Keep Charlotte Beautiful Quarterly Newsletter

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Greetings, members of the Keep Charlotte Beautiful community!

We are thrilled to bring you the latest updates, inspiring stories, and exciting initiatives in our ongoing journey to create a cleaner, greener, and more beautiful community.

Starting this week, we will be emailing and calling groups to check in if you have not completed at least one cleanup this year.

We are also planning a volunteer appreciation event for this June! More details to come

Housekeeping

• As a reminder your group is required to clean your adopted street 3 times a year.
• If you need supplies for a cleanup, please request them here.
• If you completed a cleanup and need to submit a report, please do so here.

2024 At a Glance

• Almost 600 cleanups were conducted
• Over 10,000 volunteer hours
• Almost 5000 bags of trash
• 300 bags of recycling

This is the largest amount of volunteer hours and trash picked up in the history of the program, all thanks to your amazing work. We appreciate the service you put in each and every day!

A few words from our AACS participant JSCU 100 Club

‘We chose to adopt Martin Street and those adjoining because they are part of the Historic Biddleville Smallwood community where many early faculty of dear Ole JCSU resided.  Biddleville Park is home of the Lady Golden Bulls softball team plus that space has such a breathtaking panoramic view of Charlotte central city.’

‘The favorite part of participating in Keep Charlotte Beautiful - AACS is the dedication and energy of volunteer student athletes helping JCSU 100 Club members with the street clean-ups.’

Friends of Keep Charlotte Beautiful

Friends of Keep Charlotte Beautiful is a nonprofit supporting the City of Charlotte’s beautification goals. Their mission is to ignite community action and forge partnerships that champion environmental solutions.

Help Friends of Keep Charlotte Beautiful and Adopt-A-Street raise funding towards purchasing signs, vests, garbage pickers, trash bags, and more! Text ADOPTASTREET to 44-321 to make a donation.

For more information regarding Friends of Keep Charlotte Beautiful, including open Board Positions, check out our website: Friends of Keep Charlotte Beautiful - Nonprofit Fundraising Support (fokcb.org)

New Pickup Location!

Keep Charlotte Beautiful has been aligned with the City’s Quality of Life Team, a new Code Enforcement initiative to solve common resident concerns with an interagency approach. With this change, staff now split time between Old City Hall and an office in University City.

What does that mean for AACS? A new pickup location! Volunteers will now be able to request supplies from 10101 Claude Freeman Drive. You can indicate a preference for this location on the supply request form.

                              Litter Study

Keep Charlotte Beautiful volunteers were hard at work helping to sample 250 road segments this past year as part of a citywide Litter Study. The goal for this study is to analyze the distribution and composition of litter across the city, to find more efficient ways to tackle litter pollution.

Here are the results from our February sampling.

For more information, please reach out to Jonathan Hill, jonathan.hill@charlottenc.gov

                       Upcoming Events

• Pick up with Pups – May 3^rd
• Stay tuned for events in June and July!

Stay Connected

If you had a recent cleanup and took photos, we’d love to showcase them on our social media platforms! Please send your photos to kcb@charlottenc.gov

The City of Charlotte has 35 boards and commissions that you can apply to, including the Keep Charlotte Beautiful board. If you’re interested in being involved on a City and County board, we encourage you to apply here.  

Thank you all for supporting our mission in keeping our communities green and clean.  We’re grateful to have you onboard with us to help keep Charlotte beautiful!

~ KCB Adopt a City Street Committee