Get and give the gift of play!
Our gift to you this holiday season: a gift card for 60 minutes of play! Redeemable anytime, anywhere.
The best part, you can share the 60 minute gift card with all of your friends on Facebook! Each time you give a gift card, you’ll earn an additional 5 minutes for yourself. If a friend shares a gift card back to you, you’ll earn another 60 minutes!
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We built another playground in my hometown last week. This one is right on the revitalized and beautiful riverfront. Usually, the bands around the center tower of the Renaissance Center are usually GM’s blue, but I’m guessing it’s been changed for Breast Cancer Awareness month.
Intense focus on one sport and adult-driven pressures to perform are taking their psychological toll on children, causing concentration problems, fatigue, and irritability. In fact, the trend toward starting kids in organized sports at younger ages isn’t necessarily setting the stage for an active lifestyle later on in life — 70 percent of kids give up sports entirely by age 13. When asked by Michigan State University researchers why they quit sports, kids almost universally said, “It’s not fun anymore.
Apply for a $750 spruce grant for your local playground
Hi folks!
Thanks to generous support from Dr Pepper Snapple Group (as part of their Let’s Play initiative), KaBOOM! will be awarding grants of $750 each to communities this year who wish to make their playgrounds cleaner, safer and more inviting. The next deadline is August 15 so be sure to apply soon!
If you can help us spread the word on this, we’d really appreciate it.
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As KaBOOM! expands its focus to helping communities self-organize and advising governments, it has become harder to keep track of its influence. Staff members say they regularly attend play conferences where they hear about playgrounds that were inspired by KaBOOM! Now, the organization is developing a “badging” system to recognize community leaders like Madra Belmont who have successfully built playgrounds.
My job, as described by David Bornstein, in the New York Times.
Source: The New York Times
All in a days work.
Are you a Seattle based non-profit that serves children?
You are?
Sweet!
A local funder who is very invested in the Seattle community is working with KaBOOM! to find a great child serving non-profit to partner with to build a beautiful new playground.
If this applies to you in any way, hit up my ask box and I can get you the right information to apply for this opportunity.
And if you happen to have a bunch of Seattle followers, please give us a reblog.
You’re Invited! Next Tuesday, May 24th, 6-8pm.
Come see where I spend the majority of my time, if not physically, then mentally.
This is the print ad KaBOOM! we ran in The USA Today yesterday. We won the ad space in a contest for non-profits last year.
I think it’s pretty good.
KaBOOM!: How One Man Built a Movement to Save Play became a NYT Best-Seller today.
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Yeah you do.
