“From GREAT to GREATEST“

Greatest American Cleanup Campaign Digital Toolkit

March 20, 2025 – June 20, 2026

Spring is all about fresh starts—and there’s no better way to kick off the season than by spreading joy and making our communities more beautiful! Join us for the Greatest American Cleanup, the nation’s largest volunteer effort to clean up our streets, neighborhoods, and outdoor spaces. 

For the next 18 months, the GREAT American Cleanup becomes the GREATEST American Cleanup, bringing new energy and momentum to our movement. A cleaner, greener community doesn’t just look better—it makes us feel better too. This season, let’s shake off the winter blues, get outside, and make a lasting impact.  

Whether you’re organizing a cleanup, planting trees, or painting murals, your efforts will inspire others to join the cause. To help you get started, we’ve created this Digital Toolkit, packed with resources, messaging, and strategies to support your spring efforts. Let’s make this the Greatest spring cleanup yet!

Affiliates, hop on the Keep America Beautiful HUB at kab.org to access all the digital tools, forms, and campaign resources!

Leaders of Keep Mississippi Beautiful affiliates can find the latest announcements and forms on the KAB webpage.

Mississippi Affiliates Reach KAB President’s Circle in Record Numbers

Keep Mississippi Beautiful had a record number of KAB President’s Circle qualifiers in 2025! Affiliates conducted events, held board/committee meetings, paid their KAB dues, undertook required training, and completed their annual Litter Index to earn this designation.

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KMB Affiliate Grant Winners

We’re excited to share that the winners of the 2025 Coca-Cola Greatest American Cleanup Activation Grants have been selected and four Mississippi affiliates are on the list.

Keep New Albany/Union Ct Beautiful, Keep Picayune Beautiful, Keep the Rez Beautiful, and Keep Vicksburg Beautiful.

Keep America Beautiful’s sponsor/partner at Coca Cola was thrilled with the projects and encouraged by the innovative and heartfelt applications.

With generous support from The North American Operating Unit of The Coca-Cola Company (NAOU), Keep America Beautiful awarded $150,000 in funding to affiliates across the country. This year’s program homed in on energizing local communities through impactful cleanup, beautification, and engagement projects as part of the Greatest American Cleanup campaign and final grantees were selected based on their compelling project ideas—each aiming to clean (litter and recycling efforts), beautify (green and public art projects), and engage (public education and community celebrations).

Affiliates were also asked to commit to deepening community ties by securing pledges or Greatest Declarations from local leaders and volunteers!

This funding helps fuel efforts in the second-to-last year of the current Greatest American Cleanup campaign, and we can’t wait to see the creativity and impact these projects will deliver.

Cigarette Litter Prevention Program (CLPP) Grants

The Keep America Beautiful Cigarette Litter Prevention Program helps reduce pollution in American communities by collecting cigarette waste from public spaces and waterways and recycling it. Since its inception in 2003, the program has been implemented in more than 1,800 communities across the nation, achieving an average of 50% reduction in cigarette waste.

2025 KMB congratulates Keep Pike County Beautiful and Keep Pearl River County Beautiful for being awarded CLPP grants in June! 

Greatest American Cleanup

Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup^® occurs every spring, and this year it’ll be held from approximately March 15 to June 15. The Great American Cleanup beautifies and unifies communities across the country in a grassroots spring-cleaning movement. Celebrating its 28th year in 2026, the GAC offers structured service projects to measure changes in littering behavior and heighten awareness about the benefits of caring for the environment through organized volunteer events, employee engagement opportunities, and experiential education in communities across America. 

Great American Cleanup in Mississippi

Keep Mississippi Beautiful affiliates register and report cleanup events through their Keep America Beautiful account. 

Non-affiliates can participate in the Great American Cleanup. To request supplies non-affiliates should fill out and submit a REQUEST FORM. Following the cleanup, they must complete and submit a WRAP-UP REPORT within two weeks after the event. See our Community Resources webpage for more information. You can also find a social media toolkit and other resources on our Promotional Toolkit webpage. 

In 2025, Keep Mississippi Beautiful offered funding opportunities for KMB Affiliates through our Be Beautiful — Spring Community Grants.  This was an opportunity for our affiliates in Presidents Circle and Circle of Excellence to secure funding to expand or develop beautification, recycling, environmental education, or litter prevention projects in their community. The grants are co-sponsored by Keep Mississippi Beautiful and Toyota MS. Grant Application

Keep Mississippi Beautiful Awards

Nominations for the Keep Mississippi Beautiful Awards Program are due March 3, 2026 (11:59 p.m.). The Awards Program recognizes the best of the best among our network of community-based affiliates, leading corporate partners and individual volunteers across the country who have committed to delivering cleaner, greener and more beautiful communities. Use the below nomination forms:

• Program Awards: for KMB affiliates, community groups, and other entities. 
• Partnership Awards: for businesses, government entities, youth groups, schools, civic groups and others. 
• Individual Achievement Awards: for youth, mayors, law enforcement officers, educators and top volunteers. 

Recipients will be recognized at the Keep Mississippi Award Beautiful Awards Ceremony at the Country Club of Jackson on April 30, 2026.

Grants

Keep Mississippi Beautiful offers grants to nonprofits and local governments (i.e. cities, counties) to expand or develop litter prevention and cleanup programs as well as beautification programs. Grant proposals are accepted on an ongoing basis. Download the Grant Application Guidelines. 

If selected for a grant, please review/ complete the Grant Recipients Guidelines and Wrap-up Report. Additionally, download the KMB logo for promotional materials. 

KMB Annual Report

Keep Mississippi Beautiful 2023-24 Annual Report

Affiliate Annual Report on the KAB HUB

Due Aug. 1 each year

Thank you so much for all your reporting efforts—it’s been amazing to see those numbers come in to shed light on the enormous impact of the network.

The Community Appearance/Litter Index form is now available on the Hub. You can access it by:
Clicking on ‘My Affiliate’
Clicking on ‘Community Appearance Index’
Clicking on ‘Click here to complete community appearance index’

The KAB Affiliate Hub continues to build stronger connections among Keep America Beautiful affiliates.

KAB has created resources to help affiliate leaders navigate the Hub. There is a webinar under Webinars and Resources on the HUB which walks through the reporting process. 
A YouTube video series with basics on the platform. KAB HUB Training Video
An hour-long reporting webinar Affiliate KAB Reporting Training Video

The KAB Affiliate Hub is a place for all and its most beneficial purpose is to share and engage with valuable content and resources. 

The recently formed Rural Communities group is one of the newest groups in the KAB Affiliate Hub.

If you want to know how to get on and get posting, don’t forget to check out the KAB Affiliate Hub YouTube channel to view training videos and resources.

Keep America Beautiful President’s Circle RecognitionDownload

Keep America Beautiful National Conference (National Summit) February 26-28, 2026 New Orleans, La.

Call for Presentations. Keep America Beautiful is now accepting proposals for the Keep America Beautiful Summit (KAB National Conference). share your ideas, showcase your expertise, and help shape this year’s program.

If you’re interested email, April Wennerstrom at awennerstrom@kab.org.

Learn more about the Keep America Beautiful Affiliate Network. Keep Mississippi Beautiful has 60 Keep America Beautiful certified affiliate communities/counties in our state network. Contact Keep Mississippi Beautiful’s office for information about the certification process.