$1,000 Grant Goes to Chancellor Elementary PTA

We’re excited to announce that today’s award of our 2021 Green Grants goes to the Chancellor Elementary Parent-Teacher Association in Spotsylvania County, who will receive $1000 for its Recycling project.  We’ll be announcing one each day during the month of June. 

Every year, government, non-profit, civic and service organizations in Virginia were invited to apply for grants for $500 to $1,000 describing how they plan to tackle an environmental concern in their community regarding Litter Prevention, Recycling, Cigarette Litter Prevention, or Community Beautification.

The Chancellor Elementary PTA will use their grant funds to install water bottle refill stations. This will encourage students to use refillable water bottles to safely meet their hydration needs because the school’s water fountains were closed due to COVID restrictions.  Currently, single-use plastic bottles are the only way for children to access drinking water.  The plastic bottles are being thrown away, and if even a fourth of the students fill their water bottle once each school day, a refill station will prevent over 2,400 plastic water bottles from being sent to the landfill every month!

The school system’s county maintenance will install the retrofit kit to the water fountain therefore eliminating installation costs.  

The mission at Keep Virginia Beautiful is to engage and unite Virginians to improve the natural and scenic environment.  Since 2011, Keep Virginia Beautiful has provided $254,500 for 320 different environmental programs and projects all across the Commonwealth, due to the generosity of their partnership with Altria, as well as additional support from Coca-Cola, WestRock and Keep America Beautiful.