Officers of the Corporation, Honorary Trustees, Mission Board of Trustees, and Board of Overseers Children’s Museum engages children and Officers of the Board of Trustees Board of Overseers families in joyful discovery experiences that instill Corporation Karen G. Baroody Dexter Bachelder an appreciation of our world, develop foundational Chair, Michael W. Yogman Roger S. Berkowitz Amy E. Barnett Vice Chair, Patricia Parcellin Anthony Bordon Bithiah Carter skills, and spark a lifelong love of learning. Treasurer, Christopher Thompson Linda K. Carlisle Todd Cassler Secretary, Linda Carlisle Joseph Chow PA d’Arbeloff Immediate Past Chair, Jonathan L. Rounds Nirav Dagli Lawrence S. DiCara Museum President, Carole Charnow Mark L. DiNapoli Saskia Epstein Deborah Joelson Sally Fogerty Honorary Trustees Robin G. Jones Allison Burman Gordon Andrew Hoffman † Anne M. Blodget Michael B. Keating Stefanie Janoff John Bok Thomas McCrorey Mieko Kamii David H. Burnham Nancy May Tricia Kosowsky Hamilton Coolidge Yasmin Namini Stephen Kunian James S. Davis Bhasker Natarajan R. Thomas Manning Edith B. Forrester Erica Gervais-Pappendick Robin E. Mount Robert C. Healey Patricia A. Parcellin Benjamin Nye Polly S. Kisiel James Rooney Sean O’Neill Susan Winston Leff Sylvia Stevens-Edouard Heidi C. Pearlson Anne R. Lovett Christopher C. Thompson Marlene Seltzer Jean M. McGuire Christopher Yens Meredith Clark Shachoy Thomas E. Moloney Michael W. Yogman, M.D. Scott Simpson † Kyra L. Montagu Geoff Stein Kathryn Cochrane Murphy Trustee Designates Brigid Sullivan Sherif A. Nada Wing Delatorre Katherine Taylor Yori Oda Wendy Fischman Cathy Thorn Suzanne Pucker Jane Post Todd Truesdale Christopher W. Rogers Alice Turkel Jonathan L. Rounds Richard C. Walker III Robert P. Schechter Table of Contents Stanley F. Schlozman Overseer Designates Harold Sparrow Letter from the President and Chair ...... 3 Essence M. Arzu Cynthia Taft Jason Janoff Annual Highlights …...... ….5 Benaree P. Wiley Kate Leness Katherine B. Winter Helen Rosenfeld Donor Lists .…...... …...……11 Dana Vickey Financials ...... …...... ……...... ……..16 † Overseer Co-Chair

1 The Year in Review Letter from the President and Chair of the Board of Trustees

Dear Friends,

We are pleased to present to you Boston Children’s Museum’s FY12 Annual Report. This has been an exciting year, and it is hard to reduce 363 days of activity and energy into only 17 pages. We are very gratified by what the Museum has accomplished, and the direction that we are taking. In this year’s report, you’ll have the chance to read about:

• How we are implementing the ground breaking Race to the Top–Early Learning Challenge Grant that we received in partnership with the Commonwealth’s Department of Early Education and Care; Japanese Cherry The Caterpillars of Critter Day Building Brainstorm • Native Voices, an exhibit conceived with members of five tribes, Blossom Festival Eastern Exhibit which was developed and built in our own Roxbury production facility, and is Exhibit now travelling nationally; • Last fall’s Early Childhood Summit, co-sponsored by The Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Strategies for Children, and the MSPCC; • OddAnimals, a whimsical show that combined art from Boston Children’s Hospital patients along with pieces from our collection, and was displayed in our Gallery from March through June.

As with last year, we are including profiles of both staff and leaders of the Museum. While visitors often interact with our engaging floor staff, the expertise behind the scenes is central to what we do, and the experiences that we are able to provide to our visitors.

90 Kids from Kyoto Boston Ballet Day The Wizard of Oz Exhibit KidsJam @Club The Museum is fortunate to be at the intersection of creative play, hands-on learning, Common and early childhood cognitive development. We are presented with the unique opportunity to take a leadership role in bridging the worlds of health, learning and creative play, making connections between communities and health and education experts, and strengthening the well-being of our children and families.

At our Annual Meeting in November last year, we honored former Director Michael Spock for his leadership during the 1960s through 1980s, and the groundbreaking work that the Museum did at that time. We are approaching our Centennial in 2013 and are proud to carry on the tradition of being a national leader in the museum field. As we look forward to the year to come, we invite you to be part of our journey, and invest in the Museum with us.

Sincerely,

Big Apple Circus Diwali Celebration Explore Collections In the Bag Exhibit FUNraiser Event —Carole Charnow, President & CEO and Dr. Michael Yogman, Board Chair

2 3 Total visitor attendance for FY12: Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge Grant

583,359 Boston Children’s Museum (BCM) has always been at the forefront of helping children become bright and eager learners. Back in 1973, we opened the PlaySpace exhibit to help parents see the importance of play in the development of babies and toddlers.

Now, nearly forty years later, BCM is once again at the forefront of a new effort on behalf of children, this time to help prepare children and parents for kindergarten.

Last spring the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care awarded Boston Children’s Museum a $600,000 Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge Grant to equip museums and libraries across the state with materials, activity ideas, and training to increase the number of high-quality, enriching experiences for their youngest visitors.

In an unusual step – and one that speaks highly of BCM – the state has entrusted an informal institution of learning to take the lead to network all the children’s museums and libraries to do this work. We are connecting these institutions with early childhood advocates across the state to leverage what everyone is already doing and make it bigger and better.

Together we have an opportunity to impact the achievement gap. That is, the difference – or gap – between 5-year-olds who are ready to be successful in school and those who have not had enough “experience” through playtime or in situations to master basic tasks such as how to raise your hand, make a friend, take a turn, write your name, and know your address.

The state-museum-library partnership will focus on four areas: early literacy, school About Beth Fredericks readiness, interest and awareness of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Program Director, Race to the Top — Museum Math), and public awareness of the importance of early education and care (through and Libraries Project the United Way of Mass Bay and the state’s Brain Building in Progress initiative). Beth Fredericks has more than 30 years of experi- ence in early childhood education. She and her “BCM has contributed to the school readiness of thousands of students who came children were frequent visitors to Boston Children’s to the Museum to play when they were one or two years old. This is a unique and Museum in the 1980s. Since then she has been a innovative opportunity to connect early learning and development in informal teacher, advocate, and online community builder environments,” said Jeri Robinson, BCM’s vice president of Early Childhood and for Internet sites for boomers and grandparents. Family Learning. “Museums and libraries are ideal places to emphasize activities that get children ready for school success.” “Working with Jeri Robinson and Boston Children’s Museum is the frosting on my career cake,” she says. “The chance to mix my early childhood expertise, parenting education, and zest for building community makes —Beth Fredericks, Program Director, Race to the Top — this an awesome opportunity. It’s really exciting to listen to Museum and Museum and Libraries Project Library partners in a high-energy brainstorm session imagining what more they can do to encourage families to come in to play and learn.”

4 5 About Ben Durrell Native Voices Exhibit Designer/Production Manager

Last January, Boston Children’s Museum opened a new cultural exhibition, Native Over the past seven years, Ben Durrell Voices: New England Tribal Families, that built on six decades of close collaboration has used his talents to design and with native communities throughout New England. The Museum’s exhibition team produce exhibits ranging in size from worked closely with a distinguished group of native advisors to choose appropriate 400–2,000 square feet. His favorite so materials from our collection, select meaningful tribal images and stories, and depict far has been the recent Native Voices. Ben describes his main task as “listening. the New England landscape so central to native identity. My job is about translating content Creating this exhibit took two years. While BCM staff went on location to film tribal and goals into experiences via environments and interactives.” members participating in activities as diverse as the cranberry harvest and tobogganing With a degree in Furniture Design from Savannah College of Art in a heavy snowstorm, our design and production staff worked at our facilities in and Design, Ben’s creative work has reached far beyond BCM’s Roxbury to re-create five very different settings. The resulting exhibition takes visitors walls. He has been designing objects and spaces for the last 20 through four New England seasons. Through hands-on activities, compelling immersive years. He has participated with design collectives, shown at venues environments, and evocative artifacts, both old and new, visitors meet members of such as the Tokyo Designers Block, designed furniture and inte- the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot of Maine, the Narragansett of , riors for MIT, and currently teaches product design at MassArt. and the Aquinnah Wampanoag and Mashpee Wampanoag of Massachusetts.

In Native Voices, visitors experience contemporary life within a native community in varied ways:

• Tobogganing down a hill in Maine with young members of the Penobscot tribe;

• Beading in an artist’s studio on Cape Cod;

• Meeting students in a classroom at the Nuweetooun Tribal School in Rhode Island;

• Exploring a cranberry bog and the Aquinnah Tribal Museum on Martha’s Vineyard;

• Following Michael’s journey to Pow Wows across the and Canada.

To enhance the exhibition experience, BCM hosted tribal members to offer first-person presentations for staff and visitors. Lorén Spears, a Narragansett tribal member and a project advisor, drew on her extensive experience as a native educator to lead candid discussions with our staff about dispelling stereotypes. Throughout the eight months that this exhibition was in our Global Gallery, there was complementary seasonal programming with local tribal members introducing visitors to traditional stories, music and dance. This exhibit was also very well attended by school groups as well as homeschoolers.

Native Voices was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and Ocean Total number of Spray. As of this fall, this exhibit is in Norwalk, CT at Stepping Stones Museum for Children, and then will embark on a three year tour to museums across the country. Target $1 Friday night visitors: —Kate Marciniec, Traveling Exhibits/Exhibit Project Manager and Rachel Farkas, Collections Manager 58,934

6 7 About Michael W. Yogman, M.D. Early Childhood Summit Chair, BCM Board of Trustees At long last, the need for greater investment in early childhood has risen to the top of When Michael Yogman became chair last the nation’s agenda. Broad coalitions are forming to effectuate meaningful change. November, it was the first time that a pedi- atrician had led the Board of Trustees. With Last November, BCM proudly played a pivotal role in convening a statewide meeting that a practice in Cambridge, Dr. Yogman is also brought together advocates for children and families, childcare providers, museum on the faculty of Harvard Medical School professionals, pediatricians, neuroscientists, and business leaders. The 2011 Summit on where he teaches and does research on Early Childhood: Investment in our Future was co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Chapter the father-child relationship, developmental of American Academy of Pediatrics (MCAAP), Strategies for Children, the Massachusetts interventions, and nutrition and behavior. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and Boston Children’s Museum. Speakers A trustee since 2000, Yogman says “It is my great privilege to work presented new insights in early childhood brain development, the current state of children’s with the incredibly talented Museum staff who work passionately education and mental health services, and the business case for early childhood investment. and tirelessly to improve the lives of all children.” Emerging from the Summit came the promise to continue the conversation, transform it into policy and action, and to hold another Summit to ensure that this will happen. He also advises the national collaboration of Children’s Museums Go Kids initiative to combat obesity, and has served on the Executive BCM played a strong role in the proceedings. Museum President and CEO Carole Charnow Board of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of welcomed the attendees, and Dr. Michael Yogman, BCM board chair, and Jeri Robinson, Pediatrics since 2002. BCM VP of Education and Family Learning, led a breakout session. As Chair of the MCAAP Children’s Mental Health Task Force, Dr. Yogman is well positioned to work for change in services and programs for children and families.

During the afternoon breakout sessions participants were charged with proposing priorities for public policy, and these included the following:

• Coordination and strengthening of available early childhood resources through a state-wide clearinghouse of up-to-date information about local resources made readily available to parents and providers via multiple portals. The creation of a #211 phone line and web are now in process;

• Expansion of affordable, accessible, high-quality early education and care for children ages 0-5;

• Provision of parent and caregiver education and support, located where families live, from the prenatal period through at least age 5;

• Support for early childhood workforce development, including education, training and appropriate compensation;

• Engagement by pediatricians in early intervention and Coordinated Family and Community Engagement programs.

As part of our 100th Anniversary Celebration, BCM will serve as the lead sponsor of the 2013 Summit in Early Childhood to be held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on Total number of April 5, 2013. In order to engage the widest possible audience, the 2013 Summit will international visitors: include a Parent Fair on Saturday, April 6th at BCM which will translate theory into practice for visiting children and families. 12,096 —Leslie Swartz, Senior Vice President, Research and Program Planning 8 9 OddAnimals at BCM Corporate Connections Total number of The Corporate Connections program provides area businesses an opportunity school, camp, and From March through June, our Gallery featured a whimsical to give back to the community in which their employees work and live. community visitors: exhibit including an alligator with a tiara, a soft sculpture of Octearny (the eight-legged rabbit creature), and a feathered President Level ($10,000+) Manager Level ($1,500-$2,499) 36,775 porcupine. This show, OddAnimals, resulted from a creative Bank of America Anonymous collaboration with Boston Children’s Hospital. Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, Inc. AEW Capital Management, L.P. Medical Information Technology, Inc. Babson Capital Management LLC In 2011, children’s book author and illustrator Jef Czekaj The MathWorks, Inc. Bethesda Lodge, No. 30, I.O.O.F. completed a unique artist residency with kids at Boston Boston Children’s Hospital Children’s Hospital. Using a workbook Jef created, kids Executive Level ($5,000-$9,999) Boston Police Detectives described the habitats, diet, and physical characteristics of Anonymous Benevolent Society OddAnimals: creatures that may have never before been Analog Devices, Inc. Collective Brands Performance + documented by the human eye. Kids were also able to express Lifestyle Group how their animals felt, creating a sort of art therapy. Jef Berklee College of Music Dunkin’ Brands, Inc. worked with show curator Emily Isenberg, making vibrant Cabot Corporation Massachusetts General Hospital drawings based on the children’s artwork. The Hall of Citizens Bank of Massachusetts NFA Corporation OddAnimals was displayed in the Hospital lobby as part Eaton Vance Management Proskauer of the Creative Arts Program. Genzyme Corporation Residences at the InterContinental Harvard Outings & Innings South Shore Area Local No. 3844 At the Museum, Collections Manager Jennifer Jensen and Liberty Mutual Group Wheelock College Senior Manager of Community Programs and Partnerships State Street Corporation Megan Dickerson worked with Jef and Emily to envision a The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation studio space where Jef would take on the role of an artist- Associate Level ($600-$1,499) Foundation naturalist (à la Audubon) and ask our visitors to help him AstraZeneca, L.P. TJX Companies, Inc. discover NEW OddAnimals. In addition to selecting over Burns & Levinson LLP Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 40 collections items, several local artists expanded on Jef’s Center For Families drawings, creating 3-D objects. Not only did this exhibit Child & Family Services, Inc. Director Level ($2,500-$4,999) delight our own visitors, Boston Children’s Hospital and Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. BCM also co-hosted an event here highlighting the hospital’s Boston Post Office Social & Recreation Committee Newmarket International, Inc. patient services, including the Creative Arts Program. Cengage Learning Somerville Early Head Start The Children’s Workshop —Karin Blum, Senior Director of Development Charles River Laboratories, Inc. Codman & Shurtleff, Inc. Fidelity Investments Catholic Charities

Octearny /äk-ti( e )r-ne/ Hub International New England, LLC (eight-legged rabbit creature) IBM International Data Group The Museum’s MIT Activities Committee collection comprises Monster Worldwide, Inc. Parent Talk more than Philips Healthcare PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 50,000 items. 10 11 Total number of Chairman’s Circle $2,500-$4,999 Friends $1,000-$2,499 Pals $500-$999 sponsored group As a part of our mission to reach Anonymous (5) Anonymous (2) visits attendees: children in Boston’s neediest Telis & Wendy Bertsekas Susan Appelbaum neighborhoods, our board chair Karin & Gerald Blum Essence & Aaron Arzu Dr. Michael Yogman has created the Michelle Boyers & Brad Gerstner Amy L. Auerbach & Leo F. Swift Chairman’s Circle. This new group of Karen Bressler & Scott Epstein Jill Becker 11,892 $2,500+ donors share a commitment to sustaining the Museum’s efforts in Robert & Caroline Collings Vladimir & Michal Birjiniuk “leveling the sandbox,” addressing the Flora E. & Anita E. D’Angio Mark & Maribeth Brostowski ever increasing poverty level in Boston. Brit d’Arbeloff Dr. and Mrs. Edmund Cabot Mark & Laura DiNapoli Monica & Greg Cantone Barkan Management Company, Inc. Yena Do & Chico Sajovic Mary & Scott Carson Amy & Keith Barnett Wendy & Benjamin Fischman Nicole & Michael Conlon Bithiah Carter & Andrew Hoffman Sena & Jeff Gore Patricia & Nathan Dowden Edelstein & Company LLP Winifred Perkin Gray Lisa Fiore Foley Hoag LLP Highland Street Foundation Liza Franzene & Guy Scott Edie & Peter Forrester Linda A. Hill & Roger Breitbart Peter Gelhaar & Christa Comeau Greater Boston Chamber Of Commerce Robin & Tripp Jones David & Sarah Healy Jason & Stefanie Janoff Reid & Tara Jordan High on the Hog, Inc. William & Lynn Kargman Alison & Isaac Judd Emily Hughey Tom & Claire Manning Mieko Kamii & Donald Hafner Renee Inomata & Paul Lee Tom & Barbara Moloney Michael B. Keating Thomas Johnson Thank You for Your Generous Support Benjamin Nye & Jenny Pyle Lois & Stephen T. Kunian Marla Kannel Victoria & Mark Oliva Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Joshua Klevens & Anna Sinaiko Donors to our Annual Fund provide the crucial unrestricted support that helps the Museum Heidi Carter Pearlson & Lewis Pearlson Linde Family Foundation Kate & Tony Leness meet its areas of greatest need and fulfill our mission. This year’s list also includes those Jane Post Nancy May & Richard Fish Jennifer Nassour & Charles J. Brucato individuals and corporations who supported our Big Apple FUNraiser in April 2012. Helen Rosenfeld & Asheesh Advani Sean & Lisa McGrath Gretchen & Mike Novak Bob & Susan Schechter Jessica & Luke Meekins Monica O’Neil & Stephen M. Jennings Children’s Champion $25,000+ Best Friends $5,000-$9,999 Massachusetts Convention Stan & Kay Schlozman Robin E. Mount & Mark Szpak Lia & William Poorvu Center Authority Anonymous (2) Anonymous (2) Lori & Matthew Sidman Kathryn & Glenn Murphy James & Maryanne Rooney Thomas & Catherine McCrorey Barbara & Amos Hostetter Bank of America Scott Simpson & Nancy Kuziemski Mary & Sherif Nada CJ Rugani Kyra & Jean Montagu Anne R. Lovett & Stephen G. Woodsum Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts State Street Corporation Janna & Sean O’Neill Alan & Elizabeth Schlosberg Yasmin Namini Tony & Catherine Bordon The Boston Foundation Suzanne & Bernard Pucker Jim & Debby Stein Sharpe President’s Clubhouse $10,000-$24,999 Bhasker Natarajan & Teresa Chick Linda Carlisle & Robert Mast The Mentor Network Penelope & Andrew Savitz Brigid Sullivan Bain Capital Children’s Charity Chris & Niña Rogers The Cassler Family Cathy A. Thorn & Eric P. Geller April & Geoff Stein Mark & Kelan Thomas Stephen Blyth & Anita Gajdecki Susan & Dan Rothenberg Fay M. Chandler Sylvia Stevens-Edouard Todd M. Truesdale Inavale Foundation Inc. Sovereign Bank Carole Charnow & Clive Grainger & Chelinde Edouard Alice Turkel & Edward Mitchell Ryerson Krupka/Kubik Family Stephanie & Brian Spector Joe & Selina Chow Kate & Ben Taylor Kristin & Warren Valdmanis New Balance Foundation Suffolk Construction Citizens Bank of Massachusetts Dana Vickey Donald Vaughan Erica & Ted Pappendick Geraldine & Gabriel Sunshine The Daglis Mrs. Jeptha H. Wade Yun Soo & Adrian Vermeule Patricia A. Parcellin Cynthia Taft & Dick Egdahl Eaton Vance Management Richard C. Walker, III Bennie & Flash Wiley Eve & Jon Rounds Christopher & Elizabeth Thompson Saskia Epstein Adam & Rita Weiner Kenneth Witkin & Susan Edbril Michael W. Yogman & Elizabeth K. Ascher Penny & Jeff Vinik Deborah Joelson Katherine B. Winter Regina Yando & John Mordes Christopher Yens & Temple Gill

12 13 Exhibits and Programs Staff Giving In-Kind Gifts Thank You for Your Generous Support $100,000+ Amy L. Auerbach We are grateful to the following organizations and individuals for their Highland Street Foundation Sylvia Bagaglio generous donation of goods and services Massachusetts Cultural Council Partnerships Countdown to Kindergarten New England Aquarium Karin Blum in support of our work. 21st CCLC After School Collaborative for Cradles to Crayons New Hampshire Department of Education Massachusetts Department of Early Charlie Brennan Education Care–Race to the Top Educational Service (ACES) Discover Roxbury Orchard House Carole Charnow Jody Adams National Aeronautics and Space ABCD Head Start Doshisha Elementary School Paige Academy Megan Dickerson Barbara Lynch Gruppo Administration (NASA) American Chemical Society Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Parent University, Cynthia M. Donovan Big Apple Circus (New England Chapter) State Street Corporation Education Development Center Primary Source Beth Fredericks Foundation American Psychological Society The Boston Foundation First Night Project Hope Katherine C. Hughes Foundation Arts Emerson The Kresge Foundation For Kids Only Afterschool Programs Rose Kennedy Greenway Marisa Lava Boston University African Outreach Center Associated Early Care and Education $50,000 - $99,999 Friends of Fort Point Channel Save the Harbor Save the Bay Linda Markarian Celtics Basketball Limited Partnership Berklee College of Music National Endowment for the Humanities Gyeonggi Children’s Museum, South Korea Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Ann Mayers Ebisuya Japanese Market Big Apple Circus Perkin Fund Handel and Haydn Society Society of Women Engineers (MIT Charlayne Murrell-Smith Clive Grainger Boston After School & Beyond and West Point Chapters) The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation Asia Center Rachel O’Neill Japan Village Mart Boston Ballet Community Health Center The Japan Foundation Center for Gregory & Richard Jundanian Harvard University, Laboratory for Global Partnership Marla Quiñones-Hill Boston Centers for Youth and Families Developmental Studies South Boston Neighborhood House Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. Yawkey Foundation Gail Ringel Boston Children’s Chorus South Shore Stars Harvard University, Making Learning Jeri Robinson Mihir & Vinita Shah Boston Children’s Hospital: Laboratories of Visible; Project Zero Strategies for Children $10,000-$49,999 Haruka Sauda Recycled Paper Printing Cognitive Neuroscience The City School Hasbro Summer Learning Initiative Education Development Center, Inc. Shoyeido Incense Boston College: Lynch School of Education The Community Group, Lawrence Haverhill Public Schools Randolph J. Fuller Marketing Sponsorships Jill Silverstein Thinking and Learning Lab; Department Japanese Association of Greater Boston The Encyclopedia of Life Project Massachusetts Department of Elementary of Psychology, Arts and Mind Lab; $50,000+ Spinnaker LLC The Theater Offensive and Secondary Education Emotion Development Lab; Infant and Japan Society of Boston HP Hood LLC Suffolk Construction Thrive in Five National Endowment for the Arts Child Cognition Center JazzBoston Target Corporation The Container Store Triton Regional School District The Estate of Dorothy A. Wilson Boston Community Partnerships for Children Jumpstart The Improper Bostonian United Way of Massachusetts $2,000-$49,999 Boston Globe Kyoto City Hall $1,000-$9,999 Trader Joe’s Bay and Merrimack Valley Axiom Learning Association Kyoto City International Foundation Associated Grant Makers of Massachusetts WGBH Boston Local Food Festival Lesley University Funding Exchange $500-$1,999 Boston Stories Project Wheelock College Boston Nature Center Little Sprouts John H. Growdon A & R Food Service Corporation Led by former BCM director Michael Spock, Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning this multi-media educational resource Longy School of Music Museum Of Science Barlow’s Restaurant Boston Public Health Commission through the Arts was created to benefit today’s generation National Grid Boston Symphony Orchestra Malden YMCA Boston.com of educators, museum practitioners and Massachusetts Chapter, American Sponsored Visits Frances Manzi Productions, Inc non-profit leaders. Over the past year, the Campaign for Children’s Wharf following donors made gifts to support Boston Public Schools Academy of Pediatrics The Sponsored Visits program opens our Greater Media Marketing Group doors to kids who would not be able to Pledge Payments this important project. Massachusetts Family Literacy Coalition The Improper Bostonian Boston Public Schools Department of afford a visit so that they, too, can take Anonymous Extended Learning Time, Afterschool & Massachusetts Afterschool Partnership advantage of the opportunities for fun and Catherine & Paul Buttenwieser Paranoid US Edie & Peter Forrester Services (DELTAS) Massachusetts Department of Early hands-on learning that we provide. Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation Viewfinder Productions, LLC John H. Growdon Boys and Girls Club of Woburn Education and Care Ernst & Young LLP WBUR Susan & Drew Leff Brookline Extended Day Massachusetts Department of Elementary $25,000+ and Secondary Education Anita Feins & Steven Lampert Kyra & Jean Montagu Brookline Public Schools Highland Street Foundation Matching Gifts MIT Early Childhood Cognition Lab William F. Griffin, Jr. Mary & Sherif Nada Cambridge Department of Human Lowell Institute Ameriprise Financial, Inc MIT Japanese Association John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. Suzanne & Bernard Pucker Service Programs The Boston Foundation Cooper Industries Mieko Kamii & Donald Hafner Chris & Niña Rogers Cambridge Public Schools MIT Media Lab $5,000-$24,999 ExxonMobil Foundation Mujeres Unidas Avanzando Mark & Polly Kisiel Bob & Susan Schechter CAYL Institute John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. Abbot & Dorothy H. Stevens Foundation Lois & Stephen T. Kunian Stan & Kay Schlozman Chicago Children’s Museum Museum Institute for Teaching Science Peter Norris & Amy Rugel Liberty Mutual Insurance Museum of Science Tammy & John MacWilliams Benjamin Schore Chelsea Reach Microsoft Corporation Schrafft Charitable Trust Aedie & John McEvoy Judy & Michael Spock City of Kyoto, Japan Nazareth Child Care Center Eve & Jon Rounds State Street Corporation National Institute on Out-of-School Time Bennie & Flash Wiley Consulate General of Italy $1,000-$4,999 Waters Corporation Shawmut Design and Construction Katherine B. Winter Consulate General of Japan National Museum of the American Indian Albert E. Pillsbury Trust Kate & Ben Taylor 14 15 Operating Results Annual Report 2012 FY 2012* FY 2011 FISCAL 2012 INCOME* INCOME Museum Senior Leadership Team: Gifts, Contributions & Grants Gifts, Contributions & Grants $ 3,712,445 $ 2,016,005 Carole Charnow, President and CEO Admissions Admissions 2,668,873 2,454,824 Amy Auerbach, CFO Property Revenue Memberships 1,402,817 1,353,315 Amy Auerbach, CFO and Senior Vice President, Property Revenue 1,916,853 1,975,433 and Senior Vice President, Memberships Finance and Administration Finance and Administration Other Income 503,797 574,142 Support from Endowment Support from Endowment 546,907 550,101 Karin Blum, Senior Director of Development Other Income FY2012 Financial Summary Charlayne Murrell-Smith, Vice President, Corporate Total Operating Revenue & Support $ 10,751,692 $ 8,923,820 Development and External Relations 5% 5% Given the overall US economic climate, the Museum’s 13% FY 2012* FY 2011 34% EXPENSES financial strategy employed for fiscal 2012 was conservative, Gail Ringel, Vice President, Exhibits Program Services: and was directly focused on achieving the program objec- Jeri Robinson, Vice President, Education and Family Learning 18% Visitor Services $ 1,724,653 $ 2,098,896 tives derived from the four year Strategic Plan authorized Leslie Swartz, Senior Vice President, Research and 25% Museum Programs 1,703,604 1,582,834 by our Board of Directors. The preliminary results for the Program Planning Exhibits 910,412 827,414 year demonstrate that the Museum has realized these goals. Member Services 285,228 262,046 Total Gifts, Grants and Contributions increased significantly Editorial Team: Jo-Anne Baxter, Karin Blum, Karin Hansen, TOTAL PROGRAM SERVICES $ 4,623,897 $ 4,771,190 year-to-year, and Management and our Board are satisfied Ann Mayers, Charlayne Murrell-Smith, and Leslie Swartz with FY12 fundraising results, and dedicated to the Support Services: achievement of even greater goals for FY13. This past year Writers/contributors: Jeri Appier, Karin Blum, FISCAL 2012 EXPENSES* Building Operating Costs $ 1,403,413 $ 1,159,674 the Museum received strong support for our ongoing Rachel Farkas, Beth Fredericks, Kate Marciniec, General & Administrative 927,152 995,225 and Leslie Swartz Program Services commitment to early childhood research and programs. Fundraising 377,396 279,167 Building Operating Costs The receipt of a portion of the nationally renowned “Race Marketing 318,817 390,771 Layout and Design: Karin Hansen General & Administrative to the Top” grant was important independent recognition of the work done at BCM every day. From a purely Fundraising TOTAL SUPPORT SERVICES $ 3,026,778 $ 2,824,837 operational basis, we were pleased to see admissions and Photography: ©2012, Bill Gallery, Cora Carey, Marketing TOTAL EXPENSES $ 7,650,675 $7,596,027 membership, two of our key indicators of programmatic Akemi Chayama, Alissa Daniels, Allan Dines, Rachel Farkas, Clive Grainger, Karin Hansen, NET SURPLUS/DEFICIT BEFORE strength, up from the prior year, as well as a 4.4% increase 5% 4% Paul Specht, Janet Stearns and Les Veilleux 12% DEPRECIATION & INTEREST $ 3,101,017 $ 1,327,793 in attendance from FY2011.

Depreciation $ 2,343,398 $ 2,514,522 18% 61% This year we enhanced the format for the Annual Report Interest 435,492 407,520 financial presentation though the use of our new accounting TOTAL DEPRECIATION & INTEREST 2,778,890 2,922,042 system. Noteworthy is the breakdown of our expenses, in particular the significant dollars spent on program The amounts noted in the preceding pages represent donations NET SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) $ 322,127 ($ 1,594,249) and maintaining the building and property; and the low made between July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012. Boston level of dollars spent on general and administrative, and Children’s Museum appreciates our donors who have contributed Investments, Market Value fundraising/marketing activities. to the Museum in amounts less than $500. We are grateful for their support and regret that space limitations prevent us As Management and the Board explore future opportunities FY 2012* FY 2011 from listing their contributions. We have made every effort to for additional funding, the staff should be congratulated Beginning Balance produce an accurate listing of our donors, but realize that $ 14,698,005 $ 12,727,404 for all they have accomplished with the existing resources. mistakes and omissions may have been made. If we have Contributions/Other Changes, Net 556,213 814,984 As a result, Fiscal 2012 was a solid year and we are all made an error regarding your listing, we apologize. Please Spending Policy Transfer (426,928) (550,101) ready to address the challenges in our future. let us know by calling 617-426-6500 x221 or emailing Net Unrealized/Realized Gains (484,231) 1,705,718 —Amy Auerbach, CFO and Senior Vice President, [email protected]. We appreciate * Preliminary, unaudited results. Total Investments $ 14,343,059 $ 14,698,005 Finance and Administration your help in keeping our donor records accurate.

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