Keep Keith County Beautiful

KKCB operates with a staff of one. Me. However, being efficient and delegating management of projects can allow my position to oversee and not micro-manage our volunteers. We work with local government and schools to enhance our programs that align with the objectives of KAB and KNB. For example: Ogallala Public Schools has allowed us to be in the school with teaching recycling to the classes with the "Waste in Place" Keep America Beautiful curriculum. The Prairie View Green Team, part of the Keep America Beautiful Youth Advisory Committee acts as our leaders for our younger students. Our green team is an active group with over 120 kids. Our meetings once a week are seasonally developed, for example we are currently creating boards for our America Recycles Day Zero waste event. (See attachment). I like to think of what we do is to create warrior armies or small green teams that take the idea and education KKCB offers and they run with it. Every year, the Chamber of Commerce fields a class that learns about our area, with about 20 students, called Keith County Area Leadership Class. KCALC adopted our 'Recycling at Work' program as their project. Waste Audits were conducted at all businesses, a container for just their waste was placed in town and KCALC recycled over 22 tons of material over the year. KKCB is seen as a leader in our community and is the go to organization for all things green and clean.can be provided if you need it.