2013 ANNUAL REPORT HOUSTONBEAUTIFUL.ORG

CELEBRATING 35 years of keeping Houston clean and beautiful.

ABOUT KEEP HOUSTON BEAUTIFUL Founded in 1979, the Houston Clean City Commission, d.b.a. Keep Houston Beautiful (KHB) has educated and empowered all segments of our community to take greater responsibility for beautifying and enhancing Houston’s environment. From neighborhood cleanups and educational outreach to transforming public spaces into beautiful places by planting trees, flowers and community gardens; the hard work and dedication of KHB and its volunteers is apparent to every resident and visitor of our city. Green spaces and clean neighborhoods are essential to maintaining the character and natural beauty of Houston.

As a local Silver Star affiliate of Keep Texas Beautiful and Presidential Circle affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, KHB works to improve the environment and quality of life in Houston through promoting personal responsibility and behavior change – individuals becoming engaged as stewards of the environment. In order to achieve this, KHB provides educational resources and supports community cleanup and beautification projects through the provision of supplies and tools from our KHB Tool Warehouse, KHB’s tool lending library, a joint project of KHB, the City of Houston Department of Neighborhoods and Solid Waste Management Department. Throughout its history, KHB has received local, regional and national recognition and has a successful track record of working with local businesses and leading Houston corporations to promote effective partnerships solutions to eliminating urban blight.

MISSION We provide resources and education to engage citizens to take greater responsibility in building more beautiful communities.

AREAS OF FOCUS Litter Reduction — removing litter from neighborhoods, bayous and public spaces in collaboration with the community; identifying the sources of litter; understanding why people litter; reducing litter by changing littering behavior; organizing clean-ups and educating communities on proper waste handling. Beautification — improving the visual aspects of our communities through projects that beautify and enhance our environment, including community gardens, restoring vacant lots, highway and shoreline beautification, urban forests, native and adaptive plantings, and graffiti prevention and abatement. Recycle — cultivating waste reducing practices within the community through educational programs including source reduction and reuse, recycling, and composting, diverting waste from landfills.

Education — leading presentations, service-learning projects and awareness campaigns to nurture environmental stewardship.

Recognition — each year Keep Houston Beautiful celebrates the efforts made by individuals, businesses, civic organizations, government agencies and schools that have volunteered to improve Houston's landscape through environmental and beautification projects.

LITTER REDUCTION & BEAUTIFICATION

Volunteers are the heart of KHB. Thanks to the dedication of thousands of volunteers who work tirelessly throughout the year, KHB was able to achieve the following results. In, 2013 we…

loaned tools to support 415 cleanup and beautification projects throughout the city; worked with over 15,780 volunteers, who gave their time back to their communities, contributing over 68,000 hours of service and $1.6 million in benefits; removed an estimated 840,000 pounds (420 tons) of trash and debris from Houston neighborhoods and public spaces; cleared 42 illegal dump sites; cleaned out more than 77 vacant lots and 135 ditches; disposed of over 538 discarded tires; mowed 1,726 overgrown vacant lots; cleaned and beautified 52 parks; and, planted over 5,772 trees and shrubs.

Houston Baptist University volunteers cleaning up trash and debris all around Sharpstown.

We’re so excited this garden at Gabriela Mistral Center for Early Childhood has become a reality. KHB would like to recognize the valuable efforts Mayor Annise Parker, The U.S. Conference of Mayors, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, Dow Chemical Company and our national partners for helping to provide a creative outdoor learning space. The children love it!

Each spring, KHB hosts Keep Houston Beautiful Day, bringing together thousands of volunteers to invest their time and energy to clean and beautify our city. The event takes place on the first weekend in April as part of the Great American Cleanup and coincides with the Don’t mess with Texas® Trash-Off. This year, 22 neighborhoods throughout Houston welcomed spring with Keep Houston Beautiful on Saturday, April 5th. Everyone showed up with a common goal: to make Houston a more beautiful place.

As part of the Great American Cleanup, KHB teamed up with the Houston Housing Authority and over 200 youths from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to replenish the Historic Oaks of Allen Parkway Village. The youths planted over 140 trees generously donated by the Apache Foundation. KHB would like to thank our community partners, the Apache Foundation and the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company who both contributed generous in-kind donations of materials.

THANK YOU to all the volunteers, partners and sponsors who made Keep Houston Beautiful Day 2014 a success!

RECYCLE Throughout the year KHB provides easy-to-use Coca-Cola recycling containers for use at community cleanups and events. In 2013, to celebrate both Texas Recycles Day and America Recycles Day, KHB participated in community recycling events with the Texas Department of Transportation and "Saturday in the Park" hosted by Waste Management. Both events provided educational materials and locations for local residents to drop off recyclables, diverting them from our landfills. Additionally, to educate the public of our commitment to the environment, KHB participated in the City of Houston Solid Waste Management Department’s and the Mayor’s City Gardens REUSE, RECYCLE AND UPCYCLE Displays Event. The events averaged a combined 2,000 participants.

In 2012, landfills in the Houston-Galveston region accepted over 8 million tons of waste, or 7.24 pounds per person per day. That's almost one pound more per day than the average person in Texas. Within the Houston-Galveston region as much as 4.5 million tons of solid waste is produced each year, much of which is recyclable. To help educate the public on recyclables, Keep Houston Beautiful, in partnership with the Coca-Cola Company, launched a localized version of the “I Want To Be Recycled” multimedia campaign.

While there are several barriers to recycling, among the most common reasons given for not recycling is that individuals did not have enough information about where to recycle or what types of materials they are able to recycle. The localized “I Want To Be Recycled” campaign is targeted to educate Houstonians how they can recycle every day. The campaign shows that recyclable materials can be given another life and become something new if someone chooses to recycle.

The City of Houston WaterWorks Education Center is a free public education center with the mission of promoting water education, conservation and stewardship. WaterWeek (April 28 – May 2) is a five-day educational opportunity for elementary and middle school students to learn about their regional water resources. The effort is coordinated by PW, KHB and other agencies/organizations committed to protecting our regional water resources and habitats. The event averages 430 visitors/students per day.

EDUCATION KHB routinely works with the community and schools to educate the public about litter, the value of recycling, waste reduction, resource conservation and beautification efforts. KHB leads hands-on activities (correlated to state academic standards), provides project supplies and assists in the planning and implementation of service projects. In 2013, KHB reached 8,553 students through our education programs and provided professional development to 141 teachers at 39 schools.

KHB participated in the Expanding Your Horizons Conference at Northbrook Middle School. KHB presented activities to teach about conservation of resources and the benefits of keeping our city storm water clean using the City of Houston Stormwater Challenge curriculum. The state-approved curriculum is a joint project of KHB, the City of Houston Public Works and Engineering Dept. Street and Drainage Division, and the University of Houston’s Kappa Delta Pi. The U-ROC.org website is another effective tool used by KHB to energize our City’s youth to keep our city clean.

RECOGNITION The 29th Annual Mayor’s Proud Partners Luncheon took place on Monday, October 28, 2013. The luncheon provided KHB an opportunity to recognize outstanding work by local organizations and individuals who improved Houston's landscape through environmental and beautification projects. At the luncheon, Mayor Parker presented the Outstanding Proud Partner Award to Shell Oil Company. Other awards presented included the Founder’s Award, Chairman’s Award, Beautification Award, Distinguished Service Award and Proud Partner Award. In addition, Certificates of Recognition and Honorable Mention awards were announced and recognized during a fun and inspiring luncheon.

Outstanding Proud Partner Award presented to Shell Oil Company Peggy Montana, Executive Vice President, Supply & Distribution accepting on behalf of Shell Oil Company.

Steve Oprea (Shell Oil Company), Patricia Herrera (KHB Commissioner and Luncheon Committee), Claude Griffin (Shell Oil Company) and Frank Weary (KHB Commissioner and Clear Lake City Water Authority)

Jim Tates (KHB Chairman), Shannon and Mark Wallace (Texas Children's Foundation and the Trotter Family YMCA) and Mayor Annise Parker

Beautification Award winner Kunio Minami (center) for his work in the Hermann Park Japanese Garden with Wakako Minami (left) and Kimiko Minami (right).

The Mayor’s Proud Partners Awards serve to distinguish those who demonstrate continued commitment to Houston’s vibrancy and serve as an inspiration for others towards greater environmental stewardship. For these reasons and many more, Keep Houston Beautiful thanks and celebrates the 2013 Mayor’s Proud Partners Awards winners.

THANK YOU! Keep Houston Beautiful appreciates the many corporations, foundations and individuals that contribute to our success. Our donors share a dedication to bringing volunteers and communities together to help transform public spaces into beautiful places. Their support makes it possible for Keep Houston Beautiful to continue to do great things for our city.

Steward $50,000 and above City of Houston Houston Endowment, Inc.

Benefactor $25,000 and above Marathon Oil Company Phillips 66 Company Shell Oil Company The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company*

Sponsor $10,000 and above ConocoPhillips John P. McGovern Foundation Keep America Beautiful (Clorox)* TBG Partners*

Patron $5,000 and above Apache H.E. Butt Grocery Company Houston Astros* Kroger Lyondell Moroch Houston Office

Partner $2,500 and above ABC 13 – KTRK Television ComCast Fiesta HLS Enterprises, Inc.* Magnolia Garden Nursery* Network for Good Silicon Valley Community Foundation The Janice & Robert McNair Foundation Waste Management

Supporter $1,500 and above Asakura Robinson Company, LLS Boyer, Inc. Bury & Partners – Houston, Inc. CenterPoint Energy Dynamo Charities ExxonMobil Foundation FosterQuan LLP Jim Olive Photography* Marathon Oil Company* Memorial Hermann Hospital System Scotts Miracle-Gro Company Silver Eagle Distributors, LP the Apache Foundation* The Coca-Cola Company* VRX, Inc. Walter P. Moore & Associates

Friend Up to $1,000 Bayou Preservation Association City of Houston (CMC) Halliburton, Inc. (Global Impact) Hermann Park Conservancy Issac Cruz PC Laurie A. Carter

Friend Up to $1,000 (continued) MRIO Inc. Peter Hoyt Brown Rebuilding Together Houston Toter Incorporated Wulfe & Co

Gardening Patron Up to $500 Annapurna Jonnalagadda Artie Lee Hinds Becky Edmondson City Gardens City of Stafford Clark Condon Associates Inc. Claudia Lacasa Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Edith Smith Frank G. Weary Greater East End District Greek Orthodox Church Hazel A. Potvin Hilton Americas-Houston HLS Enterprises of Texas, Inc. Houston Advanced Research Center Karen North Keep Texas Beautiful Mark Davis Montrose Veterinary Clinic, PC Patrick Peters Penny & John Butler Port of Houston Authority Ramiro Fonseca Razi Asaduddin Rebecca Jensen Bruhl Robin & Louis Blut Ruth Hurst Stanford & Joan Alexander Foundation Stella Environmental Services LLC SWA Group Landscape Architects Ten Rep Rambin, Inc. The Garver Foundation University of Houston Walk in my Shoes Westchase Districts

Volunteer Up to $100 Andrea Hunter Carolyn Breazeale Clive Hess Cynthia C. Conger Donna T. or Gary Woods Janice Rose Jennifer R. Wagley Katie Molina Sandra Jackson SCA Stan & Suzanne St. Pierre Tim Wilkerson W.A. Karen Schubert

* indicates gift in-kind

STATEMENT OF AUDITED REVENUES AND EXPENSES For the Fiscal Year July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014

Net Assets at end of Year: $149,439

Sources of Contributions

Total Income: $876,397

Use of Funds

Total Expenses: $813,233

Razi Asaduddin Nancy Bailey Lori Carper

Patrick Castillo Charles Cave

Daniel Derozier Hai Tran Duong

Becky Edmondson Ramiro Fonseca

Monica Glaze Anna Gonzales

Alexandria “Alex” Griffin Edna Griggs José Grinan Harry Hayes

Patricia Herrera Natali Lacasa

Charmaine LeBlanc Shelley Kennedy

Miranda Maldonado James G. Matujec

Emily A. Messa

Karen Bracht North Steve Parker

Christopher Passmore Benjamin H. Proler

Noah Rattler Diana Rivera

Margaret Robinson Janice S. Rose

Nancy D. Rutherford Shavonnah Schreiber

Adriana Tamez Juan A. Sorto

Ashley R. Threeton Erik Vidor

Frank G. Weary Stephen Williams

Carla Wyatt

Dan Sullenbarger, Chairman Emeritus

Commissioners

Officers and Executive Committee

Jim Tates, Chairman J. Howard Rambin, III, Treasurer Walter Hambrick, Jr., Secretary

Penny H. Butler Robert W. Gibbs, Jr.

Donald Smith Donald Poarch Chris Wilmot

Robin Blut, Executive Director Emily Barlow, Program Director

Howard Aden, Warehouse Manager Sophia Avila, Bookkeeper

Keep Houston Beautiful Staff

HOUSTON CLEAN CITY COMMISSION, INC.

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