Meet Our Partners

Dr Pepper Snapple Group

This year, Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS) introduced Let’s Play, a community partnership designed to get kids active nationwide. The first Let’s Play initiative is a three-year commitment to KaBOOM!. Together, through Let’s Play, DPS and KaBOOM! will build or fix up 2,000 playgrounds by the end of 2013, benefiting an estimated five million children across North America. With the launch of Let’s Play, DPS will continue to promote fit and active lifestyles, a key component of ACTION Nation, DPS’ corporate philanthropy program. The company will offer a variety of Let’s Play grants via KaBOOM!, which will help communities build new playgrounds, update existing playgrounds or keep playgrounds open longer. DPS employee volunteers will also build a number of new playgrounds nationwide. KaBOOM! has a long history of working with our friends at DPS, and we are thrilled to see them out on the playground again this year.

Foresters

Foresters™ is more than a life insurance provider. Foresters purpose is to champion the well-being of families through quality life insurance, unique member benefits and inspiring community activities. Since 2006, Foresters has built or planned nearly 100 KaBOOM! playgrounds, thanks to the volunteer efforts of Foresters members, independent producers and local community partners. These playgrounds will eventually serve over 2.6 million children and families, providing them with a safe place to play, learn and spend time together. Foresters is a proud National Partner and a founding member of the KaBOOM! Corporate Leadership Circle, a group of organizations dedicated to providing the highest level of corporate support for KaBOOM! and our vision of a great place to play within walking distance of every child and family.

Kraft Foods Foundation

Kraft Foods and KaBOOM! have been working together since 2007 to celebrate play and to build stronger communities. In 2010, Kraft Foods Foundation joined in on the fun and signed on as an official National Partner of KaBOOM! Together Kraft Foods Foundation and KaBOOM! will work as national advocates for the significance of play and create solutions to the play deficit that affects so many communities nationwide. Furthermore, in support of healthy lifestyles for children nationwide, Kraft Foods employees will take direct action to address these issues during Kraft Foods Delicious Difference Week, its global service week from October 4th-9th. In eight states, employees will work alongside community members to build thirteen playgrounds, which will become safe, vibrant places for 100,000 children.

MetLife Foundation

Fun Fact: Did you know that MetLife funded its first playground in 1924 through the Playground and Recreation Association of America. Now, eighty-six years later and based on the success of their first playground project with KaBOOM!, MetLife Foundation is continuing to build playgrounds in cities all over the US. What a great history in support of play! MetLife Foundation has been working with KaBOOM! since 2008, and this year, they have decided to build 5 new KaBOOM! playgrounds in the US and Mexico. Each playground build will engage local employee volunteers to make a very special investment in the community. We're looking forward to seeing our friends from MetLife and their special guest, SNOOPY, on the playground soon.

24 Hour Fitness
Alexandra's Playground
Amway/Nutrilite
Baltimore Ravens
Bank of America (Tampa)
Bender Foundation
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health, Inc.
CAA Foundation
The CarMax Foundation
Chicago White Sox
Detroit RiverFront Conservancy
DIRECTV, Inc.
DJR Foundation
Duquesne Light
East Durham Children's Initiative
Energizer
Fairytale Brownies, Inc.
Forest City Ratner Companies
Giant Food Stores
Haley & Dave's Wedding
Indiana University Health
Irwin Industrial Tool Company
J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation & Marriott International
Junior League of Birmingham
Laureate Education, Inc.
LexisNexis
Magnetar Capital
Marjorie S. Fisher Fund of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
Mercedes-Benz Financial Services
Minnesota Vikings
Mississippi Children's Home Services
Motorola Solutions, Inc.
The New Balance Foundation
New Orleans Saints Players from the 2011 Lockout
Northrop Grumman

Orlando Magic
P&G Gillette
Pacific Dental Services
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Pennsylvania League of Cities and Municipalities
PECO - An Excellon Company
PNC
Post Properties and Post HOPE Foundation, Inc.
Quantum Resources Management, LLC
Radio Flyer
Reedy Industries, Inc.
Roche
SAP America
SAP America and Adobe Systems
SEGA of America
State Farm Bayou Classic
Surgical Care Affiliates
Tampa Bay Rays
Tarsadia Foundation
The Toro Company
UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare and New England Patriots Charitable Foundation
Verint Systems
Warner Music Group
Washington Capitals and So Kids Can
William Blair & Company
The Windermere Foundation funded by Windermere Real Estate

American Eagle Outfitters Foundation
Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc.
CA, Inc.
The Chrysler Foundation
David and Lucile Packard Foundation & Redwood City School District
Gulf Coast Community Foundation
The Home Depot Foundation
James Barksdale

Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Madison Square Garden Cheering for Children Foundation
Smart Start Georgia
Sprint Foundation
Target Corporation
Youth Service California/CaliforniaVolunteers