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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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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.
While your Play Day is first and foremost about having fun, it is also an opportunity to make your local park, school, or playground a better place to play. Last year, Brusly Elementary School in Brusly, La. not only organized a great day of games, but also rallied the town’s 2,000 residents to vote in our online competition to win a $10,000 playground grant. 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!
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Help kids in your community via simple grassroots actions
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