$1,000 Grant Awarded to Clean Valley Council

We continue to announce the awards for our annual 30 in 30 Green Grants each day during June.  Today, we’re pleased to award Clean Valley Council, in Roanoke, a grant of $1000 for its Litter Prevention project.

Clean Valley Council is an environmental conservation organization that provides educational programming on issues including litter prevention, recycling, storm water protection and stewardship in Southwest Virginia.

Clean Valley Council will use their grant funds to purchase litter grabbers, reusable gloves, and other supplies for litter cleanup events. They host two scheduled cleanups a year, in the spring and fall. They also offer Anytime Cleanups for community members. They have several Anytime Cleanup Satellite Stations to make litter prevention easy and accessible for all.

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.  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.