Keep Loudoun Beautiful

Goal: $2,500.00

Specific Need

Keep Loudoun Beautiful has been supporting Loudoun County for 52 years.  We are funded only through private donations even though the county calls on us to play an important role in keeping streets and parks clean from litter.  That money goes to fund cleanup supplies (safety vests, bags, gloves, pickup sticks), as well as to fund canoe rentals and hazardous waste dump fees for our two annual water cleanup events.  Last year, 903 KLB volunteers conducted 64 clean up events that collected 82 tires, 661 bags of trash, and 123 bags of recyclable materials. In addition to program fees, we invest money on educational programs administered in our county schools.  In 2023, we held our third annual KLB Video Contest for Loudoun high school students.  Currently, all of our back office, overhead expenses (web site development, newsletter production, Keep America Beautiful affiliate membership, etc) are funded by a private donor on our board.  If we receive donations through the Give Choose Programs, we would invest them in additional educational programs for the schools, the production of educational videos targeted at Loudoun residents and businesses.  We would also invest in a part time grant writer to help us secure some additional funding sources so that we can guarantee that KLB will be able to serve the community for the next 50 years.

$15.00 Funds - One litter pickup stick

$25.00 Funds - A 5 pack of safety vests 

$100.00 Funds - 1.5 Hours of grant writing assistance to help us fund our programs for years to come

$250.00 Funds - Canoe rental for waterway clean up event

$350.00 Funds - The production and hosting of educational videos to train citizens how/what to recycle, how to reduce trash production, and how to keep our community clean

$500.00 Funds - The installation of trash and recycling containers in littered parts of the county

Mission

KLB is a nonprofit organization dedicated to maintaining a safe, clean, and healthy environment for Loudoun families, businesses, and wildlife through educational outreach, litter prevention, and cleanups.  Our efforts include:

• Encouraging and educating citizens to keep Loudoun beautiful
• Promoting public awareness of environmental challenges and common-sense solutions, like Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling
• Improving county trash disposal and eliminating illegal dumping

$615.72 received
in 9 gifts 24.63%  of  $2,500.00 Goal