Keep Alachua County Beautiful's mission is to beautify, conserve resources, recycle, educate and preserve our community's environmental legacy. We accomplish this through beautification activities, environmental action, small and large restoration projects and through promoting recycling and reducing waste products.

The 2009 Great American Cleanup is expanding to two locations this year, to accomodate volunteers from all areas of Gainesville and Alachua County. This year's edition of the Great American Cleanup is on Saturday April 11, 2009; The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center (directly behind Citizen's Field) and Westside Park will both serve as sites for registration, breakfast and tool pickup on the morning of April 11th. Tool drop-off, the after-cleanup celebration party--- including lunch---and the Great American Cleanup Fair will all be held at the MLK Center only that afternoon. Come out, volunteer to help clean up our beautiful community, and join the party afterwards!

KACB's Litter Summit originally scheduled for March is going to be rescheduled for later this year. Our staff is currently gearing up for an expanded Great American Cleanup and will turn their attention to the 2009 Litter Summit afterwards. Date, time and location for the 2009 Litter Summit are to be announced.

Keep Alachua County Beautiful and the Boys and Girls Club of Woodland Park were recently recognized by Keep America Beautiful for their outstanding partnership project at Woodland Park. KACB Executive Director Mickie MacKenzie and Erick Baker, Unit Director of the Boys and Girls Club of Woodland Park, accepted the first place award in the category of 'Areas of Schools and Youth for Beautification' at Keep America Beautiful's 55th Annual Conference in Washington D.C., December 3-5, 2008.

If you have any questions regarding Keep Alachua County Beautiful and our projects benefiting Alachua County's natural environment, please send us an email at our new email information address: info.kacb@gmail.com