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Build a Playground
Project Planner
Our step-by-step Project Planner equips you with all the know-how you'll need to build a playground—in one day!
Tools and Resources
Get funding, learn the nuts and bolts of building a great place to play, and improve your local playground.
Become a Community Partner
Build a great place to play for your community with the help of your neighbors, friends, KaBOOM! and our Funding Partners.
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Take Action for Play
Save Play in Your Community
Get tips, ideas, and inspiration for making your community more playful.
Playful City USA
Our Playful City USA program recognizes cities and towns that embrace play as a priority.
KaBOOM! Community
Connect and share with other folks who are trying to bring play to their communities.
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The Map of Play
Playing Near You
Find, add, rate, and review playgrounds in your community.
Play Deserts
Where are playgrounds needed most and what happens when kids have nowhere to play?
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About KaBOOM!
What We Do
KaBOOM! is a national nonprofit dedicated to saving play for America's children.
Who We Are
We are peppy, purple-adorned people who passionately promote the power of play!
Partner With Us
Our partners help us to create new playgrounds and to spread the word about the importance of PLAY.
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Congratulations to the 2012 Playful City USA honorees! In 2012, KaBOOM! recognized 213 cities and towns, in 41 states, for their commitment to play! Share on Twitter and post to Facebook to celebrate with these communities!
Playful City USA is a national recognition program honoring cities and towns that make play a priority and use innovative programs to get children active, playing, and healthy. Learn how your city can earn exclusive playground grants, gain national recognition, and spotlight your city's best practices.
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- Last Post: 2012-05-07
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KaBOOM! Alumni can share their stories and ideas with each other, be eligible for exclusive incentives and grants, and receive helpful information to keep the momentum going after build day! If you have built a playspace join the KaBOOM! Alumni Network today!
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- Members: 155
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- Last Post: 2012-03-26
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This is the place to talk about and get ideas about making your playground designed so that ALL children can play together.
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- Members: 49
- Posts: 31
- Last Post: 2012-03-01
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Do you love the KaBOOM! website? I mean, REALLY love it?
Then your probably interested in all the changes and tweaks we make as we strive to make the site as informative, helpful, and fun as possible.
We'll be posting the changes we make to the site as well as known bugs, tips, and tricks.
Oh, and if you find a bug, feel free to post it here!
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What is a Playmaker?
Someone who TAKES ACTION for Play.
This means they: speak, build, encourage, share, organize, repair, advocate, represent, activate, mobilize and PLAY!
How can you start? Head on over to our resources page, which has all kinds of actions you can do to get started at getting the word out in your community, then take a look at our blog archive to join the conversation on hot topic issues on play, theory, best practices, and success stories!
Each month we highlight one Playmaker as Playmaker of the Month. Read our past Playmaker of the Month interviews.
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- Members: 325
- Posts: 107
- Last Post: 2012-03-27
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This is a place to talk about GREEN! Whether or not you're creating a sustainable playground, or just looking for people "greening" their playspace, this is the place to share that. (cc: woodleywonderworks)
Going "green" isn't just about trying to save the environment-- its also about getting outside in the environment too! More and more studies show that there are direct correlations between access to green spaces and a person's well being.
This group is a place celebrate nature play and to get tips for how to enjoy it.
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- Members: 52
- Posts: 9
- Last Post: 2012-04-05
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A place for people who build outside the developed world and want to share experiences building playgrounds around the globe.
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- Last Post: 2012-05-07
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Welcome to the Park-A-Day KaBOOM! Summer Challenge!
Are you looking for something to do with your kids this summer that doesn't cost money, takes you to new places, and will keep you and your kids active? Become part of our 2011 Park-a-Day Summer Challenge!
Learn more »
See highlights in our blog, Play Today »
Follow the Challenge on Twitter at #parkaday »Group Stats
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- Last Post: 2011-10-20
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KaBOOM! and The Home Depot Foundation are excited to present the first comprehensive guidelines on how to make your service project as eco-friendly as possible. A special thank you goes to all of the organizations that contributed eco-friendly best practices that make up the foundation of these guidelines. We hope that these guidelines continue to grow over time and serve as a valuable tool for any type of service project.
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- Members: 110
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- Last Post: 2011-02-28
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Host a Play Day for the kids in your community! A Play Day in your town will help build awareness for the importance of play, strengthen your community, and bring old-fashioned fun to your neighborhood! Once you sign-up to host a Play Day, you'll have access to a deck of Activity Cards and other resources to help you plan your day. If you have any questions email MJ at mj@kaboom.org.
How Was Your Play Day?
If you're in the process of planning a Play Day or if you've already hosted one, we want to hear from you! Share some photos and a story and we'll pick our favorites to feature.Play belongs in schools. Play belongs at parks. Play belongs in cities. Play belongs here.
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- Last Post: 2011-11-08
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Community-built playspaces aren't just for kids! A few simple additions to the area around your playspace -- like benches, shade structures, and murals -- will transform it into an inviting community space. If you have built, want to build, or simply have visualized a project that would enhance the areas in a park or school (or anywhere around a playspace), this is the place to share those ideas!
KaBOOM! offers a ton of resources and instructions for how to add side projects to your playspace, but we want your creations too!
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- Last Post: 2012-05-06
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This group is for people interested in learning more about service learning and how they can infuse it into each of their own community projects.
KaBOOM! offers resources and downloads on the types of service learning projects we enoucage as part of our community builds, but we want your ideas!
Upload pictures or share a story detailing your community's service learning projects to this group.
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- Members: 39
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- Last Post: 2012-03-05
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This is a group that will discuss the playful and educational benefits of outdoor garden spaces for both a community as well as schools. Have a garden, help others create theirs! Creating a garden, discuss the triumphs and pitfalls of your efforts!
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Take your Playschool learning and conversations further! Ask questions of special Playschool presenters, access and exchange supplementary resources, continue discussions begun in online workshops, and share concrete ways you’ve put your training into action.
To learn more about the comprehensive series of free online workshops and videos, visit kaboom.org/playschool.
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- Last Post: 2011-12-20
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