Keep Big Spring Beautiful Honored by Keep America Beautiful
for High Performance Achieved in 2010
Local Organization Recognized as Among the “Best of the Best” Nationwide
Big Spring – (Dec. 10, 2010) – Keep Big Spring Beautiful received Keep America Beautiful President’s Circle Award at the President’s Circle Award Luncheon, during Keep America Beautiful’s 57th annual National Conference in Orlando, Fla. The President’s Circle Award recognizes exemplary performance made by certified affiliates of the national nonprofit to reduce litter, minimize waste and recycle, and beautify their local communities.
In qualifying for a President’s Circle Award, Keep Big Spring Beautiful has met Keep America Beautiful’s standards of excellence by conducting an annual Litter Index, calculating the affiliate’s cost/benefit ratio, and engaging volunteers to take greater responsibility for their community environment. In addition, award recipients must conduct activities in Keep America Beautiful’s three core focus areas of litter prevention, recycling and waste reduction, and beautification/community greening.
“One of Keep America Beautiful’s most effective tools is the work of our grassroots network of affiliate organizations, which has an impact on millions of Americans each year,” said Keep America Beautiful President and CEO Matthew M. McKenna. “Our affiliates are providing real solutions to problems like litter, graffiti, illegal dumping and other community blights. By engaging people of all ages in community improvement efforts, Keep Big Spring Beautiful is represented among the best in promoting the values Keep America Beautiful espouses nationally.”
Litter Index: The Keep America Beautiful Litter Index is a tool used by KAB affiliates to measure litter from year to year, identify “hot spots,” and track their progress in remedying the problem. The tool uses a four-point Likert-type ordinal scale (ranging from 1 – no litter to 4 – extremely littered). The Litter Index can be applied to rural or urban areas of any population size. Each year, affiliates grade their communities during a drive-by examination of the same areas at the same time of the year. This provides an indication of the success of each community’s anti-littering education and other anti-littering programs Keep Big Spring Beautiful conducted its Litter Index this past August 26; Big Spring, Howard County rated a 2.26on the Litter Index.
Cost/Benefit Analysis: This measurement tool enables Keep America Beautiful affiliates to demonstrate their ability to leverage community resources by determining the dollar value returned to the community for every government dollar invested.
About Keep Big Spring Beautiful
Keep Big Spring Beautiful is a volunteer-based community action and education group whose purpose is to empower Big Spring citizens through education to take responsibility for enhancing their community environment. Keep Big Spring Beautiful meets at noon the first Monday of each month, in the Cactus Room at Howard College. Dues for individual members are $10 per year; non-profit organizations dues are $15 per year; for profit organizations are $25 per year. The public is invited to attend all meetings. Keep Big Spring Beautiful forms partnerships with businesses, church, civic, and education-related organizations, with a goal of educating all citizens about the need for and ways to prevent litter, recycle, reuse, and go green to protect environment and conserve resources. For additional information, visit www.keepbigspringbeautiful.org
About Keep America Beautiful, Inc.
Keep America Beautiful, Inc., established in 1953, is the nation's largest volunteer-based community action and education organization. With a network of more than 1,200 affiliate and participating organizations, Keep America Beautiful forms public-private partnerships and programs that engage individuals to take greater responsibility for improving their community environments. For additional information, visit www.kab.org.
REMINDER!
Keep Big Spring Beautiful
Monthly Meeting
Howard College - Cactus Room
Monday, Febuary 7, 2011
12:00 noon
Just pay Jan at the door and get your meal as you come in for the meeting.....
Salad Bar $5.00
Full Buffet $6.00
Don’t forget your dues $10.00; non-profit organizations $15; and for-profit organizations $25.
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EVERYONE is encouraged to deposit their aluminum cans at 2000 S. Goliad St. (place cans in big basket container near the blue dumpster in the south parking lot.)
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Keep Big Spring Beautiful gets “Gold Star” Recognition
Keep Big Spring Beautiful once again received “Gold Star” recognition from Keep Texas Beautiful. The status is an important honor for our local organization because it indicates that we are active in many ways in promoting, educating and DOING beautification in the community. Keep Big Spring Beautiful regularly conducts education and training, submits activity reports and organizes community clean-ups like “Love Our Lake” and the “Trash Off”. This and more, plus payment of dues to Keep Texas Beautiful are what make Keep Big Spring Beautiful eligible for the special “Gold Star” recognition. Congratulations to the K.B.S.B. organization, and all the volunteers who continue to help KEEP Big Spring Beautiful!
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TEXAS BRINGS HOME NATIONAL BEAUTIFICATION AWARDS
(AUSTIN, TEXAS) - Keep America Beautiful, the nation's largest
volunteer-based community action and education organization, recently
recognized Texas organizations, schools, and agencies with 19 national
awards for their commitment to beautification, waste reduction, and litter
prevention.
Go to
www.ktb.org/press/07kabwinners.htm to
read and to see a list of winners.
