Keep Anderson County Beautiful Earns Keep America Beautiful 2022
President’s Circle Award Recognition
Local Organization Recognized for Exemplary Performance, Standard of Excellence
ANDERSON, SC – Keep America Beautiful®, the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization, has presented Keep Anderson County Beautiful with its 2022 President’s Circle Award. The President’s Circle Award recognizes exemplary performance by certified affiliates of Keep America Beautiful in creating clean, green, and beautiful communities.
In qualifying for the President’s Circle Award, Keep Anderson County Beautiful has met standards of merit of Keep America Beautiful by conducting an annual Community Appearance Index; calculating the affiliate’s cost/benefit ratio; and administering initiatives to end littering, improve recycling, and beautify Anderson County’s community. Keep Anderson County Beautiful is one of more than 700 community-based affiliates in the Keep America Beautiful network whose programs, initiatives, and efforts, supported by millions of volunteers, help transform public spaces into beautiful places.
“Achieving the President’s Circle Award means Keep Anderson County Beautiful is working in strategic, creative, and sustainable ways to keep and create beautiful communities,” said Keep America Beautiful President and CEO Jennifer Lawson.
Community Appearance Index-Litter Index: The Keep America Beautiful Community Appearance Index-Litter Index is a tool used by its affiliates to visually assess overall appearance of communities through indicators such as litter, illegal signs, graffiti, abandoned or junk vehicles, and outside storage. A team of community, business and government representatives conduct the visual analysis using a scoring system ranging from 1-4, with “1” rated as “no litter” to “4” being “extremely littered.” Each year, affiliates grade their communities during a drive-by examination of the same areas at the same time of the year. This provides an indication of the success of each community’s anti-littering education and other anti-littering programs.
Cost/Benefit Analysis: This measurement tool enables Keep America Beautiful affiliates to demonstrate their ability to leverage community resources by determining the dollar value returned to the community for every dollar invested by the government.