AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL is a nationwide movement for our country’s 250th birthday in 2026 to imagine a future of civic joy, belonging, and shared growth.
For whom America the beautiful?
The Recipe Box
The AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL Recipe Box is a series of easily adaptable how-tos that introduce various offerings for engaging in civic activities with a dose of creativity.
Why a recipe box?
The recipe box is a starting point to provide grounding and generate excitement so that we can make recipes for engagement that inspires communities to create and advance irresistibly inclusive American futures.
Six Questions
The AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL Recipe Box sparks conversation and reflection based on these Six American Questions.
What is the American dream?
What is the American promise?
When in your American life have you felt most free?
Who are this country’s founding mothers? What would this country be if it were founded by women?
If money were light, how much would the US have to spend?
For whom America, the beautiful?
Is this for me?
If you want to bring people together — as part of a family, club, or school; community group, labor union, faith institution, or arts organization; mutual aid network, sports team, service organization, or business association — to imagine and celebrate the beautiful future we will create together, this Recipe Box is for you.
What’s Inside?
Recipes for How to Make Events and Activities: A series of step-by-step guides on how to host an event or initiate an activity.
Guides on How to Join Events: Key information and resources to help you decide if there is an existing event or activity you want to participate in and support.
Guides on How to Share: Information on how to share what you are doing in your community/organization and learn what others are doing.
Specific Tools: Guiding tools to help plan your activity including how to hold discussions on the AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL framework.
What’s it for?
Celebrating and connecting with people in your community and around the country.
Wrestling with our collective history through patriotic inquiry and conversation.
Accessing a new shared language about or a reclaiming of “patriotism” and “the American Dream” through conversations with others.
Healing through dialogue by using the questions and your conversations to go deeper.
Making things based on the questions!