About KABOOM!
KABOOM! unites with communities to build kid-designed playspaces.
Combined with our decades of experience in community engagement, our playspaces can spark joy and foster a sense of belonging for communities of color — communities that disproportionally have less access to play where they learn and live.
Our Mission
We unite with communities to build kid-designed playspaces that can spark joy and foster a sense of belonging for the kids who are often denied opportunities to thrive. Our mission: end playspace inequity for good.
Our Impact
Since our founding over 25 years ago, we’ve built or improved 17,000+ playspaces, engaged more than 1.5 million community members and brought joy to nearly 12 million kids. As we look to the future, we’ll continue our efforts to build collective action and community opportunity, spark hope, and enable kids to reach their full potential. And we promise that we won’t stop until we put an end to playspace inequity. For good.
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17,000+
playspaces built/improved
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1.5 million+
volunteers engaged
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11 million+
kids served
Our Values & Norms
Partnership
Build together
Give credit where credit is due
Create circles not lines
Humility
Always listening, always learning
Seek progress not perfection
Equity
Center and amplify community voices
Move at the speed of trust
Address racial inequities
Play
It only takes a single spark
Bring play, joy, and purpose to your work
Accountability
Be accountable to communities and each other Promise then deliver
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Accreditations
KABOOM! is proud to have been evaluated and honored by the following institutions.
