Support Keep Knoxville Beautiful's Mission

We are A Cleaner Knoxville Together, a group of University of Tennessee students dedicated to supporting Keep Knoxville Beautiful. This organization, located in South Knoxville, is a non-profit organization that primarily supports operations to keep Knoxville’s green areas pristine. We are working with this organization because we are deeply inspired by their mission to clean up and preserve nature for the people of Knoxville and want to help provide them with the resources they need to continue their noble mission.

Keep Knoxville Beautiful has served Knoxville since 1978 and currently has 501(c)(3) non-profit status. While their original goal was to clean up Knoxville for the 1982 World’s Fair, they have maintained preventive operations since their foundation. Ultimately, their mission is to preserve and maintain the beauty of Knoxville for generations to come. Whether it is beautification projects, Adopt a Road programs, graffiti removal, or other contracted cleanups, they are dedicated to inspiring and empowering others to take pride in Knoxville, roll up their sleeves, and lend a hand.

We have a goal to raise $1000 so Keep Knoxville Beautiful can keep Knoxville beautiful. Examples of what these donations go towards include community beautification, volunteer cleanups, adopting a road, contracted cleanup, graffiti removal, and planting trees. Keep Knoxville Beautiful has an ultimate goal of keeping the area cleaner, greener, and more beautiful. Their many programs need funding to do what they do. Donations contribute to all the different examples of what they do to keep Knoxville clean.

Keep Knoxville Beautiful's received donations go towards making different things happen around Knoxville. There are many lines of work they do and to do them they use the donation money to fund it. With the funds raised they are able to buy supplies needed to do things like beautification, cleanups, adopt a road, graffiti removal, and planting trees. Through donating to the organization you can ensure that the nature around Knoxville is kept to a standard. Meaning while you drive around or walk around this city the amenities will be up to keep and look nice and welcoming. However, donating to the organization will help them continue with their beautiful goal of cleaning up the city and keeping it in good shape. Without funds raised from donations, they are not able to have all these events where people come out and volunteer their time to use the supplies they get to clean up.

Keep Knoxville Beautiful works to inspire the community to make an effort to clean up Knoxville's highways. For more than 40 years the organization has served as an essential part of the community by hosting trash cleanups and environmental initiatives. They have held over 494 cleanups. In those cleanups, they picked up over 123,205 pounds of trash. Not only are they helping clean up the community but they were able to get over 7,149 local volunteers involved which is very positive morale for the community. Their mission statement is “to inspire and empower Knox County communities to improve their quality of life through beautification and environmental stewardship. ” This statement shows that they put the community first and strive to better those around them. Not only are they cleaning but they are also creating a tight-knit community where they have created 121 Adopt a Road groups, 16 beautification projects, and have made 2 murals for the community to share as a whole.