Keep Georgia Beautiful Fact Sheet

• There are 72 local affiliates in Georgia covering over 75% of the state's population. Click here for a map.
  
• Keep Georgia Beautiful is funded by a combination of public and private funds. Corporate funding, especially for special events, comes through KGB’s non-profit 501(c)(3) the Keep Georgia Beautiful Foundation. Other funding comes from the Department of Community Affairs’ annual budget and funds granted by the Environmental Protection Division from the state’s Solid Waste Trust Fund.
  
• Keep Georgia Beautiful implemented the first statewide rollout of Keep America Beautiful’s elementary and secondary curricula on litter prevention and solid waste management, Waste in Place (K-6) and Waste: A Hidden Resource (7-12), through teacher training workshops. With this program, Keep Georgia Beautiful is building an environmental stewardship ethic among tomorrow’s leaders. Further, this educational approach reaches more than the teachers and students by including parents and the community through continual outreach.
  
• According to Keep America Beautiful:

  1. Currently, for every dollar of public funds invested in local affiliate programs, citizens receive an average of $10 of value-added benefits measured by private contributions, donated volunteer time, in-kind goods and services and avoided costs to government.
  
  2. The average Keep America Beautiful Affiliate decreases litter by 48% within three years of becoming an active, certified affiliate.

• Keep Georgia Beautiful serves local officials as an informed resource on air and water quality issues. Partnering with the Department of Natural Resources Environmental Protection Division, Keep Georgia Beautiful supports the Adopt-A-Stream program and continues to play a key role in the annual River’s Alive stream and river cleanup.
  
• In 1998, Georgia Clean and Beautiful changed its name to Keep Georgia Beautiful to more clearly reflect its relationship with Keep America Beautiful.
  
• In 1999, Keep Georgia Beautiful expanded its annual cleanup campaign, Let’s Keep Georgia Peachy Clean and joined Keep America Beautiful in the Great American Cleanup. The program has grown each year and in 2004 more than 40,000 Georgians came together to improve their communities by picking up litter, holding recycling drives, planting trees, shrubs, and flowers and painting over graffiti.
  
• In 2000, Keep Georgia Beautiful created water toolkits to help educate citizens and government officials across the state about water pollution and conservation issues.
  
• In 2003, Keep Georgia Beautiful celebrated its 25th Anniversary. Special plans included a series of Radio PSAs with 25 Georgian’s with 25 Ways to Keep Georgia Beautiful, 25th Anniversary bookmarks, and Keep Georgia Mootiful an entry in the Atlanta Cow Parade. To download a copy of the bookmark, view the 25 Ways to Keep Georgia Beautiful and listen to the PSAs, click here.

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