Faith
Honoring the role faith has played in shaping the American story — and the communities living it out today.
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Help Us Build The Great American Foundation
We’re in our founding season and we want the people who believe in this mission helping to build it. Bring your ideas, your talents, and your treasure to The Great American Foundation.
What We Stand For
Five pillars of work, each one a different way of carrying the American story forward.
Faith
Honoring the role faith has played in shaping the American story — and the communities living it out today.
Beauty
Restoring and celebrating the historic places, landmarks, and natural beauty that define American communities.
History
Making American history and civics come alive — in classrooms, museums, and everyday life.
Community
Investing in the people and local projects that make American communities strong.
Innovation
Celebrating the builders, inventors, and businesses carrying the American spirit of innovation forward.
Five pillars, one foundation
Beauty
Restoring and celebrating the historic places, landmarks, and natural beauty that define American communities.
History
Making American history and civics come alive — in classrooms, museums, and everyday life.
Community
Investing in the people and local projects that make American communities strong.
Innovation
Celebrating the builders, inventors, and businesses carrying the American spirit of innovation forward.
Together, they’re how we turn “I love this country” into something you can actually help build.
Built Within Our Communities
We believe this country isn’t just carried forward through big ideas, it’s built one community, one state at a time. Here’s where that work is already starting to take shape.
State of the Year
Once a year, The Great American Foundation turns the spotlight on one state. Its history, its people, and everything it’s added to the story of America. Over the next fifty years, all fifty states will get their turn: a year of storytelling, programming, and community celebration built around what makes that state unmistakably its own.
Give Where You Live
Help submit, fund, and volunteer for real local projects — parks, murals, memorials — right in your own community.
Who we’re looking for
Maybe This Is You
You don’t need a title or a résumé to help build this, you just need to see yourself somewhere in here.
Select the ones that sound like you. We’ll carry your picks down to the form.
- You’re the teacher who lights up talking about the Revolution and you’d love to help build the curriculum other classrooms use.
- You run a travel blog or a road-trip website and you’d love to help plan the historic-site itineraries we’re building for GAF Recommends.
- You’re a pastor or ministry leader who wants to make praying for this nation a habit, whether that’s a weekly rhythm or gathering your congregation for it once a year.
- You’re an executive who wants a seat on the Great American Business Council and the chance to mentor the entrepreneurs building what’s next.
- You just love this country and you want to show up and volunteer at events, from town halls to the State of the Year celebrations.
- You’re an illustrator with a style made for storytelling and you’d love to bring a Great American Foundation children’s book to life.
- You’re something else entirely — that’s exactly what the Notes field below is for.
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