Re: grants for accessible playground equipment

[Guest guest]

Mc’s Corporation used to offer

grants to schools for gym equipment. It’s worth a try.

Sue

grants for

accessible playground equipment

My children's school is planning to

apply for grants for arts and

sports. I am going to be working on the

grants, and I would like to see

the school apply for grants to put in accessible

playground equipment

for that children of ALL abilities could

use. I want equipment that

would be fun and challenging for kids in

wheelchairs, for kids with

issues that cause milder incoordination or

weakness, and still be

challenging/fun for kids with great physical

abilities. The idea here

is equipment that encourages play between children

of various ability

levels, creating bonds and fostering social skills

all of the kids will

need as adults. We have one park like that

in town - now we just need

to incorporate some of the same ideas into the

school yards, so kids

have those opportunities each day at school.

The thing I need to do right

now is find out what grants are

available that might help with this, so we can

pursue them. If you know

of anything, please let me know.

Thanks!

Lynne

nprw@...

Please

contact mito-owner with any problems or questions.

[Guest guest]

Mc’s Corporation used to offer

grants to schools for gym equipment. It’s worth a try.

Sue

grants for

accessible playground equipment

My children's school is planning to

apply for grants for arts and

sports. I am going to be working on the

grants, and I would like to see

the school apply for grants to put in accessible

playground equipment

for that children of ALL abilities could

use. I want equipment that

would be fun and challenging for kids in

wheelchairs, for kids with

issues that cause milder incoordination or

weakness, and still be

challenging/fun for kids with great physical

abilities. The idea here

is equipment that encourages play between children

of various ability

levels, creating bonds and fostering social skills

all of the kids will

need as adults. We have one park like that

in town - now we just need

to incorporate some of the same ideas into the

school yards, so kids

have those opportunities each day at school.

The thing I need to do right

now is find out what grants are

available that might help with this, so we can

pursue them. If you know

of anything, please let me know.

Thanks!

Lynne

nprw@...

Please

contact mito-owner with any problems or questions.

[Guest guest]

Hi Lynne:

Glad to hear that you are going to do this. We just got done after three

years of planning and one and a half years of fundraising of dedicating our

95% accessbile playground. The biggie besides the equipment is the

surfacing. We used a company called Child Safe Products Inc. Cottone

is the guy to contact. His number is and their fax is (608)

935-2859. Give him my name as to how you got his name. He did over 14,000

square feet of surfacing for us. Very reasonable price and extremely

knowledable in his field. Can't say enough about him and the company he works

for. As for grants not quite sure yet. But we got some money through the

Reeve Foundation. We got our dollar donations from companies in

the community and also we have a Community Foundation here in Appleton that

they have several grants for the community to apply for. Do you have any

thing like that in your area? A friend and I who were on the steering

committee for our playground do some consulting on playgrounds. Helping with

ideas for fundraising ideas, and especially the equipment. We researched I

don't know how many catalogs on equipment and the surfacing. I know this is

for a school; but I LOVE the fact that you are doing this. That is my next

goal now; to start having schools have equipment and surfacing for kids to

actually play on the playground and not just sit in the wheelchair. There are

many neat play panels to do things on and swings. How large is your community

and school? Good luck and way to go for doing this. Do you have an Easter

Seals in your area that could help with this?

Nerenhausen

mom to Leah

Lynne wrote:

> My children's school is planning to apply for grants for arts and

> sports. I am going to be working on the grants, and I would like to see

> the school apply for grants to put in accessible playground equipment

> for that children of ALL abilities could use. I want equipment that

> would be fun and challenging for kids in wheelchairs, for kids with

> issues that cause milder incoordination or weakness, and still be

> challenging/fun for kids with great physical abilities. The idea here

> is equipment that encourages play between children of various ability

> levels, creating bonds and fostering social skills all of the kids will

> need as adults. We have one park like that in town - now we just need

> to incorporate some of the same ideas into the school yards, so kids

> have those opportunities each day at school.

> The thing I need to do right now is find out what grants are

> available that might help with this, so we can pursue them. If you know

> of anything, please let me know.

> Thanks!

>

> Lynne

> nprw@...

>

>

> Please contact mito-owner with any problems or questions.

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Lynne:

Glad to hear that you are going to do this. We just got done after three

years of planning and one and a half years of fundraising of dedicating our

95% accessbile playground. The biggie besides the equipment is the

surfacing. We used a company called Child Safe Products Inc. Cottone

is the guy to contact. His number is and their fax is (608)

935-2859. Give him my name as to how you got his name. He did over 14,000

square feet of surfacing for us. Very reasonable price and extremely

knowledable in his field. Can't say enough about him and the company he works

for. As for grants not quite sure yet. But we got some money through the

Reeve Foundation. We got our dollar donations from companies in

the community and also we have a Community Foundation here in Appleton that

they have several grants for the community to apply for. Do you have any

thing like that in your area? A friend and I who were on the steering

committee for our playground do some consulting on playgrounds. Helping with

ideas for fundraising ideas, and especially the equipment. We researched I

don't know how many catalogs on equipment and the surfacing. I know this is

for a school; but I LOVE the fact that you are doing this. That is my next

goal now; to start having schools have equipment and surfacing for kids to

actually play on the playground and not just sit in the wheelchair. There are

many neat play panels to do things on and swings. How large is your community

and school? Good luck and way to go for doing this. Do you have an Easter

Seals in your area that could help with this?

Nerenhausen

mom to Leah

Lynne wrote:

> My children's school is planning to apply for grants for arts and

> sports. I am going to be working on the grants, and I would like to see

> the school apply for grants to put in accessible playground equipment

> for that children of ALL abilities could use. I want equipment that

> would be fun and challenging for kids in wheelchairs, for kids with

> issues that cause milder incoordination or weakness, and still be

> challenging/fun for kids with great physical abilities. The idea here

> is equipment that encourages play between children of various ability

> levels, creating bonds and fostering social skills all of the kids will

> need as adults. We have one park like that in town - now we just need

> to incorporate some of the same ideas into the school yards, so kids

> have those opportunities each day at school.

> The thing I need to do right now is find out what grants are

> available that might help with this, so we can pursue them. If you know

> of anything, please let me know.

> Thanks!

>

> Lynne

> nprw@...

>

>

> Please contact mito-owner with any problems or questions.

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Lynne:

Glad to hear that you are going to do this. We just got done after three

years of planning and one and a half years of fundraising of dedicating our

95% accessbile playground. The biggie besides the equipment is the

surfacing. We used a company called Child Safe Products Inc. Cottone

is the guy to contact. His number is and their fax is (608)

935-2859. Give him my name as to how you got his name. He did over 14,000

square feet of surfacing for us. Very reasonable price and extremely

knowledable in his field. Can't say enough about him and the company he works

for. As for grants not quite sure yet. But we got some money through the

Reeve Foundation. We got our dollar donations from companies in

the community and also we have a Community Foundation here in Appleton that

they have several grants for the community to apply for. Do you have any

thing like that in your area? A friend and I who were on the steering

committee for our playground do some consulting on playgrounds. Helping with

ideas for fundraising ideas, and especially the equipment. We researched I

don't know how many catalogs on equipment and the surfacing. I know this is

for a school; but I LOVE the fact that you are doing this. That is my next

goal now; to start having schools have equipment and surfacing for kids to

actually play on the playground and not just sit in the wheelchair. There are

many neat play panels to do things on and swings. How large is your community

and school? Good luck and way to go for doing this. Do you have an Easter

Seals in your area that could help with this?

Nerenhausen

mom to Leah

Lynne wrote:

> My children's school is planning to apply for grants for arts and

> sports. I am going to be working on the grants, and I would like to see

> the school apply for grants to put in accessible playground equipment

> for that children of ALL abilities could use. I want equipment that

> would be fun and challenging for kids in wheelchairs, for kids with

> issues that cause milder incoordination or weakness, and still be

> challenging/fun for kids with great physical abilities. The idea here

> is equipment that encourages play between children of various ability

> levels, creating bonds and fostering social skills all of the kids will

> need as adults. We have one park like that in town - now we just need

> to incorporate some of the same ideas into the school yards, so kids

> have those opportunities each day at school.

> The thing I need to do right now is find out what grants are

> available that might help with this, so we can pursue them. If you know

> of anything, please let me know.

> Thanks!

>

> Lynne

> nprw@...

>

>

> Please contact mito-owner with any problems or questions.

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks for your response!! I'm glad to hear someone else has done

something similar! :-)

Right now I'm looking at the Reeve Paralysis Foundation,

and also the Mc House Charities. I haven't looked at

Easter Seals yet but I plan to, and of course there are a lot of

corporations here that we could talk to. I'm feeling like the grant

part is going to be do-able.

Now I just have to decide exactly what to ask for! :-)

One thing I learned yesterday - my children's school is supposed to

be torn down and replaced, and they will be attending a different

school for a couple of years.

I was thinking at first that maybe we should focus on training for

integrating kids of all abilities into the PE/sports program. But

after seeing how long it took to get your playground in place - I

think maybe we need to do BOTH at the same time - so the new

playground can be in place along with the new buildings.

Thanks so much for sharing your experience. I need to dash off and

get the kids ready for school right now but I will look over your

post some more later today and get some new directions to look in,

including the person you mentioned as a contact. I hope we can stay

in touch, I would love to be able to get talk to someone here and

there who has been-there-done-that!

Lynne

[Guest guest]

Thanks for your response!! I'm glad to hear someone else has done

something similar! :-)

Right now I'm looking at the Reeve Paralysis Foundation,

and also the Mc House Charities. I haven't looked at

Easter Seals yet but I plan to, and of course there are a lot of

corporations here that we could talk to. I'm feeling like the grant

part is going to be do-able.

Now I just have to decide exactly what to ask for! :-)

One thing I learned yesterday - my children's school is supposed to

be torn down and replaced, and they will be attending a different

school for a couple of years.

I was thinking at first that maybe we should focus on training for

integrating kids of all abilities into the PE/sports program. But

after seeing how long it took to get your playground in place - I

think maybe we need to do BOTH at the same time - so the new

playground can be in place along with the new buildings.

Thanks so much for sharing your experience. I need to dash off and

get the kids ready for school right now but I will look over your

post some more later today and get some new directions to look in,

including the person you mentioned as a contact. I hope we can stay

in touch, I would love to be able to get talk to someone here and

there who has been-there-done-that!

Lynne

[Guest guest]

Thanks for your response!! I'm glad to hear someone else has done

something similar! :-)

Right now I'm looking at the Reeve Paralysis Foundation,

and also the Mc House Charities. I haven't looked at

Easter Seals yet but I plan to, and of course there are a lot of

corporations here that we could talk to. I'm feeling like the grant

part is going to be do-able.

Now I just have to decide exactly what to ask for! :-)

One thing I learned yesterday - my children's school is supposed to

be torn down and replaced, and they will be attending a different

school for a couple of years.

I was thinking at first that maybe we should focus on training for

integrating kids of all abilities into the PE/sports program. But

after seeing how long it took to get your playground in place - I

think maybe we need to do BOTH at the same time - so the new

playground can be in place along with the new buildings.

Thanks so much for sharing your experience. I need to dash off and

get the kids ready for school right now but I will look over your

post some more later today and get some new directions to look in,

including the person you mentioned as a contact. I hope we can stay

in touch, I would love to be able to get talk to someone here and

there who has been-there-done-that!

Lynne

[Guest guest]

Lynne:

I looked through my notes and remembered that I believe the Mcdonald

Corp. (at least in Wisconsin) doesn't do grants for playgrounds. I remember

asking the director of a Mc House in Madison when I was there.

She said that they don't do that sort of stuff any more. I believe their

grants go to something else. But hey it's worth a shot. Now the reason it

took so long for our playground is because of the size of the playground. I

don't think you are going to have a 14,000 square foot playground for a school

playground. If you do, wow, double wow. Our playground cost about $300,000.

May be a little more because of an error from a playground company we were

dealing with. Any way ours is a large playground, but the best part is I was

at the playground on Sunday and some one who didn't even know I was on the

committee said wow, what a neat playground. I said thank you and then

explained why I said thank you. She was so impressed with the playground and

was hoping that " able " bodied kids didn't take it over if any disabled kids

were needing the playground. I said that parents are pretty aware of kids on

the playground and would make sure that " everybody " got to play fairly on the

playground. I believe our website is Universalplayground.org. I will double

check and you can look up some information on that. I know my friend and I

would love to share our experience with you. Where do you live? Good luck

and keep me posted.

Nerenhausen

mom to Leah

bluesky55us wrote:

> Thanks for your response!! I'm glad to hear someone else has done

> something similar! :-)

>

> Right now I'm looking at the Reeve Paralysis Foundation,

> and also the Mc House Charities. I haven't looked at

> Easter Seals yet but I plan to, and of course there are a lot of

> corporations here that we could talk to. I'm feeling like the grant

> part is going to be do-able.

>

> Now I just have to decide exactly what to ask for! :-)

>

> One thing I learned yesterday - my children's school is supposed to

> be torn down and replaced, and they will be attending a different

> school for a couple of years.

>

> I was thinking at first that maybe we should focus on training for

> integrating kids of all abilities into the PE/sports program. But

> after seeing how long it took to get your playground in place - I

> think maybe we need to do BOTH at the same time - so the new

> playground can be in place along with the new buildings.

>

> Thanks so much for sharing your experience. I need to dash off and

> get the kids ready for school right now but I will look over your

> post some more later today and get some new directions to look in,

> including the person you mentioned as a contact. I hope we can stay

> in touch, I would love to be able to get talk to someone here and

> there who has been-there-done-that!

>

> Lynne

>

>

> Please contact mito-owner with any problems or questions.

>

[Guest guest]

Lynne:

I looked through my notes and remembered that I believe the Mcdonald

Corp. (at least in Wisconsin) doesn't do grants for playgrounds. I remember

asking the director of a Mc House in Madison when I was there.

She said that they don't do that sort of stuff any more. I believe their

grants go to something else. But hey it's worth a shot. Now the reason it

took so long for our playground is because of the size of the playground. I

don't think you are going to have a 14,000 square foot playground for a school

playground. If you do, wow, double wow. Our playground cost about $300,000.

May be a little more because of an error from a playground company we were

dealing with. Any way ours is a large playground, but the best part is I was

at the playground on Sunday and some one who didn't even know I was on the

committee said wow, what a neat playground. I said thank you and then

explained why I said thank you. She was so impressed with the playground and

was hoping that " able " bodied kids didn't take it over if any disabled kids

were needing the playground. I said that parents are pretty aware of kids on

the playground and would make sure that " everybody " got to play fairly on the

playground. I believe our website is Universalplayground.org. I will double

check and you can look up some information on that. I know my friend and I

would love to share our experience with you. Where do you live? Good luck

and keep me posted.

Nerenhausen

mom to Leah

bluesky55us wrote:

> Thanks for your response!! I'm glad to hear someone else has done

> something similar! :-)

>

> Right now I'm looking at the Reeve Paralysis Foundation,

> and also the Mc House Charities. I haven't looked at

> Easter Seals yet but I plan to, and of course there are a lot of

> corporations here that we could talk to. I'm feeling like the grant

> part is going to be do-able.

>

> Now I just have to decide exactly what to ask for! :-)

>

> One thing I learned yesterday - my children's school is supposed to

> be torn down and replaced, and they will be attending a different

> school for a couple of years.

>

> I was thinking at first that maybe we should focus on training for

> integrating kids of all abilities into the PE/sports program. But

> after seeing how long it took to get your playground in place - I

> think maybe we need to do BOTH at the same time - so the new

> playground can be in place along with the new buildings.

>

> Thanks so much for sharing your experience. I need to dash off and

> get the kids ready for school right now but I will look over your

> post some more later today and get some new directions to look in,

> including the person you mentioned as a contact. I hope we can stay

> in touch, I would love to be able to get talk to someone here and

> there who has been-there-done-that!

>

> Lynne

>

>

> Please contact mito-owner with any problems or questions.

>

[Guest guest]

Lynne:

I looked through my notes and remembered that I believe the Mcdonald

Corp. (at least in Wisconsin) doesn't do grants for playgrounds. I remember

asking the director of a Mc House in Madison when I was there.

She said that they don't do that sort of stuff any more. I believe their

grants go to something else. But hey it's worth a shot. Now the reason it

took so long for our playground is because of the size of the playground. I

don't think you are going to have a 14,000 square foot playground for a school

playground. If you do, wow, double wow. Our playground cost about $300,000.

May be a little more because of an error from a playground company we were

dealing with. Any way ours is a large playground, but the best part is I was

at the playground on Sunday and some one who didn't even know I was on the

committee said wow, what a neat playground. I said thank you and then

explained why I said thank you. She was so impressed with the playground and

was hoping that " able " bodied kids didn't take it over if any disabled kids

were needing the playground. I said that parents are pretty aware of kids on

the playground and would make sure that " everybody " got to play fairly on the

playground. I believe our website is Universalplayground.org. I will double

check and you can look up some information on that. I know my friend and I

would love to share our experience with you. Where do you live? Good luck

and keep me posted.

Nerenhausen

mom to Leah

bluesky55us wrote:

> Thanks for your response!! I'm glad to hear someone else has done

> something similar! :-)

>

> Right now I'm looking at the Reeve Paralysis Foundation,

> and also the Mc House Charities. I haven't looked at

> Easter Seals yet but I plan to, and of course there are a lot of

> corporations here that we could talk to. I'm feeling like the grant

> part is going to be do-able.

>

> Now I just have to decide exactly what to ask for! :-)

>

> One thing I learned yesterday - my children's school is supposed to

> be torn down and replaced, and they will be attending a different

> school for a couple of years.

>

> I was thinking at first that maybe we should focus on training for

> integrating kids of all abilities into the PE/sports program. But

> after seeing how long it took to get your playground in place - I

> think maybe we need to do BOTH at the same time - so the new

> playground can be in place along with the new buildings.

>

> Thanks so much for sharing your experience. I need to dash off and

> get the kids ready for school right now but I will look over your

> post some more later today and get some new directions to look in,

> including the person you mentioned as a contact. I hope we can stay

> in touch, I would love to be able to get talk to someone here and

> there who has been-there-done-that!

>

> Lynne

>

>

> Please contact mito-owner with any problems or questions.

>

[Guest guest]

> I looked through my notes and remembered that I believe the

Mcdonald

> Corp. (at least in Wisconsin) doesn't do grants for playgrounds. I

remember

> asking the director of a Mc House in Madison when I

was there.

> She said that they don't do that sort of stuff any more.

I think that is true. I was thinking of asking for them for a grant

that would provide training on integrating all ability levels for PE

and sports, at the elementary level. They only do small grants -

like $1,000-5,000 - but I figured that would be plenty for training

like that. That sort of training also seemed to fit in with awards

they made in Utah last year.

Now I'm trying to figure out where we would get someone to do that

sort of training, but I'm not finding anything so far.

> Now the reason it

> took so long for our playground is because of the size of the

playground. I

> don't think you are going to have a 14,000 square foot playground

for a school

> playground.

That is good to know! I'm still guessing it will take the full 2

years to get the playground funded and built though, since it will be

going through the school district. I need to see what they have

already planned, for starters, and see what will need to be changed

(wouldn't it be awesome if they have already planned for this - but I

doubt it, judging from all the latest school playgrounds I've seen).

> I believe our website is Universalplayground.org.

Thanks, I will look that up later today.

> I know my friend and I

> would love to share our experience with you. Where do you live?

Good luck

> and keep me posted.

I would love that! I live in Salt Lake City.

Lynne