Play Marin seeks to level the playing field by providing equitable access to athletic and adventure opportunities for Marin City youth, and to further promote social change by creating opportunities for children of diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds to learn and grow together through play.

Play Marin envisions Marin as an integrated and unified community. The lessons learned through the p

Goal One: We provide year-round programming to ensure children and teenagers are positively engaged with each other in enrichment activities throughout the school year and summer.

Goal Two: Starting in 3rd grade, we recruit Marin City youth to our programs so that each participant will enter 9th grade with skills in 2+ sports, & activities typical of their financially privileged peers

Goal Three: We involve youth Marin from all socioeconomic and racial backgrounds in our sports & activities, to ensure Marin youth grow up playing and working toward common goals with a diverse peer group.

All staff have undergone the Safesport Training Certification with the United States Center for Safesport

Despite having to halt team sports due to the pandemic, we are proud to have served over 235 young people with enrichment activities throughout the year, while also providing pandemic- related support to many families in our community. We kicked off 2020 with another successful basketball season in full swing. Our three K-2nd grade teams were enjoying their games, and six of our twelve 4th-8th grade teams were headed to the playoffs for the 2019 CYO Championships, the weekend the stay at home orders went into effect due to COVID -19. We met the moment. When the stay-home orders were first issued, we created a designated fundraiser to help feed Marin City families most immediately affected by the pandemic. From March through July, we provided 60,000 meals to 300+ families, purchased from local restaurants struggling to stay in business. We turned crisis into opportunity. With team sports off the table, we kept our young people active, healthy, and engaged by introducing new, Covid- safe activities such as golf, kayaking,mountain biking, sailing, skateboarding, surfing, tennis,and yoga. When summer came along we adjusted our usual camp programming to follow CDC guidelines while keeping the focus on fun and community. We began closing the facilities gap by leading an initiative to refurbish the Marin City Recreation Center. In partnership with The Warriors Community Foundation, Good Tidings Foundation, LIFEWTR, Jennifer Azzi, and the MCCSD, we remodeled the gym, installing a new floor, upgrading the lobby, and, with the help of our new partner IKEA, remodeling the kitchen and refurbishing the Teen Center game room. We helped drive educational equity. We served as the fiscal agent, managing entity, and recreation provider for the Marin City Learning Hubs, an effort to ensure that academic support was available to Marin City middle schoolers who otherwise would not have had access to these services so crucial to their ability to thrive.