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October 26, 2011
Make a Difference Day Service Project ›
Our AmeriCorps members continued to serve their community and make an impact by partnering with The Native Garden organization at Lake Cunningham Park in San Jose. We broke into teams…
October 26, 2011
Bringing Playworks to the Streets ›
It is often said that a Playworks Coach's real office is the playground. On Sunday, September 11th, twelve coaches created a new, temporary office right in the middle of Western…
October 26, 2011
Rock Band for Charity ›
It goes without saying that taking a group of people – people whose office is a school playground – to a bar event will result in an absolutely incredible time.…
October 26, 2011
Oracle Open World Conference ›
In our modern, tech-saturated lives, many old-fashioned pleasures get overlooked. One is the simple pleasure of receiving a hand-written letter with your name on it. Another is the feeling of…
October 12, 2011
PG&E and Playworks Team up to Celebrate National Service Day ›
More than 80 PG&E employees and their families will roll-up their sleeves to clean-up and paint two East Bay elementary school Playgrounds on Saturday October 22 in honor of the…
October 12, 2011
Local business women team with Playworks ›
Heidi Marchesotti, Highland Partners Real Estate and Ruth Stroup Insurance Agency are sponsoring a play ground clean-up and paint at Hillcrest school with the proceeds going to support Playworks coaches…
October 10, 2011
Day of Service at Full Circle Farms ›
Our lovely AmeriCorps team spent a day out on the farm at Full Circle Farms, in Sunnyvale, CA. They put their backs into it and harvested (and sampled along the…
August 26, 2011
Rock Band for Charity ›
Playworks San Francisco Rock Band for Charity event will be held Thursday, October 6, 8:30 pm -12:30 am at Red Devil Lounge in San Francisco. Put on your dancing shoes…
August 22, 2011
Coaches Go Back to School ›
If you walked into a room full of adults playing games from their days on the playground, would it even occur to you that serious training was in progress? When…