Become a Keep america beautiful Affiliate
Working together for a better tomorrow: the KAB Affiliate Network
Thinking about becoming a member of our 700-strong affiliate network? We’d love to have you join us!
Why become an affiliate?
Since 1953, Keep America Beautiful has provided a proven, successful replicable framework for neighborhoods, municipalities, and organizations across the nation that seek to End Littering, Improve Recycling and Beautify America’s communities. This framework is used by our affiliates to effect positive, long-lasting, meaningful change in their communities, whether small or large.
Our affiliates deliver innovative, locally-focused programs that address individual community needs. We provide a state-of-the-art communications and resource platform for our affiliates to share learning and best practices. The cloud-based hub allows affiliates to easily contact each other, upload and download resources, or reach out to our dedicated support staff members.
Keep Stockwell Beautiful: Keep America Beautiful’s Affiliate of the Month for May 2022
ike our previous Affiliate of the Month awardees, Keep Stockwell Beautiful is being recognized for the Innovation Award they received from KAB in 2020. The Keep America Beautiful Innovation Award salutes affiliates that have created innovative partnerships and programs to further the mission of Keep America Beautiful.
‘Recycle Like A Champion’: Anheuser-Busch’s ‘National Recycling League’ Aims To Eliminate Waste In Game Day with Keep America Beautiful®
April, 2022 Anheuser-Busch is uniting its sports team partners – including Major League Baseball and the National Football League – to launch the National Recycling League: a new, multi-sports league coalition aiming to reduce waste on game day with volunteers from...
‘Recycle Like a Champion’: Anheuser-Busch’s ‘National Recycling League’ Aims to Eliminate Waste on Game Day with Keep America Beautiful®
(April 12, 2022) – Anheuser-Busch is uniting its sports team partners – including Major League Baseball and the National Football League – to launch the National Recycling League: a new, multi-sports league coalition aiming to reduce waste on game day with volunteers from Keep America Beautiful®.
April is Keep America Beautiful® Month – 10 Ways to Take Action
Keep America Beautiful® Month in April celebrates the work led by our 700 state and community-based affiliates, local partners, businesses, public officials, and millions of passionate volunteers.
Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful: Keep America Beautiful’s Affiliate of the Month for April 2022
Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful is being recognized for the Innovation Award they received from KAB in 2020. Keep Dalton Whitfield Beautiful created a cost-effective and easy to implement method to create mural-inspired trash cans that decrease littering.
KAB Innovation Spotlight: Largest Network of Electric Skimmers Introduced in TN River; Potential to Remove 54K Pounds of Litter a Year
Keep America Beautiful is excited to announce the installation of 18 Seabins in the Tennessee River and some of its tributaries. This will make the area home to the largest network of electric litter skimmer devices in any river system in the world. The installation was made possible by two grants from KAB and the Tennessee Department of Transportation.
Top reasons to partner with Keep America Beautiful
National Credibility
Keep America Beautiful’s community-based affiliates represent urban, suburban, and rural communities ranging in geographic area, population and budget. They all share the same desire to engage their citizens in building and sustaining vibrant communities through litter prevention, recycling and waste reduction, beautification and greening.
Networking Opportunities
As an affiliate, you will be able to tap into the resources, knowledge and experience of thousands of peers who are implementing Keep America Beautiful’s behavior-change methodology and programs.
Training Opportunities
In addition to our regularly scheduled training meetings and webinars, Keep America Beautiful holds an annual National Conference, as well as many State Affiliate led Conferences where training opportunities are abundant.
Online Collaboration Tools
Keep America Beautiful affiliates are always in action, and often look for ongoing support in the form of easy-to-use and share toolkits, educational materials, and event how-to’s. The online collaboration tool suite developed exclusively for KAB’s affiliates allows for easy access to hundreds of resources and the opportunity to learn more about litter, recycling, beautification and restoration programs.
Community Grants, In-Kind Donations, and Special Initiatives
Keep America Beautiful’s partnerships with businesses provide significant funds and products to our affiliates that can be used for creating and expanding local community improvement programs. Recent national partner initiatives include grants for beautification, community greening, litter prevention, recycling (including bins), and more. In the last several years, KAB affiliates, through a competitive process, have received grants and in-kind services valued at more than $12 million. Get more information on our grant programs.
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