Press and Media Advisories

For information about programs including the following, please contact:

• Laura Blake-Orr, Core Programs Administrator, at (803) 733-1139 or lblakeorr@kmbsc.org
  • Adopt-A-Highway, Adopt-A-Waterway, Adopt-A-Street, Great American Cleanup, Midlands Green Business program, One-Time Cleanups, Spotless Service Saturdays, WasteWise Events

For all other inquiries, please contact:

• Ebonee Gadson, Executive Director, at (803) 733-2526 or egadson@kmbsc.org.

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Keep the Midlands Beautiful In the News

About Keep the Midlands Beautiful

• Interview with Koko (March, 2022)
• Lexington Life Magazine (April, 2022)
• Coping with Tre' Tailor! (April, 2022)

 

Adopt-A-Waterway Program

• Chapin Neighbors (June, 2021)
• Talkin' Trash Tuesday: Adopt-A-Waterway (Sep, 2021)
• Scuba Divers Clean Lake Murray After Reggaetronic Festival (June, 2022)

 

Annual Shoe Drive 

2022

• ABC Columbia
• Cola Daily
• Soda City BizWire.com

2021

• ABC Columbia
• Carolina News
• Cola Daily
• WACH Fox News
• MidlandsBiz
• Shoe Drive Press Release

 

COVID Impact

• COVID killed a year’s worth of cleanups. Now SC streets, waterways are full of trash (March, 2021)

 

Earth Day

• Earth Day Cleanup in Booker Washington Heights Neighborhood - April, 2022
• "Talkin' Trash Tuesday" with WISTV's Dawndy Mercer Plank- April 6, 2022

 

Grants

• Arbor Day Foundation's $50,000 Community Resilience Grant Program in partnership with Bank of America (July, 2021)
  • Arbor Day Foundation Grant Press Release (July, 2021)
  • Cola Daily Article (July, 2021)
  • City of Columbia Press Release (Sep, 2021)
• Dominion Energy
  • $15,000 for "Leave Only Footprints" campaign on and around Lake Murray
• Keep America Beautiful Grant
  • Keep America Beautiful Grants $20,000 to Keep the Midlands Beautiful in Its Effort to Restore Washed Out Bridge at Michael J. and Mary Meech Mungo Park after 2015 Flood (May, 2019)
• PalmettoPride
  • Keep the Midlands Beautiful receives $21,746 from PalmettoPride and Keep South Carolina Beautiful through four competitive grants. (Feb 2022)
• Sonoco Grant
  • KMB Awarded 2021 Sonoco Foundation and Central Carolina Community Foundation Grant (Dec, 2021)
• TD Bank Partnership
  • Keep the Midlands Beautiful Selected to Partner with TD Tree Days to Enhance Urban Forest and the Community by Planting Trees in Columbia on October 24, 2019 (July, 2019)

Great American Cleanup

• 2022 Great American Cleanup Will Kickoff on Boiling Springs Road

 

Grinding of the Greens

• Talkin' Trash Tuesday Grinding of the Greens (Dec. 2021)

 

Lakeside Litter Sweep - 2022

• Lake Murray Country (July, 2022)
• Lexington Chronicle (7/25/22)
• MidlandsBiz - Who's On the Move (8/2/22)
• Talkin Trash Tuesday: Sign Up for Lakeside Litter Sweep (7/26/22)
• WISTV (7/25/22)
• WACH FOX (9/1/22)
• ABC Columbia (9/5/22)
• Soda City Live (9/5/22)

 

Lakeside Litter Sweep - 2021

• Chapin Neighbors, Lakeside Litter Sweep (Sep, 2021)
• Lakeside Litter Sweep Press Release (Aug, 2021)
• Talkin Trash Tuesday: Sign Up for Lakeside Litter Sweep (Aug, 2011)
• Talkin' Trash Tuesday: Lakeside Litter Sweep Results (Sep, 2021)

 

Litter Pickups

• Talkin' Trash Tuesday: Keep the Midlands Beautiful (March, 2021)

 

Reduce, Reuse & Recycle During the Holidays

• Talkin' Trash Tuesday: Reducing Holiday Waste (Nov, 2022)

 

Spotless Service Saturday Program

• Spotless Service Saturdays Press Release (April, 2021)