This Colorado Gives Day, play changes everything.
When you give to Playworks Colorado, you will bring more opportunities for safe, intentional play to over 43,000 students across 70+ under-resourced elementary schools statewide. Your generosity will help kids get active, practice teamwork, and build social skills and emotional health during the school day. Together, we will create healthier students, stronger school communities, and lasting impact for kids across Colorado.
Playworks’ mission is to improve the health and well-being of children by increasing opportunities for physical activity and safe, meaningful play.
Playworks vision is that one day every child in America will have access to safe and healthy play, every day.
In 1996, Playworks Founder Jill Vialet got an earful from a principal she was visiting in Oakland, California. Rather than recess being a happy, playful time for the kids, the principal lamented that it had become the most chaotic period of the school day, with kids getting hurt, getting into trouble and getting left out. In that moment Jill saw an opportunity to change recess, to make it a positive and productive time for all kids. Enter Playworks!
Playworks launched operations in Colorado at 7 schools in 2010. This school year Playworks will partner with 60 elementary schools to ensure 29,000 kids experience safe and healthy play every day.
Organization name
Playworks Colorado
1996
Category
Youth Development
Organization Size
Large Organization
Colorado State Tax Credits
Colorado Child Care Credit
Address
66 S Logan St, Denver, CO Suite 209Denver County, CO, US