KaBOOM! is the national nonprofit dedicated to saving play. Children today spend less time playing outdoors than any previous generation, a fact that is having disastrous consequences on their health, achievement levels, and overall well-being. To fight this play deficit, social entrepreneur Darell Hammond founded nonprofit KaBOOM! in 1996 in Washington, D.C., with a vision of creating a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America. Since then, KaBOOM! has mapped over 89,000 places to play, built more than 2,080 playgrounds, and successfully advocated for play policies in hundreds of cities across the country. KaBOOM! also provides communities with online tools to self-organize and take action to support play on both a local and national level. www.kaboom.org ChangeLab Solutions is a national nonprofit dedicated to building healthy communities. We work with community-based organizations, local public health and planning departments, schools, elected representatives, and government agencies to create groundbreaking policy solutions to critical public health challenges. Our team of attorneys, policy analysts, urban planners and public health professionals provides high-quality policy research and analysis, technical assistance, and community-tailored training to help advocates translate aspirations for a healthy community into concrete policies and strategies that deliver real and lasting change. Our multidisciplinary team stands at the ready to put its tools and expertise – in food and beverages, physical activity, land use, transportation, and the environment – to work for you. www.changelabsolutions.org Thanks to Our Funders Support for the document was provided by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Kresge Foundation. Some material in this toolkit was adapted from research funded by The California Endowment.
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