Anaheim Beautiful is proud to announce The Anaheim Community Pride Poster Contest, formerly known as Green Ribbon Week.

This contest is offered in the Spring and is presented by the City of Anaheim Department of Public Works, Code Enforcement Division and Republic Services in partnership with the elementary school districts in the City of Anaheim. Community Pride is a contest for Anaheim students, 1st through 6th grade. Students are invited to create a poster on one of the following Community Pride themes: Recycling, Graffiti-Free, Litter-Free.

Our mission is to promote and bring awareness to anti-littering, anti-graffiti and recycling, as well as educate students on the importance of keeping Anaheim and the Earth Beautiful. Community Pride Contest winners are announced during Earth Week (April 21-25), a great time to adopt community pride.

There are three levels to the competition: School, District and City level. All Anaheim schools receive free posters for students to submit their entries.  Prizes are awarded!

Prizes: All participants will receive a Community Pride Wristband.

   School Level – 1st, 2nd & 3rd Place (per grade level)–Certificate Award

   District Level – 1st, 2nd & 3rd Place (per grade level)–Plaque and Community Pride Hat

   City Level – 1st Place (per grade level)–Plaque and (4) Disneyland Passes

Recognition: All 1st Place City winners will receive an award and be recognized in the Summer Recycle Anaheim newsletter and also at a City Council Meeting.

Thank you to our sponsors!

For more information regarding the contest, contact us at Contact@AnaheimBeautiful.org

There are many individuals, organizations and groups of people who go about their daily lives quietly doing wonderful things for other people. This award is meant to single them out and say "Anaheim appreciates what you do."

Anaheim Beautiful presented to the city's Bicentennial Celebration Committee a commemorative plaque for the location of the first train depot east of Los Angels on the triangle of land at Broadway and Manchester. Part of the original train station foundation still remains.

Anaheim Beautiful and the Women’s Division of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce held a joint effort to help clean up our city by having trash bins set up throughout the city on November 1, 1975. This project was repeated for a number of years.

Another project in cooperation with the Women’s Division of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce was the "Man of the Year” event. This joint fundraiser provided support for both organizations.

The Disneyland Community Service Award was bestowed on Anaheim Beautiful for the first time in 1978

Scrounges Are Beautiful, a program for the elementary schools, educates children on all aspects of ecology with an awards luncheon for the winning schools at the end of the year.

Anaheim Beautiful received a plaque from the Orange County Environmental Management Agency, and received an award from the Orange County Board of Supervisors.

In 1981, Anaheim Beautiful was busy with a booth at the Charity Bazaar held at the Anaheim Plaza. The Anaheim Gateway Marker Project was also moving forward successfully.

The Sarah Fay Pearson Rose Garden was established in Pearson Park in 1982 through the efforts of Anaheim Beautiful.

In the fall, a grant for $87,000. from the State of California was initiated by former Assemblyman Jim Morissey. The grant was used toward the purchase of a hi-tech anti-graffiti van.

Videos on the History of Anaheim called “Anaheim - From Grapes to Golden Opportunities”, designed primarily for fourth graders but usable at all ages, was distributed to Anaheim City School District

A successful Halloween Miniature Golf Tournament was held each October for a number of years. The possibility of revising this project is under review, but may be held at a different time of year.

A grant of $2,000 was given to Anaheim Public Library's Main Office to re-landscape the front of the library with new trees and an improved irrigation system.

An Anaheim Beautiful Historic Homes Tour raised $7000. for our various projects.

Four years in the making, Mito Square was developed jointly by Anaheim Beautiful and the Anaheim Sister Cities Association. The project is named for Anaheim's sister city in Mito, Japan. This project was started as a contest held among Cal Poly landscape design students to develop a design concept for this designated area in front of Anaheim Civic Center. The dedication was held on March 21, 1986.

Campus Beautiful, in cooperation with the Anaheim Union High School District, are projects for enhancing school campuses. It involves young people from various youth organizations. The program is supported by Anaheim Beautiful through donations of plants, simple landscaping, paint, and other materials to enhance the campus.

Anaheim Beautiful was instrumental in originating and has participated in the Paint Your Heart Out and Build Your Heart Out Anaheim programs

“Make Your Mark on the World, Not on the Wall” is part of a graffiti removal program for the schools. In elementary schools, emblems and other materials are presented to encourage children to understand the damaging effects of graffiti and vandalism. Working with City of Anaheim Community Preservation Department, a more aggressive approach toward eliminating graffiti is being developed.

Anaheim Beautiful donated a Graffiti Van to the city, where paint can be matched so the graffiti may be painted over without destroying the surface of the wall.

Anaheim Beautiful combines it's own anti-graffiti programs with those of other organizations and businesses in support of the Anaheim Community Anti-Graffiti Effort, .

"Wipe Out With Anaheim Beautiful" is a neighborhood watch style anti-graffiti task force, supported by local homeowners and the Anaheim Police Department. Each neighborhood is overseen by a captain, and volunteers who paint over graffiti in their neighborhoods are honored by Anaheim Beautiful with a certificate of appreciation.

The Community Preservation Division and Anaheim Beautiful, in collaboration with the Anaheim City School District and the Magnolia School District, have agreed to establish “GREEN RIBBON WEEK” in April every school year. The program is featured throughout the elementary schools in the district. The purpose of this program is to focus on removing graffiti and trash and preserving our community. We hope these preventative measures help educate and train students to take pride in their neighborhoods. 

Each December, the Holiday Light Tour is organized by Anaheim Beautiful to recognize the best residential holiday lighting displays in various themes. The winners are recognized by proclamation by the Anaheim City Council.

The heart of Anaheim Beautiful is the Property Recognition Program. This innovative program awards residential and business property owners “For sharing their love of beauty with others who pass by, thereby making Anaheim a more beautiful place to live.” The categories include single family residences, multi-family residences, commercial or industrial sites, institutional sites, and historic preservation sites. You can download and print a Nomination Form (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) from our website.

In 2003, Anaheim Beautiful initiated the Thelma Jordan Scholarship Program. The scholarship provides grants to graduating high school students and other individuals who are residents of Anaheim. Applicants must be furthering their education in the following fields: Conservation, Restoration, Urban Development, forestry, Landscaping, Architecture, Energy Development, Agricultural Management, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Biology, Hydrology, Wildlife Preservation, Rangeland Resources, Soil and Water Science, or any field related to the environment.

The deadline for applications is April 28th of each year.  Please click here to open the application in PDF format. Questions regarding the Scholarship Program may be directed to Eleanor Fix at eleanorfix@yahoo.com.

Sally White

                Pat Pina