The Buckroe Improvement League in Hampton, VA has been awarded a $500 Thirty in 30 grant in the Litter Prevention Category.  Their cigarette litter prevention plan for the beach is a great way to keep our Bay and Ocean free from the most littered item in the world; the cigarette butt.  They plan to educate their [...]

We’re excited to not only award these young out-of-the-box thinkers a “Thirty in 30” grant in the Recycling Category, but we would also like to award them for the most unique and creative recycling concept.  The Orange County High School Angler’s Club will be creating additional line and plastic worm recycling centers at their local marinas and [...]

Sustainable East End Development (SEED) in Richmond was awarded a Thirty in 30 grant for their work on the Church Hill Garden Project; The Roots of Woodsville Community Garden.  Their plans include adding extra seating, a new shaded picnic area, composting bins, construction of several raised beds, and water collection barrels to improve their existing community [...]

We’re giving away a Thirty in 30 Grant every day during June.  Today, we’re proud to award $500 to Potowmack Elementary School in Sterling in the Beautification Category. Potowmack Elementary School is going to expand their lunchroom recycling program.  The students, staff and parents realized that their school’s largest waste stream is generated in the cafeteria.  [...]

Nottoway Middle School (NMS) in Crewe has been awarded a $500 Thirty in 30 grant in the Beautification Category.  They will be constructing a community garden in the front entrance common area.  This garden will not only be used as an outdoor classroom for the NMS students, but also for the community.  Their plan not only [...]

The Frances Ashbury Elementary School PTA (FAES PTA) has a unique idea to beautify their school through recycling.  They will be creating a huge mural out of recycled plastic caps to hang on the school building in their under-utilized courtyard.  This mural will represent community pride and spirit, and create beauty in their school,  through the [...]

Grayson County Public Works (GCPW) wants to bring recycling to the Town of Troutdale.  So we are proud to award them a $500 Thirty in 30 Grant in the Recycling Category.  Currently, Troutdale has no recycling services, so GCPW would like to purchase several large, rolling recycling bins to start the community’s very first recycling center!  The [...]

Keep Prince William Beautiful (KPWB) plans to expand their Operation Clean Sweep Campaign.  This campaign includes 20 large scale community clean-ups annually, in conjunction with litter prevention education.  KPWB will use their Thirty in 30 grant funds to purchase some reusable, weather-proof safety signs and approximately 50 litter grabbers.  On the first clean-up of this campaign, [...]

      Stuarts Draft Middle School intends to start S.A.V.E. (Students Assisting Virginia’s Environment).  The first order of business for S.A.V.E. will be to implement a school-wide paper recycling program.  Currently, the school does not recycle anything on school grounds.  The students determined that paper is the biggest recyclable component to their waste stream, therefore it [...]

The Giving Garden Foundation cultivates advocacy for cancer patients residing in Gloucester and Mathews.  We are honored to award them today’s Keep Virginia Beautiful Thirty in 30 Grant in the Recycling category! In 2008, The Giving Garden Foundation launched the fundraising program, “Together we CAN advocate” .  This program collects and then recycles aluminum cans.  Since they started, they have recycled [...]

Woodley Hills Elementary School (WHES) in Alexandria has been awarded a $500 Thirty in 30 Grant in the Beautification category.  WHES has an exciting new approach to starting an outdoor classroom garden.  WHES plans to have each grade level plan, build, plant, and maintain a section of the garden.  What the students are studying in their [...]

Middlesex County has been awarded a $500 Thirty in 30 Grant in the Litter Prevention Category! The County plans to engage its middle and high schools students to design a sign that encourages community pride and sustainable litter prevention.  Middlesex has already gained the backing of the Department of Environmental Quality through its litter prevention fund [...]

Elizabeth Davis Middle School in Chester, Virginia is a very young school that would like to plant some roots.  Their past garden projects have not done well and after some investigating they discovered that poor soil quality throughout the school property hinders their efforts.  They have requested a grant to nourish their garden’s soil and infiltrate [...]

The Lynnhaven River Now Community Action Group from Virginia Beach has been awarded a $500 grant in the Litter Prevention Category.  The Lynnhaven River NOW (LRN) volunteers conduct over 12 river clean-ups and log over 1000 hours of time annually.  In 2012, LRN removed over 1000 bags of trash from the river, not including the countless [...]

Get your Litterbug Shirt! Wear part of history with our “retro” DON’T BE A LITTERBUG shirts for only$25….$15 of this campaign goes directly to KVB! Keep Virginia Beautiful is turning 60 this year, and we are taking a look back, as we leap forward. “Don’t be a litterbug!” You recognize the phrase. Chances are, you may [...]

Linwood Holton Elementary School in Richmond has been awarded a $500 Thirty in 30 grant in the Recycling Category.  The Thirty in 30 grant program focuses greater resources and attention on organizations and individual localities throughout the Commonwealth and how they are addressing the issues of litter prevention, recycling, waste reduction, beautification and education.   We provided the opportunity [...]

Clark Elementary School in Charlottesville, VA has been awarded a $500 grant in the Beautification Category.  Our Thirty in 30 grant program focuses greater resources and attention on organizations and individual localities throughout the Commonwealth and how they are addressing the issues of litter prevention, recycling, waste reduction, beautification and education.  We provided the opportunity for government, [...]

The Briar Woods High School Freshman Student Council Association in Ashburn, VA has been awarded a $500 grant in the Beautification Category.  The Thirty in 30 grant program focuses greater resources and attention on organizations and individual localities throughout the Commonwealth and how they are addressing the issues of litter prevention, recycling, waste reduction, beautification and education.  [...]

The following article originally appeared in Virginia Business.com By Joan Tupponce Mike Baum has vivid memories of Keep America Beautiful’s 1971 “Crying Indian” public-service announcement when he was growing up. One of the most successful advertising campaigns in history, the video ends with a tear running down the cheek of an American Indian after he examines the [...]