Graffiti Prevention Round Table TAGS The Anti Graffiti Symposium Victoria, BC October 21, 2009 Conni Kunzler Graffiti Hurts ® Program Manager Keep America Beautiful, Inc.

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

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

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

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

National Grants Program  Available to public and private organizations  Grants categorized by community size  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?