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Playworks is an Oakland-based national nonprofit that supports learning and physical health by providing safe and inclusive play to low-income students in urban schools. Playworks works with schools to design curriculum and activities that offer play opportunities during recess, lunch and after school programs.〔 Trained coaches work in schools to run a variety of games and sports, as well as teach techniques in group management, violence prevention and conflict resolution.〔 == History == Founder and former president Jill Vialet, who co-founded the Museum of Children’s Art (MOCHA) in Oakland, founded Sports4Kids in 1996,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ashoka.org/fellow/3155 )〕 which would change its name to Playworks in 2009. Playworks initially worked at two schools in Berkeley, California in 1996.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.playworks.org/about/our-story )〕 In 2004, Playworks was awarded its first AmeriCorps contract.〔 Since 2004, the organization has recruited recess coaches from AmeriCorps. Coaches introduce games into the playground that are inclusive to everybody while teaching teamwork, conflict mediation, leadership skills and social skills.The Playworks playbook of games includes over 250 games, including 37 variations of tag. Vialet was elected into the Ashoka fellowship in 2004 for her social entrepreneurial work with Playworks.〔 In 2007, Ashoka Changemakers honored Playworks as a winner of its “Sports for a Better World” competition.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.changemakers.com/competition/sports/entries/sports4kids-putting-play-back-school-playgrounds )〕 In 2008, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced a $18.7 million grant for Playworks for July 2008 to June 2012〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=71906#grants )〕 in order to expand to 27 cities by 2012. In 2009, Vialet and Playworks were selected as a member of the Clinton Global Initiative.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-vialet )〕 In 2011, chief strategy officer, Elizabeth Cushing, was named president and chief operating officer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.playworks.org/media/press/elizabeth-cushing-named-playworks-president )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Playworks (organization)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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