Build a Playground
Our Dream Playground

Our new step-by-step project planner offers the money and know-how to make your playground dreams come true.
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.
More:
- Volunteer opportunities — Fundraising ideas — Alumni Network — Fund a KaBOOM! build
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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.
More:
- Host a Play Day — Earn badges for your actions — Volunteer for play
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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?
- What is a Play Desert?
- How is the play deficit harming our children?
More:
- Get our mapping badge
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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.
More:
- Contact us — Jobs at KaBOOM! — Financial statements — Our founder's memoir
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First Lady Michelle Obama Teams Up With KaBOOM!

First Lady Michelle Obama has partnered with KaBOOM! to build two playgrounds. Most recently, the First Lady joined KaBOOM! on June 15, 2011 to celebrate our 2,000th community playground build by mixing concrete, assembling playground components, using the KaBOOM! mobile app Playgrounds! to upload the playground to the Map of Play and providing inspirational words to more than 500 volunteers who built a playground in a single day at Imagine Southeast Public Charter School in Washington D.C.

The First Lady joined Members of Congress on the Congressional Day of Service, volunteers from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and hundreds of volunteers from the Southeast Washington D.C. to build the new 4,000 square foot playground in less than eight hours.

On June 22, 2009, First Lady Michelle Obama attended her first KaBOOM! project and helped build an intergenerational playground at Bret Harte Elementary School in San Francisco along with California First Lady Maria Shriver, CaliforniaVolunteers and volunteers from the local community.