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Build a Playground
Project Planner
Our step-by-step Project Planner equips you with all the know-how you'll need to build a playground—in one day!
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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
KaBOOM! Reports and Studies
990 & Audited Financial Statements
PDF Form 990 (2010)
PDF Consolidated Financial Statements (2010)
For previous years' statements, click here.
KaBOOM! Annual Report (2010)
PDF The 2010 KaBOOM! Annual Report (approx. 11 Mb)
Previous Annual Reports:
PDF The 2009 KaBOOM! Annual Report (approx. 6 Mb)
PDF The 2008 KaBOOM! Annual Report (approx. 8 Mb)
Monitor Report (2010)
Released June 2, 2010 by the Monitor Institute, Breaking New Ground: Using the Internet to Scale: A Case History of KaBOOM!, examines the innovation in organizational growth implemented by KaBOOM!. Learn more.
PDF Breaking New Ground: Using the Internet to Scale (1 Mb)
Play Matters (2009)

In municipalities across America, engaged citizens and civic leaders are actively seeking innovative ways to improve the accessibility, quality, and quantity of play and play spaces for children. To help cities build awareness & political capital and develop a policy on play, KaBOOM! identified 12 relevant and innovative best practices in play.
PDF Play Matters - Full Report (approx. 2.5 Mb)
PDF Play Matters - Full Report with Extended Case Studies
(approx. 4 Mb)
Download individual sections of the report
ABCD Impact Study

Beginning in May 2007, KaBOOM! engaged the Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD) of Northwestern University to conduct an evaluation of its Community Build process and the impact the projects are having on local neighborhoods.
PDF Download the executive summary - (approx. 32Kb)
PDF Download the presentation - (approx. 700Kb)











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