Keep Texas Beautiful Partnership
Keep Texas Beautiful Mission : To educate and engage Texans to take responsibility for improving their community environment Vision : To make Texas the cleanest, most beautiful state in the nation Focus Areas : Litter Prevention, Waste Reduction and Beautification
Community Affiliates - 373 Keep Midland Beautiful promoting the DMWT “Canpaign” Keep Grapevine Beautiful Keep Midland Beautiful Keep Henderson Beautiful
Texas Population Growth Year Affiliates Population 1985 48 16 M 1990 100 17.25 M 1995 150 18.5 M 2000 200 19.75 M 2005 300 21 M 2014 373 26.624 M
Don’t mess With Texas Trash-Off • Spring signature event of the Great American Cleanup • KTB provides tools including trash bags, volunteer giveaways, banners and safety guidelines. • 3,700 cleanups, 114,344 volunteers, 18+ million pounds of trash and recyclables collected • Projected value to TxDOT of highway miles cleaned = $19,490,432
Awards • KTB Awards Program - for individuals, government, businesses, civic organizations, media, educators and youth • Governor’s Community Achievement Awards – First presented in 1970 – Ten population categories – $2,000,000 in landscape grants
Engaging Youth • Patch Program – supports youth volunteering • Recycle-Bowl – promotes youth recycling in schools • Awards – recognizes youth leadership
Youth Programs Waste In Place Enviroscapes
Don’t mess with Texas Art Contest Texas children share their passion against litter! Total number of entries - 6,568 Total number of schools who participated – 307 Total Number of communities who submitted entries – 187 KTB promoted, administered, secured prize sponsor, recognized winners and coordinated judging.
Training and Annual Conference • Training program – 81 trainings, 1,198 participants representing 484 different organizations. • Annual Conference - 459 attendees from 191 organizations, 31 educational sessions were offered TxDOT offered the following sessions: • • Don’t mess with Texas 101 • Sprucing Up Your Social Media • On the Road with Texas Highways Photo Editor Griff Smith • Community Adoption Programs • TxDOT’s staff provided audiovisual assistance and photography.
Program Partnership
Partnership Award Keep Texas Beautiful was honored to nominate TxDOT for national recognition: KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL, Inc. US STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 2013 PARTNERSHIP AWARD For exemplary contributions and support of Keep America Beautiful and its Great America Cleanup; the Nations Largest Community Improvement Program
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