What is Keep Carter County Beautiful?

• In 2016, Ed Jordan founded a volunteer grass roots organization called Carter County Proud, whose objective was to make Carter County a more beautiful place to live and work.
• In 2018, Carter County Proud became an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful and became Keep Carter County Beautiful (KCCB), with funding and assistance from the Carter County Commissioners, Elizabethton City Council and Mitch Miller (CEO) of North Tennessee Regional Economic Partnership Development.
• Keep Carter County Beautiful (KCCB) is governed by a Board of Directors that meet monthly.
• In February of 2022 Keep Carter County Beautiful became a Tennessee Non-Profit Corpoartion and a Federal Public Charity 501c3 making all donations tax deductible. You can view our public documents by clicking on the button below:

KCCB Mission:

The mission of Keep Carter County Beautiful an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful is to inspire and educate people to act every day to improve and beautify their community and environment.

Why are we doing this?

Objective: Make Carter County a Beautiful Place to Live and Work

• To improve the beauty of our community and the quality of our lives.
  • A clean area encourages cleanliness. A littered area encourages more litter.
  • Carter County has “what money can’t buy” – natural beauty. We owe it to ourselves and future generations to take care of it!
• To bring awareness to the problem and show how actions of a few affect everyone.
• To make Carter County more inviting to tourists and new business.
• To encourage reuse and recycling which reduces the burden on our landfill.

Our mission is not to just pick up litter!

Strategies:

1. Reduce Litter
2. Encourage Beautification
3. Promote Recycling
4. Increase Public awareness through Education
5. Recognize Excellence

Keep America Beautiful Affiliate Letter

October 14, 2021

Keep Carter County Beautiful
Edward Jordan, Chairman
801 East Elk Avenue, Suite 201
Elizabethton, TN 37643

Dear Mr. Jordan:

This letter serves to recognize that Keep Carter County Beautiful has been a certified affiliate member of Keep America Beautiful since August 2018.

For more than sixty-five years, Keep America Beautiful has cleaned and beautified public spaces for the benefit of humanity and the world around us. Our legacy is built on education, partnerships, and our science-based Model for Change. We bring all of this together through our unparalleled affiliate network.

Your affiliation with Keep America Beautiful enables Carter County to join alongside our 5 million volunteers annually who are building solutions in their communities through participation in programs such as the Great American Cleanup, America Recycles Day, Trash Dash, Cigarette Litter prevention Program and much more.  

Keep America Beautiful is fortunate to have Keep Tennessee Beautiful oversee and help support local Keep America Beautiful affiliates in Tennessee. Through their efforts and guidance, affiliates are currently returning an average of $15 for every dollar of government dollar invested in their programs. These savings result from reduced cleanup costs, increased volunteer hours and donated goods and services.

Keep Carter County Beautiful is a proud part of our local, state and national network, with over 700 affiliates across the nation improving communities for future generations, preserving our shared quality of life and fostering a healthier environment for us all.

Thank you for all that you do! Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance.

Sincerely,

Grace Keegan
Director, Central Region
Keep America Beautiful

Education is a key element in the fight against littering