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2012 Annual Report // © 2012 Destination Imagination, Inc ANNUAL 2012 REPORT TABLE of CONTENTS Updates Special Projects A Letter from Chuck Cadle, CEO // 4 NASA Downlink // 22 Our Staff // 5 Haiti // 22 Our Board // 5 Summer Camps // 22 Our Affiliates and their Directors // 5 Early Learning // 22 New Office in Asia // 7 New Logo // 7 Thanks To Our Sponsors // 7 Numbers Individual Auditor’s Report // 24 Challenge Program Statements of Financial Position // 25 Statements of Activities // 26 US Affiliates // 8 Statements of 2012 Functional Expenses // 27 US Affiliate Team Counts // 10 Statements of 2011 Functional Expenses // 28 International Affililates // 12 Statements of Cash Flows // 29 Destination Imagination, Inc. International Team Counts // 14 Notes to Financial Statements // 30 1111 S. Union Ave. Canadian Affiliates // 16 Cherry Hill, NJ 08002 Canadian Affiliate Team Counts // 17 The Destination Imagination program encourages teams of learners to have fun, take risks, focus, and frame challenges while incorporating STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), the arts, and service Global Finals learning. Our participants learn patience, flexibility, persistence, ethics, respect for others and their ideas, and the collaborative problem solving process. Teams may showcase their solutions at a tournament. Overview // 18 Destination Imagination, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Education Organization. Explore the Uncharted // 18 DITV & Student Reporters // 18 Copyright ©2012 by Destination Imagination, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in database or Special Awards // 18 retrieval system, without prior written permission of the publisher Innovation Expo // 18 2012 Annual Report // © 2012 Destination Imagination, Inc. 3 Our Staff Our Board Management Board of Trustees Chair Chuck Cadle Chief Executive Officer Operations Pamela Schroeder Charles Bell Director of Operations Jennifer Batchelor Affiliate & Volunteer Maureen Donovan Director of Administration Coordinator Board of Trustees Vice-Chair & BOT Administrator Guillermina Gonjon Web Developer Johnny Wells UPDATES Sheila Swanson Director of DI Program Brendon Luci Technical Illustrator/Graphic Designer Board Members Administration Lynn Macey IT Consultant Karen Anderson Steve Flaa Assistant Controller Mike Marcasciano Shipping/Warehouse Rosemary Bognar Pinney Joe O’Brien Controller Coordinator Louise Liddle JoAnne Quinn Senior Bookkeeper Delilah Passero Customer Support Coordinator Rick Rand Kevin McDonough Purchasing and Facilities Kate Wise Art Director Nina Schwenk Director David Thomason Destination Imagination Program Bruce Urban Business Development Christie Casselring Graphic Designer Dr. Nancy Wingenbach Roger Garriock Managing Director of Canadian Britt Dyer Special Projects & Events Director Eric Wolff A Letter from Chuck Cadle, CEO Operations Ben Jones Special Projects & Events Coordinator Chuck Cadle, CEO and Heather Gaskins Early Learning Development Andrew Whitmire Assistant DI Program Ex Officio Non-Voting Board Dear Friends of Destination Imagination, their promotion organizations, and Flav-O-Rich Dairy joined Manager Director Member our many individual donors to provide funding support for Brownie Mitchell US Affiliate Operations As I reflect on this past year, I am reminded that our cause- our initiatives. Consultant based organization is greater than the sum of its parts. When Emily Panasowich Int’l Coordinator & Director I think of the time and effort our volunteers, sponsors, and As will be further presented later in this report, this year was of Asian Operations staff put toward the development and administration of highlighted by some significant items. Our brand language our educational programs, the enormity of it all is almost and logo were updated to recognize our holistic approach to overwhelming. I have never seen such passionate people so teaching the creative process from imagination to innovation. invested in what we do. Our Challenge-based program has Our program materials were enhanced to include Roadmap Our Affiliates and Their Directors changed so many lives, which is a testament to our Challenge as a team manger guide. NASA awarded us the opportunity writers and all of the other men and women who work to host one of their six national downlinks from the space Alabama Guatemala Michigan Nova Scotia Texas behind the scenes to produce each year’s Challenges. station and partnered with us for the Summer of Innovation Gary Brown Jose Luna Silinia Horne Jerry Thibeau Sue Shanks David Thomason camp program. DITV went live and enabled us to capture Illinois Minnesota Ohio Turkey Our operating results for the year were better than expected. testimonials from sponsors, educators, teams and volunteers. Alberta Jan Darnell Pamela Schroeder Cinda Weisgerber Burcu Delen Karen Shepherd Steve Bute Elif Eris Global team registrations grew 2% to 15,560, and team Pearson Education Canada integrated our former Challenges Mississippi Ontario Arizona India Ralph D. Carter Mary Jo Smith United Arab Emirates attendance at Global Finals grew 10% to 1,276. Our financial into a professional development offering aimed at teaching Sylvia Maiorana Tony Williams Sumayya Roben Andy results reflected this growth. Our net assets increased 21st century skills to students across Canada beginning in Missouri Oregon Arkansas Indiana Chuck Good Karen Anderson Mohammed Ghannoum $284,000 up from $220,000 the previous year, and our 2013. The STEM & Literacy Pathways for Early Learners Soha El Mokdad Michele Easter Melissa Branham Montana Adam Kendall cash position at year-end was $1,154,000, which reflected educational program was completed and piloted in Head Utah Mike Mitchell Iowa Heather Geiger Pennsylvania long-term debt reductions during the year of $420,000. Start classrooms. Pathways is a new early learning initiative Alisha Heisterkamp Connie Ackerman Reggie Bunis Noel Grabl Brazil Our global mission was further enhanced this year with designed to provide training to teachers on STEM (science, Vermont Debbie Peter KACE - South Korea Nebraska Poland the opening of an office in Singapore, new international technology, engineering, and math) concepts and to provide Oog Hwang Kim Bejot Theresa Kosiarek Pasquale DiLego British Columbia Affiliates and through our educational initiatives with an enriched activities and programming to engage early learners Virginia Faith Garriock Kansas New Brunswick Quebec orphanage in Haiti. for social and emotional, literacy and STEM learning. Lastly, Lohren Meier Carole Murphy Andrea Caulfield Laurie Abeel California Washington The University of Tennessee joined forces with us to offer Richard Pinney KASI - South Korea New Hampshire Rhode Island Destination Imagination is fortunate to have the financial creativity camps in Tennessee. Sun Hwan Yang Jill Schoonmaker Katie Jones Barbara Sailors China West Virginia support of major organizations like 3M and Motorola. Both Li Xiao Kentucky New Jersey Romania organizations provided strategic funding to support our In summary, this has been an amazing and exciting year for Bill Broomhead Carmine Liuzzi Megan King Ron Rogillio Colombia Lori Broomhead Wisconsin Challenge development and growth. The 3M Foundation the Destination Imagination organization. Thanks to the Barry Gilman New Mexico Saskatchewan annually sponsors our structural Challenge and the Explore efforts and support of our volunteers, Affiliates, sponsors Louisiana Milton Moreno Maureen Taylor Steven Cormier Colorado the Uncharted Challenge event at Global Finals. This year, and staff, we were able to meet and exceed the goals we Nancy Farley New York Scotland Wyoming Kristine Beisel Marcia McChesney 3M also sponsored some of our early learning initiatives, had for this year. As you read this annual report, I ask that Maine Cheryl Druding Stuart Miller Kate Donelan and sponsored the development/printing of 30,000 Creative you also reflect on our cause-based mission and vision for Richard Fernald Newfoundland Della Martin Yukon Connecticut Johanne Koser Compass marketing brochures for our Affiliates to use in this organization. We are in this together, so feel free to Manitoba Sharon Whalen Singapore Eric Wolff marketing our program. Motorola Solutions Foundation provide me with feedback or comments that may enable us Lonnie Liske North Carolina Sandra Cheng is sponsoring our 2012/13 Technical Challenge, volunteer Delaware Maryland Cynthia Kirby South Carolina to continue to provide unequalled programming to children Sally Gold training initiatives with DI University, and early learning around the world. Sally Gold Tom Kirby Pat Wuzzardo England Massachusetts North Dakota South Dakota programming for classrooms. Motorola Mobility Foundation Katherine Morse sponsored international capacity building. 3M and Motorola Rich Mizia Max Kringen Cozy Dorton Georgia Mexico Northwest Territories Tennessee also provide volunteers for our initiatives. We cannot thank Dave Lohrmann these two organizations enough for their support of our Erika Ugarte Scott Lough Linda Chambers organization. In addition, IBM, ThinkFun, Ameresco Chuck Cadle Canada, the Abell Foundation, the Dairy Cooperative and Chief Executive Officer 2012 Annual Report // © 2012 Destination Imagination, Inc. 5 DI Opens New Office in Asia As a result of explosive growth worldwide, Destination Imagination opened an office in Singapore in June of 2012. The office will support and expand our educational
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