Re: grants for accessible playground equipment.

[Guest guest]

Thanks!!! These are great!

A couple of other people had recommended Boundless Playgrounds and

now that I've gone and looked - wow. I can definitely see this

happening.

The grants page is great too. How exciting, that there is so much

going on for projects like this!

Lynne

> http://www.boundlessplaygrounds.org/ They are a non profit

organization....

>

> http://www.rctc.com/sultrrcd/grant.html Please definitely check

this out!!!! Looks extremely promising and talks about the

Mc House, Hasbro, Dole Foods, etc.....

[Guest guest]

Hi Lynne:

The reason we didn't go with a company like Boundless Playgrounds was because

they take a portion of the money you raise. We felt we could do our research

on play equipment and we also have a community build day. None of our

playground is made out of wood. It is all metal and plastic. We had over 200

volunteers over a three day weekend to help put together the playground with

the owners of the playgroud company supervising the installation. I would

think living in Salt Lake City that you could get a portion of your money

donated and get the kids from the school where it will be built involved. I

don't know if Boundless playgrounds uses a specific company for playground

equipment; but we found that we liked things from several different

companies. The reason we didn't use wood was because the City of Appleton

Park and Recs department didn't want to maintain wooden structures. And we

have a few visually impaired kids with their parents come to our community

input day and requested we don't use wood because of splinters. So it's just

thought for you. We did request a tape of information from Boundless

Playgrounds and they have neat ideas. Request a tape and look it over. One

thing you should do is check with the school as to how much money they are

putting toward a playground and then see how much it would cost to make it

accessible. As I've said you can get all the equipment in the world, swings,

play panels, ramp system, but if they DON " T use poured in place surfacing, the

kids can't get to the equipment because of the wood chips, and your surfacing

will cost almost as much as your equipment. But it is so worth it. Leah

loves to go to the Universal Playground. Unfortunately the one place she

wants to be isn't accessible and I need to carry her up steps so she can look

out of this plastic window dormer to look down on the kids below. Wonder how

many more years I can carry her up. Good luck and I can see how much my

friend and I would charge just as consultants to get you going on your project

and then you don't have to worry about having a portion of your fundraising

going to another playground company and you are in control of what pieces you

want in your playground and you can order from a couple of different companies

if need be.

Nerenhausen

mom to Leah who as a child can now play on a playground

bluesky55us wrote:

> Thanks!!! These are great!

>

> A couple of other people had recommended Boundless Playgrounds and

> now that I've gone and looked - wow. I can definitely see this

> happening.

>

> The grants page is great too. How exciting, that there is so much

> going on for projects like this!

>

> Lynne

>

>

>

> > http://www.boundlessplaygrounds.org/ They are a non profit

> organization....

> >

> > http://www.rctc.com/sultrrcd/grant.html Please definitely check

> this out!!!! Looks extremely promising and talks about the

> Mc House, Hasbro, Dole Foods, etc.....

>

>

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

>