52 Texas Communities Honored with Gold Star Status by Statewide Nonprofit

(Austin, Texas) - Keep Texas Beautiful , a statewide grassroots environmental and community improvement organization, recently named Keep Brazos Beautiful a Gold Star Affiliate, a designation conferred on just 52 of KTB’s more than 360 affiliates in 2012. Gold Star recognition is the highest status any community affiliate can achieve.

Keep Brazos Beautiful successfully implemented programs to prevent litter, reduce waste, beautify community areas and educate local citizens last year.  KBB,amoung other things, hosted the areas 12th annual Texas Trash Off, educated children enrolled in Kids Klub,  helped campuses throughout Bryan/College Station clean up through the Great American Campus Clean Up, performed numerous speaking engagements and helped host Brazos Valley Earth Day.

To stay in good standing with KTB, community affiliates must annually submit a report, pay dues, attend at least one training session and participate in at least one KTB-endorsed activity.  In 2004, the organization introduced the concept of Gold Star recognition to reward those communities who sought to go above and beyond the established requirements.  To achieve this status, affiliates are required to meet additional benchmarks; they must share information on their mission and goals, answer questions about their educational programs and solid waste initiatives, participate in the Keep Texas Beautiful or Governor’s Community Achievement Awards programs, and provide a letter of support from their community. KTB formally recognized Gold Star communities during its 45th Annual Conference in downtown San Antonio, which was held June 25-28^th.

Keep Texas Beautiful, a statewide grassroots environmental and community improvement nonprofit, strives to educate and engage Texans to take responsibility for improving their community environment. KTB and its more than 360 affiliates work with government, businesses, civic groups and volunteers to ensure every Texan has the opportunity to make Texas the cleanest, most beautiful state in the nation.  For more information on programs and events, call 1-800-CLEAN-TX or visit www.ktb.org.

 Keep Brazos Beautiful Honored by Keep America Beautiful

 for High Performance Achieved in 2011

“Keep America Beautiful is committed to making a simple premise work in communities across the nation –engaging individuals to take greater responsibility for improving their community environments,” said Keep America Beautiful President & CEO Matthew McKenna. “One of the national organization’s most effective tools is the work of our grassroots network of affiliate organizations, which has an impact on millions of Americans each year. Our affiliates are providing real solutions to recycling access, community gardensand to problems like litter, graffiti, illegal dumping and other community blights,” added McKenna. “By enabling people of all ages to participate in community improvement efforts, Keep Brazos Beautiful is represented among the best in promoting the values Keep America Beautiful espouses nationally.”

We work to accomplish this mission through programs that engage local volunteers to take greater responsibility for litter prevention and cleanup, recycling, waste minimization, and all forms of beautification and community improvement, thereby contributing to the economic vitality, safety, health and well being of our community.  Keep Brazos Beautiful works to create strategic partnerships with governmental, business and civic groups and citizens to help them take positive action to improve the general environment of Brazos County. We feel strongly that keeping Bryan and College Station clean and beautiful should be the priority of every resident and visitor to our growing communities. Thousands of local volunteers work with us each year on our many award-winning programs. These ongoing programs strive to create litter and graffiti-free communities, alive with beautiful flowering crape myrtles and wildflowers, stately memorial trees, delightfully landscaped city entryways, parks and roadways, inspiring public art and murals, and sustainable neighborhood revitalization. 

(Austin, Texas)—Keep Texas Beautiful, a statewide grassroots environmental and community improvement organization, recently named Keep Brazos Beautiful a Gold Star Affiliate, a designation conferred on just 55 of KTB’s more than 360 affiliates in 2011. Gold Star recognition is the highest status any community affiliate can achieve. Read more...

Pictured here is KBB’s Executive Director, Amy Reed, as she receives the Gold Star Award from KTB’s Executive Director, Cathie Gail.