Keep America Beautiful and Anheuser-Busch Wednesday announced the award of 10 grants totaling $95,000 as part of its Watershed Grants Program.  The grants were awarded to--

-- Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful: Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful, a state affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, will create mini-grants to be used for watershed projects throughout the state of Pennsylvania.

-- Keep Philadelphia Beautiful: Keep Philadelphia Beautiful (KPB), the Philadelphia Water Department, and social enterprise United by Blue will partner with the Heinz Wildlife Refuge in Southwest Philadelphia to conduct KPB’s second annual river cleanup at that site.

Grant funds support volunteer initiatives ranging from river cleanups to invasive species removal to riparian restoration planting to river bank stabilization and stream buffers, all designed to improve the health and vitality of local watersheds.

The projects will engage volunteers from Keep America Beautiful community-based affiliates and partnering organizations working with the input and participation from local Anheuser-Busch wholesalers.

“We are proud of our longstanding partnership with Keep America Beautiful and our collective goal to drive meaningful change for our environment,” said Adam Warrington, vice president, corporate social responsibility at Anheuser-Busch. “Our company wants a world that is cleaner and more sustainable for future generations, and we believe in doing our part to promote water conservation and improved energy efficiency across every aspect of our business. We look forward to our continued partnership with Keep America Beautiful to fulfill our shared objective of a better world.”

“Keep America Beautiful is thrilled with our partnership with Anheuser-Busch on this grant program because clean, beautiful watersheds directly connect with a community’s long-term environmental stewardship efforts,” said Helen Lowman, president and CEO, Keep America Beautiful.

For more information on programs, initiatives and special events, visit the Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful website. Click Here to become a member.  Click Here to sign up for regular updates from KPB, Like them on Facebook, Follow on Twitter, Discover them on Pinterest and visit their YouTube Channel.

Also visit the Illegal Dump Free PA website for more ideas on how to clean up communities and keep them clean and KPB’s Electronics Waste website.

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[Posted: Oct. 4, 2018]

10/8/2018