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SUMMARY:Funding Landscaping Innovation: The Governor’s Community Achievement Awards
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an informative session on the upcoming Governor’s Community Achievement Award (GCAA), which offers a generous prize to support projects in landscaping and design along TxDOT right of ways. In this webinar you’ll learn everything you need to know about the application process, updates to the application, and hear directly from TxDOT about the landscaping projects. Whether you’re considering applying or just want to learn more, this session is your first step toward crafting a competitive application.\nSpeakers: Sara Walters, Executive Director, Keep Texas Beautiful  and Jennifer Loa, Transportation Landscape Architect, Texas Department of Transportation\nWednesday, December 10, 2025 at noon\n\nAbout The Governor’s Community Achievement Awards\nFor more than thirty years, Keep Texas Beautiful, in partnership with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), has awarded the prestigious Governor’s Community Achievement Awards to Texas communities for their outstanding overall efforts to keep their communities beautiful.\nThe GCAA program has recognized outstanding communities since 1969, with TxDOT providing landscaping award funding since 1985. This year, ten winning communities will share $2 million in landscaping awards from the Texas Department of Transportation, with the amount based on population size. The funds are used for landscaping projects along state rights-of-way.\nA community’s environmental program is judged on achievements in seven areas:\n\nCommunity Leadership and Coordination\nPublic Awareness and Outreach\nEnvironmental Education and Youth Engagement\nBeautification and Community Improvement\nLitter Prevention and Cleanup\nSolid Waste Management\nLitter Law and Illegal Dumping Enforcement\n\n
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