Good Samaritan Hospital, Baltimore Ravens and KaBOOM! Host Design Day for New Playground
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March 29, 2010 11:02 am
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WHAT:
CB Domonique Foxworth from the Baltimore Ravens, Good Samaritan Hospital and organizers from KaBOOM! will host a design day for children at the hospital’s Child Development Center at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 8. Children from the Center will put crayon to paper and draw their dream playgrounds, which will ultimately become a reality. Elements from the children’s drawings will be incorporated into the final design for the new community playground to be built by Ravens…WHAT:
CB Domonique Foxworth from the Baltimore Ravens, Good Samaritan Hospital and organizers from KaBOOM! will host a design day for children at the hospital’s Child Development Center at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 8. Children from the Center will put crayon to paper and draw their dream playgrounds, which will ultimately become a reality. Elements from the children’s drawings will be incorporated into the final design for the new community playground to be built by Ravens players/staff and community volunteers in early June at the Center. The design day will also be the first meeting of the playground planning committee that will work for the next eight weeks to prepare for the construction of the new playground.
WHERE:
Good Samaritan Hospital Child Development Center
5601 Loch Raven Blvd.
Baltimore, MD 21239
WHEN:
Wednesday, April 8, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m.
VISUALS:
Children drawing their dream playgrounds
CB Domonique Foxworth
Ravens Mascot Poe
Ravens Cheerleaders
Before shots of the site
Volunteers from the Ravens and the Good Samaritan Hospital participating in planning meeting
Ravens All Community Team Foundation
The Baltimore Ravens All Community Team Foundation is committed to improving, encouraging and enabling the healthy development of youth in the Baltimore area, as well as other parts of the sate of Maryland. The foundation focuses on programs that help youth, and in some cases their families, with various needs, including housing, hunger, education, athletics and mentoring. Visit www.baltimoreravens.com/community for more information.
KaBOOM!
KaBOOM! is a national non-profit organization that envisions a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America. Since 1995, KaBOOM! has used its innovative community-build model to bring together business and community interests to construct more than 1,500 new playgrounds, skateparks, sports fields and ice rinks across North America. KaBOOM! also offers a variety of resources, including an online community, free online trainings, grants, publications and the KaBOOM! National Campaign for Play, which includes Playful City USA and the Playmaker Network – a national network of individual advocates for play. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., KaBOOM! also has offices in Chicago and San Mateo, Calif. For more information, visit www.kaboom.org.
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