Joyful Experiences
Classes, events, festivals, arts, music, movement, play and experiences children remember.
A 501(c)(3) nonprofitPut the child
Put the child
back in childhood.
Children's Rainbow Fund supports joyful childhoods and healthy families through experiences, resources, programs, community spaces and play.
"RAINBOWpalooza is my favorite day of the year."Micah, age 7
The story
Childhood has changed.
Children are growing up in a world filled with more screens, pressure, isolation, stress and adult problems than ever before.
We believe communities can intentionally create something different.
- Children need places to play.
- Families need places to belong.
- Parents need support.
- Communities need connection.
And sometimes the most powerful intervention is simply giving a child the opportunity to experience childhood.
That is why Children's Rainbow Fund exists.
Our joy frameworkJoy + Belonging + Creativity + Movement + Kindness + Purpose
Joy + Belonging + Creativity + Movement + Kindness + Purpose
= Healthy Communities
Joy
The feeling childhood is supposed to leave behind.
Belonging
Every child needs somewhere they are known.
Creativity
Making things is how children think.
Movement
Bodies that run, climb, dance and rest.
Kindness
Learned by being on the receiving end of it.
Purpose
Even small people want to matter.
The deeper philosophy behind this framework lives in The Childhood Code →
What we do
See all our workSix ways to build a joyful childhood
Six ways we help communities give childhood back to children.
Family Support
Resources that help families meet children's practical and developmental needs.
Happy Places
Creating and supporting physical spaces where children and families gather, play, learn and belong.
Community Connection
Bringing businesses, families, educators, volunteers and neighborhoods together around childhood.
Access For All
Removing financial barriers so joyful childhood experiences are available to every family.
Childhood Advocacy
Helping communities understand why protecting childhood matters — and what to do about it.
Featured initiativeThe Happy Place
The Happy Place
In Town
We help communities create physical places intentionally designed around what children and families need to thrive — room to move, room to make, room to rest, and room to run into people you know.
It's how a philosophy becomes an address on a map.
Play
Make
Gather
Rest
a place made for kids, that grown-ups love too
The celebration
RAINBOWpalooza
Not just an event — a celebration of childhood, community, movement, creativity, connection and unapologetic FUN. A whole town, playing at once.
Our real work
All initiativesWhere the money goes
Individual initiatives, running in real communities — with room for many more.
The Happy Place In Town
Every town deserves one.
Community spaces designed around joyful childhood and family connection — places built for how children actually play and how families actually gather.
Learn moreRAINBOWpalooza
A whole town, playing at once.
Our community childhood festival: music, movement, making, color and thousands of small moments of joy in one place.
Learn moreRainbow of Giving
Everybody gets to give something.
Simple community giving campaigns where every gift — of any size — becomes one visible stripe of something bigger.
Learn moreDiaper + Family Essentials Support
Practical help, given with dignity.
Diapers, wipes, formula and everyday essentials for families raising young children — no lectures, no hoops.
Learn moreMini Maker + Creative Experiences
Give a kid materials and stand back.
Accessible opportunities for children to make, imagine, build, paint, invent and create — with real materials and real freedom.
Learn moreCommunity Pop-Ups + Programming
Joy, delivered to the block.
Bringing joyful childhood experiences directly into neighborhoods, schools and partner spaces — often where they've never been before.
Learn moreThe joy factor
What would bring you joy?
It's the question we ask children, parents, teachers, volunteers and whole neighborhoods. Their answers decide what we build next.
"A park where nobody says hurry up."
"More time with my kids and less guilt about it."
"Art supplies that don't have to be shared four ways."
"A giant slide. And snacks."
"Somewhere my family can go that's free."
"Seeing the same kids every week and knowing their names."
Impact
See full impactJoy, counted
Big playful numbers, because every one of them is a real child having a real day.
12,400+
Children served
3,100+
Families supported
186,000
Diapers distributed
94
Programs funded
Community partners
Help us build happier communities.
We work with businesses, developers, municipalities, schools, hotels, healthcare organizations, family foundations, philanthropists and brands to design childhood back into the places people live.
Part of the Childhood Code ecosystem
One ecosystem working to understand, protect and strengthen childhood.
The Childhood Code
The philosophy and framework.
Children's Rainbow Fund
Access, philanthropy and community impact.
Programs + Experiences
Putting the ideas into action.