Big Give Gage: Organization Profile

Keep Beatrice Beautiful, Inc.

Category: Community/Economic Development

This Year's Project: Middle School Recycling Project

About Our Organization

Keep Beatrice Beautiful (KBB), an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, is dedicated to empowering citizens of Beatrice and Gage County to take greater responsibility for enhancing their community environment. Keep Beatrice Beautiful promotes recycling, litter cleanups, tree plantings and beautification projects for the benefit of Beatrice and Gage County.

Current Project: Middle School Recycling Project

The Beatrice Middle School is a strong advocate of paper recycling. We would like to support that effort by providing wheeled containers. The wheeled containters will replace old worn out ones that are ten years old. The Middle School students have recycled over 200,00 pounds of paper in the last 10 years. Current equipment is worn out and needs to be replaced. Students wheel the containers from room to room to collect recycled paper that will go to the Recycle Dropoff Center. By supporting this project you will be encouraging students to be good stewards and develop a life long habit of recycling.

Trees for Veterans Memorial Park

Project Details
Would like to plant two trees on Arbor Day in the Veterans Memorial Park to provide shade and comfort to those who come to pay tribute. This project would bring together Veterans, City of Beatrice, and elementary school students for an Arbor Day celebration while planting trees for shade in the park for years to come.

Purchase recycled plastic benches for Lincoln Elementary

Project Details

Keep Beatrice Beautiful will raise funds to purchase two 6' Malibu Cedar benches constructed from recycled plastic water bottles. (In 2019, the BIGGIVEGAGE funding purchased benches for Paddock Lane Elementary School.) In 2020, the BIGGIVEGAGE funding of $1,000 will purchase benches for Lincoln Elementary School students. The cost of each bench is $500 to include shipping. Plaques will be put on the benches to educate the youth that recycling is a great thing to do. In the Fall, students will be asked to bring an empty plastic water bottle to school and put them in a recycling bin.

In future years, recycled plastic benches will be offered to the other local elementary schools to include Stoddard Elementary School, St. Joseph Catholic and St. Paul Luther School.

Recycling Plastic Water bottles to make benches for Paddock Lane School

Project Details
Beatrice Paddock Lane Elementary School Students will be asked to bring two plastic water/soda bottles to school in October 2019 to be placed in collection boxes. The collected bottles will be recycled and four recycled content 6' plastic Malibu benches, at a cost of $500 each, will be purchased for the school. The recycled benches will be installed on a cement area at the new edition at Paddock Lane School to provide seating for students.

This is great educational project to teach youth the importance of recycling and reuse. In future years, the recycling project will be offered to the other Beatrice Elementary Schools to purchase benches(s) for their students.

$810 Raised of $3,000 goal

$0 $3,000

14 Donors

Keep Beatrice Beautiful, Inc.

205 North 4th Street
Beatrice, NE 68310

(402) 228-4576

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Keep Beatrice Beautiful, Inc.

Current Project: Middle School Recycling Project

Past Projects

Trees for Veterans Memorial Park

Project Details

Purchase recycled plastic benches for Lincoln Elementary

Project Details

Recycling Plastic Water bottles to make benches for Paddock Lane School

Project Details

Related Organizations

Gage County Foundation

Main Street Beatrice

Habitat for Humanity of Gage County

Food4Hope

Adams Community Foundation

Barneston Community Center Foundation

Stake Your Claim Foundation

Wymore - Blue Springs Area Fund

Improving Blue Springs One Property At A...