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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.
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Take Action 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?
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About KaBOOM!
Blogs
Built Environment / City Planning / Urbanism
Community Building
Educational and Research Institutions
Health and Childhood Obesity
Nutrition
Parks and Recreation
Physical Activity
Play
Playgrounds and Skateparks
Schools and Recess
Blogs
- Active Kids Club
- City Parks Blog
- Creative Play Plus
- Field Notes from the Future
- Green Hour Blog
- Let Kids Play
- Little Eyes on Nature
- Nature for Kids
- Peaceful Playgrounds
- Peekabooplay
- PhD in Parenting (see Carnival of Play posts)
- Play Everything
- Play Outdoors: The Campfire
- Play Parks Central
- Playgroundology
- Playscapes
- Playward
- Public Workshop
- Reality Check
- The Dirt
- The Grass Stain Guru
- Your Wild Child
Built Environment / City Planning / Urbanism
- Active Living by Design
- Active Living Leadership
- Active Living Research
- America Bikes
- America Walk
- American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
- Bicycle Friendly Community Campaign
- Casey Trees
- Center for Understanding the Built Environment
- JointUse.org
- National Policy and Legal Analysis Network
- National Center for Bicycling and Walking
- National Environmental Education Foundation
- Obesity and the Built Environment
- Project for Public Spaces
- Safe Routes to School
- The City University of New York Children’s Environments Research Group
- Trust for Public Land – New York City Playgrounds Program
- Trust for Public Land
Community Building
- Asset Based Community Development Institute (ABCD)
- Community-Built Association
- The Department of Cambridge Community Development
- Isles Organization
- New Jersey Community Development Cooperation
Educational and Research Institutions
- Association for Play Therapy
- Association for the Study of Play (TASP)
- Children’s Play Information Service
- Gesell Institute of Human Development
- National Education Association
- Sarah Lawrence Child Development Institute
- University of Delaware
- US Play Coalition
Health and Childhood Obesity
- Action for Healthy Kids
- Alliance for a Healthier Generation
- Alliance for the Healthiest Nation
- American Academy of Family Physicians
- The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American Council of Fitness and Nutrition
- American Heart Association
- American Public Health Association - Action Plan: Healthy People 2010 Objectives for Prevention and Control of Childhood Obesity
- Association for Community Health Improvement
- Body Sculpt: Building Strong Bodies and Minds
- CDC Nutrition and Physical Activity
- Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
- Center for Safe and Healthy Schools
- Childstats.gov
- Connect For Kids
- The Institute of Medicine, Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention
- Maternal and Child Health Library
- NHLBI: Healthy People 2010
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America
- Sajai Foundation
Nutrition
- 2004 Edition of Child and Adolescent Nutrition Knowledge Path
- American Diabetes Association
- American Dietetic Association
- Bright Futures in Practice - Nutrition
- International Food Information Council - Child and Adolescent Nutrition
- USDA Child Care Nutrition Resource System
- USDA Food and Nutrition Information Center
- Nourish Interactive
Parks and Recreation
Physical Activity
- America On The Move
- America Scores
- American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance
- American Council on Exercise
- Bright Futures in Practice - Physical Activity
- Center for Excellence in Research and Training
- Get Active Today
- Girls on the Run
- Let’s Move
- National Alliance For Youth Sports
- National Association of Health and Fitness
- National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity
- PE Central
- President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
- Project Fit America
- Shape Up America!
- Playworks
- Steps to a Healthier US
- US Department of Health and Human Services – Physical Activity Guidelines
Play
- Active Healthy Kids Canada
- Active Living Resource Center (ALRC)
- Adventure Playgrounds
- Alliance for Childhood
- Alliance for Children and Families
- American Association for the Child's Right to Play (IPA/USA)
- American Journal of Play
- Association of Children’s Museums
- Boston Schoolyard Initiative
- Boundless Playgrounds
- Children and Nature Alliance (Canada)
- Children and Nature Network (CandNN)
- Common Good: The Value of Play
- Eat Smart. Play Hard. USDA
- Fair Play For Children
- Hattie Larlham Center for Excellence
- Imagination Playground
- International Play Association (IPA)
- Kids Outdoors (U.K.)
- Learning Resource Network
- Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation: Invention at Play
- Let’s Go Outside! U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- London Play
- National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE)
- National Children’s Museum
- National Institute for Play
- Natural Learning Initiative
- National Museum of Play at The Strong
- National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA)
- National Safe Kids Campaign
- Outdoors: The Ultimate Playground (Toronto, Canada)
- Out2Play
- Partnership for Play Every Day
- Play Board
- Planet Earth Playscapes
- Play England
- Playing for Keeps
- Play For Peace
- Play Wales
- PlayBoard (Northern Ireland)
- Playground Magazine
- PlayPumps International
- Playwork Partnerships
- Project Joy
- Safe Routes
- Shane’s Inspiration
- Streetplay
- Strong Fathers, Strong Families
- The Association for the Study of Play (TASP)
- The Reusable Resource Association
- Today's Playground
- Voice of Play
- Wild Zones
- US Play Coalition
- YMCA of the USA
Playgrounds and Skate Parks
- Ann's Adventures
- American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
- Accessible Playgrounds
- Cape Cod Kidz
- International Association of Skateboard Companies
- International Playground Contractors Association (NPCAI)
- International Playground Equipment Manufacturers Association (IPEMA)
- KaBOOM! Preferred Vendors
- Leathers and Associates
- National Program for Playground Safety (NPPS)
- Playground Inspection Professionals
- Skatepark.com
- SPA-USA (Skatepark Association of the United States of America)
- Tony Hawk Foundation
Schools and Recess
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