A bright yellow square with dark purple details against a pink and yellow gradient background. The square has a purple banner at the top with Daylight’s logo and website, wedaylight.org – in yellow in the upper left and right corners respectively. The title, “Project Highlight” is in dark purple letters, underneath which is a photo of KABOOM! staff discussing what values should drive the organization at a round table while writing on colorful sticky notes. The photo is decorated with gold star stickers and a pink and yellow gradient sticker with the KABOOM! logo on it. Below the entire square is purple text that says “Want to learn more?” with two eyes looking to the right and a scribbly arrow pointing to the right.
A bright yellow square with dark purple details against a pink and yellow gradient background. The square has a purple banner at the top with Daylight’s logo and website, wedaylight.org – in yellow in the upper left and right corners respectively. The title, “In 2020,” is in dark purple letters, underneath which is dark purple body text that says “Daylight partnered with KABOOM! to evolve their mission, values, program delivery, and community engagement process. Ultimately, this laid the groundwork for a $14 million grant from MacKenzie Scott in 2022 to catalyze an exponential impact on playspace inequity. Together, we:” followed by three bullet points in yellow and pink gradient boxes with dotted outlines. The bullet points say “Developed new organizational values that align with equity goals,” “Overhauled community engagement process and tools that center kids and their communities in shaping the playspace design and implementation,” and “Equipped the Kaboom! team with a “colorful paper” detailing the root causes of racial disparities in playspace access.”
🌟 We had the honor of working with KABOOM! in 2020 to redesign community engagement strategy in their work to #endplayspaceinequity for good. Learn more below!
💌 If you’re interested in how you can partner with us in developing your work for systemic change, contact us at contact@wedaylight.org!