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PALMETTOPRIDE FUNDS 12 CHALLENGE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT GRANTS

Columbia, SC – PalmettoPride, your anti-litter and beautification organization, announces the 2008 Challenge for the Environment recipients. The PalmettoPride Challenge for the Environment grant is designed to get elementary, middle and/or high school students involved in activities that will educate them and their communities about the importance of keeping their state clean and attractive, while promoting in the next generation a sense of pride in the community.

Successful projects will be designed to refurbish the environment and change the attitudes of those who do not value a clean and beautiful environment. Litter abatement and community beautification activities are encouraged. The focus of these activities should involve the following: education, enforcement, awareness, pickup and beautification resulting in behavioral change.

The PalmettoPride Grant program is comprised of five grants: the Tree Grant, KSCB Grant, the Challenge for the Environment Grant, the Enforcement Grant and the Community Pride Grant. 

A list of grant winners follows.  For more information, please contact Sarah Robinson at 803-758-6034 or srobinson@palmettopride.org.

AWARD                       SCHOOL                                                                                   COUNTY

$1,826.17            Academy for the Arts, Science & Technology                  Horry

$2,612.25            Birchwood High School                                             Richland

$3,500.00            Branchville High School                                             Orangeburg

$3,146.00            Forest Lake Elementary                                                Richland

$3,281.25            Heathwood Hall                                                       Richland

$2,386.76            Hilton Head Island IB Elementary                                  Beaufort

$3,500.00            Jane Edward School                                                  Charleston

$3,200.00            Latta High School                                                     Dillon

$2,681.41            Port Royal Elementary School                                       Beaufort

$3,500.00            School District of Pickens & Pickens County BEAC           Pickens

$3,200.00            Union Co. High School & Career & Technology Center   Union

$1,040.68            Wando High School                                                 Charleston

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