Education & Access

Are you passionate about introducing new ideas to make your community an even better place for children to grow up? Here are some educational programmes for primary and secondary schools and some after school activities for kids. Give children the best opportunities to thrive and start or join these ideas!

  • KABOOM!

    Turn everyday places into playspaces through Play Everywhere.

  • Peace First

    Equip young people with the skills and commitment to solve problems with courage, compassion and collaboration

  • Generation Citizen

    Teach teens how to work with local leaders and take effective political action to fix local problems.

  • Playworks

    Leverage evidence-based play strategies to transform the culture of your recess, classroom, or youth program!

  • Welcome In

    Welcome immigrants to your community through conversational English classes

  • Trade School

    Create an alternative learning community to share skills and talents in your community.

  • Grow Remote

    We're on a mission to make remote employment visible and available in local communities, regardless of location

  • Sow it Forward

    Start a vertical school garden in your classroom to give kids access to fresh produce and to learn about growing food.

  • Recycle Across America

    Start recycling right with standardized recycling labels for your school that will help you to improve recycling and save your school money.

  • Walking School Bus

    Organize a Walking School Bus in your local area for a healthier, more fun way for kids to get to and from school.

  • Building School Gardens

    Use school grounds to develop a sense of place and connection to the environment for urban dwellers.

  • Girls Who Code

    Start a Girls Who Code Club in your community to inspire girls aged 6-18 to explore computer science through free curriculum, supportive sisterhood, and hands-on coding activities that build confidence and skills.

  • Hour of Code

    Join a global movement introducing students to computer science through fun, one-hour coding activities that require no prior experience and work on any device.

  • FIRST LEGO League - Discover

    Lead a hands-on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) programme in your school or community for 4-6 year olds.

  • FIRST® LEGO League - Explore

    Lead a hands-on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) programme in your school or community for 6–10 year olds

  • FIRST LEGO League - Challenge

    Lead a hands-on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) programme in your school or community for 9-14 year olds

  • Urban Thinkscape

    Transform a public space in your community into a joyful learning opportunity.

  • Playground Ideas

    Create stimulating play spaces using local materials, tools, and labour with free access to over 150 designs, building instructions, and comprehensive handbooks supporting playground construction worldwide

  • Nüdel Kart

    Make creativity, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths) and well being top priorities by transforming any space into a creative, loose parts, play space for 3-12 year olds.

  • Fraction Ball

    Fraction Ball repaints the lines on a standard basketball court to help children learn fractions and decimals.

  • Playing with Trust

    Playing With Trust is a very unique board game/digital game that encourages the playful use of public spaces

  • Play Day

    A playful event in communities that celebrates the skills, resources and personalities inherent to the people that live and play there.

  • Tales Toolkit

    Interactive, child-led storytelling toolkit for schools transforming everyday situations into imaginative worlds.

  • Pop-Up Play Spaces NYC

    Pop-up play spaces provide the joy of unstructured play to the children of NYC.

  • Initiatives for Sharing

    With Initiatives for Sharing, children and teenagers learn project management tools to launch their own community development initiatives, ultimately empowering them as agents of change.

  • Eartheasy School Garden

    From launching your garden committee to hosting a school-wide ‘dig day’, learn how to start a school garden for education, eating, and fun.

  • Earth Cubs Plogging Clubs

    Bring climate, sustainability and environmental education into your local schools, and enhance community impact with your own Plogging Club!

  • Rigamajig

    Rigamajig is a comprehensive system for creative learning designed to foster creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving through hands-on STEAM projects. It engages girls and boys equally, helping address the STEM gender gap. Designed by Cas Holman and featured on Netflix.

  • Lunch Out of Landfills

    Through waste sorts, Sharetables, and education around composting and waste management, students make their school a centre of changing norms around food waste and food redistribution with the guidance of a Staff Champion who receives a stipend and support every step of the way.

  • Neighborhood Forest

    Growing the Indoor Forest – Building, Sharing, and Caring for Indoor Plants

  • Garden Club

    Create a garden space for children to learn, play, and grow nutritious food

  • Make Stuff Move

    This is a fully funded Mobile Maker Space classroom kit as well as an additional $250 for you.

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