Create and coordinate a team or be part of a team to engage in litter prevention, beautification and waste reduction efforts in your community. Volunteers for the Great American Cleanup work to improve the quality of life in their local communities through projects such as: Neighborhood Association Cleanups, Litter/Debris Cleanup, Tree/Shrub Planting, Flower/Bulb Planting and more. Keep Kansas City Beautiful, a program of Bridging The Gap, coordinates local efforts of Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup. This event is the nation's largest cleanup, beautification and community improvement program. Everyone is invited to join in the activities from March 1 st to May 31 st each year to help make Kansas City a more beautiful and safer place to live.

This opportunity is sponsored by: Bridging the Gap

We need volunteers who are free at these times

One-Time

This volunteer opportunity is available to the following types of volunteers

Youth/Teens (13-17) Families Adults (18-54) Individual Adults (55+) Large Group (11+) Children (5-12) Small Group (2-10)

This volunteer opportunity addresses the following social interests

Advocacy & Human Rights Civic & Community Animals & Environment Health

Contact Person:
Laura O'Brien, Volunteer Coordinator, (816) 561-1087, (email)

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Address:

435 Westport Rd., #23 Kansas City, MO 64111 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.bridgingthegap.org

Overall Experience   
Their treekeeper training is quite thorough, well scheduled and events working with the local governments have been fun, pragmatic and well planned.

First of all, they had a wonderful 6 week course that consisted of one class a week for 2 hours in the evening. It also had two hands on sessions because it's hard to teach you about trees when you're sitting in a class room. That was the training. Using the training has been a joy as well. It's nice to actually get out and do something about climate change instead of listening to others debate the solutions on the radio and TV. The events are well planned out, they start on time and they have the tools on hand if you need to borrow them and the government people are there to help and thank you for your time. It's pretty cool. posted by danieljdoughty on July 30, 2008