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Meet Bethany Ingraham
This summer, Bethany and her son are visiting a new park every day as part of our Park-A-Day Summer Challenge. Follow her adventures and meet all our 2010 challengers!
Win a $25,000 playground upgrade!
Rally your community to earn points for your local playground for a chance to win an Imagination Playground in a Box. Get started!
Bright ideas
From play streets to ping pong tables, here are simple, innovative initiatives to strengthen communities and promote play. Check out these bright ideas!
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Help us empower communities to save play and give our children the chance they deserve to create healthy, productive futures. Please make a gift today!
Our Park-A-Day Summer Challenger 
Wide streets send a clear message: We are for cars. Sidewalks seem to exist as an afterthought to the multiple lanes full of rushing, honking, exhaust-belching vehicles. 
As the first Imagination Playground Park opens this week at Burling Slip in the South Street Seaport area of New York City, our CEO Darell Hammond reflects on the decline of creativity and the lack of imagination in today's playscapes.The KaBOOM! community is talking about play:
The KaBOOM! community is sharing places to play:
THE KaBOOM! VISION
A great place to play within walking distance of every child in America
Our users have helped to identify more than 80,000 places to play!
Our free online tools and training can help you build a playground
Help kids in your community via simple grassroots actions
Your contribution will give a child a place to play
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