Dec
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2007
Keep Carrollton Beautiful Accomplishments – 2004-2007
- Conceived, orchestrated and funded 48 public events utilizing 5,150 individual volunteers to collect more than 47,000 pounds of litter and diverting more than 65,000 pounds of recyclables ? avoiding disposal fees, using free volunteer labor benefiting a number of charities, and creating revenue for the community of Carrollton.
- Amassed almost 34,000 volunteer hours valued at more than $429,000.00 ? partnering with more than 166 businesses, 10 civic organizations, 15 other non-profits, 10 City of Carrollton people/departments, Carrollton/Farmers Branch and Lewisville Independent School Districts and PTA?s, the North District Boy Scouts and both the North Central Texas Council of the Girl Scouts USA to unity Carrollton.
- Raised more than $136,000. dollars of in-kind donations; and raised more than $98,000. dollars in cash to support event planning, cleanups, recycling and environmental awareness classes for Carrollton.
- Educated more than 4,200 citizens in natural resource conservation and stewardship responsibility ? quadrupling single family residential recycling, maintaining pre-draught levels of water consumption and creating a cell phone recycling program.
- Initiated Adopt-A-Spot for the business community and currently have 6 spot sponsors.
- Created a Teen Advisory Board from all Carrollton high schools and awarded 8 college scholarships to our graduating senior members.
- Held four Texas Recycles Days – partnering with dozens of recycling vendors, the City of Carrollton, Carrollton Evening Lions Club, CFBISD and all area high schools ? diverting 64,000 pounds of recyclables from the landfill.
- Partnered with CFBISD, Carrollton Evening Lions Club, Halliburton, Boy Scouts of American, The Civic League and the City of Carrollton Parks and Rec. Department to hold Making A Difference in Carrollton workdays ? the first year working on four homes ? refurbishing and repairing 2 elderly citizens? homes and manicuring the yards of 2 disabled citizens? group homes; the second year we were at the CFBISD Outdoor Learning Center to construct a 225? x 150? Native Plant Garden (no mow area) acquiring $2,600.00 worth of ?recycled lumber? for the project; the third year we installed 6 benches at the Native Plant Garden so the kids can observe, sketch and BE in nature; and this year completed mulching, sealing and trash pickup maintenance projects at five sites with the City on Carrollton Cares Day.
- Coordinated collecting recycled barrels, had student groups paint them with environmental scenes and installed them in administrative office of six schools and sponsor lobbies to recycle cell phones.
- Hosted six Texas SmartScape Classes; an Idea Exchange with Keep Texas Beautiful coordinators; an On-Line Auction; a Meeting with the Mayor for sponsors and members; Sustainable Carrollton; an Econ. Develop. Bus Tour; an Idea Exchange for neighborhood groups and initiated Green Team paper recycling with ABITIBI paying the CFBISD schools for an average of 65 tons of paper a month.
- Hosted five Great American Cleanups with hundreds of volunteers collecting 47,000 pounds of litter and debris from greenbelts, creeks, vacant lots and streets in Carrollton.
- Recognized twelve homeowners with Yard of the Month awards and newspaper recognition and recently made it possible for neighborhood groups to give their own awards.
- Partnered with Intuit and Exponent HR for five Springs River Cleanups, cleaning tons of gushy trash from the Elm Fork and Denton Creek of the Trinity River.
- Created and distributed ten newsletters educating about environmental stewardship and acknowledging a Volunteer of the Season in each.
- Launched a new donated website at www.KeepCarrolltonBeautiful.org to educate the public about environmental issues.
- Received two Silver Star Awards and two Gold Star Awards from Keep Texas Beautiful.
- Partnered with Dallas Down River, Carrollton Evening Lions Club, Trinity Medical Center and Allied Waste Services to host two and plan a forth regional Trinity River Trash Bash events with hundreds of volunteers spending thousands of hours planning and collecting tons of gushy litter and waste from the Elm Fork and McInnish Park.
- Partnered with the City Arborist and Senior Center to host Carrollton Arbor Day at Josey Ranch Lake with 400 volunteers planting 105 containerized trees, giving ?foster homes? to 100 pecan seedlings donated by the Texas Forest Service, planting many acorns ?like a squirrel?, drawing the ?Beauty of Carrollton? and dedicating a pecan tree to Clyde R. Horn for Environmental Service.
- Partnered with Carrollton service organizations to create Community Carrollton.
- Distilled federal, state, regional and city environmental goals to create goals and initiatives for us to promote.
- Created and printed reusable grocery bags to sell to the public and make plastic obsolete.
