Keep Rabun Beautiful receives grant

Keep Rabun Beautiful, a Chamber of Commerce led organization that encourages citizen participation and community leaders in the local city and county government to work together to end littering, improve recycling and become a more eco-friendly county, have recently been selected to receive a sizeable grant.

Keep America Beautiful, the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization, announced it has awarded Rabun’s chapter out of 50 grants given to Keep America Beautiful community-based affiliates, designed to help communities combat the most commonly littered item in America.

Keep America Beautiful provided individual merit-based grants, totaling more than $300,000, in amounts of $10,000, $5,000 and $2,500 to the 50 various organizations throughout the country including Rabun.

2019 Cigarette Litter Prevention Program Grant Recipients

Capitol Hill Business Improvement District
City of Coffeyville KS/Coffeyville’s Reawakening
City of Espanola
City of Hallandale Beach
City of Shamokin
EcoSuperior Environmental Programs
I Love A Clean San Diego
Keep Alabama Beautiful
Keep America Beautiful-Topeka/Shawnee County
Keep Bartlett Beautiful
Keep Blanco Beautiful
Keep Canton Beautiful
Keep Chester County Beautiful
Keep Copiah County Beautiful
Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful
Keep Darke County Beautiful
Keep Denton Beautiful
Keep Douglas County Beautiful
Keep Dublin-Laurens Beautiful, Inc.
Keep Durham Beautiful
Keep Golden Isles Beautiful
Keep Indian River Beautiful, Inc.
Keep Katy Beautiful
Keep Keith County Beautiful
Keep Lexington Beautiful
Keep Lorain County Beautiful
Keep Midlothian Beautiful – Illinois
Keep New Hanover Beautiful
Keep New Mexico Clean & Beautiful
Keep North Miami Beautiful
Keep Ohio Beautiful
Keep Paris/Henry County Beautiful
Keep Panama City Beach Beautiful
Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful
Keep Pinellas Beautiful
Keep Port St. Lucie Beautiful
Keep Prince William Beautiful
Keep Rabun Beautiful
Keep South Carolina Beautiful
Keep the Bluegrass Beautiful
Keep Tennessee Beautiful
Keep Van Buren Beautiful
Keep Virginia Beautiful, Inc.
Maryland Coastal Bays Program
Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District
Mulberry River Society
Oklahoma City Beautiful
Town of Danvers
Town of Norwood
Transition Prince Rupert