KOB News

  Congratulations to Keep Broken Arrow Beautiful, a KOB affiliate, for receiving one of 18 $4,000 "Think Green" grants from Waste Management on March 8. Monies will be used to fund the group's 2013 recycling campaign.   The check was presented during a Broken Arrow City Council meeting Tuesday, April 2.

TROY-BILT®, a national sponsor of the Great American Cleanup™ (GAC), donated eight pieces of lawn equipment to Keep Oklahoma Beautiful for use during the GAC in Oklahoma for the second consecutive year. KOB hosted an essay contest, inviting GAC participants to share how the backpack leaf blowers and string trimmers would specifically benefit their project and community. Out of a multitude of entries, a panel of judges chose 8 winners who received their equipment in time for the spring cleanups a...

  Keep Oklahoma Beautiful, along with program partner the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, is honored to announce the winners of the 2012 End Litter Video Contest. After receiving nearly 1,300 votes on our Facebook page and 3,000 views on YouTube, the winners are:    "Trash Strikes Back" By: Caleb Barnaby, Gina Condly, Sissey Doohan, Jordan Jones, Larissa Nugroho, Zachariah Smith Collegiate Category Oral Roberts University - Tulsa   "End Litter The Old Fashioned Way" By...

Oklahoma City, OK (Feb. 28, 2013) – Keep Oklahoma Beautiful received a Keep America Beautiful (KAB) Gold State Recognition Award during KAB’s recent 60th anniversary National Conference in Washington, D.C., distinguishing itself as an exemplary statewide affiliate organization. Keep Oklahoma Beautiful was honored for its outstanding promotion of KAB’s mission statewide and for its program support for local affiliates in Oklahoma.

 At Monday’s meeting of the Oklahoma Transportation Commission, Keep Oklahoma Beautiful Executive Director Gail Ederer presented the Keep America Beautiful National Partner Award to the Oklahoma Department of Transportation for its partnership with Keep Oklahoma Beautiful and support of the Great American Cleanup in Oklahoma. Pictured left to right are State Maintenance Engineer Kevin Bloss; Gail Ederer; ODOT Beautification Coordinator Melody Johnson; Transportation Commission Chairman Greg...

<-- Go Back Keep Oklahoma Beautiful is pleased to announce this year's Board Commendation Award Winners and Finalists for the Environmental Excellence Competition. Finalists were honored and winners announced during the 22nd Annual Environmental Excellence Celebration on November 1, 2012 at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. For more information regarding this inspirational and exciting evening, click here.

Hundreds of volunteers have been busy this fall transforming buildings throughout Oklahoma as part of Fresh Paint Days in Oklahoma. The impact that these projects have had on their communities is tremendous and we need your help in determining which project was the best. Today through October 19th (this coming Friday) you have the opportunity to vote for your favorite project in the Communities Primed for Change Contest.

<-- Go Back Keep Oklahoma Beautiful is pleased to announce this year's Board Commendation Award Winners and Finalists for the Environmental Excellence Competition. Finalists will be honored and winners announced during the 22nd Annual Environmental Excellence Celebration on November 1, 2012 at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. For more information regarding this inspirational and exciting evening, click here.

Over the past couple of weeks, we have been learning of the struggles many have had submitting an online nomination form to Keep Oklahoma Beautiful's Environmental Excellence Competition. To be honest, we too have had our fair share of struggles with the system since we implemented it 3 years ago. If we can't make it work, obliviously you won't be able to either.

The nomination deadline for Keep Oklahoma Beautiful's Environmental Excellence Competition is right around the corner! KOB wants to honor the hard work and forward thinking of businesses, individuals, educators, government agencies and organizations that have dedicated themselves to improving Oklahoma's aesthetic, environmental and sustainable quality of life. But we need your help!!!