Keep Arkansas Beautiful is a state certified affiliate of Keep America Beautiful Inc., the nation's largest community-improvement organization. Nine communities in Arkansas are local certified affiliates of Keep America Beautiful:

• Hot Springs/Garland County Beautification Commission
• Keep Faulkner County Beautiful
• Keep Jacksonville Beautiful
• Keep Little Rock Beautiful
• Keep Newport Beautiful
• Keep Ozark Beautiful
• Keep Sherwood Beautiful
• Keep Van Buren Beautiful
• Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Clean and Beautiful

Across the country, nearly 600 cities, towns, counties and states are implementing a community-improvement model as certified affiliates of Keep America Beautiful.

Is your community ready to become a Keep America Beautiful affiliate?

Step 1: Gain Community-wide Support

• Complete an application for certification
• Make payment of a one-time Certification fee
• Invite the community into the certification process

Step 2: Pre-certification

• Complete pre-certification workshop
• Complete certification requirements

Step 3: Certification

• Complete certification training
• Maintaining certification

Keep America Beautiful certification application (PDF)

For more information about Keep America Beautiful affiliation, contact Robert Phelps, state director of Keep America Beautiful in Arkansas.