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Keep Texas Beautiful Partnership Keep Texas Beautiful Mission : To - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Keep Texas Beautiful Partnership Keep Texas Beautiful Mission : To - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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 :
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Community Affiliates - 373
Keep Midland Beautiful promoting the DMWT “Canpaign” Keep Midland Beautiful Keep Grapevine Beautiful Keep Henderson Beautiful
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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
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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
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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
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Engaging Youth
- Patch Program – supports youth volunteering
- Recycle-Bowl – promotes youth recycling in schools
- Awards – recognizes youth leadership
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Youth Programs
Waste In Place Enviroscapes
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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.
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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.
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Program Partnership
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