children's museum tucson | oro valley 2015 community report

2015 Community Report


Where Imagination & Learning connect!

Children’s Museum Tucson | Oro Valley

Dear Friends,

Growth and change must be a part of any relevant, vibrant organization.

The Children’s Museum Tucson has certainly upheld these principles during the 2015 fiscal year, thanks to your support.

New exhibits, new programs, new events – and a new satellite location – helped the Children’s Museum Tucson continue to fulfill its vision to inspire children and their families to reach their full potential through discovery, creativity and learning. With your help, we launched Children’s Museum Oro Valley, inspiring a new group of young children to explore and build curiosity. Our membership grew, as did the total number of visitors.

We are so proud that we reached more than 164,000 people this past year!

There is one particular statistic in this report that I think really stands out. Of those 164,000 visitors, about one of every five came to the museum on a free- or reduced-admission day. As a result, the Museum, in essence, invested nearly a quarter-million dollars back into the community. This highlights a vital part of our philosophy: that experiencing museums should be a right, not a privilege, for Southern Arizona children and families – ALL children and families.

We also fulfill this this philosophy through sponsored school tours. More than 4,600 children from 98 Title I

schools received scholarships and free transportation to participate in a fun, hands-on day at the museum. Your gifts made this happen.

Through free and reduced admissions, school tours and outreach, the Museum is more than just a destination. We are a valuable educational resource

for Tucson and Southern Arizona.

We thank you for your support. Your membership is for you. Your donation is for this important community

asset. Your investment guarantees the Museum will remain available for all Tucson’s children now and for future generations. As the Museum continues to grow and change, your generosity is more important, and is met with gratitude.

Many thanks,

Michael J. LuriaExecutive Director

Fiscal Year 2015 Board of Directors

Executive Committee

Gordon Reynolds Chair

Amy Welander Chair-Elect

Lyuda Eisenman Treasurer

Dr. Elizabeth Juneman Secretary

Members-at-Large

Wardell “Buck” Brown

Troy E. Larkin

Michelle Marks

Barry Benson

Brighid Brown

Gary Cohen

Jenine Dalrymple

Felipe Garcia

Bill Holmes

Bob Janus (Immediate Past President)

Scott McDonald

Patrick McLaughlin

Dr. Christian Moher

Alicia Moura

Maricela Robles

Tara Sherrer

Greg Taylor

Dr. Dale Woolridge

Board Member EmeritusEvelyn Carswell-Bing


Expanding our reach

8,657Visitors in the first two months

$2Admission on the first Tuesday of every month

382 Memberships

sold

In May 2015, Children’s Museum Tucson opened its first satellite location, Children’s Museum Oro Valley. This location, specially sized for children 0-5 years old, offers Toddler Town sensory exhibits, an Art Room, Literacy Corner and Airways exhibit that encourage exploration and discovery. With an Early Childhood Education focus, Children’s Museum Oro Valley helps prepare its young visitors for school and fosters a lifelong love of learning.


Science, art and education through play

The Children’s Museum Tucson believes in learning through play, and our exhibits and events clearly show a dedication to that mindset. Whether they are building a roller coaster or painting a picture, our young visitors are soaking up information about concepts in science, technology, engineering, art and math.

The benefit? A kickstart to their curiosity and the beginning of a thirst for knowledge. This is especially important for at-risk children. They can head into school better prepared.

Our Vision

Our Mission

10,993Visitors taking part in school tours

2,460Members

164,378Visitors to Children’s Museum Tucson


By the numbers

142Volunteers

2,640 Volunteer hours worked

1,341 Kids reached through classroom outreach34,317

Visitors who entered on free or reduced admission days, such as Let’s Get Fit!

$52,318Donated by 12 different organizations to support tours and outreach

41% of our visitors come from low-income neighborhoods

$237,846Invested into our

community through free and reduced admissions to the Museum

New in FY 2015Build It! is a new exhibit room dedicated to engineering and hands-on experimentation. This space is a nucleus of creativity for our young museum visitors! With thousands of individual pieces to build with kids can create almost anything they dream up – from a basic pulley to an intricate castle. Build It! was the final piece in our four-year overhaul of the musueum.

New programming during this fiscal year includes Wee Explore, a weekly activity that includes hands-on science experiments and demonstrations for kids ages 3-5.

Zoom-Zoom, a new free-admisson community event, gives visitors the opportunity to explore all things transportation, from scooters to helicopters!

3,000+Individual pieces available to budding engineers in Build It! for endless creation possibilities

2,231to our first

Zoom-Zoom event

520 Planned programs each year, supplemented by dozens of spontaneous activities



Exhibits

Programs

Bodyology: Health and wellness; healthy food choices; oversized body parts

Build It!: Dedicated to our future engineers.

Electri-City: All about energy, electrical circuits, solar, generators and a Jacob’s Ladder.

Gravity Room: See how those things that must come down do.

Imaginarium: The Tankersley Imaginarium and art studio is the creative center of the Museum.

Investigation Station: Hands-on STEM experiences that kids of all ages (parents!) enjoy.

Nano Science: Small is powerful!

Pet Vet: Always a favorite, this exhibit lets kids “take care” of the pets, from X-rays to baths.

Public Safety: Kids love sirens! Ambulance, fire truck and police motorcycle beckon.

Tech Topia: Tech-savvy kids have lots of options, from the simple bug rug to touch table apps.

Wee World: Right-sized fun for the littlest ones!

Whistle Stop: Trains above, around and one big one to climb through, with a bell to ring and horn to sound.

Adventure Learning School Programs Nearly 11,000 children and teachers expanded their minds with our onsite tours, designed to inspire learning and complement school curriculum. With your funding, at-risk students are able to participate in this educational and meaningful experience. Two-thirds of the students that took part in tours in 2014-15 did so for free.

Wee ClubhouseEarly education programs scheduled throughout the week offer visitors a chance at some structured fun and and learning. These programs are geared toward preschoolers. WEE PLAY is literacy based, with stories and activities centered around a particular subject. WEE EXPLORE offers hands-on science experiments and demonstrations. WEE WIGGLE encourages the kids to get up and get moving!

Roll Out ScienceAn afternoon program where Discovery Guides present hands-on science activities three times a week.

STEAM SundaysSTEAM Sundays is a weekly, summer-long series of specialized programming with hands-on educational activities that focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Mathematics.

Second SaturdaysArts programming takes center stage on Second Saturdays, with partner organizations and performers sharing hands-on creative activities. Both STEAM Sundays and Second Saturdays have $2 admission.

The Museum hosts five community events each year. With free admission, these events help make the Museum accessible to all. The FY 2015 events were: Beyond, Family SCIFest, Zoom-Zoom, Love of Literacy, and FAME. More than 10,400 people attended these events for free.

Community Events


Passionate about a diverse audienceChildren’s Museum Tucson has implemented a number of programs, activities and events to ensure everyone can have access to what the Museum has to offer. With reduced admission days to free events to discount programs for military families and those on public assistance, the Museum evinces its dedication to serving the entire community. The Museum joined Museums for All, an initiative of the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences and the Association of Children’s Museums that ensures access to low-income families.

4,623Children from 98 Title 1 schools provided scholarships and transportation to the Museum

23Community Memberships, offering entry to hundreds of children through local service organizations

37Free- or reduced-

admission days


Look to the future

Unique hands-on experiences in the planned outdoor music park (such as these Weenotes), creative corner and butterfly garden.

30Local third graders reached in the first year of the “I am a scientist!” afterschool

program with two neighborhood schools.

The free program should reach nearly 200 children by its

third year.

The Children’s Museum Tucson will not rest on its laurels. While we completed a four-year overhaul plan in Fiscal Year 2015, we are constantly searching out new exhibits and experiences that will engage our young visitors, spur their imaginations and give them a love of learning that will last a lifetime. In an effort to keep Children’s Museum Tucson fresh and exciting, we have several new exhibits and programs planned for Fiscal Year 2016.


Air Rocket, in the Build It!

room, gives kids the chance to

design their own rocket and watch

it fly with air pressure.

$50,000 & up

Armstrong McDonald FoundationTown of Oro Valley

$20,000 - $49,999

Cox CommunicationsFriends of the Oro Valley Public LibraryPima CountyProvidence Service CorporationTucson Electric Power CompanyTucson Medical CenterWilliam and Mary Ross Foundation

$10,000 - $19,999

The Community Foundation, Riverside, CA – Gimbel Foundation

Dr. Jaw OrthodontistsFreeport-McMoRan Copper & GoldAnne & Dr. Douglas HolsclawJoseph Stanley Leeds FoundationNorthwest Children’s Dentistry, PCOro Valley Police DepartmentPima Federal Credit UnionSouthwestern Foundation for Education

& Historic PreservationWells Fargo Foundation

$5,000 - $9,999

Alliance Bank of ArizonaAsarco, LLCBanner Children’s Diamond Children’s

Medical CenterBlue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona, Inc.CarMax FoundationCommunity Partnership of Southern ArizonaCountry Fair White Elephant, Inc.Dairy Council of ArizonaFirst Things FirstFrances Chapin FoundationFred & Christine Armstrong FoundationRyan George & Kim EvansHSL PropertiesHydrite Chemical CompanyCharles & Pat PettisPetVet Care Centers Management, LLCPima County Sheriff’s DepartmentResearch Corporation

for Science AdvancementHerschel & Jill RosenzweigSouthwest Energy, LLCSouthwest GasTucson Pima Arts CouncilUBS Financial ServicesUS Bank

$1,000 - $4,999

Andra Heart FoundationArizona Bilingual Newspaper, LLC

Bank of AmericaBeachFleischman, PCCareMore Health SystemEvelyn Carswell-BingCaterpillar FoundationCasino del Sol (Pascua Yaqui Tribe)Chestnut Building and DesignCoding ContinuumJenine & Phil DalrympleDesert Diamond Casino and Entertainment

(Tohono O’odham Nation)Diamond FoundationDowntown Kitchen & CocktailsFennemore Craig, P.C.Deanna & Jerry FlackeGeneral Growth Properties, Inc.Golder Ranch Firefighters Local 3832The Gordon FoundationPamela GrissomTom GrohHealthSouthBill Holmes & Shelley PozezJTEDKailash JoshiKinder Morgan FoundationKohl’sLa Frontera CenterLisa Frank FoundationLong Realty Cares FoundationLovitt & TouchéMadden MediaMartha R. & Susan I. Seger FoundationFletcher & Liz McCuskerOmar & Amy MirelesDrs. Christian & Jennifer MoherNISE NetworkAllan & Alfie NorvilleNTFFA Community Outreach CorporationOro Valley Community FoundationPerimeter Bicycling AssociationPlanetary Science InstituteR & A CPAsDebbie RichD. L. RauscherRemedy Intelligent StaffingGordon & Cindee ReynoldsDr. Gulshan & Neelam SethiHoward ShenkSnell & WilmerSonoran Science Academy - BroadwaySonoran Science Academy - Davis-MonthanSonoran Science Academy - TucsonStructural GraceSundt FoundationSwaim Associates Ltd. Architects, AIATargetTexas InstrumentsTheresa ThorsonTucson Federal Credit Union

Tucson Medical Center FoundationTucson Unified School DistrictUnited Way of Tucson & Southern ArizonaVantage West Credit UnionWalmart Stores, Inc.Amy & Brett Welander

$500 - $999

Aztec FlooringBank of TucsonBarry & Jami BensonChristy & Justin BethWardell “Buck” & Teresa BrownCAID IndustriesCharlie CajeroJenny & Leo CarrilloKelli CashCatalina Springs Memory Care FacilityDr. Jiravud Chanvitayapongs

& Dr. Pakawadee WorawittayawongGary CohenLyuda & Craig EisenmanEvery Kid’s Dentist and OrthodonticsKent & Rebecca FosterFelipe & Lori GarciaKaren GerlingRupert & Evelyn GrohHealthy Kids KampusGeorge and Shawna HendersonHiremath Family DentistryBob & Anna JanusJim Click Automotive TeamElizabeth & Rory JunemanKushagra KatariyaTroy E. and Kimiko LarkinLoop Jean CompanyMichelle & Eddie MarksScott & Janine McDonaldNew Belgium Brewing CompanyVernon OwaraRaytheon Missile SystemsAutumn & Matt RentmeesterBarbara RestinMyron RottensteinDev & Olivia SethiSteven SiwikThe Shoe House, Inc.Amanda Smicklas & Joel TrupianoGreg & Jessie TaylorUltra Air ConditioningHilary & Michael Van AlsburgVisit TucsonWings Like Eagles FoundationRichard & Anne ZimmermanJesse Zoernig & Cecile McKee

Donations from July 1, 2014-June 30, 2015

donors


Michael Luria Executive Director

Autumn Rentmeester Director of Development & Operations

Hilary Van Alsburg Director of Philanthropy & Learning

Teresa Truelsen Director of Marketing

Joel Trupiano Director of Exhibits

Latifah Street Associate Director of Guest Experiences

Nancy Bentley Event Coordinator

Lucinda Del Rincon Membership Coordinator

Stephanie Papaefthemiou Development Coordinator

Jerry Pfeffer Accountant

Jennifer Phillips Education & Volunteer Coordinator

Andrea Vesecky Education Specialist

Staff

Financial InformationRevenues & Support

■ Contributions 546,480

■ Admissions 392,514

■ Public Support 289,796

■ Memberships 153,258

■ Special Event Revenues 105,791

■ In kind, Interest & Misc. 111,766

■ Program Revenues 91,052

Total Income 1,690,657

Functional Expenses

■ Programs and Exhibits 1,335,142

■ Management and General 126,477

■ Fundraising 130,272

Total Functional Expenses 1,591,891

Other Costs, Special Events 32,206

Total Expenses 1,624,097

Increase in Net Assets 66,560

122,859

134,481

161,798

161,145

164,378

FY 2011

FY 2012

FY 2013

FY 2014

FY 2015

Growth in Museum visitors over the past five years

Revenues & Support

Functional Expenses



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