Be a Great American Volunteer!

Great American Cleanup

Gwinnett Challenge

March 15 – May 15, 2011
Application Packet

Take the reins, partner:

1. Get in the saddle:
Choose at least one activity from the Great American Activity List, or create your own

2. Head 'em up, move 'em out:
Collect volunteers and resources

3. Don’t stop kickin’ til the clock stops tickin’:
Conduct your project by May 15, 2011

4. The round-up:
Share your results…Submit a post-project summary by May 25, 2011 with 5-10 digital

before and after pictures

5. Hi-yo,Silver!:
Compete for cash prizes

Great American Activity List

City Slickers Need Forests Too

  • Get to know the trees in your immediate neighborhood and create an inventory
  • Check out areas around your neighborhood and business and plant trees to increase tree canopy
  • Create a mini forest in your neighborhood
  • Organize a neighborhood block party and get neighbors to plant or care for street trees in front of their homes
  • Create a street tree canopy in your neighborhood
  • Create a new outdoor living area by planting trees, shrubs and flowers in an area that needs improvement
  • Become a Green and Healthy School
  • Recycle paper to save trees

Giddy-up for Green

  • Create a community vegetable garden for your neighborhood
  • Select a vacant lot and grow a community flower garden
  • Create a garden of flowers in a nursing home
  • Landscape and adopt a median
  • Plant a Victory garden to honor veterans or graduates
  • Become a Green and Healthy School
  • Create a new outdoor living area by planting trees, shrubs and flowers in an area that needs improvement

Litter…there ain’t room in this town for the two of us

  • Organize a litter clean up in your neighborhood.
  • Organize a litter clean up at work.
  • Adopt a road or vacant property and keep it clean.
  • Become a Green & Healthy School

Holler at the Squalor

  • Organize a cleanup of vacant land or illegal dumpsites
  • Survey an area of the community and identify illegal dumpsites and report to Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful (email: )

Graffiti’s a Goner

  • Organize graffiti paint-out and paint out graffiti in your neighborhood
  • Create a graffiti-free zone and commit to keeping street signs and sidewalks graffiti-free

Recycling Round-up

  • Collect paper, plastic bottles and aluminum cans from work and bring them to the Recycling Bank of Gwinnett.
  • Collect paper, plastic bottles and aluminum cans from home and bring them to the Recycling Bank of Gwinnett.
  • Donate gently used clothes and toys to needy organizations or shelters.
  • Donate your cell phones to a needy organization.
  • Recycle your old tires.
  • Become a Green & Healthy School

Neaten Up Your Neck of the Woods

  • Walk your community with neighbors and pick up litter
  • Cleanup and beautify the entrances to your neighborhood.
  • Help out elderly neighbors or vacant properties by mowing lawns, spraying weeds, etc.
  • Adopt a road at the entrance of your subdivision

What projects are eligible?
Choose an activity from one of the categories listed, or create an activity of your own that relates to a category.
What groups are eligible?
  • Neighborhood or Tenant Associations
  • School Groups
  • Civic Groups
  • Scout Groups
  • Athletic Groups
  • Churches

What are the prizes?
  • 7-$500 cash prizes awarded (1 in each of 7 categories)

How are the winners chosen?
  • One winner will be chosen out of each category by a Selection Committee
  • Prizes are awarded based on the biggest transformation and impact on the community
  • Winning entries will be posted on GC&B website

What are the rules?
  • Projects must be conducted between March 15, 2011 and May 15, 2011
  • Entries must be postmarked or emailed by May 25, 2011
  • Entries must include a project summary form & 5-10 before/after pictures
  • Entries can be mailed to Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful attn: GAC Gwinnett Challenge, 4300 Satellite Blvd, Duluth, GA 30096 or alternately can be emailed to
  • All submissions become the property of GC&B and may be used in part or whole for copying, broadcasting or publishing
  • All decisions are final