KaBOOM! Announces 2005 Playground Opportunities

Posted by on February 4, 2005

[posted from RFP Bulletin]

KaBOOM! Announces 2005 Playground Opportunities
Deadline: Open

KaBOOM! has announced ongoing opportunities to build new, safe playgrounds across North America.

KaBOOM! is conducting outreach to locate potential Community Partners in cities and towns all across North America for playgrounds to be built in 2005. Ideal Community Partners are usually child-serving, nonprofit organizations, but could be community development organizations, neighborhood coalitions, charter schools, or any organization that can mobilize a volunteer force and is in need of a playground.

Community Partners will receive a four-book Tool Kit that explains how to plan a playground from start to finish; two months of step-by-step guidance from a KaBOOM! project manager; a maintenance plan for the care of the new playground; and, with the help of volunteers, an inspiring community building experience ("Build Day") resulting in construction of a new playground in a single day.

Ideal Community Partner candidates should serve children from low-income or disadvantaged backgrounds; own and provide land for the playground; agree to own, insure, and maintain the playground for the lifetime of the playground; be able to raise and contribute up to $10,000 cash toward the cost of equipment; and have the ability to recruit volunteers to participate in planning committees and to help build the playground.

Visit the KaBOOM! Web site for complete program information, participation guidelines, and the list of cities in which 2005 KaBOOM! Playground Opportunities are currently available.

RFP Link: <a href="http://www.kaboom.org/nooz.aspx?id=452">http://www.kaboom.org/nooz.aspx?id=452</a>

For additional RFPs in Children and Youth, visit: <a href="http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_children.jhtml">http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_children.jhtml</a>