|
|
Awards
Received By Keep Knoxville Beautiful
Keep Knoxville Beautiful has received significant national and state recognition
for the effectiveness of its programs. This success is the result of
outstanding support of KKB's programs by neighborhood groups, business,
government agencies, the media, students and thousands of individual volunteers
who are taking responsibility to improve Knoxville's environment.
National Awards
2007 First Place National Award for Waste Reduction by a Non-Profit
Organization from Keep America Beautiful for the recycling models
implemented at EarthFest and Sundown in the City.
2006 Keep America Beautiful President's Circle Award for for
meeting all fundamental requirements of a Keep America Beautiful local
affiliate including implementing programs in litter prevention, waste
minimization and beautification.
2006 Distinguished Service Citation from Keep America Beautiful.
Recognizes the 3rd place top performing local Keep America Beautiful
program in communities with a population of more than 200,000.
2005 Professional Leadership Award for KKB's executive director
Tom Salter. This is the highest honor given to a local director by Keep
America Beautiful.
2005 Keep America Beautiful President's Circle Award for for
meeting all fundamental requirements of a Keep America Beautiful local
affiliate including implementing programs in litter prevention, waste
minimization and beautification.
2005 First Place Award for most comprehensive Great American Cleanup
in Tennessee from Keep Tennessee Beautiful and the Tennessee
Department of Transportation. Award included a grant of $1,000.
2004 First Place Affiliate National Award for communities with a
population of 200,000+ from Keep America Beautiful. This award
recognizes overall programming and is the top award a local affiliate
can receive from Keep America Beautiful. Projects completed during
2004 included the Great American Cleanup™, the Halls Tribute Trees
Project (see below), the Greek Challenge (see below) and introduction of
the Don't Throw Down on K-TOWN slogan and public awareness campaign.
2004 First Place National Award for Beautification and Community
Improvement by an organization for the Halls Business &
Professional Association's Halls Tribute Trees Project.
2004 First Place National Award for Innovation in litter
prevention for The Greek Challenge. The Greek Challenge provided
various incentives for fraternities and sororities on the UTK campus to
compete with each other doing cleanup and beautification projects.
2004 Rogers Award, Second Place National Award for state and
local radio advertising for the Don't Throw Down on K-TOWN
promotion. This award is named after Roger Powers, the longest
serving president of Keep America Beautiful, and the individual most
responsible for the development of the extensive network of local
affiliates.
2004 Keep America Beautiful President's Circle Award for for
meeting all fundamental requirements of a Keep America Beautiful local
affiliate including implementing programs in litter prevention, waste
minimization and beautification.
 2003 Keep America Beautiful Affiliate Distinguished Service Citation -
this award recognizes KKB's outstanding performance for a Keep America Beautiful
affiliate in our city size.
2003 Keep America Beautiful Distinguished Service Citation for Waste
Reduction by a Non-Profit - this award also recognizes KKB's Youth Advisory
Board work with the Knox County School's mixed paper recycling program and our
partnership with the Knox County Solid Waste Department.
2003 Keep America Beautiful President's Award - for meeting all
fundamental requirements of a Keep America Beautiful local affiliate including
implementing programs in litter prevention, waste minimization and
beautification.
2002 Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup™ National Award for Outstanding Sponsor Support
- this award recognized KKB's partnership with employees with three local Target
stores in cleaning up a playground next to a new greenway. Target was a
national sponsor of the Great American Cleanup™ in 2002 and sought meaningful
community improvement projects through local KAB affiliates.
2001 Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup™ National Award for Outstanding Sponsor Support
- this award recognized KKB's local implementation of the Give and Gain program,
an effort to recycle used clothing to appropriate charities, preventing disposal
of the items in local landfills. Gain detergent was a national sponsor of
the Great American Cleanup™ in 2001.
2000 Rogers Award for Local Television Advertising - this national award
was presented to KKB and Atmosphere Productions by Keep America Beautiful for
the TRASHBUSTERS litter prevention awareness television public service campaign.
2000 National Soft Drink Association Award for Litter Prevention -
presented to Keep Knoxville Beautiful for its overall litter prevention efforts
and especially the I Spy on Litter online litterbug report program.
1999 Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup™ National Award for
Local Media Coverage
- this award recognized outstanding local media coverage of KKB's local Great
American Cleanup™ spring cleanup program.
1998 Keep America Beautiful Distinguished Service Citation - Keep Knoxville Beautiful received national recognition for its overall program.
During FY 1998, KKB successfully addressed a broad range of litter prevention, waste minimization and community improvement issues that are the foundation of the Keep America Beautiful system.
1998 Glad Bag-a-Thon National Award - for more than 15 years, the GLAD Bag-A-Thon was the national spring clean up event of Keep America Beautiful and its affiliates. In 1998 Keep Knoxville Beautiful won national recognition for its local program.
State Awards
2006 First Place Award for Outstanding Performance by a Keep America
Beautiful Affiliate in Tennessee from Keep Tennessee
Beautiful and the Tennessee Department of Transportation. Award included
a grant of $3,000.
2006 First Place Award for most comprehensive Great American Cleanup
in Tennessee from Keep Tennessee Beautiful and the Tennessee
Department of Transportation. Award included a grant of $1,000.
2005 First Place Award for most comprehensive Great American Cleanup
in Tennessee from Keep Tennessee Beautiful the the Tennessee
Department of Transportation. Award included grant of $1,000.
2005 First Place Award for outreach programming to higher education
for the Greek Challenge from Keep Tennessee Beautiful and the
Tennessee Department of Transportation. Award included a grant of
$1,000.
2005 First Place Award for Media for promotion of the Don't Throw
Down on K-TOWN slogan from Keep Tennessee Beautiful and the
Tennessee Department of Transportation. Award included a grant of
$1,000.
2003 Tennessee Recycling Coalition Non-Profit Recycler of the Year - this
award was given for the success of KKB's Youth Advisory Board effort to
encourage student and teacher participation in the Knox County Schools' mixed
paper recycling program. This program was a partnership with the Knox
County Solid Waste department.
2001 State Award for the Litter-Free Schools Program - presented by Keep
Tennessee Beautiful and Tennessee Department of Transportation.
2001 State Award for KAB Coordinator of the Year - presented to Tom
Salter for outstanding leadership by Keep Tennessee Beautiful and the Tennessee
Department of Transportation.
Local Awards
2007 First Place Award: Pride of Knoxville, for KKB's float in
the 2007 Dogwood Arts Festival Parade.
|
Click
here to learn more about the Keep America Beautiful national awards
program.
|
