Since 2018, we’ve been working to promote a healthier, safer, more livable community through education, beautification, and environmentally sustainable projects and practices.
About Us
In 2018, a handful of individuals from Calhoun and Gordon County convened to discuss how to reduce roadside trash, encourage recycling, organize community clean up efforts, and help spread the word throughout our communities of the value of a cleaner, greener environment. In 2019, we became a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, EIN 83-3839643, and on November 4th, 2021, we became an official affiliate of Keep America Beautiful.
We are a group of local citizens with diverse backgrounds and interests, including education, medicine, industry, engineering, business, writing, photography, government, and history. We encourage everyone in our community to participate and bring their energy and ideas to the group.
Keep Calhoun Gordon Beautiful focuses on four things that each of our members can help with:
Individual Responsibility
Improving the environment and quality of life of communities begins with personal responsibility and behavioral changes. We want to help individuals become engaged stewards of the environment.
Partnership
Broad-based community alliances including public, private and civic sectors are essential to achieve sustainable community improvement. We want to be a collaborative organization.
Executive Director
Judy Peterson
Current Board
Jennifer Beason, President
Donny Robertson, Vice President
Katie Naymick, Treasurer
Amanda Tate, Secretary
Kevin Baggett
Angie Childers
Amber Nagle
Bruce Potts
Toya Robinson
Denise Rustad
Past Board Members
Tina Clements
Beth Vaughn
Jess Shirley
Jordan Stone
Education
Education and awareness are key steps to encouraging positive behaviors toward community improvement. We want to help educate those around us.
Volunteers
Engaging volunteers can and will extend the reach and multiply the impact of local initiatives that change individual behavior and improve the community environment.
Our founding members are:
Judy Peterson
Donny Robertson
Katie Naymick
Jordan Stone
Amanda Tate
Jane Powers Weldon
Ed Weldon
Jennifer Beason
Jackie Palazzolo
Marcus Palazzolo
Amber Nagle
Gene Nagle
Angie Gravitt
Booley Ann Dimon
Tina Clements
Kathleen Shirley
Shawn Chastain
Bill Miller