21st Century Skills and Education
How Play Benefits Kids’ Brain Development A Decline of Academic Skills and Creativity Play is vital to brain development. It’s one of the ways kids…
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Disappearance of Play
America's kids are playing less than any previous generation, with disastrous consequences.
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Play Everywhere Playbook
Leveraging our own play infrastructure expertise and collaborations with cities and partners, we’ve developed a number of successful approaches to creating kid-friendly, playful cities. With…
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Play Matters: Giving Kids the Childhood They Deserve
Whether building the skills children need to succeed in the 21st century or simply giving children joy, play is an essential part of childhood. But…
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Play Everywhere
Mattel, Mattel Children’s Foundation and KABOOM!,joined forces to make the case that play matters, producing a major study with children about how to get kids playing more,…
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Playgrounds that Build Communities
While KABOOM! helps communities build playgrounds in a matter of weeks, the impact goes above and beyond a healthy play space for kids. A new…
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Playing Smart: Maximizing the Potential of School and Community Property through Joint Use Agreements
Many communities lack safe, adequate places for kids to play. Although they have a variety of recreational facilities, many school districts close their property to…
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ABCD Impact Study
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…
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Using Behavioral Economics to Create Playable Cities
New research from KABOOM! and behavioral economics research firm ideas42 shows that cities must become more playable to ensure that all kids across every socio-economic background are…