Put your seatbelts on, folks, and get ready to ride the webinar train! Destination: KNOWLEDGE.

All you need to participate in these webinars are a phone and a computer connected to the Internet. These trainings are offered free of charge.

FUNdraising 101
Fri., Sept. 5, 2008 (3:00-4:00 p.m. EST)

Play and Children’s Health: The Value of Playgrounds
Mon., Sept. 15, 2008 (3:30-4:30 p.m. EST)
Guest speaker: J.C. Boushh, founder of Design for Play
[Read an article J.C. wrote for KaBOOM!]

Almost There! Getting Ready for Your Build Day!
Tue., Sept. 16, 2008 (2:30- 3:30 p.m. EST)

An Introduction to the Community Build Road Map
Thu., Sept. 25, 2008 (2:00-3:00 p.m. EST)

Becoming a KaBOOM! Community Partner
Thu., Oct. 23, 2008 (2:00-3:00 p.m. EST)

To register, visit our webinars page.

A Play Day is one day when the community gets together to celebrate and recognize the importance of play — unstructured, self-motivated play — for kids of all ages. Organizing a Play Day is a good way to draw attention to the importance of play in the lives of all children in your community as well as create momentum for long-term commitments to building and caring for playspaces. A Play Day can be a simple (and, of course, fun) affair that lasts a few hours, or it can be a full day of activities, games, prizes, free play, and community building! A Play Day can be big or small, including a neighborhood or a whole city. It’s time to celebrate and have fun. And, don’t forget, this is your opportunity to network!

Get lots of resources and tips on our new Play Day planning resources page!

We've changed the Forums! We have a new area to help you get started, learn what's new in the community, and an area where we will feature active members of the community.

We've also greatly reduced the number of Forum categories. For instance, the threads for the Playmaker Network and Playful City USA have now been combined. Also, nearly all of the Forums about building playspaces have been combined into two categories: building and fundraising. We've eliminated many of the categories that no one was visiting and we think it will easier for you to find useful conversations.

Finally, y ou can now search the Forums by thread, username, date, and by keywords. The search function is what we are calling a "beta" test. There may be some bugs and if you come across some, we would be very appreciative if you posted them in the Community Forum (along with any other questions and comments about the changes we've made too!) [More]