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Items tagged with play 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), Thomas Kriese (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), Thomas Kriese (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)
Comment (8) on reputation, credentials, certification as currency (0) in Emerging Futures NetworkYou asked what we wish to incent and create value around; for me there's great value in connection, love, respect, listening to others, vision, openness and concrete partnerships. I want to share works that show leadership; when I'm in good space th...Updated 30 weeks ago, Tagged by: Michael Maranda (CCAL30)
Community is............ (0) in Community - GeneralActions, Agriculture, Alliances, Animals, Arts, Assets, Associations, Build, Capacity, Capital, Cares, Change, Circles, Citizens, Clubs, Co-Creation, Collaborative, Collective, Commons, Congregations, Connections, Conservation, Conversations, Coopera...Updated 30 weeks ago, Tagged by: Arthur Brock (CCAL30)
 TREEHOUSE RESOURCES (0) in Children - Youth - FamiliesUpdated 31 weeks ago, Tagged by: Cynthia Gentry (CCAL30)
Comment (5) on Jean Russell (0) in Community StoriesSomeone also recently said to me:
I am having an extra crappy week Norbert. Why don't you go and post about that?
This is where Jean is marvelous: she *listens* to what you say. She *turns it around*. She *plays* with it. And all of a sudden, t...Updated 31 weeks ago, Tagged by: Jean Russell (CCAL30)
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: Cynthia Gentry (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 Treehouse for Medically Fragile Kids (0) in Children - Youth - FamiliesChristina,
You can't imagine how much I'd love to build a treehouse in Northern Uganda. I ran across a quote of yours the other day:
What I believe is that there is no amount of money that can meaningfully restore the lives and the childhoods t...Updated 33 weeks ago, Tagged by: Cynthia Gentry (CCAL30)
Comment (15) on Treehouse for Medically Fragile Kids (0) in Children - Youth - FamiliesCynthia, instead of a mural in Gulu, perhaps the mark you're eventually meant to leave in Northern Uganda is a treehouse at Opok Farms someday... so many kids in N. Uganda have missing limbs, so it could be fun to create one that's built with that in mind.Updated 33 weeks ago, Tagged by: Cynthia Gentry (CCAL30)
Comment (8) on The Power of Play (0) in Children - Youth - FamiliesI've bought a new set of blocks *for my son* (cough) which I've been enjoying thoroughly.
Something happened when I was young and I lost interest in Lincoln logs even before I could accomplish much with them. Lately I've felt like I'm getting a c...Updated 34 weeks ago, Tagged by: Cynthia Gentry (CCAL30)
Comment (0) on Treehouse for Medically Fragile Kids (0) in Children - Youth - FamiliesHey, Norbert,
I've actually got to research the implications of using the term "barrier-free". I think it is pretty well defined by some deparment of the US government. It's just been a couple of years since I did hands on work with playgrounds so...Updated 34 weeks ago, Tagged by: Cynthia Gentry (CCAL30)
Comment (0) on Treehouse for Medically Fragile Kids (0) in Children - Youth - FamiliesHere are some wild treehouses! Of course, only the bottom one would come close to matching what I think the camp would like, but the others sure are amazing!
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.. Image:: http://www.omidyar.net/group/artheals/file/3811790/7.52.11786526527/get/Treehouse_crooked.jpgUpdated 34 weeks ago, Tagged by: Cynthia Gentry (CCAL30)
Comment (0) on The Power of Play (0) in Children - Youth - FamiliesDoes anybody else have any cool playgrounds they know about?Updated 34 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 (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)
The PlayPump and other innovations (0) in Clean Drinking WaterThe Roundabout Water Pump
Cynthia Gentry brought the above item to everyone's attention some time ago, and I thought it was, as she said, brilliant !.
The PlayPump is a highly efficient water pump that is driven by a children's roundabout, the chi...Updated 39 weeks ago, Tagged by: Susan Yung (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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KaBoom! (0) in Omidyar NetworkUpdated 2 years ago, Tagged by: Cynthia Gentry (CCAL30)
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 (0) on The Power of Play (0) in Children - Youth - Familiesi love to play.
I don't know if you all have heard of "Dr. Toy" www.drtoy.com
but she's an expert in "play" for children.
(and she awarded our musicland band show "best video for children"! we were quite honored...)
Here's a bio from her website:
...Updated 2 years ago, Tagged by: Michele -> kids+art+charity (CCAL30)
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