TECHE Project lauded by Keep Louisiana Beautiful

The TECHE Project is one of 32 organizations, agencies or municipalities to share in a $200,000 grant from Keep Louisiana Beautiful (KLB) as a part of the 2015-2016 Healthy Communities Grant Program.
“We were thrilled to receive a record-breaking number of applications for this year’s grant program,” said KLB Executive Director Susan Russell. “Our affiliate and local community organizations are the on-the-ground force that promotes personal, corporate and community responsibility for a clean and beautiful Louisiana. We’re excited to see the impact that these organizations will have in their communities through the Healthy Communities Grant Program.”
Since the program’s inception in 2004, KLB has awarded more than $2.7 million in grants. Grants have funded a variety of projects and programs, including school recycling initiatives, teacher workshops, litter enforcement, litter abatement programs, clean campus competitions and neighborhood cleanups.
Since 2009, the volunteers of The Teche Ecology, Culture and History Education Project have strived to make Bayou Teche a healthier waterway for fishing, kayaking, canoeing, boating, tubing and – eventually, perhaps – even swimming.
Sharing the 2015-2016 Healthy Communities Grant with The TECHE Project are: Assumption ARC , City of DeRidder, City of New Roads, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Louisiana, Downtown Monroe Alliance, Friends of City Park, Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office, Iberia Development Foundation, Jefferson Parish Department of Environmental Affairs, Keep Abbeville Beautiful, Keep Assumption Beautiful, Keep Baton Rouge Beautiful, Keep Hammond Beautiful, Keep Mandeville Beautiful, Keep Natchitoches Beautiful, Keep Slidell Beautiful, Keep St. John the Baptist Beautiful, Lafayette Consolidated Government, Lafayette Parish Bayou Vermilion District, Lafayette Square Conservancy, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, LARC’s Acadian Village, Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office, Sci-Port: Louisiana’s Science Center, Shreveport Green, South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center, Southern University, St. Claude Main Street, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Union Parish Police Jury and Village of Natchez Heritage Festival.