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June 2010

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The Forbes Impact 30
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Hard Times for Recess
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How will you serve?

Jill Vialet
June 28, 2010

This week the National Conference on Volunteerism and Service is being hosted in NYC by the Points of Light Foundation and the Corporation for National and Community Service.  Service is an important part of Playworks’ direct service program – next year 160 of our 270 schools will be staffed by AmeriCorps members (we’re accepting applications for coaches

24 Hour Fitness and Playworks Fit Together

Jill Vialet
June 14, 2010

These next couple of weeks will mark the end of the 2009-10 school year. And while most of us will remember summer as a time of long days filled with outdoor play, a 2007 study found that nowadays kids were more likely to be sedentary during summer vacation than during the school year.

But this summer, 24 Hour Fitness is partnering with Playworks to make a difference.

The Perils of Nostalgia

Jill Vialet
June 3, 2010

A friend of mine made the observation the other day that almost all the criticisms of our approach begin with some version of “When I was young…” I think she’s right.  People fondly remember play and recess  – the halcyon days of youth, unencumbered by pressures and constraints of adulthood.   I’m not knocking nostalgia wholesale, but our memories don’t tend to be all that accurate, reflecting specific incidents more often than the general state of things, as columnist Steve Duin so ably points out in his column on recess and Play