Officers of the Corporation, Honorary Trustees,Board of Trustees, and Board of Overseers

Board of TrusteesKaren G. Baroody

Roger S. Berkowitz

Anthony Bordon

Linda K. Carlisle

Joseph Chow

Nirav Dagli

Mark L. DiNapoli

Deborah Joelson

Robin G. Jones

Michael B. Keating

Thomas McCrorey

Nancy May

Yasmin Namini

Bhasker Natarajan

Erica Gervais-Pappendick

Patricia A. Parcellin

James Rooney

Sylvia Stevens-Edouard

Christopher C. Thompson

Christopher Yens

Michael W. Yogman, M.D.

Board of OverseersDexter Bachelder

Amy E. Barnett

Bithiah Carter

Todd Cassler

PA d’Arbeloff

Lawrence S. DiCara

Saskia Epstein

Sally Fogerty

Allison Burman Gordon

Andrew Hoffman †

Stefanie Janoff

Mieko Kamii

Tricia Kosowsky

Stephen Kunian

R. Thomas Manning

Robin E. Mount

Benjamin Nye

Sean O’Neill

Heidi C. Pearlson

Marlene Seltzer

Meredith Clark Shachoy

Scott Simpson †

Geoff Stein

Brigid Sullivan

Katherine Taylor

Cathy Thorn

Todd Truesdale

Alice Turkel

Richard C. Walker III

Officers of theCorporation Chair, Michael W. Yogman

Vice Chair, Patricia Parcellin

Treasurer, Christopher Thompson

Secretary, Linda Carlisle

Immediate Past Chair, Jonathan L. Rounds

Museum President, Carole Charnow

Honorary TrusteesAnne M. Blodget

John Bok

David H. Burnham

Hamilton Coolidge

James S. Davis

Edith B. Forrester

Robert C. Healey

Polly S. Kisiel

Susan Winston Leff

Anne R. Lovett

Jean M. McGuire

Thomas E. Moloney

Kyra L. Montagu

Kathryn Cochrane Murphy

Sherif A. Nada

Yori Oda

Suzanne Pucker

Christopher W. Rogers

Jonathan L. Rounds

Robert P. Schechter

Stanley F. Schlozman

Harold Sparrow

Cynthia Taft

Benaree P. Wiley

Katherine B. Winter

Trustee DesignatesWing Delatorre

Wendy Fischman

Jane Post

† Overseer Co-Chair

Overseer DesignatesEssence M. Arzu

Jason Janoff

Kate Leness

Helen Rosenfeld

Dana Vickey

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Boston Children’s Museum engages children and

families in joyful discovery experiences that instill

an appreciation of our world, develop foundational

skills, and spark a lifelong love of learning.

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Mission

Table of Contents

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;

• Native Voices, an exhibit conceived with members of five New England tribes, which was developed and built in our own Roxbury production facility, and is 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. The Museum is fortunate to be at the intersection of creative play, hands-on learning, 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,

—Carole Charnow, President & CEO and Dr. Michael Yogman, Board Chair

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Letter from the President and Chair of the Board of Trustees

The Year in Review

2

Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival

90 Kids from Kyoto

Big Apple Circus FUNraiser Event

The Caterpillars of Eastern Massachusetts Exhibit

Boston Ballet Day

Diwali Celebration

Critter Day

The Wizard of Oz Exhibit

Explore Collections

Building BrainstormExhibit

KidsJam @Club Common

In the Bag Exhibit

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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 readiness, interest and awareness of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math), and public awareness of the importance of early education and care (through the United Way of Mass Bay and the state’s Brain Building in Progress initiative).

“BCM has contributed to the school readiness of thousands of students who came to the Museum to play when they were one or two years old. This is a unique and innovative opportunity to connect early learning and development in informal environments,” said Jeri Robinson, BCM’s vice president of Early Childhood and Family Learning. “Museums and libraries are ideal places to emphasize activities that get children ready for school success.”

—Beth Fredericks, Program Director, Race to the Top — Museum and Libraries Project

About Beth FredericksProgram Director, Race to the Top — Museumand Libraries Project

Beth Fredericks has more than 30 years of experi-ence in early childhood education. She and her children were frequent visitors to Boston Children’s Museum in the 1980s. Since then she has been a teacher, advocate, and online community builder for Internet sites for boomers and grandparents.

“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 this an awesome opportunity. It’s really exciting to listen to Museum and Library partners in a high-energy brainstorm session imagining what more

they can do to encourage families to come in to play and learn.”

Race to the TopEarly Learning Challenge Grant

583,359

Total visitor attendance for FY12:

Native Voices

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About Ben Durrell Exhibit Designer/Production Manager

Over the past seven years, Ben Durrell has used his talents to design and produce exhibits ranging in size from 400–2,000 square feet. His favorite so far has been the recent Native Voices. Ben describes his main task as “listening. My job is about translating content

and goals into experiences via environments and interactives.” With a degree in Furniture Design from Savannah College of Art and Design, Ben’s creative work has reached far beyond BCM’s walls. He has been designing objects and spaces for the last 20 years. He has participated with design collectives, shown at venues such as the Tokyo Designers Block, designed furniture and inte-riors for MIT, and currently teaches product design at MassArt.

Last January, Boston Children’s Museum opened a new cultural exhibition, Native Voices: New England Tribal Families, that built on six decades of close collaboration with native communities throughout New England. The Museum’s exhibition team worked closely with a distinguished group of native advisors to choose appropriate materials from our collection, select meaningful tribal images and stories, and depict the New England landscape so central to native identity.

Creating this exhibit took two years. While BCM staff went on location to film tribal members participating in activities as diverse as the cranberry harvest and tobogganing in a heavy snowstorm, our design and production staff worked at our facilities in Roxbury to re-create five very different settings. The resulting exhibition takes visitors through four New England seasons. Through hands-on activities, compelling immersive environments, and evocative artifacts, both old and new, visitors meet members of the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot of Maine, the Narragansett of Rhode Island, 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 United States 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 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.

—Kate Marciniec, Traveling Exhibits/Exhibit Project Manager and Rachel Farkas, Collections Manager

Total number of Target $1 Friday

night visitors:

58,9346

At long last, the need for greater investment in early childhood has risen to the top of the nation’s agenda. Broad coalitions are forming to effectuate meaningful change.

Last November, BCM proudly played a pivotal role in convening a statewide meeting that brought together advocates for children and families, childcare providers, museum professionals, pediatricians, neuroscientists, and business leaders. The 2011 Summit on Early Childhood: Investment in our Future was co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Chapter of American Academy of Pediatrics (MCAAP), Strategies for Children, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and Boston Children’s Museum. Speakers presented new insights in early childhood brain development, the current state of children’s education and mental health services, and the business case for early childhood investment. 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.

BCM played a strong role in the proceedings. Museum President and CEO Carole Charnow welcomed the attendees, and Dr. Michael Yogman, BCM board chair, and Jeri Robinson, 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 April 5, 2013. In order to engage the widest possible audience, the 2013 Summit will include a Parent Fair on Saturday, April 6th at BCM which will translate theory into practice for visiting children and families.

—Leslie Swartz, Senior Vice President, Research and Program Planning

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Early Childhood SummitAbout Michael W. Yogman, M.D. Chair, BCM Board of Trustees

When Michael Yogman became chair last November, it was the first time that a pedi-atrician had led the Board of Trustees. With a practice in Cambridge, Dr. Yogman is also on the faculty of Harvard Medical School where he teaches and does research on the father-child relationship, developmental interventions, and nutrition and behavior.

A trustee since 2000, Yogman says “It is my great privilege to work with the incredibly talented Museum staff who work passionately and tirelessly to improve the lives of all children.”

He also advises the national collaboration of Children’s Museums Go Kids initiative to combat obesity, and has served on the Executive Board of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics since 2002.

Total number of international visitors:

12,096

Corporate ConnectionsOddAnimals at BCM

Manager Level ($1,500-$2,499)

Anonymous

AEW Capital Management, L.P.

Babson Capital Management LLC

Bethesda Lodge, No. 30, I.O.O.F.

Boston Children’s Hospital

Boston Police Detectives Benevolent Society

Collective Brands Performance + Lifestyle Group

Dunkin’ Brands, Inc.

Massachusetts General Hospital

NFA Corporation

Proskauer

Residences at the InterContinental

South Shore Area Local No. 3844

Wheelock College

Associate Level ($600-$1,499)

AstraZeneca, L.P.

Burns & Levinson LLP

Center For Families

Child & Family Services, Inc.

Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Newmarket International, Inc.

Somerville Early Head Start

The Children’s Workshop

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The Corporate Connections program provides area businesses an opportunity to give back to the community in which their employees work and live. From March through June, our Gallery featured a whimsical

exhibit including an alligator with a tiara, a soft sculpture of Octearny (the eight-legged rabbit creature), and a feathered porcupine. This show, OddAnimals, resulted from a creative collaboration with Boston Children’s Hospital.

In 2011, children’s book author and illustrator Jef Czekaj completed a unique artist residency with kids at Boston Children’s Hospital. Using a workbook Jef created, kids described the habitats, diet, and physical characteristics of OddAnimals: creatures that may have never before been documented by the human eye. Kids were also able to express how their animals felt, creating a sort of art therapy. Jef worked with show curator Emily Isenberg, making vibrant drawings based on the children’s artwork. The Hall of OddAnimals was displayed in the Hospital lobby as part of the Creative Arts Program.

At the Museum, Collections Manager Jennifer Jensen and Senior Manager of Community Programs and Partnerships Megan Dickerson worked with Jef and Emily to envision a studio space where Jef would take on the role of an artist-naturalist (à la Audubon) and ask our visitors to help him discover NEW OddAnimals. In addition to selecting over 40 collections items, several local artists expanded on Jef’s drawings, creating 3-D objects. Not only did this exhibit delight our own visitors, Boston Children’s Hospital and BCM also co-hosted an event here highlighting the hospital’s patient services, including the Creative Arts Program.

—Karin Blum, Senior Director of Development

36,775

Total number ofschool, camp, and community visitors:

President Level ($10,000+)

Bank of America

Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, Inc.

Medical Information Technology, Inc.

The MathWorks, Inc.

Executive Level ($5,000-$9,999)

Anonymous

Analog Devices, Inc.

Berklee College of Music

Cabot Corporation

Citizens Bank of Massachusetts

Eaton Vance Management

Genzyme Corporation

Harvard Outings & Innings

Liberty Mutual Group

State Street Corporation

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation

The Boston Globe Foundation

TJX Companies, Inc.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Director Level ($2,500-$4,999)

Boston Post Office Social & Recreation Committee

Cengage Learning

Charles River Laboratories, Inc.

Codman & Shurtleff, Inc.

Fidelity Investments

Greater Boston Catholic Charities

Hub International New England, LLC

IBM

International Data Group

MIT Activities Committee

Monster Worldwide, Inc.

Parent Talk

Philips Healthcare

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Octearny /äk-ti( )r-ne/(eight-legged rabbit creature)

e

The Museum’s collection comprises

more than

items.50,000

Friends $1,000-$2,499

Anonymous (5)

Telis & Wendy Bertsekas

Karin & Gerald Blum

Michelle Boyers & Brad Gerstner

Karen Bressler & Scott Epstein

Robert & Caroline Collings

Flora E. & Anita E. D’Angio

Brit d’Arbeloff

Mark & Laura DiNapoli

Yena Do & Chico Sajovic

Wendy & Benjamin Fischman

Sena & Jeff Gore

Winifred Perkin Gray

Highland Street Foundation

Linda A. Hill & Roger Breitbart

Robin & Tripp Jones

Reid & Tara Jordan

Alison & Isaac Judd

Mieko Kamii & Donald Hafner

Michael B. Keating

Lois & Stephen T. Kunian

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Linde Family Foundation

Nancy May & Richard Fish

Sean & Lisa McGrath

Jessica & Luke Meekins

Robin E. Mount & Mark Szpak

Kathryn & Glenn Murphy

Mary & Sherif Nada

Janna & Sean O’Neill

Suzanne & Bernard Pucker

Penelope & Andrew Savitz

April & Geoff Stein

Sylvia Stevens-Edouard & Chelinde Edouard

Kate & Ben Taylor

Dana Vickey

Mrs. Jeptha H. Wade

Richard C. Walker, III

Adam & Rita Weiner

Katherine B. Winter

Chairman’s Circle $2,500-$4,999

As a part of our mission to reach children in Boston’s neediest neighborhoods, our board chair Dr. Michael Yogman has created the Chairman’s Circle. This new group of $2,500+ donors share a commitment to sustaining the Museum’s efforts in “leveling the sandbox,” addressing the

ever increasing poverty level in Boston.

Barkan Management Company, Inc.

Amy & Keith Barnett

Bithiah Carter & Andrew Hoffman

Edelstein & Company LLP

Foley Hoag LLP

Edie & Peter Forrester

Greater Boston Chamber Of Commerce

Jason & Stefanie Janoff

William & Lynn Kargman

Tom & Claire Manning

Tom & Barbara Moloney

Benjamin Nye & Jenny Pyle

Victoria & Mark Oliva

Heidi Carter Pearlson & Lewis Pearlson

Jane Post

Helen Rosenfeld & Asheesh Advani

Bob & Susan Schechter

Stan & Kay Schlozman

Lori & Matthew Sidman

Scott Simpson & Nancy Kuziemski

State Street Corporation

The Boston Foundation

The Mentor Network

Cathy A. Thorn & Eric P. Geller

Best Friends $5,000-$9,999

Anonymous (2)

Bank of America

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Tony & Catherine Bordon

Linda Carlisle & Robert Mast

The Cassler Family

Fay M. Chandler

Carole Charnow & Clive Grainger

Joe & Selina Chow

Citizens Bank of Massachusetts

The Daglis

Eaton Vance Management

Saskia Epstein

Deborah Joelson

Children’s Champion $25,000+

Anonymous (2)

Barbara & Amos Hostetter

Anne R. Lovett & Stephen G. Woodsum

President’s Clubhouse $10,000-$24,999

Bain Capital Children’s Charity

Stephen Blyth & Anita Gajdecki

Inavale Foundation Inc.

Krupka/Kubik Family

New Balance Foundation

Erica & Ted Pappendick

Patricia A. Parcellin

Eve & Jon Rounds

Michael W. Yogman & Elizabeth K. Ascher

Pals $500-$999

Anonymous (2)

Susan Appelbaum

Essence & Aaron Arzu

Amy L. Auerbach & Leo F. Swift

Jill Becker

Vladimir & Michal Birjiniuk

Mark & Maribeth Brostowski

Dr. and Mrs. Edmund Cabot

Monica & Greg Cantone

Mary & Scott Carson

Nicole & Michael Conlon

Patricia & Nathan Dowden

Lisa Fiore

Liza Franzene & Guy Scott

Peter Gelhaar & Christa Comeau

David & Sarah Healy

High on the Hog, Inc.

Emily Hughey

Renee Inomata & Paul Lee

Thomas Johnson

Marla Kannel

Joshua Klevens & Anna Sinaiko

Kate & Tony Leness

Jennifer Nassour & Charles J. Brucato

Gretchen & Mike Novak

Monica O’Neil & Stephen M. Jennings

Lia & William Poorvu

James & Maryanne Rooney

CJ Rugani

Alan & Elizabeth Schlosberg

Jim & Debby Stein Sharpe

Brigid Sullivan

Mark & Kelan Thomas

Todd M. Truesdale

Alice Turkel & Edward Mitchell Ryerson

Kristin & Warren Valdmanis

Donald Vaughan

Yun Soo & Adrian Vermeule

Bennie & Flash Wiley

Kenneth Witkin & Susan Edbril

Regina Yando & John Mordes

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Donors to our Annual Fund provide the crucial unrestricted support that helps the Museum meet its areas of greatest need and fulfill our mission. This year’s list also includes those individuals and corporations who supported our Big Apple FUNraiser in April 2012.

Thank You for Your Generous Support

Massachusetts Convention Center Authority

Thomas & Catherine McCrorey

Kyra & Jean Montagu

Yasmin Namini

Bhasker Natarajan & Teresa Chick

Chris & Niña Rogers

Susan & Dan Rothenberg

Sovereign Bank

Stephanie & Brian Spector

Suffolk Construction

Geraldine & Gabriel Sunshine

Cynthia Taft & Dick Egdahl

Christopher & Elizabeth Thompson

Penny & Jeff Vinik

Christopher Yens & Temple Gill

Total number ofsponsored group visits attendees:

11,892

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Partnerships21st CCLC After School Collaborative for Educational Service (ACES)

ABCD Head Start

American Chemical Society (New England Chapter)

American Psychological Society

Arts Emerson

Associated Early Care and Education

Berklee College of Music

Big Apple Circus

Boston After School & Beyond

Boston Ballet

Boston Centers for Youth and Families

Boston Children’s Chorus

Boston Children’s Hospital: Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience

Boston College: Lynch School of Education Thinking and Learning Lab; Department of Psychology, Arts and Mind Lab; Emotion Development Lab; Infant and Child Cognition Center

Boston Community Partnerships for Children

Boston Globe

Boston Harbor Association

Boston Local Food Festival

Boston Nature Center

Boston Public Health Commission

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Boston Public Library

Boston Public Schools

Boston Public Schools Department of Extended Learning Time, Afterschool & Services (DELTAS)

Boys and Girls Club of Woburn

Brookline Extended Day

Brookline Public Schools

Cambridge Department of Human Service Programs

Cambridge Public Schools

CAYL Institute

Chicago Children’s Museum

Chelsea Reach

City of Kyoto, Japan

Consulate General of Italy

Consulate General of Japan

Matching GiftsAmeriprise Financial, Inc

Cooper Industries

ExxonMobil Foundation

John Hancock Financial Services, Inc.

Liberty Mutual Insurance

Microsoft Corporation

State Street Corporation

Waters Corporation

Campaign for Children’s Wharf Pledge PaymentsAnonymous

Catherine & Paul Buttenwieser

Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation

Ernst & Young LLP

Anita Feins & Steven Lampert

William F. Griffin, Jr.

John Hancock Financial Services, Inc.

Mieko Kamii & Donald Hafner

Mark & Polly Kisiel

Lois & Stephen T. Kunian

Tammy & John MacWilliams

Aedie & John McEvoy

Eve & Jon Rounds

Shawmut Design and Construction

Kate & Ben Taylor

Boston Stories Project Led by former BCM director Michael Spock, this multi-media educational resource was created to benefit today’s generation of educators, museum practitioners and non-profit leaders. Over the past year, the following donors made gifts to support this important project.

Edie & Peter Forrester

John H. Growdon

Susan & Drew Leff

Kyra & Jean Montagu

Mary & Sherif Nada

Suzanne & Bernard Pucker

Chris & Niña Rogers

Bob & Susan Schechter

Stan & Kay Schlozman

Benjamin Schore

Judy & Michael Spock

Bennie & Flash Wiley

Katherine B. Winter

Staff GivingAmy L. Auerbach

Sylvia Bagaglio

Karin Blum

Charlie Brennan

Carole Charnow

Megan Dickerson

Cynthia M. Donovan

Beth Fredericks

Katherine C. Hughes

Marisa Lava

Linda Markarian

Ann Mayers

Charlayne Murrell-Smith

Rachel O’Neill

Marla Quiñones-Hill

Gail Ringel

Jeri Robinson

Haruka Sauda

Sponsored VisitsThe Sponsored Visits program opens our doors to kids who would not be able to afford a visit so that they, too, can take advantage of the opportunities for fun and hands-on learning that we provide.

$25,000+

Highland Street Foundation

Lowell Institute

The Boston Foundation

$5,000-$24,999

Abbot & Dorothy H. Stevens Foundation

Peter Norris & Amy Rugel

Schrafft Charitable Trust

$1,000-$4,999

Albert E. Pillsbury Trust

New England Aquarium

New Hampshire Department of Education

Orchard House

Paige Academy

Parent University, Boston Public Schools

Primary Source

Project Hope

Rose Kennedy Greenway

Save the Harbor Save the Bay

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Society of Women Engineers (MIT and West Point Chapters)

South Boston Community Health Center

South Boston Neighborhood House

South Shore Stars

Strategies for Children

The City School

The Community Group, Lawrence

The Encyclopedia of Life Project

The Theater Offensive

Thrive in Five

Triton Regional School District

United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley

WGBH

Wheelock College

Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning through the Arts

In-Kind GiftsWe are grateful to the following organizations and individuals for their generous donation of goods and services in support of our work.

Jody Adams

Barbara Lynch Gruppo

Big Apple Circus

Boston Bruins Foundation

Boston Red Sox Foundation

Boston University African Outreach Center

Celtics Basketball Limited Partnership

Ebisuya Japanese Market

Clive Grainger

Japan Village Mart

Gregory & Richard Jundanian

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.

Mihir & Vinita Shah

Recycled Paper Printing

Shoyeido Incense

Jill Silverstein

Spinnaker LLC

Suffolk Construction

The Container Store

The Improper Bostonian

Trader Joe’s

Marketing Sponsorships$50,000+

HP Hood LLC

Target Corporation

$2,000-$49,999

Axiom Learning

$500-$1,999

A & R Food Service Corporation

Barlow’s Restaurant

Boston.com

Frances Manzi Productions, Inc

Greater Media Marketing Group

The Improper Bostonian

Paranoid US

Viewfinder Productions, LLC

WBUR

Exhibits and Programs$100,000+

Highland Street Foundation

Massachusetts Cultural Council

Massachusetts Department of Early Education Care–Race to the Top

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

State Street Corporation

The Boston Foundation

The Kresge Foundation

$50,000 - $99,999

National Endowment for the Humanities

Perkin Fund

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation

The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership

Yawkey Foundation

$10,000-$49,999

Education Development Center, Inc.

Randolph J. Fuller

Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

National Endowment for the Arts

The Estate of Dorothy A. Wilson

$1,000-$9,999

Associated Grant Makers of Massachusetts

Funding Exchange

John H. Growdon

Museum Of Science

National Grid

Countdown to Kindergarten

Cradles to Crayons

Discover Roxbury

Doshisha Elementary School

Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative

Education Development Center

First Night

For Kids Only Afterschool Programs

Friends of Fort Point Channel

Gyeonggi Children’s Museum, South Korea

Handel and Haydn Society

Harvard University Asia Center

Harvard University, Laboratory for Developmental Studies

Harvard University, Making Learning Visible; Project Zero

Hasbro Summer Learning Initiative

Haverhill Public Schools

Japanese Association of Greater Boston

Japan Society of Boston

JazzBoston

Jumpstart

Kyoto City Hall

Kyoto City International Foundation

Lesley University

Little Sprouts

Longy School of Music

Malden YMCA

Massachusetts Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics

Massachusetts Family Literacy Coalition

Massachusetts Afterschool Partnership

Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care

Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

MIT Early Childhood Cognition Lab

MIT Japanese Association

MIT Media Lab

Mujeres Unidas Avanzando

Museum Institute for Teaching Science

Museum of Science

Nazareth Child Care Center

National Institute on Out-of-School Time

National Museum of the American Indian

Thank You for Your Generous Support

* Preliminary, unaudited results.

FISCAL 2012 EXPENSES*

Program Services

Building Operating Costs

General & Administrative

Fundraising

Marketing

FISCAL 2012 INCOME*

Gifts, Contributions & Grants

Admissions

Property Revenue

Memberships

Support from Endowment

Other Income

34%

5%5%13%

18%

25%

12%

18% 61%

4%5%

Annual Report 2012

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Amy Auerbach, CFO and Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration

Museum Senior Leadership Team:

Carole Charnow, President and CEO

Amy Auerbach, CFO and Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration

Karin Blum, Senior Director of Development

Charlayne Murrell-Smith, Vice President, Corporate Development and External Relations

Gail Ringel, Vice President, Exhibits

Jeri Robinson, Vice President, Education and Family Learning

Leslie Swartz, Senior Vice President, Research and Program Planning

Editorial Team: Jo-Anne Baxter, Karin Blum, Karin Hansen, Ann Mayers, Charlayne Murrell-Smith, and Leslie Swartz

Writers/contributors: Jeri Appier, Karin Blum, Rachel Farkas, Beth Fredericks, Kate Marciniec, and Leslie Swartz

Layout and Design: Karin Hansen

Photography: ©2012, Bill Gallery, Cora Carey, Akemi Chayama, Alissa Daniels, Allan Dines, Rachel Farkas, Clive Grainger, Karin Hansen, Paul Specht, Janet Stearns and Les Veilleux

The amounts noted in the preceding pages represent donations made between July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012. Boston Children’s Museum appreciates our donors who have contributed to the Museum in amounts less than $500. We are grateful for their support and regret that space limitations prevent us from listing their contributions. We have made every effort to produce an accurate listing of our donors, but realize that mistakes and omissions may have been made. If we have made an error regarding your listing, we apologize. Please let us know by calling 617-426-6500 x221 or emailing development@BostonChildrensMuseum.org. We appreciate your help in keeping our donor records accurate.

Given the overall US economic climate, the Museum’s financial strategy employed for fiscal 2012 was conservative, and was directly focused on achieving the program objec-tives derived from the four year Strategic Plan authorized by our Board of Directors. The preliminary results for the year demonstrate that the Museum has realized these goals.

Total Gifts, Grants and Contributions increased significantly year-to-year, and Management and our Board are satisfied with FY12 fundraising results, and dedicated to the achievement of even greater goals for FY13. This past year the Museum received strong support for our ongoing commitment to early childhood research and programs. The receipt of a portion of the nationally renowned “Race to the Top” grant was important independent recognition of the work done at BCM every day. From a purely operational basis, we were pleased to see admissions and membership, two of our key indicators of programmatic strength, up from the prior year, as well as a 4.4% increase in attendance from FY2011.

This year we enhanced the format for the Annual Report financial presentation though the use of our new accounting system. Noteworthy is the breakdown of our expenses, in particular the significant dollars spent on program and maintaining the building and property; and the low level of dollars spent on general and administrative, and fundraising/marketing activities.

As Management and the Board explore future opportunities for additional funding, the staff should be congratulated for all they have accomplished with the existing resources. As a result, Fiscal 2012 was a solid year and we are all ready to address the challenges in our future.

—Amy Auerbach, CFO and Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration

FY2012 Financial Summary

Operating ResultsINCOME

EXPENSES

FY 2011

FY 2011

FY 2012*

FY 2012*

FY 2012* FY 2011

Gifts, Contributions & Grants

Admissions

Memberships

Property Revenue

Other Income

Support from Endowment

Total Operating Revenue & Support

Program Services:

Visitor Services

Museum Programs

Exhibits

Member Services

TOTAL PROGRAM SERVICES

Support Services:

Building Operating Costs

General & Administrative

Fundraising

Marketing

TOTAL SUPPORT SERVICES

TOTAL EXPENSES

Beginning Balance

Contributions/Other Changes, Net

Spending Policy Transfer

Net Unrealized/Realized Gains

Total Investments

NET SURPLUS/DEFICIT BEFORE DEPRECIATION & INTEREST

Depreciation

Interest

TOTAL DEPRECIATION & INTEREST

NET SURPLUS/(DEFICIT)

$ 3,712,445

2,668,873

1,402,817

1,916,853

503,797

546,907

$ 10,751,692

$ 1,724,653

1,703,604

910,412

285,228

$ 4,623,897

$ 1,403,413

927,152

377,396

318,817

$ 3,026,778

$ 7,650,675

$ 3,101,017

$ 2,343,398

435,492

2,778,890

$ 322,127

$ 1,327,793

$ 2,514,522

407,520

2,922,042

($ 1,594,249)

$ 14,698,005

556,213

(426,928)

(484,231)

$ 14,343,059

$ 2,016,005

2,454,824

1,353,315

1,975,433

574,142

550,101

$ 8,923,820

$ 2,098,896

1,582,834

827,414

262,046

$ 4,771,190

$ 1,159,674

995,225

279,167

390,771

$ 2,824,837

$7,596,027

$ 12,727,404

814,984

(550,101)

1,705,718

$ 14,698,005

Investments, Market Value