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

Great American Cleanup

Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup^® occurs every spring, and this year it’ll be held from March 20 to June 20. The Great American Cleanup beautifies and unifies communities across the country in a grassroots spring-cleaning movement. Celebrating its 25th year in 2023, 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. Download the 2022 promotion toolkit.

Great American Cleanup in Mississippi

To request supplies for the Great American Cleanups, Keep Mississippi Beautiful/ Keep America 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. 

Awards

Nominations for the Keep Mississippi Beautiful Awards Program are due March 3, 2023. 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 on April 27, 2023 at the Keep Mississippi Award Beautiful Awards Ceremony.

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 (Word version also available). Additionally, download the KMB logo for promotional materials. 

Keep Alabama/Mississippi Meeting

Register through the Google form link below:

Keep Alabama/Mississippi Beautiful Conference 2023

Keep Birmingham Beautiful is thrilled to be hosting the annual Keep Alabama Beautiful/ Keep Mississippi Beautiful Conference in Birmingham, Alabama. This year’s conference will be packed with amazing tools to increase your impact in your communities. The conference will take place at the beautiful Birmingham Botanical Gardens on January 26-27, 2023. We welcome all Keep Alabama Beautiful and Keep Mississippi Beautiful affiliates.     Please complete the registrations below no later than Thursday January 11, 2023.   Event Dates January 26-27, 2023  Event Location: Birmingham Botanical Gardens  Event Address: 2612 Lane Park Rd 35223   Hotel Information:Hampton Inn Birmingham/ Mountain Brook Address: 2731 US-280, Birmingham, AL 35223 Phone: (205) 870-7822  Room Rates are $109 Per Night Rooms must be reserved by January 12, 2023 Group Name: Keep Alabama and Mississippi Beautiful.  https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/bhmmbhx-kab-2318d7ce-f0a4-47d1-8154-de98d4ab1040/ You can also book by calling the hotel at (205) 870-7822 and request a reservation for the Keep Alabama and Mississippi Beautiful room block.    Check-In Time is 3pm and Check-Out is Noon. For any questions contact Sa’de McClaney-Hammond at (205) 254-2662 or kbb@birminghamal.gov