NEWS & PRESS RELEASES

Monies awarded through this grant will help KIB improve the neighborhoods of Marion County.

The application process for many of KIB's programs will draw to a close at the end of August. Applicants are encouraged to submit requests before the 2010 deadline to ensure their part in revitalizing their community and greening their neighborhoods and schools.

In an effort to build community and display art around Indianapolis KIB will host a First Friday event featuring contestants from the Re-Dome Art Contest.

Part of Keep America Beautiful's Great American Clean Up, this multi-year commitment to restore the beauty of Pogue's Run will partner more than 30 Dow AgroSciences staffers with KIB, the City of Indianapolis, and neighborhoods along the watershed and other partners.

KIB received $57,666.00 from Youth Working for Indy to hire 32 youth to work as members of the Youth Tree Team.

KIB has been named one of this year’s 2010 Community Relations/Environmental Grant recipients.

Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. (KIB) has been awarded a $50,000 grant from The Indianapolis Foundation, a Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF) affiliate.

Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. (KIB) has been named as a recipient of a $10,000 community improvement grant from The UPS Foundation. Nationwide, 16 Keep America Beautiful (KAB) affiliates received the merit-based grants supporting programs that address litter prevention, waste reduction, recycling, beautification and community greening.

As Indianapolis residents gear up for the Indy 500, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. (KIB) wants to draw attention to its Adopt-A-Median Program by challenging Indianapolis businesses and organizations to adopt a median before race day to reach this year's goal of 500.

Paper Retriever, a community paper-recycling program, has teamed up with Kroger and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. (KIB) for an initiative aimed at helping raise money through paper recycling. Funds that are earned through the Paper Retriever bins placed at Kroger stores across Indianapolis directly benefit KIB as it engages neighborhoods in community and environmental improvement projects.