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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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Bright ideas: How to narrow city streets

Posted on July 28 by Kerala_Taylor

Los Angeles StreetWide 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.

Narrow streets, by contrast, offer a more peaceful, intimate, and pedestrian-friendly atmosphere. By necessity, cars move more slowly. Proportionally, sidewalks are larger. A narrow street invites people to stroll, gather, and play.Read more

From our CEO: Restoring American creativity

Posted on July 27 by Kerala_Taylor

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.Read more

Host a Play Day, get a grant

Posted on July 26 by Kerala_Taylor

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. Read more

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