At the Keep Georgia Beautiful Foundation conference held recently in Savannah, Keep Golden Isles Beautiful was awarded the 2025 Community Catalyst Award for its Marsh Madness salt marsh cleanup initiative. This award highlights the efforts of a group or individual to foster outstanding collaborative leadership between neighbors, local businesses, and community organizations with the purpose of collectively improving the local environment. Keep Golden Isles Beautiful has tr

BRUNSWICK, GA (June 2, 2026) – For the sixth year, Keep Golden Isles Beautiful’s much anticipated annual UP/Recycled Art & More auction fundraiser is online, making it convenient and easy to make a difference in the Golden Isles from the comfort of your home, while snagging a great treasure in the process! Taking place June 19th-22nd, the online auction features one-of-a-kind creations from local, regional and national artists, offering chances on truly unique art and furnitu

BRUNSWICK, GA (May 11, 2026) -- Keep Golden Isles Beautiful officially welcomes Lahra Meusel to the two-person staff as the new Executive Assistant. A professional organizer, former teacher and business director, Lahra brings a wealth of skills and experience to support and elevate KGIB clean and beautiful processes, programs and efforts - and she’s volunteered with KGIB serving as a litter cleanup Site Leader, cleanup volunteer and education volunteer. Lahra will be involved

BRUNSWICK, GA (May 11th, 2026) – Join Keep Golden Isles Beautiful, BEACH.COM, Colonel K-9’s Dog Doo Disposal and the Hampton Inn, Jekyll Island in World Oceans Day beach cleanups on two different Golden Isles islands! Local volunteers will join the ranks of others around the globe in this June internationally recognized beach cleanup effort. JEKYLL ISLAND, Saturday, June 6th at 8AM – meet inside Hampton Inn & Suites, Jekyll Island lobby to receive supplies and instruction

BRUNSWICK, GA (May 11th, 2026) – Help ready the Golden Isles for America’s 250th anniversary and Make A KGIB Difference by hosting/performing a Neighborhood Cleanup! WHAT: Grab your neighbors, friends, family and coworkers, roll up your sleeves and remove litter/trash from our Public Streets and Places. HOW: Contact Keep Golden Isles Beautiful for cleanup instructions, supplies (litter grabbers, gloves, bags) and to have the collected trash removed. WHEN: Now through July 1

Keep Golden Isles Beautiful’s 2026 March Marsh Madness effort was a huge success thanks to participating volunteers, site leaders, community partners and supporters. In just one month, 57 salt marsh and marsh adjacent cleanups were held, removing 8.4 TONS of trash and debris, including 47.5 tires. Together, 598 volunteer opportunities were fulfilled for a combined 1,125 volunteer hours . Since its 2014 debut, the effort has amassed impressive stats: 293 March salt marsh and m

BRUNSWICK, GA - (March 24, 2026) – The arrival of Spring 2026 brings with it more than the traditional “spring cleaning,” as the Brunswick Police Department, Glynn County Police Department and Glynn County Sheriff’s Office team up with Keep Golden Isles Beautiful to “clean up the roadways in more ways than one” for a joint unsecured load enforcement effort. April will see enhanced unsecured load enforcement by all three local law enforcement agencies. Both State and local un

BRUNSWICK, GA (March 20, 2026) – Calling all artisans, crafters and makers, Make A Difference by donating your talent to the annual Keep Golden Isles Beautiful UP/REcycled Art & More online silent auction! Your art/craft/created piece/artistic contribution will help further KGIB local clean, green and beautiful efforts! For those folks not feeling crafty but wanting to contribute, gift cards are welcomed for the online auction as well. Verbal commitments are due by April 15

Photo/caption: Keep Golden Isles Beautiful recently presented home school student Madox Dugan with its “Coastal Visionary” art award, a custom-made art supply caddy created from upcycled items and filled with paint brushes, along with a goody bag containing KGIB swag and a certificate. Selected from the CoastFest student art contest, Madox’s rendition of the Lady Jane shrimp boat along the salt marsh beautifully depicts the coastal area that KGIB works diligently to keep lit

BRUNSWICK, GA (March 19, 2026) – Enhanced and better than ever, KGIB's Community Jubilee fundraiser presented by McQuigg, Smith & Corry is now the KGIB JUBILEE, taking place on Wednesday, April 22 at Village Creek Landing! Join in the difference making fun from 5pm-8pm for an evening of great live music, cash bar, delicious food, fantastic silent auction for trips, adventures and stays, amazing live art demonstrations and the crowing of the Marsh King and Queen - all for a