Dream Playground Built in One Day!
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Designed by Kids, Built by Volunteers: NBA Cares, Cleveland Cavaliers, Quicken Loans and KaBoom! Teamed up to Create a New Playground for the children of Maple Heights.
This past summer the students at the Preparing Academic Leaders Academy were asked to draw a picture of their dream playground. On a beautiful fall day, Saturday, September 29th more than 250 volunteers came together to bring the dream playground to life. Thanks to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Quicken Loans, NBA Cares, along with KaBOOM! and residents from the Maple Heights community, these students now have a safe place to play.
For a school that has never had a playground, only an empty concrete parking lot to play on, this brand new recreational area will provide more than 400 children in the Maple Heights community with a safe and fun place to play. Many community members and students showed up bright and early, ready to get dirty and have some fun as they watched the new dream playground evolve before their eyes.
To top off a great day Cavs forward, Donyell Marshall and Cavaliers General Manager Danny Ferry stopped by and helped with some of the finishing touches while meeting with the kids and signing autographs. Thanks to the help of many hardworking volunteers the building process for the playground only took one day, but providing the students with a safe place to play will last them many years.
Quicken Loans
Quicken Loans is the nation's largest online retail mortgage lender and the country's 11th largest retail home lender overall, and is expected to close nearly $20 billion in home loans in calendar year 2007. The company employs nearly 5,000 people and has been ranked in the "top-20" of FORTUNE Magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work for in America" list for the last four years. For more information, visit www.QuickenLoans.com.
NBA Cares
NBA Cares is the league's social responsibility initiative that builds on the NBA's long tradition of addressing important social issues in the United States and around the world. Through this umbrella program, the NBA, its teams and players have committed to donating $100 million to charity, providing a million hours of hands on service to the community and creating 250 places where kids and families can live, learn or play. NBA Cares works with internationally-recognized youth-serving programs that support education, youth and family development, and health-related causes, including: UNICEF; the Make-a-Wish Foundation and the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis.
KaBOOM!
KaBOOM! is a national nonprofit organization that envisions a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America. Over the past decade, KaBOOM! has used its innovative community-build model to bring together business and community interests to construct over 1,100 new playgrounds, skateparks, sports fields and ice rinks across North America. KaBOOM! also offers a variety of resources, including a web portal and online community, regional and national trainings, grants and publications for communities that wish to plan a new playspace on their own. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., KaBOOM! also has offices in Chicago, Atlanta and San Mateo, CA. For more information, visit www.kaboom.org.
This past summer the students at the Preparing Academic Leaders Academy were asked to draw a picture of their dream playground. On a beautiful fall day, Saturday, September 29th more than 250 volunteers came together to bring the dream playground to life. Thanks to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Quicken Loans, NBA Cares, along with KaBOOM! and residents from the Maple Heights community, these students now have a safe place to play.
For a school that has never had a playground, only an empty concrete parking lot to play on, this brand new recreational area will provide more than 400 children in the Maple Heights community with a safe and fun place to play. Many community members and students showed up bright and early, ready to get dirty and have some fun as they watched the new dream playground evolve before their eyes.
To top off a great day Cavs forward, Donyell Marshall and Cavaliers General Manager Danny Ferry stopped by and helped with some of the finishing touches while meeting with the kids and signing autographs. Thanks to the help of many hardworking volunteers the building process for the playground only took one day, but providing the students with a safe place to play will last them many years.
Quicken Loans
Quicken Loans is the nation's largest online retail mortgage lender and the country's 11th largest retail home lender overall, and is expected to close nearly $20 billion in home loans in calendar year 2007. The company employs nearly 5,000 people and has been ranked in the "top-20" of FORTUNE Magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work for in America" list for the last four years. For more information, visit www.QuickenLoans.com.
NBA Cares
NBA Cares is the league's social responsibility initiative that builds on the NBA's long tradition of addressing important social issues in the United States and around the world. Through this umbrella program, the NBA, its teams and players have committed to donating $100 million to charity, providing a million hours of hands on service to the community and creating 250 places where kids and families can live, learn or play. NBA Cares works with internationally-recognized youth-serving programs that support education, youth and family development, and health-related causes, including: UNICEF; the Make-a-Wish Foundation and the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis.
KaBOOM!
KaBOOM! is a national nonprofit organization that envisions a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America. Over the past decade, KaBOOM! has used its innovative community-build model to bring together business and community interests to construct over 1,100 new playgrounds, skateparks, sports fields and ice rinks across North America. KaBOOM! also offers a variety of resources, including a web portal and online community, regional and national trainings, grants and publications for communities that wish to plan a new playspace on their own. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., KaBOOM! also has offices in Chicago, Atlanta and San Mateo, CA. For more information, visit www.kaboom.org.
