Keep Carrollton Beautiful EDUCATION Involving all citizens at their own level of interest.  Educate volunteers about environmental issues while they participate in our well-attended events.  Provide presentations for service organizations, special interest business groups, corporate partner teams and neighborhood groups.  Provide materials, supplies and presentations to classes and Green Teams about recycling, water pollution, natural resource conservation and Green Citizenship.  Educate members on environmental issues with seasonal newsletter. LITTER AND WASTE REDUCTION Changing litter attitudes about individual community responsibility.  Form relationships with corporate sponsors, businesses, families and youth supporters by direct volunteer participation.  Create public recognition and program awareness through cleanups, community wide events and press releases.  Leverage community pride through involvement with all cultural and ethnic diversities. BEAUTIFICATION Accomplishing community improvement by planning clear intentions.  Direct everyones attention and physical participation to improve the City one spot at a time.  Coordinated planting to beautify and identity our city to create the best impression.  Unified citizen efforts to improve the community as a whole. CREATING COMMUNITY Creating partnerships to involve all aspects of Carrollton.  Including all diversities.  Involve all community service factions and City departments who already serve.  Involve business, civic organizations and students in projects. KEEP CARROLLTON BEAUTIFUL ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2004 - PRESENT  Conceived, orchestrated and funded 48 public events utilizing 5,150 individual volunteers to collect more than 47,000 pounds of litter and diverting more than 65,000 pounds of recyclables  avoiding disposal fees, using free volunteer labor benefiting a number of charities, and creating revenue for the community of Carrollton.  Amassed almost 34,000 volunteer hours valued at more than $429,000.00  partnering with more than 166 businesses, 10 civic organizations, 15 other non-profits, 10 City of Carrollton people/departments, Carrollton/Farmers Branch and Lewisville Independent School Districts and PTAs, the North District Boy Scouts and both the North Central Texas Council of the Girl Scouts USA to unity Carrollton.  Raised more than $136,000. dollars of in-kind donations; and raised more than $98,000. dollars in cash to support event planning, cleanups, recycling and environmental awareness classes for Carrollton.  Educated more than 4,200 citizens in natural resource conservation and stewardship responsibility  quadrupling single family residential recycling, maintaining pre-draught levels of water consumption and creating a cell phone recycling program.  Initiated Adopt-A-Spot for the business community and currently have 6 spot sponsors.  Created a Teen Advisory Board from all Carrollton high schools and awarded 8 college scholarships to our graduating senior members.  Held four Texas Recycles Days - partnering with dozens of recycling vendors, the City of Carrollton, Carrollton Evening Lions Club, CFBISD and all area high schools  diverting 64,000 pounds of recyclables from the landfill.  Partnered with CFBISD, Carrollton Evening Lions Club, Halliburton, Boy Scouts of American, The Civic League and the City of Carrollton Parks and Rec. Department to hold Making A Difference in Carrollton workdays  the first year working on four homes  refurbishing and repairing 2 elderly citizens homes and manicuring the yards of 2 disabled citizens group homes; the second year we were at the CFBISD Outdoor Learning Center to construct a 225 x 150 Native Plant Garden (no mow area) acquiring $2,600.00 worth of recycled lumber for the project; the third year we installed 6 benches at the Native Plant Garden so the kids can observe, sketch and BE in nature; and this year completed mulching, sealing and trash pickup maintenance projects at five sites with the City on Carrollton Cares Day.  Coordinated collecting recycled barrels, had student groups paint them with environmental scenes and installed them in administrative office of six schools and sponsor lobbies to recycle cell phones.  Hosted six Texas SmartScape Classes; an Idea Exchange with Keep Texas Beautiful coordinators; an On-Line Auction; a Meeting with the Mayor for sponsors and members; Sustainable Carrollton; an Econ. Develop. Bus Tour; an Idea Exchange for neighborhood groups and initiated Green Team paper recycling with ABITIBI paying the CFBISD schools for an average of 65 tons of paper a month.  Hosted five Great American Cleanups with hundreds of volunteers collecting 47,000 pounds of litter and debris from greenbelts, creeks, vacant lots and streets in Carrollton.  Recognized twelve homeowners with Yard of the Month awards and newspaper recognition and recently made it possible for neighborhood groups to give their own awards.  Partnered with Intuit and Exponent HR for five Springs River Cleanups, cleaning tons of gushy trash from the Elm Fork and Denton Creek of the Trinity River.  Created and distributed ten newsletters educating about environmental stewardship and acknowledging a Volunteer of the Season in each.  Launched a new donated website at www.KeepCarrolltonBeautiful.org to educate the public about environmental issues.  Received two Silver Star Awards and two Gold Star Awards from Keep Texas Beautiful.  Partnered with Dallas Down River, Carrollton Evening Lions Club, Trinity Medical Center and Allied Waste Services to host two and plan a forth regional Trinity River Trash Bash events with hundreds of volunteers spending thousands of hours planning and collecting tons of gushy litter and waste from the Elm Fork and McInnish Park.  Partnered with the City Arborist and Senior Center to host Carrollton Arbor Day at Josey Ranch Lake with 400 volunteers planting 105 containerized trees, giving foster homes to 100 pecan seedlings donated by the Texas Forest Service, planting many acorns like a squirrel, drawing the Beauty of Carrollton and dedicating a pecan tree to Clyde R. Horn for Environmental Service.  Partnered with Carrollton service organizations to create Community Carrollton.  Distilled federal, state, regional and city environmental goals to create goals and initiatives for us to promote.  Created and printed reusable grocery bags to sell to the public and make plastic obsolete. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO MIGHT LIKE TO HIRE ME TO SERVE THE PLANET IN A LARGER ARENA. I AM OPEN TO RELOCATING FOR THE RIGHT POSITION. 972.466.2121