Support play:groundNYC
At play:groundNYC, we want to see a city, transformed through play, that is open and accessible to everyone. With generous donors like you, we are able to welcome thousands of kids annually at our flagship, The Yard, for free. Your support also helps us offer financial aid for Summer Camp, Mini Camps, and our Adventure Play Club. Your gift helps us organize play pop-ups across the city, together reimagining public space. Your tax-deductible donations also support our in-school programming and the training sessions we offer to teachers and caregivers so that more children in NYC can experience the joy of play. THANK YOU for joining us.
Checks should be made payable to play:groundNYC and sent to
play:groundNYC
33 Park Pl #350
New York, NY 10007
Cash donations can be made at any visit to The Yard
$25 = 4 boxes of new shiny nails for The Yard’s toolshed
$50 = 5 hammers for building and destroying
$150 = 1 hour of free play at The Yard
$500 = 2 hours of community based pop-up play around NYC
$750 = 1 child for 1 week of summer camp
$1,000 = 1 full afternoon of free play at The Yard!
Material Donations
play:groundNYC is committed to the principles of reduce, reuse and recycle. We accept and appreciate material donations in the form of lumber, building materials, tools, tires, rope, paint, brushes, fabric and costumes. To make a material donation please contact us by email
Want more adventure play in your neighborhood? Read more about what a second adventure playground location entails and tell us your ideas here
play:groundNYC is a federal 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, your donations are tax-deductible.
volunteer
We love our volunteers! We welcome you on the weekends to take on a front desk shift at The Yard during our open free hours of 12pm to 4pm. At the beginning our season in April, we appreciate capable bodies in helping set up the Yard. In November we look for help in dismantling some of the incredible structures young people have built over the summer.
If you have expertise, and time, in any of the following categories: graphic design and marketing, human resources, fundraising and outreach, please reach out! Occasionally we put out a call for new Board members, sign up for our newsletter to keep updated.
SUPPORTERS
play:groundNYC’s work is supported by the generosity of many volunteers, donors, and grants. Your help is essential to our continued growth and ability to transform the city through play! Thank you for joining us. Our 2023-2024 supporters include:
Our 2024 Donors
Elizabeth Adams
Emily Alli
Cristina Bavifard
Lisa Block
Adam Brenneman
Ammon Brown
Hronn Brynjarsdottir
Tatiana Chernyshova
Marc Chouchani
Matthew Daimler
Marisa Dedominicis
Chris Scotto Di Vetta
Yana Domuschieva
Neil Donahue
Richard Egelhof
Sarah Feinberg
Eric Fish
Zoe Fortin
Thomas Godfrey
Pamela Goldberg
Asya Gribov
Catherin Griffith
Mara Gruen
Yen Ha
Sophia Hermann
Mayme Hostetter
Morgan Johnson
Shelby Johnson
Aaron Johnston
Karolina Karr
Abigail Kerlin
Sarah Keefe
Adam Khedouri
Beth Krawczuk
Tim Lawrenz
Anna Libers
Nora Lyons
Jordan McLeggan
Stephen Miller
Walseka Miller
Daniel Mulkoff
Shi Nisman
David O’Donnell
Opedal Family
Susan Oschshorn
Daniel and Lucy Payne
Sarah Prior
Jan Schunemann
John Sienkiewicz
Russel Simmons
Simon Foundation
Brittany Stenerson
Adam Bamba Tanaka
Alexander Vecchio
Jason Volkman
Dave Weiner
Dina Weisberger
Danny Wen
Reilly Wilson
Tim Wu
Rodrigo Zuloaga
Partners in Play
Amanda Gates-Elston
Cas Holman
Tovah Klein
Jerome Park
Matthew Storrie
Debra Travis
Dave Weiner
Aanda Architects*
ABCirque*
Arts and Letters 305 United
Bank Street College
Barrow Street Nursery SchoolBEAM Center*
Brooklyn Children’s Museum*
Brooklyn Compass
Brooklyn Heights Montessori
Brooklyn Public Library*
The Browning School
The Chapin School
City and Country School
City Parks Foundation
Community Roots Charter School
Crazy Monkey Academy
Fort Independence Park
German School Brooklyn
Gotham Park
The Harbor School*
The Hewitt School
Koko NYC
Kiimada Le Gendre
Manhattan Classical Conversations Homeschool Co-op
Mary McDowell Friends School
Material for the Arts*
NYC Dept of Parks and Recreation
NYC Department of Sanitation
NYC Parks & Open Space Partners
NYC Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP)
NYU Department of OccupationalTherapy
Open Source
Paché Montessori School
PaintCare*
Pass the Salt Productions*
Playhouse Preschool
PJS Electric, Inc.*
Priority Bikes
PS 3 Charrette School
PS 64 Robert Simon
PS 150
PS 151 Yorkville Community School
PS 170 Ralph A. Fabrizio
PS 230 The Doris L. Cohen School
PS 276 Louis Marshall
PS 321 William Penn
Queens Museum
RED*
Rudolph Steiner School
Sanitation Foundation
Sawkill Lumber*
The TEAK Fellowship
The Trust for Governors Island
Van Kessel Homeschool Group
Williamsburg Montessori School
Yorkville Community School
*Special thanks to our materials donors who generously supplied The Yard with items that we couldn't salvage from the streets of NYC.
Foundations & Grants
play:groundNYC’s programming is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and the Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust
We are grateful for past supporters including
Foundations: The Awesome Foundation, Burning Man Foundation, The Conestoga Road Foundation, Khedouri Family Foundation, Renaissance Charitable Foundation, The Seth Sprague Educational & Charitable Foundation, and Laura B. Vogler Foundation, The LEGO Foundation and the Robertson Foundation
Materials and Site Support: Arif Family, Big Reuse, DowBuilt, EarthMatter, Goldman Sachs, The Muse Brooklyn, and Tarzian Hardware
Legal Advice: Matthew Clark, Jeremy Coffey, and Proskauer
Photography and Film: Sergio Arif, Tova Friedman, Maggie Fuller, Philipp Klaus, Marj Kleinmann, and Lucius Von Joo
Accessibility and Engagement: Rebecca Kostyuchenko, and Children’s Environmental Research Group
Web/Tech and Design support: Varidirect, Slack, and Dreamhost