KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC

Great american cleanup - the keep america beautiful great american cleanup is the nation's largest community improvement program, which takes place annually during spring and celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2023. In 2024, the great american cleanup began to evolve into the "greatest american cleanup for the country's 250th birthday." the great american cleanup prompts individuals to take greater responsibility for their local environment by conducting grassroots community service projects that engage volunteers, local businesses and civic leaders meeting needs the communities identify. The great american cleanup began as a litter cleanup initiative designed to aesthetically improve our environment by creating cleaner parks, streetscapes and public spaces through litter removal and elimination. To this day, community cleanups remain at the very heart of the campaign. In 2024, more than 42 million pounds of litter and recyclables were collected by volunteers throughout the country. They cleaned and improved over 73,000 parks, public lands, playgrounds, and trails in more than 34,000 events covering an area slightly larger than yosemite national park. Kab affiliate volunteers also cleaned over 21 thousand miles of streets, roadways, and highways, which equates to nearly half the length of the us interstate system. Our community greening and beautification planted more than 350,000 flowers, plants, shrubs and trees that cool heat zones and create vibrant gateways to shopping and entertainment districts; create community gardens that help feed the hungry and educate young gardeners. Keep america beautiful strives to motivate more americans to make informed decisions and take simple, everyday actions to reduce, reuse and recycle right through participation in the great american cleanup. Through programs such as the great american cleanup and the "greatest american cleanup for the country's 250th birthday", keep america beautiful transforms public places into beautiful spaces helping to make communities that are environmentally healthy, socially connected and economically sound.

All other programs include the following:providing assistance to our local, statewide, and international affiliates to support their efforts in educating individuals about litter prevention and ways to reduce, reuse, recycle, and properly manage waste materials.retreet: working together, keep america beautiful and retreet focus on a new kab strategic priority: community restoration and resiliency. We bring community volunteers together to form small teams, train them on how to effective plant native trees, and work to plant these trees in areas that have been impacted by natural disasters. Replanting and restoring our communities help keep them healthier and more resilient, literally growing deep roots to anchor and stabilize flood-prone areas, lessen erosion, and improve natural resiliency.national conference: the keep america beautiful national conference is a learning and sharing gathering open to our 700 affiliates around the country and beyond as well as their volunteers and stakeholders. Best practices are shared, sector innovation is explored and cohorts facing similar challenges and opportunities are brought together to maximize the value, efficiency and expertise of the network.