Keep Alachua County Beautiful

As an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, Keep Alachua County Beautiful believes that each of us holds an obligation to preserve and protect our environment. Through our everyday choices and actions, we collectively have a big impact on our world.

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to beautify, conserve resources, recycle, educate and preserve our community's environmental legacy.

WHO WE ARE

KACB is composed of a diverse team of staff, interns and volunteers. Many of those who volunteer and staff KACB are current and former students of the local University of Florida and Santa Fe College!

Executive Director Gina Hawkins is a professional in the environmental field whose experience numbers over 25 years. She has served both as the City of Gainesville's Recycling Coordinator and Public Information Officer. She served on the KACB Board of Directors from 1993-2012 and became Executive Director of KACB in 2012.

OUR IMPACT

KACB works on a small budget of city, county and state government funding supplemented with private and individual contributions. With this support, we have been able to:

• Mobilize over 5,500 volunteers in a single year that have aided in beautification, restoration and landscaping for public areas in our county
• Hold a Great American Cleanup main event in all nine incorporated municipalities of Alachua County
• Collect over 72,000 pounds of tires over nine tire collection events, including 30,400 tires from the Gainesville / Alachua County event
• Maintain a current cost-benefit ratio of $8.57 per dollar
• Accomplish projects of street cleanup, cemetery restoration, waterway cleanup, invasive plant removal, tree planting, youth education and much more!