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FORM A KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL AFFILIATE

There are more than 580 cities, towns, counties and states — and even international communities — that are implementing the Keep America Beautiful System as certified affiliates of KAB. Here are the steps to becoming a KAB affiliate.

For more information about KAB affiliation, contact April Buther Wennerstrom, director, training & affiliate services, at (203) 659-3036.

Is your community ready to become a Keep America Beautiful affiliate?

The KAB affiliate certification process includes:

Step 1: Gain Community-wide Support

Complete an Application for Certification
Payment of a One-Time Certification Fee
Invite Community into the Process

Step 2: Pre-certification

Pre-certification Workshop
Complete KAB Certification Requirements

Step 3: Certification

Certification Training

Maintaining Certification

2010-07-26 Times Daily

Weather doesn't halt Handy Fest

FLORENCE -- Tangela Middlebrooks pointed to the stage on the lawn of the W.C. Handy Home and Museum to illustrate why she loves the opening ceremonies of the...

2010-07-26 Radio Iowa

Grants available to help small towns Keep Iowa Beautiful

A fund of 200-thousand dollars for community beautification grants is now set aside and Iowas smaller towns can apply for a share of the cash. Jerry Schnepf, executive director of Keep Iowa Beautiful, says communities with fewer than five-thousand residents can get grants of up to five...

2010-07-25 WBIR.com

Goats brought in to eat Kudzu above Chapman Highway

Fifty goats were brought in to Fort Dickerson Sunday afternoon to chow down on the Kudzu above Chapman Highway as a part of a natural eradication of the destructive...

2010-07-25 The News Star (AP)

Windows reveal community's pain

Does graffiti or littering encourage other bad behavior, like stealing? Many community developers believe the answer is yes. Landmark research by social scientists James Wilson and George Kelling carried out in 1982 hypothesized that broken windows, littering and graffiti sent a signal that people could do..

2010-07-25 Reporter News (AP)

Keeping Abilene beautiful keeps organization busy

For longtime Keep Abilene Beautiful member Malcolm Bramlett, the organizations worth amounts to far more than crape myrtles and daffodils. Since its controversial 1997 crape myrtle-planting campaign, the organization has been responsible for numerous improvements, including the buffaloes that.

2010-07-24 Omaha.com

Council Bluffs garden flourishes

Excitement seems to be growing at the new Council Bluffs community garden, according to Sandy Hull, director of Keep Council Bluffs Beautiful. I feel were off to a good start, she said this...

2010-07-23 The Times-Picayune (AP)

KSB gets grant to alleviate cigarette litter

Keep Slidell Beautiful recently received a $1,500 grant from Keep America Beautiful to start a Cigarette Litter Prevention program in the Camellia...

2010-07-23 Individual.com

Clay fair recycled almost 7,000 pounds of waste this year: Several organizations teamed up to keep trash out of landfill.

Through a partnership with Waste Management, Keep Clay Beautiful and the Clay County Department of Environmental Services, the Clay County Agricultural Fair implemented a formal recycling program this year, diverting waste from the landfill and educating the public at the same...

2010-07-23 Indianapolis Business Journal

Key city highway to be closed for beautification project

One the citys vital arteries for logistics and commuting is scheduled to be blocked for 12 hours during the heart of the work day on Oct. 7. For construction? A head of state? To clear a 50-car pileup...

2010-07-23 Stamford Advocate

Teens make their mark in Las Cruces with mural

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) Aaron Ordaz, a former tagger, used his experience Thursday to beautify a wall at San Jose Cemetery, in Las Cruces' Mesquite Historic...

2010-07-22 Chron.com (AP)

Want to garden but don't have time or energy? Try containers

2010-07-22 The Philadelphia Inquirer

Phila. tops in statewide cleanup effort

Volunteers in Philadelphia picked up more than 3.7 million pounds of trash during the Great American Cleanup of PA, officials announced today. More than 59,000 city volunteers took part in the cleanup, which ran from March 1 to May 31, said PennDOT Secretary Allen...

2010-07-22 Madera Tribune

Boys and Girls Club receives recycling grant

OAKHURST - The Boys and Girls Club of Oakhurst has received a $500 seed grant from Keep American Beautiful for paper recycling. Boys and Girls Clubs across America submitted applications to start a paper recycling program or expand one already in...

2010-07-21 Rome News-Tribune

Rome awarded grant for Burwell Creek project

Keep Rome Floyd Beautiful Director Mary Hardin Thornton shows technical documents involving the Burwell Creek restoration project to County Commissioners (from left) Eddie Lumsden and Irwin Bagwell and Keith Gilmer of the Soil and Water Conservation...