This fall the more than 900 students at Napier Academy and School 28 will share an expansive new playground. The students in this low-income urban environment are excited to have a safe place to climb, spin, and slide. Definitely lots of sliding with 3 new slides on their way! On October 14th, with the help of volunteers, we will transform their asphalt lot into a place to build new memories. Their new Kompan playground is designed for ages...

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Hundreds of NYC kids are enjoying the Gift of Play this summer through our continued support of NYC Parks “Kids in Motion” program at Mullaly Park (adjacent to Yankee Stadium, Bronx). The same wonderful Kids In Motion Playground Associate is back this summer, 5 days a week, to lead the kids in active play including organized sports, fitness, jumbo games, and more. The blue Imagination Playground blocks that we donated are a huge hit...

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The community was brimming with energy on Saturday, June 3, 2017, as more than 125 volunteers joined together to build a new Alexandra’s Playground for School 26. This new playground will support the more than 570 K-8 students in the school, and provide a much needed safe play space for this densely populated community. The efforts of so many people went into making this playground a reality, from the early planning to the day of the...

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We are thrilled to share the design for our next playground, to be built at PS 26 in Paterson, NJ. On June 3rd with the help of many volunteers, we will transform their asphalt lot into this beautiful Kompan playground where the kids can climb, spin, slide, and explore. At this K-8 school of 570 students, where they all receive free or reduced lunch, the students and faculty can’t wait to have a playground outside their doors. And the...

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Congratulations to our amazing Team Alex runners for completing the 2017 United Airlines NYC Half Marathon. They joined nearly 20,000 other runners to take on the surprisingly sunny streets of NYC. If you were out there on March 19th cheering on the crowd, we hope you gave an extra shout out to some of our 23 team members decked out in their purple and white Team Alex running shirts. After running through Central Park, the West Side Highway,...

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Earlier in the year we finished building this new playground at an orphanage in Beaudet Saint Croix, Haiti. The children at the orphanage love having a place to swing, slide and climb, and so do the kids in the surrounding community.  So now it’s time to plan our 5th playground in Haiti, this time in Port-au-Prince. Stay tuned…. [Show slideshow] Save Save Save Save Save...

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