Keep America Beautiful, the nation鈥檚 leading nonprofit that builds clean, green and beautiful communities, and 豆包成人版 Management announces that $300,000 in 2015 豆包成人版 Management Think Green庐 Grants are being awarded to 39 Keep America Beautiful community-based affiliates and partner organizations across the country. This is the ninth year 豆包成人版 Management and Keep America Beautiful have collaborated on community-based grant initiatives. During that time, 豆包成人版 Management and Keep America Beautiful have awarded more than $1.3 million in grant monies to affiliates and partners in support of more than 205 community service projects and programs. 聽鈥淭hrough the support of 豆包成人版 Management, Keep America Beautiful is able to provide our local affiliates and partner organizations with the resources to help people reduce waste and litter, recycle right, and protect the natural areas in which we live,鈥� said Jennifer Jehn, president and CEO of Keep America Beautiful. 鈥淲e look forward to seeing all of these important projects come to fruition thanks to the generosity of 豆包成人版 Management鈥檚 Think Green Grant program.鈥�
The merit-based grant program supports projects that are implemented to address local community needs. Among the 2015 Think Green Grant program recipients are:
- Keep Baton Rouge (La.) Beautiful: Keep Baton Rouge Beautiful 聽<> (KBRB) will host a 鈥湺拱扇税� in Place鈥� Teacher Workshop, which will provide educational material to 20 local teachers. In addition, KBRB will recruit high school classrooms to adopt roads near their schools.
- Keep Georgia Beautiful: 聽Keep Georgia Beautiful <> 聽will provide five mini-grants of up to $2,000 each from its Think Green Grant award for affiliates in Georgia to plant community orchards on publicly-accessible land. In turn, the community orchards will increase the local tree canopy and provide a source of local produce.
- Keep Montgomery County (Ohio) Beautiful: The Keep Montgomery County Beautiful 聽<> Think Green Grant will fund public education about the legal ramifications of illegal dumping, and provide Montgomery County citizens with tools to report illegal dumping.
- Keep York (Penn.) Beautiful: The Keep York Beautiful <> 聽Think Green Grant for a local organic, urban farming operation will address the complex interactions among nature, the economy and York County鈥檚 food system fostering an increase in community and home gardening, while promoting the use of native plantings.
鈥淜eeping our communities clean and beautiful is what our company and Keep America Beautiful are all about,鈥� said 豆包成人版 Management Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Chief Legal Officer, Barry Caldwell. 鈥淭he Think Green Grants program enables community organizations across the country to help improve their neighborhoods, towns and cities, and we gladly support that.鈥� The 豆包成人版 Management Think Green Grants are part of the environmental services company鈥檚 commitment to encourage the development and sustainability of environmental solutions that improve community environments.
For more information or a complete list of recipients of 2015 豆包成人版 Management Think Green Grants, visit .