerships

• f service and funding

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Keep America Beautiful Affiliate

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Focus Areas

• Bee City USA opportunities
• Tree Giveaway Best Practices
• Certificate of Tree Dedication as

Funraiser

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Bee City USA

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Tree Giveaway Best Practices

1. Determine number of trees to give away 2. Determine funding sources 3. Select a giveaway location: 4. Create an online registration form 5. Reserve a percentage of trees for walk-up recipients – bring a registration form for the walk-ins to capture their location data and contact info 6. Have a list of the pre-registrants and their preferred trees to expedite 7. Have several binders of tree choices for people to look through and have people on hand who can talk through the choices knowledgeably 8. Distribute planting and tree care information, stakes, ties, mulch etc as needed and as possible 9. Good ideas

• 10. Handout
• 11. Follow up via email – remind those who received the tree to be sure they have planted it

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Tree Giveaway Best Practices

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Dedicate A Tree Certificate

Benefits Fundraiser Create engagement and goodwill with low maintenance Methods: Dedicate a Tree or a Pollinator Garden Network for Good Fundraising Platform

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Dedicate A Tree Certificate

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AmeriCorps Host Site

• 10 AmeriCorps Members in 5 Years
• service projects designed to remove barriers

limiting access to environmental education

• real-world, hands-on experience, professional

development, networking, community engagement and volunteerism

Funds Raised FY19

• $382,943 Annual Program Value
• $52,680 Unrestricted Donations
• $109,925 Grants and Restricted
• Fundraising Events
• KDB Golf Tournament
• Bull City Ciderworks
• Christmas Eve Fun Run
• Fullsteam Spelling Bee
• Bee Bash

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Project Examples

General Litter Prevention Tree Planting Pollinator Gardens Trail Building Cemetery Cleanups Waste Reduction Collaboration

Specific Big Sweep Creek Week Litter Index Earth Day Arbor Day Reuse Rodeo Tire Recycling Drive Tool Lending Library Adopt a Street | Stop Tree Giveaway Bulb Blitz Bee City USA Cigarette Litter Prevention

Litter Prevention

• 60,928 Lbs Litter Removed
• 1837 Bags of Trash Picked up
• 583 Bags of Recyclables

Diverted

• 6,944 Cigarette Butts Collected
• 187 Litter Cleanups
• 3,290 Volunteers Overall
• 7,706 Hours Volunteer Time

Community Tree Planting

• $8,775 Donated
• 550 Volunteers
• 48 Tree Keepers Trained
• 323 Trees on City Property
• 101 Trees on DPS and Private

Property

• 250 Trees Given Away through Arbor

Day Foundation Grant

• Locations Planted: Liberty St, Club

Blvd, Southside, E. Main St, Forest Hills Park, Pearsontown Elementary, Burton Park, Rogers Herr Middle, Morehead Elementary, N. Hyde Park

Pollinator Gardens

• 91 Volunteers contributed 328

hours in one garden alone

• 3910 Pollinator plants distributed

and planted at schools

• $1,250 Cash donated
• Locations Planted:
• Mangum Street
• Southside Neighborhood
• Sandy Creek Park
• Albright Community
• 13 DPS Schools
• NCCU Campus

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Cemetery Cleanups

Unclaimed Cemeteries Geer Cemetery Erwin Mills Cemetery Harris Cemetery City Cemeteries Tree Planting Litter Pickup Cost-share

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Recycling and Waste Reduction

Best Practices Schools Municipal Best Practices Plastic Film Compost Special Events Waste Wise Guide Volunteer Stations

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Big Sweep

www.durhambigsweep.org

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Cigarette Litter Prevention

Cigarette Litter Cleanups Durham Station Duke Hospital Partnerships CLPP KAB Grant $5,000 600 Pocket Ashtrays Outreach & Marketing Duke Center for Adv. Hindsight CLPP Task Force Ash receptacles (Voting!)

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Get Involved

Special Activities

• Litter cleanups, Cigarette Litter Prevention, Gardening, Tree

Planting Recycling

Adopt-a-spot

• Street, bus stop, stream, park

Adopt-a-Tree

• Planting, Watering, Staking, Tree Care

Community Projects and Grants

• Help neighborhoods, groups and schools beautify

community spaces Schools

• Recycling, Tree Planting, Community Gardening

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Keep Durham Beautiful engages Volunteers who take action in Durham communities to transform public spaces into Beautiful places

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