SPOTLIGHT
Story and Mission
Love Your Community ( LYC ) is an ongoing anti-litter program sponsored by the Mobile County Commission in partnership with Keep Mobile Beautiful , Inc ., The Alabama Coastal Heritage Trust and Clean Water Future and is designed to encourage citizen involvement in community clean-up and beautification . The program utilizes teams of citizens as active participants and may consist of one to any number of individuals who are interested in volunteering to help address the overwhelming litter problems within our community . Typically , teams are comprised of neighborhood association groups , schools , service organizations , environmental groups , individuals who walk for exercise regularly , etc .
The objective of the program is for each team to select a public space in a specific geographic location anywhere within Mobile County to adopt for the purpose of monitoring and removing litter . Locations may be adjacent to major or minor road thoroughfares , and include neighborhood common areas , rights-of-way or public spaces near businesses , churches or schools . Teams will then be responsible for monitoring and organizing litter pick-up and removal on an on-going basis at the selected location ( s ). It is the responsibility of each team to determine scheduling for clean-up activities based on the dates and times that are most convenient for team members . Once teams are registered , Love Your Community will provide clean-up supplies to the teams that include safety vests or T-shirts , gloves , litter grabbers , and trash bags .
What makes this project different from anything else being offered in our community is that it is an incentive based project that rewards participants for their hard work with beautification and sustainability grants for small projects of their choosing . For example : a team of 5 , who works 50 hours ( that ’ s only 10 hours per person !), will earn a $ 500 grant towards a beautification project of their choice !
Visit www . loveyourcommunity . com for more information and to register a team today !
How To Do Some Good :
Suggested activities for volunteering and time banking :
• Litter pickup and disposal
• Volunteering at a recycling center
• Beautification of right-of-way areas or public spaces
• Hosting community recycling / cleanup events
• Education related to recycling or litter removal *
• Compiling love your community reports *
Evelyn DeAngelo Project Coordinator
Above : Jeff DeQuattro & Jeremy Wolff
Above : Did you know that each member of every Love Your Community team receives their own supplies to keep ?!?! To help you get started we provide a litter grabber , safety vest , gloves , cross-body bag and an endless supply of garbage bags for all of our teams !
LOVE YOUR COMMUNITY
2022 Fundraisers & Upcoming Events
Friday , April 22
Contact Us
251-444-7144 www . loveyourcommunity . com 1150 Government Street , Suite 200 Mobile , AL 36604 Evelyn DeAngelo , Project Coordinator 251-349-0121 coordinator @ loveyourcommunity . com Facebook . com / loveyourcommunity1
QR Code To Register Your Team
Love Your Communty Earth Day Celebration 6-8pm • Mobile Japanese Garden
Free ! Fun for all ages ! Food , crafts , games , door prizes , fellowship and the 2022 Project Grant Awards !
Location : 700 Forest Hill Drive Mobile , AL 36608
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