Keep America Beautiful

Keep America Beautiful, the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization, inspires and educates people to take action every day to improve and beautify their community environment.

Established in 1953, we strive to End Littering, Improve Recycling, and Beautify America’s Communities. We believe everyone has a right to live in a clean, green, and beautiful community, and shares a responsibility to contribute to that vision. 

Behavior change – steeped in education, research and behavioral science – is the cornerstone of Keep America Beautiful. We empower generations of community stewards with volunteer programs, hands-on experiences, curricula, practical advice, and other resources to deliver measurable environmental, economic and social benefits.

The organization is driven by more than 650 state and local affiliates, millions of volunteers, and the support of corporate partners, social and civic service organizations, academia, municipalities, and government officials. Join us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. Donate and take action at kab.org.

 

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Campaigns

America Recycles Day
America Recycles Day, a Keep America Beautiful national initiative, is the only nationally recognized day and coast-to-coast community-driven...

Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup
Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup is the nation’s largest community improvement program with an estimated 50,000 events occurring from...

Keep America Beautiful Recycling Grant Programs
Keep America Beautiful, Inc., established in 1953, is the nation’s largest volunteer-based community action and education organization. With a network...

Keep America Beautiful Affiliate Stories
Through our programs and public-private partnerships, we help to strengthen communities. Keep America Beautiful works with corporations, government...

Keep America Beautiful Community Improvement Grant Programs
Keep America Beautiful partners provide grant funding for a variety of community improvement programs, ranging from graffiti eradication to...

Keep America Beautiful's Cigarette Litter Prevention Program
Keep America Beautiful reports an average 54 percent reduction of cigarette litter in the communities implementing KAB’s Cigarette Litter Prevention...

Keep America Beautiful Education Initiatives
Keep America Beautiful’s national programs change attitudes and behaviors; above all, they educate and teach individual responsibility toward one’s...

Recycle-Bowl
Recycle-Bowl is the first comprehensive nationwide recycling competition for elementary, middle and high-school students. Recycle-Bowl was created to...

Vision for America Award
Keep America Beautiful's Vision for America Award is presented annually to distinguished leaders of honored corporations, whose personal and corporate...

National Planting Day
National Planting Day is a nationwide initiative to plant and garden sustainably with native species.

RecycleMania
RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to...

Great American Cleanup Webinar Series
Keep America Beautiful announces an exciting professional development opportunity through its newly launched 2014 Great American Cleanup Webinar...

GameDay Recycling Challenge
The GameDay Recycling Challenge is a friendly competition for colleges and universities to promote waste reduction at their football games. During the...

Keep America Beautiful/Ad Council Recycling Campaign
The Recycling Campaign, sponsored by Keep America Beautiful and the Ad Council, aims to generate awareness, explain how and where to recycle, mobilize...

Recycling at Work
Keep America Beautiful’s Recycling at Work initiative is designed to encourage businesses, organizations and institutions around the country to pledge...

College & University Recycling Coalition
The College & University Recycling Coalition (CURC) is a membership-based nonprofit organization made up of campus-based recycling and sustainability...

Keep America Beautiful Community Greening
With nearly 60 years experience in creating and sustaining beautiful public spaces, Keep America Beautiful knows the restorative power of community...

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