Keep Fremont Beautiful has received more than $100,000 in grants from the Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy. “Coming into 2021 and being fully funded, we were fully awarded what we asked for in the grants,” KFB Executive Director Casey Vaughan said. “And having the experience of making the adjustments last year just makes us even more optimistic about going into 2021 with the funding that we need and the ability to adapt to any changes that come early.”
The department awarded KFB a $70,785 Litter Reduction and Recycling Grant, as well as a $30,414 Waste and Recycling Grant. The nonprofit applied for the grants in late summer 2020 and was notified in December.
With its origins in the 1970s before becoming official in 1983, KFB provides environmental education outreach for the Fremont community. It obtained its nonprofit designation in 2010.
Vaughan said KFB refers to the Litter Reduction and Recycling Grant as its public education grant. Although it covers areas like office rent and internet, the grant also includes advertising and environmental education outreach, including a kindergarten presentation.
“We do a second-grade presentation, we do the fourth-grade eco-fair, which is going to look a little bit different this year again with COVID,” Vaughan said. “And then it also goes into some of our recycling events and the advertising for it, local recycling opportunities, just pretty much overall organizational costs.”
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