10 Tons of Paper Collected for America Recycles Day Paper Drive Challenge

Formerly Project Green Schools, this program works closely with schools and youth-serving organizations to help create outdoor classrooms, build pocket parks and playgrounds, and cultivate rain and vegetable gardens that beautify the community, and provide learning opportunities for educators and the kids they teach.

Paper Drive with Kroger raised $10,000 for Keep Indianapolis Beautiful and collected 10 tons of paper

The 33rd annual A Monumental Affair Awards, representing the most significant visual and physical enhancements in Marion County, were announced today. The Gene Glick Peace Walk took home the coveted Monumental Award as the most significant project of the year.

Bringing the benefits of trees to this Indy community by planting 50 trees on Saturday, November 13, to transform the intersection of Emerson Ave. and 10th Street.

Paper Drive with Kroger could raise $10,000 for Keep Indianapolis Beautiful

Clarian, IPS and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful establish school garden program to combat "diabesity" in local schools

Help KIB reach our NeighborWoods goal; 100,000 trees by 2017.

More than 200 Katz, Sapper & Miller employees are taking part in a major beautification project along the Pogue’s Run corridor on the city’s Near Eastside today. As part of the firm’s annual volunteer day of community service, and in partnership with Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. (KIB), this year’s project will support the 2012 Indianapolis Super Bowl Legacy Project’s revitalization efforts for the Near Eastside.

Each participating school will have the opportunity to earn money based on the amount of outdated directories that are collected. Last year, 28 tons of phone directories were recycled.

Participants will tackle reinvigoration of this commercial area through the integration of art, nature and beauty

On Wednesday, October 20, KIB will celebrate this urban forestry effort by planting the program's 20,000th tree. A little over four years ago, KIB planted its first tree towards their NeighborWoods goal at Washington Irving Elementary School; this year they will return to that location to plant the 20,000th tree with students and community partners. The planting will begin at 10:00 a.m.

Thousands of Lilly volunteers to enhance Indianapolis I-70 Corridor Six miles of I-70 to temporarily close for safety

KIB receives national award for beautification work I-70/Holt Road interchange.

The first 25 applicants will have an opportunity to participate in the CEOs for Cities National Livability Challenge.

KIB happy to accept a generous $25,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the FedEx Corporation to assist in clean-up efforts along Pogue's Run.

Join KIB in adding to the Marion County tree canopy by purchasing a tree with the "My Tree and Me" campaign.

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.

Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. (KIB) will dig into an ambitious project on Saturday, May 15, on the City's Eastside planting native trees within the Pogue's Run conservation corridor. The project is made possible through a $100,000 grant from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation to purchase 500 trees to be planted on the City's Near Eastside. Saturday's project will focus on native tree plantings with to improve the 40 acre wet-land that runs on the northeast side of Indianapolis.

On Saturday, May 15, more than 50 patients, board members, friends and family members of HealthNet, West Indianapolis Development Corporation and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful will plant trees and other native landscaping around a 103-year-old former Masonic Lodge on the near southwest side that in June becomes the new home for two community health centers.

Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. (KIB) will have numerous volunteer projects going on simultaneously throughout Indianapolis this weekend in celebration of Arbor Day. We highlight two for potential stories or photo opportunities for your interest.

In a precedent setting partnership for environmental stewardship, the city's Office of Sustainability has partnered with the Athenaeum Foundation and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. to develop the City's rain garden permitting process. City staff worked closely with Athenaeum staff on their development of a rain garden in order to create a streamlined procedure for future rain garden projects.

Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. (KIB) will have numerous volunteer projects going on simultaneously throughout Indianapolis this weekend in celebration of Earth Day. In addition to projects, KIB staff will be headed to several Earth Day fairs to educate the public about KIB and get people involved with the organization.

Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc.'s (KIB) kicked off its annual Great Indy Cleanup program in partnership with the City of Indianapolis on Saturday. 90 neighborhood groups with a total of 3,200 volunteers rid the city's streets, alleyways and waterways of half a million pounds of litter.

On Saturday, April 17, 2010, Mayor Greg Ballard, along with volunteers from over 90 different neighborhood organizations, will gather to pick up litter, clean alleys, and plant trees to kickoff the 34th Annual Great Indy Cleanup.

2nd Annual Every Litter Bit Helps Campaign Boosts Efforts of the Great Indy Cleanup Kickoff Event

Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. (KIB) was recently named as one of the Best NonProfit Organizations to Work For for 2010. The annual list of the "Best NonProfits" was created by The NonProfit Times and Best Companies Group.

Mayor Greg Ballard today announced the Great Indy Spring Cleanup, a citywide effort to beautify and strengthen our communities. The Great Indy Spring Cleanup aims to achieve litter abatement through neighborhood-driven initiatives.

Thirty-six Indianapolis families will receive new trees today and tomorrow through a partnership between Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership (INHP) and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. (KIB). The trees will be distributed at INHP's Homeownership Center at Glendale (2605 E. 62nd Street, Indianapolis). Those receiving trees will also participate in a special workshop inside the Homeownership Center tomorrow, during which they will learn about the benefits of planting trees and tips for maintaining an environmentally friendly neighborhood.

Mark Your Calendars and Shop at Whole Foods on April 7. 5% of net sales are donated to KIB's NeighborWoods program!

Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. announced today that it will receive a $10,000 grant from Alliance for Community Trees and The Home Depot Foundation in support of its "2012 by 2012" tree planting initiative.

Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc.'s Youth Tree Team accepting interested high school students for innovative employment program. Challenge Day is March 6.

KIB's Youth Tree Team will be accepting interested high school students and adult leaders for innovative summer program. Challenge Day is March 6.

Applications accepted through March 10.

KIB, with support from the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation, is calling all entries to RE-USE the Dome.

12 local economic and community development organizations received an early holiday present – funding from the REALTOR Community Investment Initiative (RCII.) In its fifth giving cycle, RCII--a community-building initiative of the Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of REALTORS, MIBOR)--funneled another $100,000 into local communities across central Indiana, bringing its total regional investment since its inception to $460,000.

Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. is making plans for 20 community projects receiving its support in 2010 through the IPL Project GreenSpace Program.

The Evansville-based Vectren Foundation has awarded Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. (KIB) with a $5,000 grant in support of its NeighborWoods program.

The Environmental Resources Management (ERM) Foundation of North America has awarded Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. (KIB) a $5,000 grant in support of its Project Green Schools program. The money will go toward the 2010 creation of an outdoor "classroom" at Jonathan Jennings Elementary School (IPS #109), located on the west side of Indianapolis, near West 38th Street and High School Road.