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Client: Long Island Children's Museum
Project: Long Island Children's Museum 2002 Annual Report
Mission & Goals
The Long Island Children’s Museum (LICM) is a learning laboratory that inspires children and their adults through interdisciplinary, hands-on, fun experiences. LICM is a private, not-for-profit institution chartered by the New York State Board of Regents.
THE LONG ISLAND CHILDREN’S MUSEUM BELIEVES THAT:
Long Island Children 's Museum
• Children learn best by seeing, touching and doing;
• Children are motivated to learn when they are having fun;
• Children develop self-confidence when they can explore in a nurturing environment;
• Children who share positive experiences with others better understand and appreciate diversity;
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• Children encouraged to solve problems creatively will be better equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st Century.
“There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
”
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
AN N UAL REPORT
2001-2002
Long Island Children's Museum 11 Davis Avenue, Garden City, NY 11530 (516) 224-5800 www.licm.org
– ALBERT EINSTEIN
LICM Celebrates Its New Home
GRAND OPENING
GETTING STARTED
ON FEBRUARY 27, 2002, LICM'S BOARD OF TRUSTEES, STAFF
and volunteers were joined by wide-eyed school children,
eager Museum supporters and excited elected officials as we
officially opened our brand new, state-of-the-art, 40,000
square foot facility at Mitchel Center. Opening day marked
both the culmination of an over decade-long quest by LICM's
founders to build a permanent, world-class children’s
museum on Long Island, and the beginning of an era full of
wonderful new experiences and opportunities for Long
Island’s children and families.
The road to the new LICM began in the late 1980’s when a group of Long Island parents, educators, artists and
business leaders began to dream about creating a special place for children and families; a place focused on children
and their intellectual, emotional and social development; and an exciting place that would stimulate children’s
natural curiosity and educate through exploration and fun.
“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”
MOVING TO GROW CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
The new Museum has received extensive media coverage, including the front page and a glowing editorial in Newsday,
several articles in the New York Times and far-reaching coverage of programming in many of Long Island’s community
newspapers. LICM has also received plenty of television air time from News 12 and WLNY-TV 55 and was featured on
Cablevision’s “Neighborhood Journal” and WABC’s “L.I. Viewpoints.”
The new LICM is home to 12 innovative, hands-on exhibit
galleries, which invite exploration from curious young bodies
and minds; a 150-seat, state-of-the-art theater in which to
present interactive performances and workshops; three
classroom-sized learning studios for conducting fun and
educational programs and activities; the LICM Store,
brimming with creative toys; a spacious cafeteria with
vended snacks; ample parking and convenient access to
major roadways and public transportation.
– SOCRATES
That special place first opened in 1993 in a 5,400 square foot demonstration site at 550 Stewart Avenue in Garden
City, NY. Though the space could accommodate only 98 visitors at a time, the demonstration site hosted 75,000
visitors in its first year and more than 500,000 museum-goers between 1993 and 2001. This overwhelming response
from the public reinforced the board’s original belief that to better serve Long Islanders, a move to a larger,
permanent home would be necessary.
– WALT DISNEY
A NEW HOME
“Wisdom begins in wonder.”
“I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
More importantly, the community’s response to the new LICM has been tremendous. In the four months from our grand
opening to June 30, the end of our fiscal year, more than 86,000 people visited LICM and the Museum’s membership base
grew from roughly 500 to more than 3,600 families. Almost immediately after LICM's opening, school group visits were fully
booked through the end of the school year and summer group visits sold out quickly as well. Given this robust start, the new
LICM anticipates hosting between 250,000 and 300,000 visitors in its first year.
”
In 1998, Nassau County offered a 60-year, no-cost lease on a former aircraft hangar at Long Island’s historic Mitchel Field.
LICM seized the opportunity, and we launched our $17 million Moving To Grow Capital Campaign to support the Museum’s
move and expansion. After raising $12.6 million and securing a loan for the balance, construction on the new LICM began
in January 2001. We closed the doors of the demonstration site in September 2001 but continued to remain active in the
community through our outreach programming. We also kept busy packing, planning and training new staff so that we
would be ready to welcome the public when the new Museum opened in February 2002.
– THOMAS ALVA EDISON
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June 30, 2002
LICM's founders begin planning a
children’s museum for Long Island.
LICM is granted a Provisional
Charter by the New York State
Board of Regents and is incorporated in the State of New York.
LICM receives 501(c)(3) status as a
private, non-profit institution
from the Internal Revenue Service.
LICM's Board of Trustees meets with museum consultant Anne Butterfield and create
a master plan contemplating a demonstration site followed by a full-size museum.
LICM signs a no-cost lease with the
Long Island Lighting Company
(LILCO) for space at 550 Stewart
Avenue in Garden City.
550 STEWART AVENUE SITE OPENS.
100,000th visitor welcomed.
LICM signs lease with Nassau County
for Hangar #6 at Mitchel Center.
LICM's Board of Trustees launches
$17 million Moving To Grow
Capital Campaign.
GROUNDBREAKING FOR LICM'S NEW HOME.
Construction begins.
500,000th visitor welcomed at 550
Stewart Avenue site.
550 STEWART AVENUE SITE CLOSES.
LICM'S NEW HOME AT MITCHEL CENTER
OPENS TO THE PUBLIC.
LICM closes Fiscal Year 2001-2002. The LICM
capital campaign stands at $14.6 million.
Capital campaign
reaches $12.6 million.
LICM secures construction loan from
European American Bank (now Citibank).
86,000 visitors welcomed at the new LICM
in its first four months of operation.
“The brighter you are,
the more you have to learn.
”
– DON HEROLD
THE LONG ISLAND CHILDREN’S MUSEUM STRIVES TO:
• Foster children’s creative thinking, problem-solving skills, socially responsible values and behavior,
self-confidence, and self-esteem;
• Enhance the ability of adults to understand and guide children’s growth;
• Present innovative and interactive exhibits, performances, and programs;
• Provide opportunities for children and families from diverse backgrounds to learn together in a safe,
nurturing, inclusive and stimulating environment;
• Develop unique models for learning beyond the boundaries of the classroom;
• Attract thinkers and “tinkerers” of all kinds to share their visions and passions;
• Collaborate with other organizations and encourage a sharing of resources and talents
within the New York metropolitan community.
GROWING
A Message
from the President & Executive Director
A MESSAGE FROM
THE PRESIDENT&
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 01
EXHIBIT
GALLERIES 03
EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAMMING
& THEATER 05
COMMUNITY
COLLABORATION
11
OUTREACH
& TEACHER
TRAINING
13
CAPITAL
CAMPAIGN
15
LEADERSHIP
17
FINANCIAL
STATEMENTS 18
DONOR
SUPPORT 20
Dear Friends,
This past year has been one of tremendous growth and excitement at LICM as we
moved from our 5,400 square foot demonstration site on Stewart Avenue in Garden
City to our brand new, 40,000 square foot home at Long Island’s historic Mitchel Field.
Though construction on the new facility began in January 2001, the new LICM was
really born over a decade earlier, in the hearts and minds of its founders.
As before, LICM is committed to serving the needs of children and families from Long
Island’s diverse communities. With a permanent home, we are proud to take our place
among the Island’s established museums and cultural institutions that enrich the lives
of those who live, work and visit here. Our new facility and growing resources have
enabled LICM to reach many more people through an even wider variety of
programming offered in the Museum and in schools, libraries and other community
centers. Many of these innovative programs are highlighted in this annual report.
The process of designing and building the new LICM and planning educational
programs has truly been a collaborative effort. Our dedicated Board of Trustees, staff
and volunteers, in partnership with artists, exhibit developers, local educators,
students and community groups worked extremely hard to build upon the strengths
of the original LICM to create a new Museum of the highest quality. We think we’ve
succeeded. We hope you agree.
None of this would have been possible without the support of the many generous
individuals, corporations, foundations and government entities that share our belief in
the need to provide children and families with a safe and nurturing place where
childhood is celebrated and the power of play to inspire a love of learning is recognized.
As we reflect on this past year, it is appropriate that we extend a sincere thanks to all
those who have supported LICM throughout the years, and to the many new friends we
have made since our opening at Mitchel Center.
We are very excited about what LICM has become. We hope we can count on your
friendship to ensure that we are able to offer stimulating, informative and thoughtprovoking programming and exhibits for years to come. Together we will provide a
bright and exciting future for our children.
Sincerely,
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
& MUSEUM STAFF 22
Bonnie Thompson Dixon
Robert S. Lemle
Executive Director
President, Board of Trustees
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EXPLORING
Exhibit Galleries
LICM'S NEW HOME PROVIDES A STUNNING, TWO-STORY
showcase in which to feature 12 hands-on, interactive exhibit
galleries. All of LICM's exhibit galleries employ a multidisciplinary
and multi-sensory approach to learning; foster independent
and cooperative exploration; encourage concept development
and skill building; and provide a springboard for much of the
Museum’s educational programming.
Each LICM exhibit gallery has been thoughtfully designed and
constructed by nationally recognized exhibit experts and LICM
staff to offer an experience that can be shared by all family members, from the youngest of children, to parents, to grandparents.
LICM'S INAUGURAL EXHIBIT GALLERIES INCLUDE:
BRICKS & STICKS Investigate and shape our three-dimensional world
using a variety of building materials and interactive software.
BUBBLES Blur the boundary between play and experimentation as
you step inside a giant bubble, blow bubbles within bubbles, and
make a giant bubble honeycomb.
CHANGES & CHALLENGES Enter a house, school, or outdoor
environment and experience some of the challenges faced by
people with differing abilities.
CLIMBIT@LICM Stretch your muscles and imagination and alter
your perspectives while venturing through this two-story climbing
structure and its companion ramp.
mUSic Experience the magic of making and listening to music. Play
amazing instruments from around the world and investigate the
science of sound.
PATTERN STUDIO Explore patterns in art, nature, music, mathematics and history and begin to better understand our world.
SANDY ISLAND Shape a sand dune with wind, make sandy art, examine
microscopic sand grains and discover the world in a grain of sand.
TOOLBOX Use tools from around the world and from centuries past.
Turn trash into treasure at the recycle art center and construct your
own creations with wrenches, ratchets, pliers and more.
COMMUNICATION STATION Broadcast the news, create animations,
and explore the Internet and beyond in this exciting expansion of
one of LICM's original exhibit galleries.
TOTSPOT Crawl, climb, giggle, wiggle, jump, slide, pretend and play in
a safe environment designed especially for LICM's youngest
visitors and their grown-ups.
IT'S ALIVE! Take an amazing journey and discover the many ways
people and other living things grow, eat, move, sense and reproduce.
KALEIDOZONE Expect new and exciting surprises in this gallery of
changing exhibits and prototypes.
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ISCOVERING
Educational Programming & Theater
MORE THAN 86,000 CHILDREN AND ADULTS VISITED LICM
during the four months from our grand opening until June 30,
the end of our fiscal year, to explore the Museum’s 12
hands-on exhibit galleries and participate in interactive,
educational and fun programming. Some highlights included:
FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION
On May 11, Olga Lomaga and her grand-nephew, Ben, skillfully
demonstrated the art of Ukrainian Egg Painting to visitors as
the pair kicked off LICM's From Generation To Generation Folk
Arts Series. During the eight-week festival, folk artists
from across Long Island and the New York metropolitan area
presented their traditional crafts and talents for our visitors
who, in turn, took part in a variety of related
hands-on activities and workshops. Other folk
artists who participated in the series
include Haitian drummers Frisner
Augustin and 14-year old Joseph Roger
Jean, Kuang-Yu Fung and members of
Chinese Theater Works, traditional
Afro-Puerto-Rican musicians Los
Pleneros de la 21, and Irish dancer
Donny Golden, accompanied by
children from his dance school.
SCHOOL VISITS
If you build it they will come. We built the
new LICM and the school children have
come…in droves. In the four months from LICM's grand opening
until schools let out for the summer, LICM hosted more than
16,000 students and their teachers, who were eager to
experience and explore all that the new Museum had to offer.
LICM has well-trained “explainers” in each gallery to guide
lively dialogues sparked by the exhibits.The Museum’s training
program for full and part-time staff explainers is based on
American Association of Museum standards.
LEARNING STUDIOS
LICM's classroom-sized learning studios allow us to conduct
in-depth workshop and programming in an inviting and
focused environment. Last year, more than
5,500 school children took part in
learning studio workshops, like
Collage Tales, an interdisciplinary
workshop incorporating collagemaking, creative story writing
and telling, and math.
LICM's learning studios also host
scout badge and teacher training
workshops, as well as creative programs for the visiting public on
weekends, which provide valuable
opportunities for children and adults
to share the joys of learning together.
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ERFORMING
Educational Programming & Theater
THEATER AND PERFORMING ARTS
LICM's 150-seat, state-of-the-art theater has allowed the
Museum to build on a popular performing arts program from its
demonstration site and continue to entertain, inspire and teach
children about the performing arts of many cultures through
exposure to interactive artists in diverse media, including dance,
music, film, theater arts, storytelling and puppetry.
LICM's theater has already hosted a bevy of professional
children’s performers with outstanding local and national
reputations, such as physical comedian Chip Bryant;
African-American dancer, singer and storyteller Robbi
Kumalo; innovator of interactive puppetry Liz Joyce; and
performers from the National Circus Project.
The theater has also provided an arena for local children,
including dancers from the Mineola Portuguese Folk
Dancers and Roosevelt’s New Life Entertainment, and
martial arts students from the Y.H. Park Tae Kwan Do School
in Williston Park, to demonstrate their considerable talents
and skills while inviting audience members young and old to
join them on stage and become a part of the show.
On June 29, we were delighted to host the internationally
renowned percussion quartet, Talujon, in our mUSic gallery
as the group premiered an interactive musical piece
commissioned exclusively for LICM, and which will be used
by the Museum on an ongoing basis.
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CRE ATING
Educational Programming & Theater
LICM's education staff has also developed age-appropriate
theater workshops for weekday school groups. All LICM
theater performances and performing arts workshops
and activities place children at the center of the creative
process, with an emphasis on helping them acquire skills
and tools to better understand themselves and the
world around them.
Museum staff also hosted “Positive Discipline,” LICM's
first workshop for parents and caregivers.
Much work has also been put into the further development of LICM's Family Resource Center, an area adjacent
to TotSpot where caregivers can access vital information
about early childhood and parenting issues and connect
to other helpful parenting resources in our community.
ART EXHIBITS
LICM's walls have provided a unique backdrop on which to
exhibit the artistic creations of hundreds of Long Island
children. A collection of theater masks made collaboratively
by students from the Mill Neck School for the Deaf and
Bayville Intermediate School, and black-and-white
photographs taken by participants of Getting Focused, a
Hempstead-based social services program, were just two
of the well received children’s art exhibits hosted by LICM.
TOT PROGRAMS
LICM has received a tremendous response to programming
designed for pre-school visitors to our TotSpot gallery.
TotTunes, an interactive song, music and rhythm program,
and Stories Plus Craft, a combination story time and related
craft activity, have been extremely popular with visitors.
LICM's early childhood staff was available to discuss early
childhood and parenting issues with our adult visitors.
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SHARING
Community Collaboration
LISTENING TO MANY VOICES WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY IS
critical to ensuring that LICM truly meets the needs of the
children and families we serve. This sharing of ideas was
particularly important during the planning and building of
the new LICM.
An excellent example of this teamwork can be seen in the
design and construction of LICM's TotSpot, a gallery created
expressly for children ages birth to four. Initial development
of the gallery included extensive focus group interviews
with local and national educators, early childhood experts,
parents, exhibit designers, and teenagers who were once
children’s museum-goers themselves. Planning participants
included faculty from Hofstra University and Nassau
Community College, as well as staff from the North Shore Child
and Family Guidance Center. Exhibit A Design Group, Inc., which
has collaborated on early childhood activity areas for children’s
museums across the country, designed the installations.
In another example, teachers and students from the
National Center for Disabilities Studies’ Henry Viscardi
School in Albertson served as informal consultants to
renowned climbing structure developer Tom Luckey in the
designing of ClimbIt@LICM, a one-of-a-kind, two-story
sculpture and climbing exhibit that allows both able-bodied
and physically challenged individuals to participate in a
unique climbing experience.
Community input has also been vital to LICM programming.
LICM's From Generation To Generation Folk Arts Festival would
not have been nearly as successful or authentic without the
sharing of ideas between Museum staff and members of
community cultural organizations, including the African
American Museum, the African American Heritage
Association, the Chinese Cultural Association of Long Island
Chinese School, La Fuerza Unida, Inc., the Haitian American
Family Association of Long Island, the Long Island Quilters’
Society and the Irish Cultural Society of the Garden City Area.
LICM's commitment to encouraging and listening to many
voices contributes to the Museum’s aims of becoming a
modern day “Town Square,” a safe place where children
and adults from diverse backgrounds can gather together
to learn and play, experience and have fun; and a
community resource where effective parenting and
teaching strategies and ideas can be shared by parents,
teachers and community members alike.
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TEACHING
Outreach & Teacher Training
LICM FIRST DEVELOPED EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
outreach programs that travel to schools, libraries, and
community centers in 1998. Today, LICM's outreach
design and make their own quilts using traditional and
original symbols.
workshops discover stories that African-American quilts
Outreach programs offer wonderful opportunities for
adults to learn along with children, to observe how
children learn best, and to see children interact with their
teachers and peers. The workshops enable parents and
caregivers to gain valuable insights into their children’s
worlds and are a way of bringing LICM into the
community, an especially important service for families
unable to travel to the Museum.
told in the days before America’s Civil War and then
In addition to our outreach programs for children and
programs are diverse and speak to many interests. The
Spirit of Invention program encourages children and their
adults to combine elements of technology and use problem-solving skills and their imaginations as they transform
recycled and readily available materials to create futuristic
inventions of their own. Participants in the Freedom Quilts
LICM outreach programs include:
Acrobats and Circuses
Book It
Bubbles
Build It
Celebrate
Changes& Challenges
Chinese Calligraphy
Class Act I
Class Act II
Crack the Code
Drums Around the World
Early American Folklore
Fish Tales
Fortune Creations
Freedom Quilts
Hoof Prints
Making Faces
Music For Everyone
Number Fun
Patchwork Art
Pop Up Folktales
Ready, Set, Go
The Spirit of Invention
Y2KBugs
families, LICM also conducts staff development
workshops for local educators. These popular workshops
focus on hands-on teaching techniques and model
activities that can be easily replicated by teachers in
their own classrooms.
Last year, LICM brought outreach programming and staff
development workshops to more than 11,600 children,
adults and teachers across Long Island.
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UPPORTING
Capital Campaign
BRINGING THE NEW LICM TO LIFE REQUIRED THE SUPPORT OF
the entire Long Island community. When LICM asked for help
in funding the new Museum, our many friends old and new
came through in a big way.
MOVING TO GROW
As of June 30, 2002, LICM's Moving To Grow Capital Campaign,
which was launched in 1998 to finance the construction of the
new Museum, had raised $14.6 million towards its $17
million goal, making it one of the largest non-hospital, college
or university capital campaigns ever conducted on Long Island.
The capital campaign’s success to date can be attributed to
the full commitment of the Museum’s Board of Trustees, as
well as strong backing from both long-time and more recent
LICM supporters. Hundreds of individuals and families; dozens
of area corporations, including Cablevision Systems
Corporation, Reckson Associates Realty Corp., WLNY-TV 55 and
the Dreyfus Corporation; a number of major foundations and
Nassau County contributed financial assistance or in-kind
resources to this landmark building project.
Largely as a result of the capital campaign, LICM was able to
expand its donor base from the roughly 50 supporters who
helped sustain the Museum’s demonstration site to our
nearly 1,000 current supporters.
CREATE! CELEBRATE!
On September 29, 2001, more than 800 friends of LICM
turned out for the Museum’s first fundraising event,
Create! Celebrate!, held at Mitchel Athletic Complex, across the
street from LICM. The event netted over $270,000 to support
our capital campaign.
Create! Celebrate! was co-chaired by Debby and Scott
Rechler and honored long-time LICM supporter, KeySpan,
and the Museum’s founders, Lisa Greene, Richard
Hamburger, Jill Stamberg Jarnow, Al Jarnow, Roni
Kohen-Lemle and Robert Lemle.
GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
LICM is extremely grateful for the generous in-kind support it
received from Nassau County, which invited us to become a
part of the Museums at Mitchel Center, a 15-acre cultural
development that also includes the Cradle of Aviation
Museum and an IMAX theater. Nassau County provided the
infrastructure for the museum complex and continues to
provide significant site maintenance.
The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) provided
funding to assist LICM's exhibit and program development,
including grants that partially funded our From Generation To
Generation Folk Arts Series, a newly-enhanced staff training
program for Museum Explainers, and the fabrication of our
ClimbIt@LICM exhibit. NYSCA also funded a commissioned
musical piece from the percussion quartet Talujon, which the
group premiered in our mUSic gallery.
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GUIDING
Leadership
JUST AS A CHILD’S HEALTHY GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
require sound and steady nurturing from loving parents
and caregivers, so does LICM's, particularly during this
time of expansion.
LICM has been fortunate to have had strong and stable
leadership since its inception. Four of LICM's six founders are
still active members of the Board of Trustees. The Museum’s
board represents a broad range of professions, backgrounds,
talents and skills, and more than half of its members have
served terms longer than five years. Also adding to the
continuity and strength of leadership at LICM, Executive
we serve. LICM's staff has grown from 11 to 22 full-time
employees and from 22 to more than 60 part-timers.
Last year, LICM also relied on the talents of more than 100
volunteers, whose ranks included retired teachers, business
people, homemakers and students, and who logged over
4,100 hours of service to LICM in the four months between
the Museum’s February 27 grand opening and June 30, the
end of our fiscal year.
Director Bonnie Thompson Dixon just completed her ninth
year at the Museum’s helm. Collectively, LICM's senior staff
has over 80 years of Museum and other non-profit
management experience.
As LICM's physical size and attendance numbers have grown,
so has our multi-talented staff of professionals and volunteers.
In addition to augmenting LICM's three previously existing
departments – Exhibits, Education & Programs, and
Development & Marketing – the Museum has developed a
Department of Visitor & Support Services to further enhance
our visitors’ Museum experiences. Broad-based recruitment
efforts during LICM's recent expansion have ensured that
our staff reflects the diversity of the Long Island community
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T HE L ONG I SLAND C HILDREN ' S M USEUM
Statement of Financial Position
YEAR END JUNE 30, 2002
CHANGES IN UNRESTRICTED NET ASSETS:
YEAR END JUNE 30, 2002
ASSETS
REVENUE AND OTHER SUPPORT
Cash and Cash Equivalents
$2,016,355
$501,789
Contributions Receivable (Note 1)
3,550,209
274,057
Inventory and Prepaid Expenses
Contributed Services
134,666
Fixed Assets, Net
11,312,066
Memberships
223,409
Total Assets
$16,899,952
Museum Store
108,551
Education Fees
62,365
Birthday Parties
41,659
Admissions
Contributions (Note 1)
Interest Income
Miscellaneous
405
4,776
1,351,677
Net Assets Released From Restrictions
Total Unrestricted Revenue and Other Support
21,322
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
Liabilities:
Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses
Loan Payable (Note 2)
1,968,311
Total Liabilities
192,620
8,000,000
8,192,620
3,319,988
Net Assets:
EXPENSES
Program Services
1,382,015
Unrestricted
4,173,748
Temporarily Restricted
4,533,584
Supporting Services:
Management and General
Development
Total Net Assets
1,063,817
Total Supporting Services
1,361,067
Total Expenses
2,743,082
Increase in Unrestricted Net Assets
Contributions (Note 1)
State Grant
576,906
1,232,318
10,000
Interest Income
35,711
Loss on Sale of Contributed Securities
(1,168)
Net assets Released from Restrictions
(1,968,311)
Decrease in Temporarily Restricted Net Assets
Decrease in Net Assets
$16,899,952
Note 1:
CONTRIBUTIONS & CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVABLE
Contributions receivable at June 30, 2002 represent amounts pledged to the Museum for its capital campaign.
The Museum began accepting contributions for this capital campaign in fiscal 1998. The Board of Trustees has
authorized the campaign with the purpose of providing the necessary funding for construction and renovation of
the hanger at Mitchel Field, exhibit design and fabrication, site development, four years of annual fund support,
development, and financing costs.
For the year ended June 30, 2002, contributions to the capital campaign (net of discount) were $1,232,318, and
unrestricted contributions were $274,057. As of June 30, 2002, the capital campaign has received contributions (including pledges) aggregating $10,964,732, of which $3,800,181 (before discount) is included in
contributions receivable.
(691,450)
(114,544)
NET ASSETS - BEGINNING OF YEAR
$8,821,876
NET ASSETS - END OF YEAR
$8,707,332
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Total Liabilities and Net Assets
8,707,332
297,250
CHANGES IN TEMPORARILY RESTRICTED NET ASSETS:
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Note 2:
LOAN PAYABLE
In March 2001, the Museum entered into a financing agreement with a commercial bank that permitted the Museum
to borrow up to $8 million for the construction of a new building and the design and fabrication of certain exhibits.
FINANCIAL
FINANCIAL
Statement of Activity & Net Assets
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Long Island Children's Museum Donors
BENEFACTOR
First American Title Insurance
Company of New York
FAMILY SPONSORS
DiFazio Electric, Inc.
$250 - $999
$25,000 - $49,999
$5,000 - $9,999
Richard Eisner & Company
Elizabeth & Leon Barsky (in-kind)
THROUGH JUNE 30, 2002
Ellen & William Bell
Garden City Hotel
The Sgouros Family
Debi & Jeffrey Feinstein
The Boisi Family
Ikea
Susan & Leonard Feinstein
Binney & Smith – Crayola
Dream-Makers
Miriam & Robert Caslow
Kohler Company (in-kind)
Margaret Cuomo Maier
& Howard Maier
Norma & Norm Goldberg
Borders Group, Inc. (in-kind)
Ernst & Young, LLP
New York State United Teachers
Hamburger, Maxson & Yaffe LLP
Barbara & Allen Breslow
Amy & Horace Hagedorn
New York Stock Exchange, Inc.
Herrick Feinstein, LLP
Marguerite Brophy & Geoff Cassell
Roseann & Paul Lettieri
Lisa & Brandon Curran
Levon Graphics Corp.
Jamie & David Deming
Maureen & George Marr
Phyllis & Gerald Ente
The Matassa Family
Nina Foley
Lisa & Lane Maxson and
Anna & David Yaffe
Fraternal Order of Police Surgeons
Lodge No. 3
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris
Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.
Gerald & Lynette Frey
$2,500 - $4,999
Movado Group, Inc.
Sarah & Peter Golon
Nancy & Ken Bob
Beth & Ronald Ostrow
Central Staff Services, Inc.
Joanne & Bill Quinn
GIVING
FOUNDERS CIRCLE
$1,000,000 and above
Cablevision Systems Corporation
From Our Hearts, Inc.
Roni Kohen-Lemle & Robert S. Lemle
Lazer, Aptheker, Rosella & Yedid, P.C.
The Dana Wigutoff Memorial
Foundation
Nassau County (in-kind)
Lisa Greene & Richard Hamburger
Glenn Tyranski
Reckson Associates Realty Corp.
& The Rechler Family
J. Roderick MacArthur Foundation
Elizabeth & Brian Madden
$500 - $4,999
WLNY-TV 55/The Pascucci Family
Judith & Donald Rechler
The Anglican Foundation
Jodi & Robert Rosenthal
The Bosnak Family
$500,000 - $999,999
Roslyn Savings Foundation
Catherine Casey & Stuart Newby
Mr. & Mrs. Lewis S. Ranieri
Sony (in-kind)
LEADERS CIRCLE
PRESIDENTS CIRCLE
$250,000 - $499,999
Associate Gifts
PARTNER
Susan & Leonard Feinstein
$15,000 - $24,999
Leo & Trude Lemle Family Foundation
Anonymous (1)
Bonnie & Robert Dixon
New York State Council on the Arts
Allison and David Rosen
PACESETTER
$100,000 - $249,999
Carol & Brian Cohen
SUSTAINER
$10,000 - $14,999
Cisco Systems, Inc. (in-kind)
Barbara & Stanley Amelkin (in-kind)
Verna & David George
The Kopf Family Foundation
Susan & Lawrence Kadish
The Mayrock/Fortunoff Family
Wallace Reader’s Digest Special
Projects Fund at New York
Community Trust
Country Plaza Associates
Fidelity National Title Insurance
Company
Freddie Mac Foundation
The Dreyfus Corporation
Major Gifts
COMMUNITY GIFTS
Maureen & George Marr
Latin Percussion Inc. (in-kind)
Legg Mason Realty
Harold Leviton
Leviton Manufacturing Company
Long Island Analytical Labs
Fran Murray
Yvonne Nicholas
The Timberland Company
Audrey & Marvin Schein
Goldman Sachs and Company
Insignia/ESG, Inc.
Jackson, Lewis, Schnitzler
& Krupman
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc.
Lefkowitz, Louis & Sullivan, LLP
Long Island Power Authority
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP
Mr. & Mrs. Roger Rechler
CHILDREN’S SPONSORS
Forchelli, Curto, Schwartz, Mineo,
Carlino & Cohn, LLP
M. Robert Goldman & Co.
Kimco Realty Corp.
Elizabeth & Brian Madden
Laura & Ted May
Rockway Fuel
Satterlee, Stephens, Burke
& Burke LLP
Susie & Mike Silverstein
UBS Warburg
United Realty
Sultan Architecture + Design
CONTRIBUTIONS
2001 SPECIAL EVENT
DONORS
EVENT SPONSORS
$25,000 and above
ANNUAL FUND DONORS
THROUGH JUNE 30, 2002
Renee & Gregory Hughes
Marnee & Eric Kaltman
Stephanie & David Lawrence
Elaine Lotruglio
Ann & Giona Maiarelli
Nassau County Association for the
Education of Young Children
United Parenting Publications (in-kind)
Sara & Michael Craig-Scheckman
Patti & David Silber
Stacy & Doug Von Elm
Abraham Chehebar
KPMG Peat Marwick (in-kind)
Michelle & Robert Wallach
Tony Della Salla
Levon Graphics (in-kind)
The Heller Foundation
New York State Council on the Arts
Edward Herbst
Yellow Book USA (in-kind)
$50,000 - $99,999
Wingate Inn Garden City
Computer Associates International, Inc.
Americana Manhasset
Barbara & Donald Zucker
KeySpan
The Barker Welfare Foundation
COMMUNITY BUILDER
Nancy & Kenneth Bob
$5,000 - $9,999
CORPORATE SPONSORS
The Bodman Foundation
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
$10,000 - $24,999
Raiff Partners, Inc.
Susan & Mark Claster
The Blattmachr Family
Darby & Darby P.C.
The Taubman Company
Levon Graphics Corp. (in-kind)
Patricia Caesar
Lori & Stephen Garofalo
JOURNAL
Nancy & Edwin Marks
Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Co.
Trude Lemle
$1,000 and above
$1,000 - $2,499
Partners of Sullivan & Cromwell
Daytech Manufacturing Inc. (in-kind)
Rivkin Radler, LLP
Rita & Frank Castagna
Fabrikant Chiropractic Office (in-kind)
Sterling & Sterling, Inc.
EAB
The Signature Group
The Claster Family
The Tulchin Family Foundation
Judy & Fred Wilpon
Feldman, Kramer & Monaco
WLNY – TV 55
Cohen & Company LLC
Contributors to the Gravity Well
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Elissa & Michael Hammerman
KeySpan (in-kind)
Barbara Chang
& Jerry Colonna
Cablevision Systems Corporation
& Madison Square Garden (in-kind)
Reckson Associates Realty Corp.
Lauren & Scott Goodman
$10,000 and above
Waldner’s Business Environments
(in-kind)
PATRON
Buela & Jack Friedman
Mini-Makers of Long Island
Rebecca & Morty Schaja
$1,000 and above
McMillan, Rather, Bennett & Rigano, P.C.
Florence & Robert Rosen
GIVING
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
DONORS
Leadership Gifts
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Kirsten & Peter Kern
Tracy & Jonathan Landow (in-kind)
$5,000 - $9,999
Marsha & Scott Layden
Fleet Bank
Levon Graphics Corp. (in-kind)
$2,500 - $4,999
The Bloomingdale’s Fund of the
Federated Foundation
We have included all gifts
received from July 1, 2001 through
June 30, 2002.
If there is an error in this listing,
please accept our apologies and
notify our development office
at (516) 224-5822,
so that we can correct our records.
Printing generously donated by
Levon Graphics Corp.
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Board of Trustees & Museum Staff
LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM BOARD OF TRUSTEES*
Robert S. Lemle
Rev. Adrienne Brewington
Roni Kohen-Lemle
Scott Rechler
Martin Gary Brooks, Ed.D.
Brian Madden
Paul A. Schulman
Brian Cohen
George Marr
Charol Shakeshaft, Ph.D.
Treasurer
Richard Hamburger
Yvonne Nicholas
Lewis Warren, Jr.
Glenn Tyranski
S. Maxwell Hines, Ph.D.
Carol Polsky
Education and Programs
Shannon Michel
Education Interns
Kandel Allard
Monica Mughal
A.J. Garavuso
Bonnie Thompson Dixon
Executive Director
Eli Alvarez
Samantha Murdock
Katherine Santiago
Helen Basile
Christine Murray
Toni Ward
Rhoda Andors
Director of Education
& Programs
James Benedetto
Lauren Mylonas
Robin Wunsch
Elizabeth Campbell
Deepti Nair
Claire Conway
Monica Nedab
Exhibits
Wolf Braunstein
Director of Graphic Design
Vania Delgado
Theri Negretti
Danea Silkiss
Lawrence Diamond
Tiffani Norman
Jennifer Sumner
Catherine Casey
Director of Development
& Marketing
Cindy Lou Edwards
Ngozichi Nwosu
Kim Wagner
Jeanette Ferraro
Audrey O’Malley
Caryn Fisch
Jim Packard
Paul Orselli
Director of Exhibits
Anne Fontana
Mayra Padro
Harriet Arolick
Aimee Fromick
Julia Patterson
Joi Chapman
Janet Tempel
Director of Visitor
& Support Services
Karen Gibson
Mildred Reese
Karen D’Alauro
Peter Giordano
Shirley Resnick
Amy Dev
Jenn Gordon
Jazmine Silkiss
Jennifer Fugina
Denise Lewis
Controller
Randee Gresge
Eva Sipkova
Ron Green
Faun Guarino
Michelle Siry
Rhea Gringhaus
Maria Jonas
LICM Store Manager
Heidi Hacsi
Victoria Skachinsky
Lillian Hertzberg
Elise Harris
Linda Smith
Jordan Hickam
Karen Hunt
Robert Spink
Gulshan Mughal
Celina Ilham
Jacklynn Stern
Daniel Nauke
Shassa Jackson-Carroll
Svatava Stern
Rosalou Onate
Carla Jaszczerski
Shavone Walker
Farrah Rampat
Erik Karff
Paula Wang
Eric Storch
Elizabeth Kisseleff
Clarice Washington
Jessica Krumerman
Eric Weissbrot
LICM Store
Kristine Lopez
Mark Wilson
Ann Fugina
Douglas Majano
Colette Wirz
Janice Kiel
Justin Manjures
Dara Zekowski
Barbara Lewinter
Katrina McDowell
Joanna Zocco
President
Lisa Greene
Vice President
Kenneth Bob
Secretary
LICM SENIOR STAFF*
LICM STAFF*
Development and Marketing
Tama Borer
Donna Cave
Larry Maier
Nancy Pfeffer
Visitor and Support Services
The Long Island Children's Museum also wishes to thank the over 100 volunteers who generously donated their
time and talents to the new LICM since our February 27, 2002 grand opening.
*As of October 31, 2002
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