Deadline- July 20, 2012
Countries/Region- U.S
With support from Disney’s Magic of Healthy Living program, KaBOOM! is offering “playground in a cart” grants to bring play to vulnerable children in California, North Carolina, Illinois, Utah, and Pennsylvania.
Imagination Playground in a Cart is a kit of parts suitable for a variety of outdoor and indoor sites. It gives communities an easy-to-install cost-effective means to offer their children opportunities for open-ended free play. These sets include Imagination Playground Loose Parts and a storage unit on wheels. The “in a cart” model can be wheeled indoors and outdoors, and is suited for enclosed environments such as child care and school settings.
The program will deploy Imagination Playgrounds and training educators to facilitate unstructured play for young children. Five Imagination Playground in a Cart sets will be awarded to communities in each of the eligible states through the 2012 grant program.
Eligibility-
- This grant is open to U.S.-based municipalities, neighborhood associations, schools, day care centers, and non-profit organizations without a playground or with existing equipment that is unsafe for children to use.
- Applicant must own the land or possess a long-term lease and must obtain permission from the land owner to construct a playground
- Scope of the playground project must include a total playground equipment purchase between $24,000 and $40,000
- Applicant must demonstrate his/her ability to maintain the playground and fulfill commitments of the grant program, and keep the project page on Our Dream Playground up to date
- Playground project cannot be supported through any other KaBOOM! funding
- Applicant must be willing to use the KaBOOM! community-build model throughout the planning and installation process
- Applicant must complete the playground project within one year of receiving the grant award
- Applicant must be willing to work with a KaBOOM! Preferred Equipment Vendor.
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