$1,000 Grant Awarded to Naturally, Newport News

Congratulations to today’s award of our 2021 Green Grants — Naturally, Newport News, who will receive a grant award of $1000 for its Litter Prevention project.

Naturally, Newport News is the Keep America Beautiful affiliate for the City of Newport News. They work to strengthen litter awareness and prevention initiatives. Naturally, Newport News recently began a “City Department Challenge,” which encourages city departments to start their own litter cleanup events, using cleanup kits provided by Naturally, Newport News.

Green Grants funds will be used to purchase cleanup kit supplies, including safety vests, litter grabbers, and gloves, to be loaned out for the City Department Challenge.

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.