In partnership with the City of Austin Watershed Protection Department, Keep Austin Beautiful organizes large-scale cleanups every other month, volunteer trainings, and a Rapid Rain Responder initiative to tackle trash from 25 locations along the shoreline and from watercrafts on and along Lady Bird Lake.
After many weeks of rain, the sun broke through just in time for our Resource Giveaway Day on October 27th. Keep Austin Beautiful’s Resource Giveaway Day is a free resource day that we host annually. This year we provided more than 200 tools, 900 native plants, and 150 lbs of native seed to the Austin…
We are thrilled to announce the 2018 Keep Austin Beautiful Annual Award Winners. This year’s awardees include students, individuals, community groups, and local businesses who have inspired friends, neighbors, and community members to improve Austin’s quality of life through environmental stewardship. Join us in celebrating them at Beautify Bash.
Join Keep Austin Beautiful at LBJ High School for Resource Giveaway Day, where we will be offering free plants, soil, mulch, compost, and gardening supplies to the community.
Keep Austin Beautiful is striving to engage more volunteers than ever in projects that serve areas in need. For the second year, Facebook Austin has answered the call to volunteer in our county-wide day of service, Keep Austin Beautiful Day.
Planting native trees is a gift that will keep giving to future generations, and Keep Austin Beautiful’s Adopt-a-Creek groups have planted more than 9,000 through Ready, Set, Plant!
Susie Shockley has been an outstanding community leader and environmental steward for the past 15 years. We are proud to honor her with this year’s Texas Disposal Systems Dennis Hobbs Individual Achievement Award.
For more than seven years, The Expedition School has been a committed partner in Keep Austin Beautiful’s Clean Lady Bird Lake program, and we are proud to recognize the school with the 2017 Samsung Litter Abatement Award.
For the past four years, University of Texas Elementary School has been one of Keep Austin Beautiful’s most passionate educational partners. We are thrilled to recognize them with the Applied Materials Education Award for their dedication to environmental service learning projects.
This year, local Austin company GoodPop truly stood out for all the great work they did in the community, and we’re proud to recognize them with the Ebay Community Involvement Award.