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June 24 2024

2024 Green Grants Award #24: Cville Tool Library

Beckey Watson Uncategorized $750, Cleanup supplies, Green Grants, lending litter grabbers, Litter Prevention

Congratulations to our 24th Green Grant award of $750 announced today that goes to the Cville Tool Library!

The Cville Tool Library is a volunteer-run organization in Charlottesville that builds and maintains a library of tools for members to borrow for home repair, maintenance, and personal projects. The Tool Library also offers classes in making, repairing, and maintenance skills.

The Cville Tool Library has so much to offer the community! It helps people save money buy not having to purchase expensive tools they might only use one time, and saves space at home by not having to store tools that you would only use occasionally. Or by donating unused tools to the Tool Library, you can reduce, reuse, and recycle, thereby helping the environment.

Membership fees for the Cville Tool Library are on a sliding scale, making tool access affordable for all in the community without requiring income verification. Additionally, the Tool Library partners with Habitat for Humanity to offer no-fee access to any Habitat Homeowner who would like to borrow tools as a member.

The Cville Tool Library plans to increase its tool inventory to make twenty litter pick-up kits that will be available for individuals or groups to gather litter in areas of their choosing in the City of Charlottesville or Albemarle County. Funds provided by the Green Grants award will be used to purchase supplies to conduct safe litter cleanups, such as litter grabbers, safety vests, and gloves. The tool library regularly loans tools to its members, and maintains a tool inventory at its location in the Visible Records warehouse at 1740 Broadway Street in Charlottesville.

The Cville Tool Library will let the public know about the availability of the litter kits through email and social media, and reach out to community groups who may have an interest in organizing a group cleanup project. The Tool Library will coordinate with interested individuals or groups to schedule and deliver an appropriate number of kits for their desired project date, arrange for kits to be returned, and provide maintenance and replacement supplies as needed.

This is a wonderful partnership for the community to keep their homes, gardens, and living spaces well-maintained, updated, and clean with the Cville Tool Library!

June 27 2023

Friends of Leesylvania State Park Awarded $1,000 Green Grant

Beckey Watson Uncategorized $1000, Cleanup supplies, Friends of Leesylvania State Park, Green Grant, Litter Prevention, trash cans, Woodbridge

The Friends of Leesylvania State Park is awarded a $1,000 Green Grant in the Litter Prevention Category as part of our 13th Annual Green Grants Program.

Every year, government, non-profit, civic, and service organizations in Virginia are invited to apply for grants ranging from $500 to $1,000 that will help address an environmental concern in their community. Grants must focus on one of the following priorities: Litter Prevention, Recycling, Cigarette Litter Prevention, or Community Beautification.

The Friends of Leesylvania State Park (FOLSP), in Woodbridge, strives to enhance the educational and recreational opportunities for all park users, while protecting the historic and natural resources, and aesthetics of the park.

In 2021, the park saw 474,519 guests in the park, and that number continues to increase each year as the population of Northern Virginia grows. With so many guests taking part in recreational opportunities such as swimming, picnicking, hiking, paddling, fish and more, the park accumulates large amounts of trash. Many of the current trash cans that are in the park are rusted, broken, and difficult for park staff and volunteers to pull out the filled trash bags.

With funds provided by the Green Grant award, FOLSP will purchase new trash cans for the park, and build stands for the cans for easier maintenance. In addition, more cleanup supplies for volunteers will be purchased, such are buckets, bags, and grabbers, to Support the park’s “Trash It Tuesday.” This program invites volunteers to the park every Tuesday to pick up a bucket of litter, and in return they will receive free ice cream!

That sounds like a great incentive to get people involved in litter cleanups with the warmer weather ahead! Congratulations to the Friends of Leesylvania State Park, keep up the good work!

June 5 2021

Scott County is Ready to Cleanup!

Beckey Watson 30 in 30 Green Grants, Uncategorized 30 IN 30, cleanup, Cleanup supplies, Green Grants, Litter Prevention

Congratulations to Scott County Litter Control, who is today’s award of our 2021 Green Grants! They will receive $500 for its LItter Prevention 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 Scott County Litter Control office fields concerns and complaints regarding litter and illegal dumping throughout the large rural county. The Litter Control Officer also organizes and conducts volunteer cleanup projects, as well as provides informational presentations to the public, including school group presentations and staffed tables at community events.

Grant funds will be used to purchase litter grabbers and cleanup supplies to use at various community cleanup operations throughout Scott County. Many of the volunteers that come out to cleanup events include families of all ages, so providing tools will make their job easier and their efforts safer.

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.