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Items tagged with kaboom! Anne Marie Bellavance (CCAL30) (2233)Updated 3 weeks ago, Tagged by: Nicholas Bentley (CCAL30), Mark Grimes, Haney Armstrong (CCAL30)
 Treehouse for Medically Fragile Kids (0) in Children - Youth - FamiliesBACKGROUND
There is a wonderful place for medically fragile kids outside of Atlanta called Camp Twin Lakes. It is the facility where different disease/disorder/condition camp groups hold their programs each year (Camp New Hope for kids with sickle ...Updated 26 weeks ago, Tagged by: Cynthia Gentry (CCAL30), Mark Grimes
KaBoom & The Play Pump: How Might we Bring these to Better Wo... (0) in * Better World Island *One of the new spaces you'll see being developed on Better World Island is a playground. The intention is to be able to share information around KaBoom! and some of the other "play" projects that people connect around here at omidyar.net
Cynthia Ge...Updated 32 weeks ago, Tagged by: Jackie B (CCAL30), Cynthia Gentry (CCAL30)
Comment (4) on The Power of Play (0) in Children - Youth - FamiliesIt's been too long since I visited this long-lost discussion!! Someone from my nieces' elementary school contacted me about a new playground they are building and it got me thinking about kids and play, once again.
It seems like wonderful playspace...Updated 34 weeks ago, Tagged by: Cynthia Gentry (CCAL30), Thomas Kriese (CCAL30)
Cynthia Gentry (CCAL30) (1914)Updated 4 weeks ago, Tagged by: Mark Grimes
Tony Deifell - how do you see the world? (CCAL30) (1179)Updated 14 weeks ago, Tagged by: Mark Grimes
The Power of Play (0) in Children - Youth - FamiliesI've been thinking a lot lately about the power of play to heal and restore. Tonight I saw this in one of Sue Braiden's posts about sending soccer clothes to children in refugee camps in Uganda:
What I believe is that there is no amount of money t...Updated 26 weeks ago, Tagged by: Cynthia Gentry (CCAL30)
Comment (1) on The Power of Play (0) in Children - Youth - FamiliesKaBOOM! has a new initiative called "Playful Cities USA." I'll write more about it later, but I had my first meeting at City Hall today putting together a Taskforce for Play in Atlanta. We're going to work to bring more attention to the power of pl...Updated 26 weeks ago, Tagged by: Cynthia Gentry (CCAL30)
 TREEHOUSE RESOURCES (0) in Children - Youth - FamiliesUpdated 31 weeks ago, Tagged by: Cynthia Gentry (CCAL30)
Comment (0) on Treehouse for Medically Fragile Kids (0) in Children - Youth - FamiliesI've been talking to Kate Becker about it. She's the VP of Program Management at KaBOOM! She said that they recently did a universally accessible playground and I think she said they might be looking into a treehouse. The KaBOOM! folks are all tie...Updated 32 weeks ago, Tagged by: Cynthia Gentry (CCAL30)
Comment (0) on KaBoom & The Play Pump: How Might we Bring these to Better World Island? (0) in * Better World Island *Amy Lee said:
Well, I'm not afraid to have conversations with myself. Actually, those are some of my favorite conversations. *wink*
LOL!! Sorry Amy, I just noticed this thread :) way to go tagging!! Sue posted this awhile ago, but it's a ...Updated 32 weeks ago, Tagged by: Jackie B (CCAL30)
Comment (5) on Treehouse for Medically Fragile Kids (0) in Children - Youth - FamiliesHad a great meeting at Camp Twin Lakes. They said I could run with the treehouse.
An interesting place to start is with programming. The director said that he had seen the treehouse at the Hole in the Wall Camp in Connecticut. They enjoyed it but...Updated 32 weeks ago, Tagged by: Cynthia Gentry (CCAL30)
Comment (2) on The Power of Play (0) in Children - Youth - FamiliesGot to tell my playground story at KaBOOM's WE Play today in Atlanta. Almost 80 people showed up. I talked to one guy who came in from Nebraska. It is absolutely stunning to hear the excitement in the room. It's so cool to see how far the organiz...Updated 32 weeks ago, Tagged by: Cynthia Gentry (CCAL30)
Comment (0) on The Power of Play (0) in Children - Youth - FamiliesAwesome, Thomas! I remember so well when you went on that build! Thanks for posting on the site.
I think my next volunteer project is going to be a super-duper treehouse for Camp Twin Lakes (a camp for medically fragile children). Will have to se...Updated 34 weeks ago, Tagged by: Cynthia Gentry (CCAL30)
Comment (5) on The Power of Play (0) in Children - Youth - FamiliesThanks for the link, Cynthia.
I took the liberty of adding my Pahrump build experience (posted long ago in this thread) to the KaBOOM! site and even added pictures, to boot! Will have to see if any of the playgrounds from my youth (in New Mexico) a...Updated 34 weeks ago, Tagged by: Cynthia Gentry (CCAL30)
Comment (5) on Tony Deifell (0) in Community StoriesTony has been terrific in terms of inspiration and serious accomplishment envy. A walk through this guy's resume is like getting lost in a ticker-tape parade: the celebration of accomplishment there is like rain! and the practical advice and willingn...Updated 34 weeks ago, Tagged by: Jean Russell (CCAL30)
Comment (0) on The Power of Play (0) in Children - Youth - FamiliesWe're doing the KaBOOM! University of Play! in New Orleans - February 8-10, 2007. It's incredible, just ask Cynthia Gentry!
Last year, we made a commitment to build 100 playgrounds in the Gulf States affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We've b...Updated last year, Tagged by: Jim Carroll (CCAL30)
KaBOOM! bringing PLAY back to the Gulf Coast (0) in Children - Youth - Families
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Comment (2) on The Power of Play (0) in Children - Youth - FamiliesCynthia, thanks for the invite to post my KaBoom! experience here.
I had the chance to participate in a KaBoom! playground build Saturday March 19, in Pahrump (pah-RUMP), Nevada, a small town about 60 miles northwest of Las Vegas, near the Californ...Updated 2 years ago, Tagged by: Jim Carroll (CCAL30)
Comment (1) on Should Nonprofits Seek Profits? (0) in Community - GeneralGreat questions Ethan! But, for the moment, I want to come back to a point of Jim Fruchterman’s earlier in this discussion thread:
“If you put a million dollars into creating a social enterprise that helps tens of thousands of people a year whi...Updated 2 years ago, Tagged by: Peter Rees
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