Sponsors & Partners

We thank our sponsors and partners for their support of our work promoting play and the science underlying it

Sponsors and partners share our goals for making play a top priority in our culture. The synergy between NIFP and these organizations leads to mutually beneficial outcomes, based on scientific evidence relevant to play. 

If you would like to open a discussion of possible partnership or sponsorship, please email us

The National Institute for Play is excited to be partnered with Corporate Challenge Events to help bring to life Dr. Brown’s research in Australasia. Corporate Challenge Events is Australasia’s leading provider of play-based team building with over 30 years of experience. More than 750,000 participants have experienced their 40+ programs, each delivered through the Trusted Play Process and grounded in the neuroscience of play.

NIFPlay is partnered with Professors at Play: a global organization of teachers, researchers, designers, and administrators focused on the ideal that play can and should transform higher education. Together, we are excited to develop science-backed play content and co-host the annual Playposium—a global play conference that brings together play experts for three days of learning and collaboration. Stay tuned for information about Playposium 2026!

The National Institute for Play is partnered with Rent-A-Theme Entertainment to deliver the neuroscience of play education and transformational play experiences to public schools in Denver, Colorado.

We are proud to have worked together with Visit California to produce the “Power of Play Report” in support of their “California, The Ulimate Playground” campaign. 

We are very grateful and appreciate IPEMA’s multi-year commitment  to work with NIFP to develop educational materials for its membership and their customers regarding the value of play across the lifespan.

We collaborate with Voice of Play – to promote relevant and timely research that advances VoP’s content and messaging.

We thank Nanjing Wande for their support in making this website possible.  

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