Cigarette Litter Prevention Program (CLPP) Grants

Overview

About Keep America Beautiful

A leading national nonprofit, Keep America Beautiful inspires and educates people to take action every day to improve and beautify their community environment. We envision a country in which every community is a clean, green, and beautiful place to live.

Established in 1953, Keep America Beautiful provides the expertise, programs and resources to help people End Littering, Improve Recycling, Beautify America’s public spaces, and Restore & Support resilient communities.

The organization is driven by the work and passion of millions of individual volunteers, nearly 700 community-based Keep America Beautiful affiliates, and the support of municipalities, elected officials, and corporate partners.

Our collective action champions environmentally healthy, socially-connected, and economically-sound communities. Keep America Beautiful continues to bring people together to transform public spaces into beautiful places.

Cigarette Litter Prevention Program (CLPP) Grants

The Keep America Beautiful Cigarette Litter Prevention Program helps reduce pollution in American communities by collecting cigarette waste from public spaces and waterways and recycling it. Since its inception in 2003, the program has been implemented in more than 1,800 communities across the nation, achieving an average of 50% reduction in cigarette waste.

How Does the CLPP Work?

An effective local Cigarette Litter Prevention Program includes four proven, field-tested solutions or strategies for reducing cigarette butt litter.

* Review local litter laws, including cigarette butt litter, and support enforcement
* Raise awareness about the issue of proper cigarette butt disposal using messaging and marketing campaigns
* Place ash receptacles at transition points to non-smoking areas like beaches, hospitals, or public parks; and
* Distribute pocket or portable ashtrays to adult smokers

This year, Keep America Beautiful is focusing on three primary types of intervention with the goal of increasing cigarette butt recycling and incorporating technology into the assessment and collection program.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

* Grant is open to KAB Affiliates, nonprofits, local governments, and other community organizations who wish to implement KAB’s 4-step, field-tested CLPP approach in their communities.
* Expenses eligible for grant support include purchasing public receptacles for cigarette litter collection, marketing costs, and costs associated with administering the program, including salaries.
* Applicants will be required to provide a budget and an accompanying rationale in their applications.
* To facilitate and increase butt recycling and ensure consistency in CLPP infrastructure deployed, grantees will be required to purchase KAB approved receptacles.
* KAB will facilitate the procurement of receptacles through its partner TerraCycle and will deduct receptacle costs from the cash grant provided.
* Keep America Beautiful recommends that at least 25% of grant funds be allocated toward infrastructure.

* Keep America Beautiful state affiliates applying for pass-through grant funding to support their local affiliates must require their local KAB affiliate to be in KAB's President's Circle.