We’re Dedicated to Helping You Make a Difference!

The first step toward making a difference is often the hardest step to take. At Keep Knoxville Beautiful, we commend anyone willing to work toward making their community a better place – and we want to help you. We love to work with and support community groups who share in our vision for clean, green and beautiful Knox County communities.

Once a year, we seek proposals from community groups inspired to take on a community project that aligns with our mission: To inspire and empower Knox County communities to improve their quality of life through beautification and environmental stewardship. Projects must promote at least one of the following: litter prevention, waste reduction, community beautification, or environmental stewardship.

Any Knoxville or Knox County community group, including schools, neighborhood associations, religious organizations, etc. are eligible to apply. We do not provide financial support to for-profit organizations and political groups.

Examples of projects that fall under our purview include, but are not limited to:

  • Tree plantings

  • Butterfly gardens

  • Community gardens

  • Murals

  • Graffiti removal and repainting of wall

  • Large scale litter pickups (100+ volunteers)

  • Educational projects that promote beautification and environmental stewardship

  • Outdoor classrooms

Some of the ways in which we at KKB can help projects are through:

  • Funding

    • Accepting projects with budgets up to $5,000

    • Grant awards will be dispersed upon completion of financial report post-project

  • Volunteer support

Deadline

If you have a project idea and are interested in partnering with KKB, please submit an application and let us know what you need. The application deadline falls on October 6, 2023 at 5:00 pm EST. A notification of acceptance will be sent out by the end of October and all chosen projects will take place before June 30, 2024.

THE APPLICATION FOR FY24 IS NOW CLOSED