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ways to get involved

Discover various ways you can contribute to our mission of promoting environmental stewardship and sustainability across California. Whether you’re looking for ways to volunteer as an individual, participate in community programs, or support our initiatives, your involvement can make a significant impact in keeping California clean and beautiful.

KCB COMMUNITY AFFILIATES

We’d love to have your community join us as KCB affiliate! Keep California Beautiful partners with communities to create locally-based programs to eliminate litter, reduce waste, and beautify their environment. No two community partners are the same in organizational structure or budget, but partners share the same commitment to making California a cleaner place while protecting and promoting the state’s beauty.  

The Great AMerican Cleanup

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

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. Focusing on individual action, the day highlights the actions we can all take to collectively address the challenges facing our nations recycling system.

California Volunteers Climate Action Days

California Volunteers, Keep California Beautiful, and Keep America Beautiful partner in 12 California counties for Climate Action Days.

Join us for activities in the following counties:

Amador, Calaveras, Colusa, Glenn, Imperial, Lassen, Modoc, San Benito, Sierra, Solano, Sutter, and Yuba.

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Adopt-a-Highway

Caltrans’s Adopt-A-Highway Program allows individuals, organizations, or businesses to help maintain sections of California’s State Highway System. Groups can participate as volunteers or hire a maintenance service provider to perform the work on their behalf.

Participation may include one or more of the following activities:

  • Removing litter (work frequency varies with location).
  • Planting and establishing trees or wildflowers
  • Removing graffiti
  • Controlling vegetation

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Keep California Beautiful has a variety of opportunities through which individuals, corporations, schools, and other groups and organizations can help to support our mission.Through our efforts we are working with many communities across the state to help them mobilize volunteers and conduct community based action projects. We provide them with tools and resources to educate their citizens and to help us all work toward a litter free state, one community at a time.For more information on how you can be a part of these opportunities check out our information pages to the left.Giant strides can be made to help California become a litter-free state.
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