Keep Stamford Beautiful Projects

Ongoing Projects

ADOPT-A-SPOT PROGRAM

The Adopt-A-Spot program applies to public areas of the City, designed to enhance the environment and appearance of Stamford. Local businesses support landscaping and maintenance of these areas, and a Keep Stamford Beautiful sign is placed on the site with the name of the supporting business. If your business is interested in sponsoring a site, please contact Keep Stamford Beautiful.

THE GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP
Sponsored by General Electric Company in 2005

Stamford is a part of the nations largest organized litter cleanup program, through our partnership with Keep America Beautiful, Inc.. Stamford joined over two hundred cities nationwide in this project, with the Keep Stamford Beautiful, Inc. program in the South End, the West Side and Springdale. 350 volunteers collected over 50 tons of litter and debris from these neighborhoods last year. In 2001, the Great American Cleanup was expanded to include the neighborhoods of Belltown, the Cove, Glenbrook and Waterside.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE DAY

Make A Difference Day is the most encompassing national day of helping others - a celebration of neighbors helping neighbors. This event is sponsored by USA Weekend magazine in partnership with the Points of Light Foundation. In Stamford, Keep Stamford Beautiful, Inc. has sponsored cleanups and daffodil planting in the South End, the West Side, Waterside, the Cove, Springdale and Glenbrook.

N.I.C.E. (Neighbors Involved in a Cleaner Environment) - (full brochure)

The NICE program was designed to accommodate smaller groups of residents to clean up their streets, vacant lots and neighborhoods. Keep Stamford Beautiful, Inc. will evaluate and coordinate the cleanups; providing bags, gloves, dumpsters, rakes brooms and shovels for the activity. NICE is a year round program that is offered city wide.

LOADING DOCK HEALTH & SAFETY CHECKLIST

This checklist was designed in response to the problem of accumulations of litter at loading docks that surfaced during the Litter Index Test that was conducted in 1998. This informational checklist is distributed to small companies and corporations that have loading dock facilities.

LITTER FREE EVENTS

Keep Stamford Beautiful, Inc. researches events, contacts event organizers, and promotes these as "Litter Free Events". Keep Stamford Beautiful, Inc. provides volunteers at these events to patrol litter and distribute litter bags

PITCH IN- KEEP STAMFORD BEAUTIFUL
Sponsored by Pitney Bowes in 2005

During the month of June, July and August, the Pitch In - Keep Stamford Beautiful advertisement will be featured as an anti-littering awareness program on local buses. The ad is estimated to be seen 2,743,000 times in the 3 month showing. .

STAMFORD RESIDENTIAL RECYCLING PROGRAM

Through the partnership of Keep Stamford Beautiful, Inc., Stamford's Office of Operations and Pitney Bowes, a recycling brochure was created for the City. This brochure gives residents a complete guide on how and where to recycle in the City of Stamford. Brochures are available through the Customer Service Bureau at the Government Center, or by mail through Keep Stamford Beautiful, Inc.

RECYCLE YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE
Sponsored by International Paper in 2004

This program is sponsored by Keep Stamford Beautiful, Inc. and the Office of Operations. The program encourages residents to bring their undecorated tree to the recycling centers at One Harborview Avenue or Scofieldtown Road, and receive a coupon for a free seedling tree. Seedling trees were made available for pick up the week of Arbor Day, Seedling trees are available for pick-up the week of Arbor Day at the recycling centers.

ELECTRONIC RECYCLING
Cell Phones, PDA’s and Blackberries

Keep Stamford Beautiful has discovered a creative way to raise funds without asking for money. Instead, we ask you to donate your old, unused electronic equipment, including all brands of cell phones, PDA’s and Blackberries. The organization sells your donated items to a recycling company who focuses on funding charities through recycling efforts. Some of the items will be reprogrammed and sold to developing countries as pre-paid units, and the rest are scrapped for parts, and will either be reused or recycled according to EPA standards. Items may be dropped off at the Keep Stamford Beautiful office during business hours, or arrangements can be made for large quantity pickup.

PET POLLUTION PROJECT

Working with the Department of Operations, Keep Stamford Beautiful has undertaken a project to decrease the amount of pet pollution in public parks. Dispensers of biodegradable �mutt mitts� to be used to clean up after pets are placed in parks throughout the city, marked with clearly visible international dog-walking signs. Dispensers have been placed in the parks at Cove Island, Rippowam Park, Drotar Park (Springdale), Leone Park, Columbus Park, Latham Park, and Ft. Stamford Park.

INTERNATIONAL COASTAL CLEANUP

Keep Stamford Beautiful, Inc. partnered with Save the Sound, SoundWaters and Volunterrs to remove unsightly debris from Stamford's shoreline. The cleanup is part of the International Coastal Cleanup coordinated by the Center for Marine Conservation.

MARINE LITTER PREVENTION
(full brochure)

This program is coordinated through the City of Stamford's Customer Relations Bureau. The program consists of a boater informational brochure and litter bag that are disbursed with boat slip permits issued by the City.

RESPONSIBLE RETAILER'S PROGRAM

A combination of in-store activities to reduce retail theft of potential graffiti tools and to stop the sale of spray paint to customers under the age of 18. The program is distributed to Stamford merchants who sell spray paint.

KEEP YOUR BUSINESS BEAUTIFUL
full brochure-English
full brochure-Spanish

Litter, discarded cigarette butts, gum, dirty sidewalks, dirty windows, pigeon droppings, graffiti and empty dark storefronts send an uninviting message to customers and visitors. Download our brochure, which has been
created in English and Spanish, to see how you can make a difference by keeping your property clean and beautiful.

BEAUTIFICATION DAY
Sponsored by the Fairfield County Community
Foundation in 2004

Volunteers joined with Keep Stamford Beautiful to place a variety of plants in planters located throughout the city. the plants were chosen for hardiness and beauty, to brighten up streets and sidewalks during the warm summer months.

STAMFORD IN BLOOM
Sponsored by Heyman Properties in 2005

Stamford in Bloom is Keep Stamford Beautiful�s annual city-wide beautification campaign and contest. Homeowners are encouraged to plant gardens visible from the street, and are awarded prizes for outstanding garden efforts. The judges survey each garden's color, size, variety of plants, the healthiness of the plants, the imagination that went into the design and the overall beauty.

POLE PATROL

Stamford, like many other cities, is faced with a continual proliferation of illegally posted signs in the public right-of-way. Keep Stamford Beautiful, in partnership with the Office of Operations, CL&P and SNET, will conduct a public awareness campaign regarding the posting of illegal signage. Neighborhood associations wilt be encouraged to remove the signs from utility poles in their neighborhoods.

CORPORATE TEAM BUILDING PROJECTS

KSB is contacted by corporations, or referred by the Volunteer Center, to create community service projects for groups of corporate volunteers.