Alexandra’s Playground built their 14th playground this past weekend. At 9am, volunteers from Alexandra’s Playground and the community of Freeport assembled to build a playground for kids ages 2 to 5 at the Freeport Recreation Center. Thank you to our volunteers who came out to help us build. And a big thank you to all of our amazing donors who made the build possible. The playground will serve the Freeport’s 40,000 residents,...

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...

Playground Build with the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Once again we sponsored the annual AAOS playground build. Every year since 2000, the AAOS has sponsored a volunteer build to kick-off its Annual Meeting, leaving behind a legacy of safe, accessible playgrounds to the host city so that children with and without disabilities can play safely together. On March 11, the first day of the AAOS 2014 Annual Meeting,...

On Saturday November 3  more than 100 volunteers from Alexandra’s Playground and the Spring Creek Towers Community and staff from KaBOOM!  came together to build a shiny new purple, green and yellow playground!  This playground will serve thousands of children and their families at  Spring Creek Towers, the 2nd largest federally funded housing development in the US, located in East New York, Brooklyn, NY. It was a great day of team work,...

Alexandra’s Playground hosted its first evening fundraiser October 16th at Alfredo of Rome in Manhattan. Thank you to all of our amazing supporters for helping to make this evening a success.  We raised $40,000 to help build a new playground for Jesse Allen Park in Newark, NJ. The evening culminated in an exciting live auction with attendees bidding on Justin Beiber tickets, a weekend at the Montauk Yacht Club, Golf Clubs signed by Tiger...