Founded in 1998, the Dodgers Dream Foundation (DDF) was created to provide educational, athletic and recreational opportunities for the youth of the Greater Los Angeles community. The Foundation places special emphasis on helping traditionally under-served youth.
The Dodgers Dreamfields program is the Foundation's signature initiative and has a long-term goal of completing 50 Dreamfields. The Dodgers Dream Foundation, in partnership with the LA84 Foundation, Los Angeles City Department of Recreation and Park and the County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation added 10 new Dreamfields in 2011 and will complete five more in the early part of 2012. The LA84 Foundation was established to manage Southern California's share of the surplus from the highly successful 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Since it began operations in 1985, it has invested $191 million in sports programs serving more than two million youth throughout Southern California
The investment in the new Dreamfields include: upgrades to the backstops, the addition of roofs over the dugouts, bleacher and bench upgrades, irrigation improvements, re-grading to insure smooth and consistent playing surfaces and renovation of field turf or, where necessary, installation of new sod. A new feature of the Dreamfields will be a solar-powered scoreboard, with the tag line "Think Blue, Act Green."
The Dodgers Dream Foundation has dedicated Dreamfields at the following sites:
Dreamfields to be built in 2012 include:
The Dodgers Dream Foundation accepts public nominations for future Dodgers Dreamfield sites at fanfeedback@ladodgers.com.
