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Will Acuff--Clean East

Cleanup the littered streets of East Nashville with student lead help.Will Acuff--Clean East

COMPETED FOR

$5K
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Competed in
April, 2010

Goals

  • To pick up 2,000 bags of trash this year.
  • To foster community responsibility in the youth of East Nashville.

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Overview

I dream of an East Nashville with no drug paraphernalia littering the steps of our library. Where trash doesn't blow like tumble weeds through the lawns of our schools. This is possible only through the powerful combination of community responsibility and labor.  Our adults and students need to come together to own the problem and work together for the solution.  Clean East will do this by organizing community 'walks' where every volunteer is given empty trash bags, and protective gloves.  Focusing the walks Neighborhood by Neighborhood will allow us to pull in students, teachers, and parents thereby empowering the change we seek physically (beautify the streets) and mentally (community responsibility).  I believe this will refresh East Nashville in a way that could impact a generation.

How will the 5K be Used?

Budget Notes: Our budget will not cover any salary or personal gas expense.
$ 4,000 Trash bags, latex gloves, 'trash sticks', fuel for transporting trash,
$ 1,000 Landfill fees for larger items
Do Good for the Gulf.

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