Graffiti Prevention Round Table

TAGS The Anti Graffiti SymposiumVictoria, BCOctober 21, 2009

Conni KunzlerGraffiti Hurts® Program ManagerKeep America Beautiful, Inc.www.graffitihurts.org

Keep America Beautiful

Mission:

Engage Individuals to take Greater Responsibility for

Improving their Community Environment

Guiding Principles

Individual responsibility Education Partnerships – residents, businesses

& government Volunteerism

The KAB Network

22 statewide affiliates 200 countywide affiliates 337 cities, towns & municipalities 400+ Great American Cleanup participating

organizations

>1,000 Organizations Touching Thousands of Communities from Coast to Coast

Keep America Beautiful Focus Areas

Litter Prevention Beautification Waste Reduction and Recycling

What is Graffiti Hurts®?

A program of Keep America Beautiful and its nearly 600 community affiliates

Grassroots graffiti education and prevention

Supported by The Sherwin-Williams Company since 1995

www.graffitihurts.org

First Principles

Prevention First Education & Youth

Outreach Enforce Laws Rapid Removal Employ CPTED

Principles

What is Graffiti?

The difference between graffiti and art is PERMISSION

Web Site Resources 2009 Front Page Redesign

Feature Story “Tip” of the Month Shop Graffiti Hurts® Force4Good Test Your Graffiti IQ

E-Newsletter Downloadable Tools and

Resources

www.graffitihurts.org

Prevention Tools FAQs, Facts, and statistics “Tips for Businesses” and “Tips for

Homeowners” Prevention strategies Removal techniques “Ten Things You Can Do”Anti-graffiti ordinance resource:

National Council to Prevent Delinquency www.anti-graffiti.org

Community Resources

Best Practices Establish a Task Force Organize a Clean-up Create a Mural Adopt-a-Block Work with Police Media Guidelines

Education and Curriculum Curriculum grades 5-8

Curriculum grades 7-9

Graffiti Hurts Trivia (play online and downloadable)

Graffiti Hurts® Poster

Online Trivia Game

Educational Poster

Focus:– Curriculum for broad age

group– Introduces CPTED– Use for in-class, after school,

youth programs– Web-based activities

Outreach Activities

Presentations Keep America Beautiful national and state

conferences Community and trade conferences

Keep America Beautiful Affiliate Training - Graffiti Hurts® 27 new KAB affiliates in 2009 30 state affiliate and national conferences in 2009 Approximately 400 affiliates reached annually

Bi-monthly E-Newsletter National Grants Program

E-Newsletter Bi-monthly online

newsletter

News, community best practices, prevention tools, resources, and more

Sign up at graffitihurts@kab.org

National Grants Program

Available to public and private organizations

Grants categorized by community size

2007 - Three $2,000 grants

2008 – Three $2,000 grants

2009 – Four $2,500 grants

Plans for 2010

New resources Poster contest/pledge Neighborhood “mini grants” how-to

2010 National Grants (4+) Establish “panel of experts” Webinars Presentation at KAB 2010 Annual

Conference Engage with vendors

Questions? www.graffitihurts.org