WHAT WE DO
Keep America Beautiful combines education with hands-on stewardship to make America's communities cleaner, greener, safer, and more livable. KAB programs activate millions of volunteers each year in hands-on community improvement activities, where they learn how to take personal responsibility for improving their local community environments.
Our work "on the ground" is carried out by a national network of over 1,000 certified affiliates and participating organizations. Each of these organizations address local challenges by engaging and inspiring community stewardship in three focus areas — litter prevention, recycling and waste reduction, and beautification and community greening.
Keep America Beautiful provides its network with national programs, public awareness campaigns, and educational materials that can be used by our affiliates to benefit their local communities.
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Great American Cleanup™
KAB's Great American Cleanup™ mobilizes millions of volunteers nationwide each spring to clean-up, green-up, fix-up and beautify their communities.
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Partnerships
Keep America Beautiful’s partners help bring our mission into action, ensuring that we continue our proud heritage of achievement, volunteerism and civic engagement.
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Cigarette Litter Prevention Program
Research for the Cigarette Litter Prevention Program started in 2002 with a specific goal: to noticeably reduce cigarette litter. Get more information about how you and your community can help alleviate this national problem.
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Graffiti Hurts®
Graffiti Hurts, a national partnership with The Sherwin-Williams Company and its Krylon brand, highlights the negative effect of graffiti on communities and the ways in which it can be stopped without confrontation.
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Public Awareness & Education
The starting point for the behavior change is awareness and education. KAB curricula are designed to meet the needs of local communities, while teaching the fundamentals of reducing, reusing and recycling.
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Awards Programs
KAB annually recognizes and rewards the best of the best among its network, corporate partners, and volunteers across the country through national awards and recognition programs.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...
| Toolbox for Community Change |
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This Web site features turnkey programs, materials and best practices from among KAB's affiliates. The resource contains valuable "how-to" Web pages about neighborhood improvement, green spaces, recycling and local government ordinances and enforcement programs that improve quality of life.
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Waste in Place
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Waste in Place is a resource guide for educators, which includes over 40 activities. The activities have been designed to help educators inspire youth to help build and sustain vibrant communities by helping them understand concepts related to litter prevention, beautification and community greening, and recycling and solid waste management. Each activity includes a background section along with assessment, enrichment and technology activities. >Learn More
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America Recycles Day
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Recognized annually on Nov. 15, America Recycles Day (ARD) is the one day to educate and motivate people about the importance of
recycling to our economy and for our environmental well-being. ARD celebrates the benefits of recycling
while providing an educational platform that helps raise awareness
about the value of reducing, reusing and recycling – every day – all
throughout the year. Take the pledge to recycle at the ARD website.
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Liberty Gardens
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Developed after the tragic national events of September 11, 2001, this programs nurtures individual well-being and inspires special places of natural beauty and honor across America.
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