Community Resources

Keep Mississippi Beautiful offers a number of resources to community groups and local governments to help with litter cleanup and prevention, beautification and recycling, including grants and cleanup supplies.

Great American Cleanup

Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup® occurs every spring, beautifying and unifying communities across the country in a grassroots spring-cleaning movement. 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

We invite neighborhood associations, churches, youth groups and other organizations to join us for our Great American Cleanup each year. To help with your cleanup, Keep Mississippi Beautiful provides trash bags (while they last). To request supplies, please fill out and submit a  REQUEST FORM. Following your cleanup, be sure to complete and submit a WRAP-UP REPORT .  Affiliates, please request supplies using this form. Affiliates will report through the KAB affiliate portal. You can also find https://keepmsbeautiful.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/great-american-cleanup-wrap-up-report-2024-1.pdfa social media toolkit and other resources on our Promotional Toolkit webpage.  

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. 

Forming a New Affiliate

If your community does not have an affiliate of Keep Mississippi Beautiful and Keep Mississippi Beautiful, we encourage you to help start one. This network offers a tested, practical way to educate citizens. Both Keep America Beautiful and Keep Mississippi Beautiful offer resources to help affiliates thrive and truly impact communities. If you’re interested in forming an affiliate, please contact Sarah Kountouris.

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