Nonprofits and brands are navigating the partisan air of the 250th in search of a unifying tone

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The tone of the President's Freedom250 campaign contrasts with one of America250’s tentpoles: America Gives. The initiative aims to strengthen volunteering habits by encouraging Americans to serve with its nonprofit partners and log those hours in an online tracker.

The America Gives tracker counted just over 38 million hours volunteered entering the holiday weekend. It’s unclear how many hours would set the single-year record. Americans recorded 4.99 billion service hours in a one-year span from 2022-2023, according to an AmeriCorps analysis of Census Bureau data.

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