April is PRIDE Spring Cleanup Month in southern and eastern Kentucky. This is your chance to demonstrate personal responsibility by volunteering to pick up litter along roadsides and local tourist attractions. Spring Cleanup events in your area are being organized by local PRIDE Coordinators, mayors and judge-executives. PRIDE will assist them with cleanup costs and cleanup supplies, and PRIDE will provide them with free T-shirts for volunteers while supplies last.

When you join the team of Spring Cleanup volunteers, you will: 

• Improve your community’s appearance
• Have fun with friends and family while working together in the great outdoors
• Inspire others to dispose of trash properly
• Prove you are proud to call this region home
• Join a team with a winning record (The 2011 Spring Cleanup drew 33,409 volunteers, removed 36,445 bags of trash and 27,513 tons of trash from our landscape, recycled 62 tons of junk appliances and other materials were recycled, and gathered 203 tons of old tires for proper disposal.)

To volunteer in your community contact your local PRIDE Coordinator or call PRIDE toll free at 888-577-4339.

Click here to see Spring Cleanup events already scheduled.

2012 Theme: “Changing Our World, One Cleanup at a Time”
A powerful force for change is the net result when thousands of volunteers show their PRIDE. That inspired the theme for the 2012 PRIDE Spring Cleanup: Saving Our World, One Cleanup at a Time. This theme also reminds us that every PRIDE cleanup improves our environment right now, and it discourages littering in the future. Since people tend to litter where they see trash on the ground, we break that cycle when we remove litter from our landscape. When we recruit new volunteers, we open their eyes to the blight of litter, and they become less likely to tolerate the problem.

Resources for PRIDE Coordinators

• 2012 Spring Cleanup Guidebook
• 2012 Spring Cleanup Poster (11″ x 17″)
• 2012 Spring Cleanup Brochure
• Spring Cleanup Scheduling Report Form (due March 23)
• Spring Cleanup Score Sheet (due May 31)
• School Scheduling Report Form (due March 23)
• School Score Sheet
• Volunteer Time Sheet
• Waiver Form for Adults
• Waiver Form for Minors
• Waiver Form for Adults – Laurel Lake Cleanup
• Waiver Form for Minors – Laurel Lake Cleanup
• Safety Guidelines
• Local Sponsors Recognition
• Meth Briefing by Operation UNITE (PDF)