Join Team Alex in the 2016 United Airlines NYC Half!

Join Team Alex in the 2016 United Airlines NYC Half!

PLEASE DONATE TO YOUR FAVORITE TEAM ALEX RUNNERS and Give the Gift of Play! Or support our work by mailing your donation to: Alexandra’s Playground, 34 North Brook Lane, Irvington, NY 10533 Alexandra’s Playground is committed to bringing more children the opportunity for safe, active play. Every year we identify and build playgrounds for very deserving communities in the tr-state area. We also build much needed playgrounds in Haiti....

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AP Announces Upcoming Playground Build for Berkeley Township

We are building a new playground for Bayville in Berkeley Township, NJ on Saturday June 20th 2015.  We are looking for 30 adult builders and their kids to join us with volunteers from Bayville to install the playground.  If you’d like to come out and help us build, please email Tricia by May 15th tricia@alexandrasplayground.org We are busy working with Kompan US, our playground equipment provider, and Berkeley Township to complete the...

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A Playground for Palabra Viva in Las Vegas

A Playground for Palabra Viva in Las Vegas

On Tues., March 24, 2015, Alexandra’s Playground again helped to fund and participate in the annual American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons playground.  This year, the playground was built for the very deserving children and community of Palabra Viva church in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hundreds of volunteers—orthopaedic surgeons, allied health and industry partners, and families—gathered at Palabra Viva to help transform the site so that...

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Congratulations to Team Alex on completing the 2015 NYC Half Marathon

Congratulations to Team Alex on completing the 2015 NYC Half Marathon

Congratulations to our amazing 2015 Team Alex runners!  This year’s team not only achieved stellar race times, they hit a a new fundraising record. And donations continue to come in. The starter pistol went off at 7:30AM and the first of 30,000 participants took their first steps of the 13.1 mile run through Manhattan.  Thirty of those runners were sporting black and purple Team Alex running shirts. Together they had already raised more...

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Playground for Paterson, NJ

Playground for Paterson, NJ

We are pleased to announce that we will build an amazing new playground for Paterson School #27 in Paterson, NJ on October 25, 2014. We are working together with the community of Paterson, The NJ Community Development Corporation and KaBOOM! to bring this playground to life. This new playground will be the only one within a half a mile radius. It will be open to the public and reach 1200 children and their families annually. The average...

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Team Alex rocks the 2014 NYC Half Marathon

Team Alex rocks the 2014 NYC Half Marathon

Congratulations to Team Alex for completing another NYC Half Marathon! A huge thank you to our amazing runners and all of their supporters and donors. Thanks to you, we raised more than half the funds we need to build a playground for Patterson NJ this October. It was a fun, albeit cold, day! 35 runners covered 13.1 miles of Manhattan. Team Alex had a stellar performance and enjoyed a well deserved celebration at Spina Restaurant after the...

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