News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 16, 2012
Keep NC Beautiful Names Winners of Community Improvement Grants
11 Organizations Receive $500 for Litter Prevention, Beautification & Recycling
Raleigh, NC – Keep NC Beautiful (www.keepncbeautiful.org) has announced 11 winners of its Community
Improvement Grants. With support from the NC Coca-Cola Bottlers Council, each winner will receive $500 in
recognition of volunteer-based projects in litter prevention, recycling and waste reduction and beautification.
Award winners are as follows:
- C.S. Brown High School, Winton – to host a community greening volunteer effort to restore and
enhance the landscape of the school grounds
- Exploris Middle School, Raleigh - to fund bus advertisements for an anti-cigarette butt litter campaign
- Pumpkin Center Intermediate School, Lincolnton – to support the school’s environmental club by
providing recycling bins and adding milkweed for its monarch butterfly garden
- Keep Gastonia Beautiful, Gastonia -to assist in the placement of a Community Garden in Gastonia’s
Highland neighborhood.
- Keep Mecklenburg Beautiful, Charlotte –to increase the collection of plastic bottles by providing an
equal number of recycling bins proportionate to the number of trash cans at events held in
Mecklenburg County.
- Keep New Hanover County Beautiful – to establish a Green School Aaward program ?
- Keep America Beautiful of Nash & Edgecombe Counties, Rocky Mount- to support a Student Litter
Art Show where students create works of art from trash and recycled items
- Keep Winston-Salem Beautiful, Winston-Salem – to support its annual Community Roots Day tree
planting public event
- North Hominy Beautification Extreme Make-Over Team, Canton – to enhance the natural beauty of
its community through regular litter clean-ups and landscaping
- Rodanthe-Waves-Salvo Civic Association, Roadanthe –to establish a litter reduction program that will
compliment current clean up and recycling programs, and planned community improvements
associated with a new multi-use pathway.
- Town of Ahoskie, Ahoskie – to design and build a butterfly garden in honor of the families that lost
their homes due to Hurricane Floyd
INFO ON KEEP NC BEAUTIFUL:
Keep NC Beautiful is a nonprofit organization that engages and supports organizations and individuals to keep
NC beautiful through a network of 33 local affiliates in 31 counties statewide.
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Heather Thompson
Executive Director, Keep NC Beautiful
919.215.4196 cell
www.keepncbeautiful.org