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Volunteers make it happen.
The rewards we receive from volunteer work serving our neighbors are shared by all of us- because everyone deserves to live in a beautiful community.
KAB Volunteers By The Numbers
Last year alone, over 400,000 hard-working volunteers logged more than 2.9 Million volunteer hours over the course of over 64,000 events.
What did our combined service to our communities accomplish?
of litter, debris, and recycling collected
cleaned of litter
of streets, roads, and highways cleaned and beautified
of rivers, lakes, wetlands and shores cleaned
planted, helping to restore communities
How To Be A Volunteer In Your Community
Keep America Beautiful affiliates hold events all year long. Our signature programs offer opportunities for volunteers to act locally while generating nationwide impact.
Great American Cleanup® (GAC)
We take Spring Cleaning seriously! Kicking off on the first day of Spring every year, Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup® is the nation’s largest community improvement program. Communities large and small hold volunteer opportunities for cleaning up, recycling, planting trees, shrubs, and flowers, and beautifying neighborhoods across the country.
America Recycles Day® (ARD)
What can one person do? You can make a BIG difference when you recycle! America Recycles Day, a Keep America Beautiful national initiative, is the only nationally-recognized day dedicated to promoting and celebrating recycling in the United States. We’re proud to share tips on how to be more mindful of what we consume, plus resources on where and how to properly recycle. Join us in recycling right!
RETREET®
Trees are essential to human life. They provide oxygen, food, shelter, medicine, and tools. Trees also increase property values, promote health and well-being, conserve energy, mitigate storm damage, and save water. Planting trees is a practical, effective, and unique way for volunteers to help a community rebuild after a natural disaster. RETREET brings people together to restore communities, promoting resiliency and environmental stewardship.
Workplace Cleanup Events
Your company may already be hosting a workplace cleanup event! Contact your Human Resources Department to find out if your company is a Keep America Beautiful Partner
Cigarette Litter Prevention Program
Did you know that 87.9% of litter in America is four inches or smaller in size? Of that litter, cigarette butts are the #1 most littered item (source: 2020 Keep America Beautiful Litter Study). Since 2002, our Cigarette Litter Prevention Program, the nation’s largest program aimed at eliminating cigarette litter, has been implemented in over 1,800 communities, reducing cigarette litter by HALF within six months, on average.
Keep America Beautiful Announces 24th Annual Great American Cleanup, the Nation’s Largest Community Improvement Program
The 24th annual Great American Cleanup® (GAC) begins Monday, March 21. GAC takes place annually with an estimated 500,000 volunteers taking part in 15,000 community events nationwide, thanks to the work done by the Keep America Beautiful (KAB) network of 700 affiliates and KAB partner organizations. GAC runs through June 22.
“If it’s being said in Gwinnett, it’s being said in every community across the country.” – Virtual conversation March 23 to spark nationwide conversation on litter
Keep America Beautiful and Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful invite everyone to a virtual conversation about litter. Happening March 23 from 8 to 10 a.m. EST, “Connecting People and Places: A Community Conversation About Litter” is intended to address the issue of littering.
KAB Volunteer Spotlight: One Woman’s Work to Clean Up Her Alabama Neighborhood Inspires Annual Event In Her Name
ATHENS, Alabama (February 28, 2022) – Keep America Beautiful loves to highlight the people across the country who are doing great work to clean up the environment, and it’s our pleasure to get to know Mrs. Laverne Gilbert of Athens, Alabama. KAB learned about Mrs....
Keep Santa Fe Beautiful: Keep America Beautiful’s Affiliate of the Month for March 2022
Our first Affiliate of the Month is Keep Santa Fe Beautiful. Keep Santa Fe Beautiful received an Innovation Award for their work in adding a Santa Fe city sign to the entrance of America’s second oldest city.
The Giant Company Partners with Keep Centre County Beautiful & Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful
In celebration of Earth Day 2022, the GIANT Company partnered with Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful and Keep Centre County Beautiful to refurbish the Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority’s compost demonstration site. Working together, the team beautified the area,...
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Completes Adopt-A-Road Cleanup
April 2022 The Great American Cleanup is in full swing! We are excited to share special moments from your cleanup efforts! Thank you to Alison Sinclair from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Piedmont Office for sharing photos from not one, but two...
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Your generosity allows us to expand our program offerings, fund community improvement projects from coast to coast, and provide the means needed to make meaningful and lasting impact in local communities across the U.S.