Keep Charleston Beautiful is once again engaging local City of Charleston schools in the design and implementation of environmentally focused projects. Students and teachers can plan and conduct a large variety of projects, with the general guidelines that they focus on the missions of litter reduction, community beautification, or recycling and sustainability campaigns. Ideally, these should be projects that can benefit the entirety of the school or have 100% school participation. We recommend that school groups include an educational component to their project as well.
Example projects might include:
- Planning and building a garden where every grade level plays a role in its care and creation (vegetable, pollinator, or rain garden)
-Setup of classroom or grade level recycling competitions to reduce landfill waste and increase diversion rates from landfills
-Initiation of composting, recycling, or regular litter cleanups on the school's campus.
Example educational components could include:
-plan information announcements or assemblies
-conduct artwork contests for all grades to show what they learned
-invite a speaker or expert in the field to share environmental information
Keep Charleston Beautiful can always lend out litter cleanup supplies to schools who wish to participate in litter sweep. If you would like to have some cleanup supplies of your own to keep at the school, these funds could be utilized for those needs.
These supplies are being funded via a generous grant from Dominion, which will allow us to allocate $250 worth of supply funding to the first 20 projects that are registered and have an acceptable proposal. Multiple teachers from the same school are eligible to apply for funding/supplies.
Below is the form needed to register your school group. We encourage projects that can help initiative positive behavior changes amongst community members.
Upon registration you will receive a confirmation email to coordinate the details of your proposed project.
Please be specific in the application about what supplies you need for your project (include quantities, sizes, colors, specific brands, estimated costs, etc.)
We look forward to working with you to make Charleston clean, green, and litter-free!