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What a Good Neighbor Looks Like in Indianapolis

Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
Posted: May 16, 2026
Categories: Adopt-A-Block, AES Indiana Project Greenspace, Busy Roads and Waterways, Clean Neighborhoods, Community Forestry, Custom Day of Service, Engaged Citizens, Great Indy Cleanup, Habitat Restoration, KIB Ambassadors, News & Features, Plogging, Tree Tenders, Trees and Native Habitats, Urban Naturalists, Volunteers, Youth Tree Team

The world can really feel heavy sometimes. The headlines, the noise, the feeling that things are getting harder to fix. We feel it too. But there’s another story running underneath all of that, and it’s been quietly unfolding in Indianapolis neighborhoods every weekend for 50 years. People planting trees they may never sit under. Neighbors […]

Litter is Solvable. Indianapolis is Proving it.

Posted by: Nicole Hornyak
Posted: May 13, 2026
Categories: Adopt-A-Block, Busy Roads and Waterways, Clean Neighborhoods, Great Indy Cleanup, Neighborhood & economy, News & Features, Partners, Plogging, Research & Data

Today, our national partner Keep America Beautiful released their 2026 National Litter Study. The headline is encouraging: litter on America’s roadways and waterways is down 34% since 2020. Down a third in five years across the entire country. That is a measurable shift in how Americans treat the places they share. The National Picture Waterway […]

A Saturday of Cleanup, Tree Planting, and Restoration in Brookside Park

Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
Posted: March 30, 2026
Categories: Busy Roads and Waterways, Clean Neighborhoods, Community Forestry, Engaged Citizens, Great Indy Cleanup, Habitat Restoration, KIB Ambassadors, News & Features, Tree Tenders, Trees and Native Habitats

Brookside Park is one of those places that tells an incredible story about our city. It shows what a neighborhood values. It reflects how people gather, how they move through shared space, and whether a public place feels cared for. And on a recent Saturday morning, it showed something else: what it looks like when […]

Beautifying Indy’s Busiest Roads

Posted by: Nicole Hornyak
Posted: April 3, 2025
Categories: Busy Roads and Waterways, Clean Neighborhoods, Partners, Research & Data

For almost 50 years, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful has worked in partnership with the City of Indianapolis and dedicated volunteers to keep litter off the streets in neighborhoods across the city. A persistent problem has been all the litter on our busiest roads where multiple lanes of traffic and fast driving make litter removal difficult. A […]

You’re Part of Something Big.

Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
Posted: March 21, 2025
Categories: Busy Roads and Waterways, Partners, Uncategorized, Volunteers

Making history for a cleaner, greener Indianapolis. Ryann and Kyle are here to show you what this Earth Month is all about. Hit play to see what makes this cleanup the largest waterway restoration in KIB’s history! Over 5 Miles. 10 Sites. Hundreds of Volunteers. One City. This Earth Month, we’re taking on the largest […]

Protecting our waterways together

Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
Posted: November 8, 2023
Categories: Busy Roads and Waterways, Clean Neighborhoods, Education, Engaged Citizens, Partners, Volunteers

Indianapolis is a city where collaboration thrives. And our waterways are no exception! In October, we teamed up with Frank’s Paddlesports Livery and Friends of the White River for a water cleanup to help protect and preserve Wallet Island and Butterfly Island. During this guided cleanup, volunteers made a meaningful contribution to the health and […]

Keeping Midtown Clean: Lilly Endowment Grant Funds Workforce Development

Posted by: Derek Glass
Posted: April 26, 2023
Categories: Busy Roads and Waterways, KIB in the News

Thanks to a $3.78 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., Keep Indianapolis Beautiful (KIB) is working with partners to clean up litter along several busy streets and waterways in Indianapolis through 2025. Local partners include the City, Keys2Work, the White River Alliance, and Friends of the White River. Keys2Work is a nonprofit that works with […]

Litter is getting cleaned up along 20 of Indy’s busiest roads

Posted by: Derek Glass
Posted: April 12, 2023
Categories: Busy Roads and Waterways, KIB in the News

Litter is getting cleaned up along some of the busiest roads across Indianapolis by a group known as “The Clean Team.” “So we’ve been deploying people where it’s most needed,” Jeremy Kranowitz, President & CEO of Keep Indianapolis Beautiful said. Keep Indianapolis Beautiful has identified 20 busy roads that have a lot of litter using […]

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