ANNUAL R EPORT 2015 BUSINESS BOARD MEMBERS (FY15) STAFF MEMBERS INTERNS PARTNERS OFFICERS Julie Johnson , Executive Director Becca Bland, Mount Holyoke College Jaana Cutson, President Casey Beebe , Community Programs Coordinator Cailey Bloomgarden-Bredin, Merle Bruno, Vice-President Colleen Kelley , Education Director Mount Holyoke College PREMIER Donna Wiley, Clerk Katie Koerten , Environmental Educator, Madra Choromanska, Marie Hess, Treasurer Children and Family Programs Hampshire College MEMBERS-AT-LARGE Coordinator Josia DeChiara, Danielle Barshak Micky McKinley , Environmental Educator Hampshire College Carey Clouse Patty O’Donnell , Environmental Educator Hannah French, UMass SUSTAINING Jaime Davila Patrick O’Roark, Environmental Educator Gila Goldstein, UMass Nancy Eddy Jessica Schultz , Communications Amber Halkiotis, UMass Letter from the Executive Director Elizabeth Farnsworth and Capital Project Coordinator Griffin Harris, Amherst College Kristine Koczajowski Marcus Simon , Development Coordinator Rachel Iacomini, UMass John Kowaleski Helen Ann Sephton , Environmental Sana Jameel, UMass Dear Friends, Educator, School Programs Coordinator Annie Leonard Kelly Moffet, UMass There are many reasons why the Hitchcock Center is important to the health and well-being of our communities, Jennifer Unkles , Bookkeeper Susan Loring-Wells Julia O’Brian, UMass but one resonates deeply with us—getting people outside! Ted Watt , Naturalist, Environmental Tony Maroulis Annalise Ritter, UMass We are in the midst of one of the most profound and rapid societal shifts in history. Today’s generation of LEADING Educator children is the first to grow up indoors. Their plugged-in lives are largely devoid of exploring the natural Doug Marshall Karen Sullivan (non-student) CAMP COUNSELORS world and we are just beginning to understand the impact is not benign. There are costs to the health of Michael Schwartz Amy Toleman, UMass Lukas Best our children: attention difficulties, hyperactivity, childhood obesity, diminished use of senses, disconnect Dan Ziomek from things that are real. Courtney Dyson EX-OFFICIO If children are detached from nature, how will they learn about, understand, and value nature? How will the CONTRIBUTING Hannah French Harvey Allen, Conservation Hitchcock Center for the Environment next generation care about the land and be stewards of its resources? Roopa Krithivasan Encharter Insurance Commission Liaison at Larch Hill Conservation Area The Hitchcock Center helps get thousands of preschool, elementary, middle, high school and college students, Evelyn Lane 525 South Pleasant Street along with their teachers, parents, caregivers, neighbors and friends, outside exploring and discovering Julie Johnson, COMMUNITY Kelly Moffett Amherst, MA 01002 the wonders and mysteries of our natural world. Executive Director 413-256-6006 Through our programs, people gain greater understanding and connection to their local environment and Collective Copies Amy Tolman Hours: Tuesday –Friday learn how transfer their knowledge into positive environmental action in their own schools and communities. Boisselle Morton & Associates 9:00 A M–4:00 PM hitchcockcenter.org If you are reading this report, thank you for being one of those people. We are here to help you in your Hope & Feathers Framing search for greater meaning in the natural world. Keiter Builders Kraus Fitch Architects Sincerely, Surner Heating Co. “Going outside and hiking in nature was an adventure. Seeing the fox habitat, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin (VHB) birds, weasel hole, a squirrel and a bunny was wonderful. I hope I can go to Julie Johnson, Executive Director the Hitchcock Center again.” —Morgan, Westhampton Elementary School

“Thank you for bringing us to the vernal pool. The tadpoles [were] my favorite.” —Haley, R.K. Finn Ryan Road School, Florence one FY15 % Program Participants by County Franklin County: 18% Hampden County: 12% Hampshire County: 66% Other: 4% Numbers on the map reflect the K –12 schools served within each community. A total of 46 K–12 schools were served. Cambridge

Hitchcock at a Glance

Founded in 1962, the Hitchcock Center’s mission is to foster greater awareness and understanding of the environment and to develop environmentally literate citizens.

FY15 HIGHLIGHTS 7,141 total children, youth and adults participated In our environmental education programs. Of those: Other Massachusetts Other Countries 4,384 K–12 students gained greater scientific understanding through Counties Served: or Regions: inquiry-based learning experiences steeped in our local environment. Berkshire Caribbean 1,783 Children, youth and family members found greater connection and Middlesex Central America commitment to the natural world through hands-on nature discovery programs Norfolk England Suffolk Italy 690 Adult participants strengthened their environmental skills and advocacy through our naturalist history, Worcester Japan citizen science, and sustainability programs. Other States: 284 Professional development participants developed the skills, knowledge and understanding they need to promote environmental literacy in their classrooms. Connecticut Georgia 60 Rural and urban communities throughout western Massachusetts and beyond were represented. New York North Carolina 364 Volunteers dedicated 3,740 hours to support Hitchcock programs and operations. Pennsylvania Rhode Island 755 Donor households made generous contributions to keep our environmental education programs strong. Vermont Virginia

“Our fifth graders had a wonderful time doing hands-on, inquiry-based science and are all excited about learning more! The Hitchcock Center’s Energy Literacy unit is fantastic and led to some really meaningful two conversations about energy and the environment. I am so glad that I was able to attend the workshop three for teachers last fall. … I look forward to working with you again in the future.” —Kristin Pisano, fifth grade teacher, Selser School, Chicopee Girls into the Wild Afterschool Launched STEM Early Childhood Programs Engage Children and Parents The Hitchcock Center launched Girls into the Wild, an afterschool program Hitchcock Center designed and implemented STEM curriculum in 20 local libraries designed to bring girls ages 8 –11 together in a supportive environment fostering and three early childhood centers reaching 475 parents, teachers and children. creativity, nature skills, and inquiry. Designed by Children and Family Programs The curriculum engages parents with their children in learning science, technology, Coordinator Katie Koerten, the afterschool program was piloted on a monthly basis engineering and math. It is a valuable model for integrating these fields at the beginning in fall 2014. Each afternoon consisted of hands-on projects—natural early childhood age level to provide children with a structure that builds upon their dying, herbal lip balm making, animal tracking, and two overnights including a natural inclination to explore, to build, and to question. Families loved learning campout—and free outdoor exploration at the Larch Hill Conservation Area. about dinosaurs when they passed around models of different types of dinosaurs Through playing games, exploring nearby habitats, and connecting with nature, (science observations), compared dinosaur sizes (math), made dinosaur track the program works to develop confidence, build friendships and have a lot of measuring tools (engineering) and then used their measuring tool to find objects fun learning. In it’s first year, the program served 16 girls. the same size as certain dinosaurs (technology). Hitchcock Honors Recycling Program Initiated by UMass Students The Hitchcock Center honored UMass students; Steven Amorin, Eco-Rep Facilitator; Jordan Chan, Secretary of Sustainability for Student Government Association; and Program Highlights Kevin Hollerbach, Eco-Rep Program Manager, for their work to mobilize students on the EPA’s GameDay Recycling Challenge to demonstrate active recycling and reducing university clean-up cost among tailgaters at a UMass football game at Our values are centered on six fundamental aspects of environmental education: school, or cultural organization that has successfully fused learning in the arts McGuirk Stadium. The project, implemented at the UMass game on November 12, teaching principles of ecology; place-based learning; knowing the whole story; with science, technology, engineering, and math—STEM to STEAM (the addition 2014, succeeded in collecting 2,170 pounds of recyclables through direct student promoting resilient communities; demonstrating sustainability in the built of the “A” stands for arts). The award honors a unique collaboration between engagement and clean-up effort. Among other participating colleges, UMass environment; and educating for active citizenship. FY15 highlights include: Hitchcock and ECT to deepen students’ understanding of science and the arts ranked second in both reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Recycling Hitchcock Gains National Recognition Through Science & Children in the Holyoke Public Schools. (see next paragraph) in the Mid-Atlantic Conference. Eighty UMass students participated in the Magazine. Storm Drain Art and Advocacy in Holyoke Challenge, in 10 teams. Student leaders were honored at a luncheon sponsored Hitchcock Center educator Ted Watt co-authored a feature article published in In fall 2014, the Hitchcock Center, ECT, and the Holyoke Public Schools, with funding by Hot Table Panini on April 8, 2015. Science & Children , a peer-reviewed journal for elementary teachers. “Our Garden by the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) developed and facilitated an 11-day New Youth Leadership Camp Launched Plot Thickens” by Ted Watt, Judith Herbert and Gini Traub provides a step-by-step science and arts integrated program in all fifth grade classrooms in Holyoke. Over New to Nature Summer Camp this year, the Leadership Training session for youth guide for teachers to engage their students in learning experiences about soil 300 students from 16 classrooms in six schools throughout the city of Holyoke ages 11 –16, held June 30 –July 3, attracted a group of 10 young people desiring to properties that formed the basis for students’ choices of soil types that they participated in hands-on science lessons to explore the water cycle, groundwater, gain an understanding of leadership and through direct empowerment, reflective predicted would achieve maximum crop harvest in the garden. In the process, and the Connecticut River watershed with HCE educator Patty O’Donnell. The conversations, and skills practice. Peter Lamdin, one of Hitchcock Center’s first students learn about the engineering design process and develop a deeper culminating project—the design of Storm Drain Art creations—flowed beyond the counselors in the 1970s and recently retired sixth grade teacher from Fort River understanding of the scientific process by investigating a question connected classroom, into an ongoing community-wide citizen science project. The eight most School, returned to Hitchcock to provide to local food production. Last year, Ted published an article in Green Teacher , visually effective Storm Drain designs were chosen through a juried art contest, focused curriculum and activity planning another nationally recognized peer-reviewed journal for K –12 educators, and has and have been in the process of being rendered and installed by a professional direction. Joining him during the session authored an important chapter in a soon to be published book on the best practices artist on storm drains at various locations in the city of Holyoke. was returning camp counselor Courtney of environmental education. Thank you, Ted, for not only being such a highly skilled Dyson. Participants engaged in group Hitchcock educator and naturalist, but also for your dedication to promoting the field!! challenges, a guided rock climbing field Commonwealth Award trip, learning opportunities to increase The Hitchcock Center, in partnership with Enchanted Circle Theater (ECT), received knowledge of the environment, a prestigious 2015 Commonwealth Award. Presented every two years by the discussions and reflections. Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC), the Commonwealth Awards shine a spotlight on the extraordinary contributions made by the arts, sciences, and humanities to education, economic vitality, and quality of life in communities “At this age, the children were ready for activities and challenges that were both fun and across the state. The Hitchcock Center and ECT won the award for an individual, helped give them skills for being leaders at a camp and in their lives.” four —Peter Lamdin, environmental educator and Leadership Training Camp co-counselor five Our Volunteers Our Supporters Volunteers are a foundation of support for our staff and programs. In FY15, 364 volunteers contributed 3,740 hours of service to the Center. Our volunteers The Hitchcock Center is grateful for the following generous in-kind and contributed support received during our fiscal year FY15 (July 1, 2014 –June 30, 2015). greet our visitors, weed and maintain gardens, prepare crafts and materials for programs, field questions and register program participants, care for our Gifts from 755 households and 47 foundations, organizations and businesses helped to ensure the ongoing success of our educational mission and vision for teaching animals, and complete maintenance tasks in our building. our whole community. Thank you! Donors to our ongoing Building for the Future Capital Campaign are not listed by name in this annual report.

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Sandra & Peter Beak Mary & Dana Snyder Bruce Brown Steve & Alisa Brewer Richard Brewer & Deborah Fryer Judith Souweine Carol Trosset Bob & Jan Winston Bulkley, Richardson Cynthia & Jerry Brubaker Andrea Wright & Peggy Anderson Ethel “Dubie” DuBois Marta Ostapiuk Merle Bruno John Robinson Dr. Novera Herbert Spector Faythe Turner Jennifer & David Wolowicz & Gelinas Amy & Ed Gray Michael Robinson Helena Spector Jennifer & Steve Unkles Ann Wood Sustaining Partners Seymour Epstein Alice Epstein Eli & Katie McKenna-Weiss Ian Camera Susan Heitker Vincent Romano Kerry Spitzer Karen Utgoff Sandra Woodrow August Fundraising Winston & Margaret Lavallee Marie Fitzgerald Elizabeth Cahn Anne Cann & Claire Cocco-Romano & Mathew Jacobson Adrienne Stang Katharine & Tyll van Geel Kathleen Woods Masalski Strategies Robert & Betty Romer Janice Jorgensen Virginia Kendall Robert Grose Adena Johnston Elizabeth Farnsworth Irene Starr Frances Van Treese & William Masalski Thomson Financial Steve Roof George Wright Katie Koerten Management Mary Hocken Colin Goar Debbi Friedlander Daniel Hernandez-Walker Kristie Stauch-White Juliana Vanderwielen & Matt Valliere & Maddalena Coppi Wright Builders Glen & Clare Bertrand Clare Marshall Charlotte Briggs, Gretchen Dock & Anne Robbins Martha Hoopes Cindy Stein Roberto Veneziani Michael Zide Pamela Rooney & Jane Winthers Zide The Pew Charitable Trust Jane Stein & Claudia de Lilo Leading Partner Russ & Lydia Vernon-Jones Winifred Sayer Joanna Brown & Joyce Lower Julie Johnson & Pam Hoar David & Maria Ziomek Jennifer & Steve Unkles Randi Stein Paula Vincent-Cowan Florence Bank Nancy Eddy, Peter & Margaret Hepler, Ron Berger & Elaine Lemieux, Ann Collacchi, Corina Dianna Rorabacher John Ziomek Sonya Stephens Viridian Energy ORGANIZATION Integrity Development Ellie Manire Gatti & Frank Gatti, Hankowski, Institute for Training & Development, Michael & Peg Ross Peter Ziomek Charles Stevenson Eve Vogel & PROGRAM GRANTS & Construction Nancy Morgan, Adam Rothberg, Diana Stein Otto Stein Blake Spirko, Elaine Tucker Colleen Kelley Sara & Gareth Ross Stan & Bev Ziomek Adam Rothberg Kristina Stinson Joshua Vrysen Massachusetts Cultural Contributing Partner Joyce Thatcher Virginia Thatcher Rebecca Miller & Thomas Randall Katie Koerten Eric Stocker Polly Wagner Julie Zuckman Council—Cultural Deborah & Marc & Peter Haas Encharter Insurance Judith Souweine Jules Wiener Alicia Jones John Kowaleski Clinton Stone Jim Wald Investment Portfolio Rothenberg Ximena Zuniga Community Partners Kim Wolfson Karen Wolfson Paul Lipke Micky McKinley Elissa Rubinstein Rep. Ellen Story Oliver Waldman Northampton Education & Jane Mildred Foundation Boiselle, Morton Michael Zide & Jane Winthers Zide Jenni Oliver Jude Ruff Lori Straley Chris Warren & Associates United Way of Irene Starr John Olver Brigitte & Colin Ruhe Karen Sullivan Ruth & Craig Washington GIFTS IN-KIND Hampshire County Collective Copies BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN UPDATE Brian Sabel & Jason Woolf Sharon Wayne Alpha Phi Omega Hope & Feathers Framing Of the total revenue for FY15, $1,818,282 was secured as new gifts, pledges Rachel Peterson & Roger Bird Jeanette Peterson & Karen Lederer Morena Svaldi & Frank Welte (APO) at UMass FOUNDATIONS, Keiter Builders and grants. This combined with gifts from prior years (FY12–14), represents a Jean Beard Laurie Sanders Amy Sweeting Laura & Will Wear Sonia Schloemann Amherst Farmers Supply NONPROFITS, Kraus-Fitch Architects total of $4,463,452 secured, or 77% of our initial campaign goal of $5.8 million Doris Atkinson Susan Smith & Jennifer Parker Joanne & Calvin Swift Selene Weber Atkins Farms & PUBLIC AGENCIES Surner Heating Company as of the end of FY15 (June 30, 2015). We appreciate all of the donors who have Ilana & William Schmitt Janet Bissell, Ginny Brewer, Gary & Linda Donnelly, Masako Takedo Suzanne Webber August Fundraising 2 Anonymous Foundations Vanasse Hangen already given to our initial campaign goal of $5.8 million. Fundraising for this David Schneider & Allen Miller Strategies Bill & Vickie Hart, Betsey Howlet, Constance Parks, Ken & Kitty Talan 1 Anonymous Fund Brustlin (VHB) campaign continues as of the time of this publication. More about our & Klara Moricz Dawn & Bob Weisbord Bread & Butter Laura Wenk & Judy Stern, Dyan Wiley & Tor Smith Ted Watt Michael Talbot Alpha Phi Omega at UMass Other Business Gifts Building for the Future project is available on our website. Jessica Schultz Joseph Weisbord Bulkley, Richardson Barbara Deskey, Janice Wiley Donna Wiley Lisa Talis Amherst South 1 Anonymous Business Jim & Nina Scott Lori Taylor Marvin & Dorothy & Gelinas Congregational Church Larry Winship & Ellen Donkin Grace Winship Seth & Bethany Seeger Weisbord Merle Bruno A. J. Hastings Janet Teng Community Foundation AmazonSmile Foundation VALLEY GIVES Larry Winship & Ellen Donkin Molly Winship Helen Ann Lisa Terrizzi Nina Weisbord Collective Copies of Western Mass. & George Wood Arrowwood Design The third Valley Gives was held on December 11, 2014 Alice Briggs & Josh Lombard Lucy Wolff & Graeme Sephton & Bruce Bagdasarian Cowls Building Supply Edwin S. Webster & Construction and 153 donors gave generously to support year-round Bruce Hart & Ilene Goldstein, Benjamin James Jeffrey Sharp Lyndsay Tetlow John Wells & Traci Hess Julie & Matthew Emerson Foundation & Rebecca Matthews Cars Helping America education for a healthy planet: $11,164 for the Hitchcock & Oona Coy, Gail Platz, Juliana Vanderwielen Dan Ziomek Joyce Thatcher Julia Wells John Foster Five Colleges Learning Kate Sheely Laura Wenk & Judy Stern in Retirement Easthampton Savings Center in just 24 hours. Thank you! The next Valley Gives Sarah Thomson Greenfield Community Bank Mila Sherman Alan Werner Farm Garden Club of Amherst is scheduled for May 3, 2016. Thursday Club Sinauer Associates Marc & Carol Silver Cynthia White Hadley Garden Center Hampshire Bird Club of South Amherst Viridian Energy Scott & Marie Silver Deborah Timberlake Bret Whitney Hot Table Panini Institute for Training Marcus J. Simon Pam Tinto Alice Wilder Malinowski Farm & Development & Myriam Baddaoui Katie Tolles Paul & Victoria Wildman Sibie’s Pizza The Kendeda Fund “Our students described the wonders of your facility, meeting friends, engaging in activities and for some, Beryl Singer & Savanna Ouellette Janice Wiley Squash Inc. The Susan A. & Donald a new found interest in exploring elements of nature. With your support, [they] were able to participate Stephanie Smart Amy Tolman Roy & Janet Williams Stop & Shop P. Babson Charitable Foundation Nancy & Philip Torrey Staunton Williams, Jr. Town of Amherst with their peers and engage in exciting, structured and safe learning experiences. One current fifth Thursday Club of South Cheryl Wilson Amherst grader said it was THE highlight of her summer! … ” Unitarian Universalist ten Society of Amherst —Vicki Palmer, school psychologist & counselor, Sunderland Elementary School eleven Financials FY2015 REVENUE IN-KIND SUPPORT 3% OTHER 0% EVENTS 1% CONTRIBUTED REVENUE FY2015 SUPPORT 36% EARNED Grant $1,136,300.00 REVENUE 11% Contributed support $832,207.00 Earned revenue $262,193.00 GRANT 49% In-Kind support $61,470.00 Events $32,879.00 Other $2,034.00 $2,327,083.00* * Of this total, $1,818,282 was raised for the Living Building Project.

EXPENSES FY2015 Program $261,011.00 FY2015 EXPENSES Living Building Project $171,142.00 GENERAL General operations $162,921.00 OPERATIONS 25% Development $64,056.00 DEVELOPMENT 10% FY15 Living Building Project in Review $659,130.00 Figures based on audited financial statements for FY15.

The Hitchcock Center completed design development and broke ground on our Our new living environmental learning center will be built to the highest standard new 9,000 square foot “living” building on May 1, 2015! One hundred fifty guests of green building in the world, through the Living Building Challenge (LBC). Less PROGRAM 39% LIVING BUILDING came together to celebrate this momentous occasion. Special guest speakers than 10 buildings have received full LBC certification. Ours will be the first LBC- PROJECT 26% included Senator Stan Rosenberg, Representative Ellen Story, Hampshire College certified environmental education center open to the public in New England. President Jonathan Lash, and Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources We look forward to welcoming the community to our new living Hitchcock Commissioner Judy Judson along with Julie Johnson, Hitchcock executive director, Center in the Fall of 2016. Jaana Cutson, Hitchcock board president, Annie Leonard, Hitchcock board member, and Hannah French, Hitchcock intern.

“This is a great year to be part of Hitchcock as we begin construction of our new home—a home that represents the forefront of green construction and use, allowing Hitchcock to expand its reach to a wider audience with increased programming. —Jaana Cutson, board president, Hitchcock Center twelve Hitchcock Center for the Environment at Larch Hill Conservation Area 525 South Pleasant Street Amherst, MA 01002 413-256-6006 Hours: Tuesday –Friday 9:00 A M–4:00 PM hitchcockcenter.org

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