ISKME conducted an independent study of KaBOOM! on the community impact of building play spaces. The project looked at how community-build processes and sites are impacting children and their parents, the community organizations and funding organizations involved (community partnerships and corporate citizenship), and the larger communities within which the play spaces were situated.
Data collection consisted of pre-visit interviews, a two-day site visit to each of the ten selected sites and meetings with commuity and corporate partners, members of the planning committee, volunteers and team leaders for the community build day, as well as current parent, child, and teacher users. This also included a survey of playground impact on children, a partnership survey, observations and photo documentation of the playground itself, and a "windshield" survey of each community (which consisted of a 45-minute drive with one or more community members through the local neighborhood that the playground served).
