Community Volunteer Opportunity
| Adopt-A-Spot |
| Adult Classes |
| Schools |
| Making a Difference in Carrollton |
| Great American Cleanup |
| Trinity River Trash Bash |
| Texas Recycle Day |
Adopt-A-Spot
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Star Car Wash | Warmington Meadows / Hebron Key Club |
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Boy Scouts of Amercia Troop 121 | Gerdau AmeriSteel |
Keep Carrollton Beautiful's Adopt-A-Spot program provides local businesses, civic organizations and other groups the opportunity to make an impact on the cleanliness and appearance of our community. By accepting the responsibility and leadership of the adopted "spot", the group is not only increasing awareness of litter issues and the impact of beautification efforts, but is also publicly demonstrating a positive behavior of local pride and ownership of Carrollton.
All across the country, similar litter reduction campaigns have been implemented and proven to be very successful. Some of the advantages gained are: reducing the cost of litter removal, advertising and team building, instilling community pride and awareness, beautifying, and allowing City maintenance crews to perform other needed tasks.
Adopt-A-Spot is a voluntary program to involve citizens in maintaining and beautifying Carrollton. Anyone may participate by volunteering to Adopt-A-Spot in Carrollton and pledging to maintain it for one year or longer. Any "spot" (with the exception of medians) within the city limits not currently maintained, may be adopted, with special attention to those places that appear neglected.
Follow these steps to Adopt-Your-Spot:
- Fill out the contract and submit to Keep Carrollton Beautiful via email to - sharon@KeepCarrolltonBeautiful.org - or fax to 972.466.2121
- Select a spot appropriate to the capabilities and size of your group, either from the location list provided, where you see the greatest need or close to your physical location
- Maintain your "spot" for a minimum commitment of one year; cleaning it at least once a quarter with one cleanup date falling on the Great American Cleanup of that year
- Submit periodic photos of your group with your sign to reflect your group maintaining the "spot"
- Assist the Keep Carrollton Beautiful in securing media coverage for the program
We look forward to joining with you to make Carrollton litter free.
Your Business Can “Adopt-A-Spot” Too
August 17, 2007
Keep Carrollton Beautiful has brought a national litter reduction campaign to Carrollton, giving local businesses, civic organizations and other groups the opportunity to make an impact on the cleanliness and appearance of our community – one “spot” at a time. By accepting the responsibility and leadership of the adopted "spot", the group is not only increasing awareness of litter issues and the impact of beautification efforts, but is also publicly demonstrating a positive behavior of local pride and ownership of Carrollton.“ Adopt-A-Spot is really the metropolitan version of the Texas Department of Transportation’s Adopt-A-Highway, but we really can’t have volunteers cleaning the highways around here. It’s much too dangerous,” said Sharon Goddard, Founder and Executive Director of Keep Carrollton Beautiful.
The yearly commitment is to clean your “spot” once a quarter, but many of those who are already signed up clean more often. Their “spot” is a great source of pride and the cleanups serve as great team-building events. Your company or group gets two street signs, supplies and lots of support from Keep Carrollton Beautiful.
Although you can adopt on most streets, the City of Carrollton has identified ten locations that could use some additional tender loving care. These greenbelt sites are listed on www.KeepCarrolltonBeautiful.org and come with more rustic signs, also located on major thoroughfares.
City Manager, Leonard Martin says, “Most of the services provided by the city contribute in some way to the overall quality of life and sustainability of the community. But we need help. If more of our 5,200 businesses and organizations were involved in community service projects, everyone would benefit. Becoming a community partner means contributing in some way to the revitalization of our environment and community spirit.”
Keep Carrollton Beautiful is bringing thousands of volunteers together and making our community a more beautiful place to work and live. Join them by calling Sharon Goddard at 972.466.2121 to claim your “spot” or go to www.KeepCarrolltonBeautiful.org for the Forms required. Watch for their next events: Trinity River Trash Bash on October 13th and Texas Recycles Day on November 10th.
Some groups are just cleaning up where they see a problem! We're happy to help.
Team-Me USA Really Cleaned Up
August 27, 2007
Lots of groups are getting the bug – they want their community to be beautiful and where it isn’t - they just go to work. Over the weekend, Team-Me USA got an energetic group together to clean the greenbelt close to Frankford Road and Josey Lane.Team-Me USA is a non-profit begun by Tony Owens to help teens prepare for responsible adulthood and build the skills they need to negotiate a rapidly changing society. Just begun in January, their mission is a good one: “to build character and to help teens develop the leadership skills that greatly affect their ability to make positive decisions and avoid the pitfalls that could place them at risk.”
A community cleanup is a perfect way to take responsibility for where you live while having a huge impact. Bobby Brady, Parks Dept. for the City of Carrollton, directed the group to this greenbelt because it’s very hard for the City staff to keep up with all the maintenance; especially with all the rain we had this spring.
Partnering with Keep Carrollton Beautiful was also a great decision because it netted them trash bags, surgical gloves and pickers. “Groups like this are perfect examples of what it means to take responsibility in your own community. What we found was that the City was doing a great job in the greenbelt but the streets could use some help. I hope we can find groups and companies to adopt all the streets with our Adopt-A-Spot program,” said Sharon Goddard, Keep Carrollton Beautiful.
They even separated the recycling from the trash they collected. “We couldn’t believe that people would use the trails in the beautiful greenbelt for walking or jogging or picnicking and then LEAVE their water bottle!” Many, many people did!
To contact Team-Me USA, go to www.Team-MeUSA.com and find out about their other great programs for teens. To find out about the up coming Trinity River Trash Bash and Texas Recycles Day hosted by Keep Carrollton Beautiful, go to www.KeepCarrolltonBeautiful.org. Maybe people will learn to PICK UP THEIR OWN TRASH.
If you adopt one of the greenbelt locations identified by the City, you will receive a more rustic sign at no extra cost to you.
