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Date: 01/06/03 Client: Long Island Children's Museum Project: Long Island Children's Museum 2002 Annual Report SP STUDIOS DESIGN & MARKETING SERVICES Specifications for Long Island Children’s Museum 24-page (plus additional-panel foldout) + Cover Annual Report Printing: CO VER : 4 pages + 1-panel foldout on front-cover (6-pages total). 8.5"x 11" (scored&FOLDED), 25.5"x 11" (FLAT); 5/5 (4-COLOR PROCESS + Overall Aqueous Varnish). Please use rub-resistant Inks. NOTE: Front Cover has Additional foldout panel (see drawing at right) INTERIOR P ages : 24 pages + additional-page foldout on interior page #1 (26 page total). 8.5"x 11" (finished Size) ; 5/5 (4-COLOR PROCESS + Overall Aqueous Varnish) Please use rub-resistant Inks. NOTE: Interior Page #1 has Additional foldout panel (see drawing at right) PAPER STOCK OPTIONS: A) COVER: Monadnock 120# Uncoated Cover “Astrolite” smooth finish INT. PGs.: Monadnock 65# Uncoated Cover “Astrolite” smooth finish B) COVER: Lustro Gloss 120# 2-side Coated Cover “white” INT. PGs.: Lustro Gloss 65# 2-side Coated Cover “white” C) COVER: Dull Coated Cover; 120# 2-side DULL-Coated Cover “white” INT. PGs.: Dull Coated Cover; 65# 2-side DULL-Coated Cover “white” Stitched or Perfect Bind

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Date: 01/06/03

Client: Long Island Children's Museum

Project: Long Island Children's Museum 2002 Annual Report

SP STUDIOSD E S I G N & M A R K E T I N G S E R V I C E S

Specifications for Long Island Children’s Museum 24-page (plus additional-panelfoldout) + Cover Annual Report Printing:

COVER: 4 pages + 1-panel foldout on front-cover (6-pages total).8.5"x 11" (scored&FOLDED), 25.5"x 11" (FLAT); 5/5 (4-COLOR PROCESS+ Overall Aqueous Varnish). Please use rub-resistant Inks.

NOTE: Front Cover has Additional foldout panel (see drawing at right)

INTERIOR Pages: 24 pages + additional-page foldout on interior page #1 (26page total).

8.5"x 11" (finished Size) ; 5/5 (4-COLOR PROCESS + Overall AqueousVarnish) Please use rub-resistant Inks.

NOTE: Interior Page #1 has Additional foldout panel (see drawing at right)

PAPER STOCK OPTIONS:A) COVER: Monadnock 120# Uncoated Cover “Astrolite” smooth finishINT. PGs.: Monadnock 65# Uncoated Cover “Astrolite” smooth finish

B) COVER: Lustro Gloss 120# 2-side Coated Cover “white” INT. PGs.: Lustro Gloss 65# 2-side Coated Cover “white”

C) COVER: Dull Coated Cover; 120# 2-side DULL-Coated Cover “white”INT. PGs.: Dull Coated Cover; 65# 2-side DULL-Coated Cover “white”

Stitched or Perfect Bind

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The Long Island Children’s Museum (LICM) is a learning laboratory that inspires children and their adults through interdiscipli-nary, 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:• 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;

• Children encouraged to solve problems creatively will be better equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st Century.

Mission& Goals

“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.”– ALBERT EINSTEIN

Long Island Children's Museum 11 Davis Avenue, Garden City, NY 11530 (516) 224-5800 www.licm.org

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GRAND OPENINGON FEBRUARY 27, 2002, LICM'S BOARD OF TRUSTEES, STAFFand volunteers were joined by wide-eyed school children,eager Museum supporters and excited elected officials as weofficially opened our brand new, state-of-the-art, 40,000square foot facility at Mitchel Center. Opening day markedboth the culmination of an over decade-long quest by LICM'sfounders 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 LongIsland’s children and families.

“Wisdom begins in wonder.”– SOCRATES

LICM Celebrates Its New HomeGETTING STARTEDThe 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 childrenand their intellectual, emotional and social development; and an exciting place that would stimulate children’s natural curiosity and educate through exploration and fun.

That special place first opened in 1993 in a 5,400 square foot demonstration site at 550 Stewart Avenue in GardenCity, 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 responsefrom the public reinforced the board’s original belief that to better serve Long Islanders, a move to a larger,permanent home would be necessary.

A NEW HOMEThe new LICM is home to 12 innovative, hands-on exhibitgalleries, which invite exploration from curious young bodiesand minds; a 150-seat, state-of-the-art theater in which topresent interactive performances and workshops; threeclassroom-sized learning studios for conducting fun andeducational programs and activities; the LICM Store,brimming with creative toys; a spacious cafeteria with vended snacks; ample parking and convenient access tomajor roadways and public transportation.

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 onCablevision’s “Neighborhood Journal” and WABC’s “L.I. Viewpoints.”

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 basegrew from roughly 500 to more than 3,600 families. Almost immediately after LICM's opening, school group visits were fullybooked through the end of the school year and summer group visits sold out quickly as well. Given this robust start, the newLICM anticipates hosting between 250,000 and 300,000 visitors in its first year.

“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”– WALT DISNEY

MOVING TO GROW CAPITAL CAMPAIGNIn 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’smove 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 thecommunity through our outreach programming. We also kept busy packing, planning and training new staff so that wewould be ready to welcome the public when the new Museum opened in February 2002.

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“I have not failed.I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

– THOMAS ALVA EDISON

September 28, 2001550 STEWART AVENUE SITE CLOSES.

February 27, 2002LICM'S NEW HOME AT MITCHEL CENTEROPENS TO THE PUBLIC.

June 30, 2002LICM closes Fiscal Year 2001-2002. The LICMcapital campaign stands at $14.6 million.

86,000 visitors welcomed at the new LICMin its first four months of operation.

July 1998LICM's Board of Trustees launches $17 million Moving To GrowCapital Campaign.

November 15, 2000GROUNDBREAKING FOR LICM'S NEW HOME.

January 2001Construction begins.

Capital campaignreaches $12.6 million.

March 2001500,000th visitor welcomed at 550Stewart Avenue site.

LICM secures construction loan fromEuropean American Bank (now Citibank).

February 1993LICM signs a no-cost lease with theLong Island Lighting Company(LILCO) for space at 550 StewartAvenue in Garden City.

November 21, 1993550 STEWART AVENUE SITE OPENS.

April 1995100,000th visitor welcomed.

February 1998LICM signs lease with Nassau Countyfor Hangar #6 at Mitchel Center.

1989LICM's founders begin planning achildren’s museum for Long Island.

July 1990LICM is granted a ProvisionalCharter by the New York StateBoard of Regents and is incorpo-rated in the State of New York.

November 1990LICM receives 501(c)(3) status as a private, non-profit institutionfrom the Internal Revenue Service.

January 1992LICM's Board of Trustees meets with muse-um consultant Anne Butterfield and createa master plan contemplating a demonstra-tion site followed by a full-size museum.

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“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.

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A Message from the President & Executive Director

Dear Friends,

This past year has been one of tremendous growth and excitement at LICM as wemoved from our 5,400 square foot demonstration site on Stewart Avenue in GardenCity 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 wasreally 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 LongIsland’s diverse communities. With a permanent home, we are proud to take our placeamong the Island’s established museums and cultural institutions that enrich the livesof those who live, work and visit here. Our new facility and growing resources haveenabled LICM to reach many more people through an even wider variety of programming offered in the Museum and in schools, libraries and other communitycenters. 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, staffand volunteers, in partnership with artists, exhibit developers, local educators,students and community groups worked extremely hard to build upon the strengthsof the original LICM to create a new Museum of the highest quality. We think we’vesucceeded. 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 inthe 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 allthose who have supported LICM throughout the years, and to the many new friends wehave made since our opening at Mitchel Center.

We are very excited about what LICM has become. We hope we can count on yourfriendship to ensure that we are able to offer stimulating, informative and thought-provoking programming and exhibits for years to come. Together we will provide abright and exciting future for our children.

Sincerely,

Bonnie Thompson DixonExecutive Director

Robert S. LemlePresident, Board of Trustees

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BRICKS & STICKS Investigate and shape our three-dimensional worldusing a variety of building materials and interactive software.BUBBLES Blur the boundary between play and experimentation asyou step inside a giant bubble, blow bubbles within bubbles, andmake 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 climbingstructure and its companion ramp.COMMUNICATION STATION Broadcast the news, create animations,and explore the Internet and beyond in this exciting expansion ofone of LICM's original exhibit galleries.IT'S ALIVE! Take an amazing journey and discover the many ways people and other living things grow, eat, move, sense and reproduce.

mUSic Experience the magic of making and listening to music. Playamazing instruments from around the world and investigate the science of sound.PATTERN STUDIO Explore patterns in art, nature, music, mathemat-ics and history and begin to better understand our world.SANDY ISLAND Shape a sand dune with wind, make sandy art, examinemicroscopic 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 yourown creations with wrenches, ratchets, pliers and more.TOTSPOT Crawl, climb, giggle, wiggle, jump, slide, pretend and play ina safe environment designed especially for LICM's youngestvisitors and their grown-ups.KALEIDOZONE Expect new and exciting surprises in this gallery ofchanging exhibits and prototypes.

LICM'S INAUGURAL EXHIBIT GALLERIES INCLUDE:

Exhibit GalleriesLICM'S NEW HOME PROVIDES A STUNNING, TWO-STORYshowcase in which to feature 12 hands-on, interactive exhibitgalleries. All of LICM's exhibit galleries employ a multidisciplinaryand multi-sensory approach to learning; foster independentand cooperative exploration; encourage concept developmentand skill building; and provide a springboard for much of theMuseum’s educational programming.

Each LICM exhibit gallery has been thoughtfully designed andconstructed by nationally recognized exhibit experts and LICMstaff to offer an experience that can be shared by all family mem-bers, from the youngest of children, to parents, to grandparents.

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MORE THAN 86,000 CHILDREN AND ADULTS VISITED LICMduring 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 GENERATIONOn May 11, Olga Lomaga and her grand-nephew, Ben, skillfullydemonstrated the art of Ukrainian Egg Painting to visitors asthe pair kicked off LICM's From Generation To Generation FolkArts Series. During the eight-week festival, folk artists from across Long Island and the New York metropolitan areapresented their traditional crafts and talents for our visitors

who, in turn, took part in a variety of relatedhands-on activities and workshops. Other folkartists who participated in the seriesinclude Haitian drummers FrisnerAugustin and 14-year old Joseph RogerJean, Kuang-Yu Fung and members ofChinese Theater Works, traditionalAfro-Puerto-Rican musicians LosPleneros de la 21, and Irish dancerDonny Golden, accompanied by children from his dance school.

SCHOOL VISITS If you build it they will come. We built thenew LICM and the school children have

come…in droves. In the four months from LICM's grand openinguntil schools let out for the summer, LICM hosted more than16,000 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 trainingprogram for full and part-time staff explainers is based onAmerican Association of Museum standards.

LEARNING STUDIOSLICM's classroom-sized learning studios allow us to conductin-depth workshop and programming in an inviting and

focused environment. Last year, more than5,500 school children took part in

learning studio workshops, likeCollage Tales, an interdisciplinary

workshop incorporating collage-making, creative story writingand telling, and math.

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LICM's 150-seat, state-of-the-art theater has allowed theMuseum to build on a popular performing arts program from itsdemonstration site and continue to entertain, inspire and teachchildren about the performing arts of many cultures throughexposure 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 nationalreputations, 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 FolkDancers and Roosevelt’s New Life Entertainment, and martial arts students from the Y.H. Park Tae Kwan Do Schoolin Williston Park, to demonstrate their considerable talentsand skills while inviting audience members young and old tojoin them on stage and become a part of the show.

On June 29, we were delighted to host the internationallyrenowned percussion quartet, Talujon, in our mUSic galleryas the group premiered an interactive musical piece commissioned exclusively for LICM, and which will be usedby the Museum on an ongoing basis.

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GLICM's education staff has also developed age-appropriatetheater workshops for weekday school groups. All LICMtheater performances and performing arts workshopsand activities place children at the center of the creativeprocess, with an emphasis on helping them acquire skillsand tools to better understand themselves and theworld around them.

ART EXHIBITSLICM's walls have provided a unique backdrop on which toexhibit the artistic creations of hundreds of Long Islandchildren. A collection of theater masks made collaboratively

by students from the Mill Neck School for the Deaf andBayville Intermediate School, and black-and-white photographs taken by participants of Getting Focused, aHempstead-based social services program, were just twoof the well received children’s art exhibits hosted by LICM.

TOT PROGRAMSLICM has received a tremendous response to programmingdesigned 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 relatedcraft activity, have been extremely popular with visitors.

LICM's early childhood staff was available to discuss earlychildhood and parenting issues with our adult visitors.

Museum staff also hosted “Positive Discipline,” LICM'sfirst workshop for parents and caregivers.

Much work has also been put into the further develop-ment of LICM's Family Resource Center, an area adjacentto TotSpot where caregivers can access vital informationabout early childhood and parenting issues and connectto other helpful parenting resources in our community.

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Community CollaborationLISTENING TO MANY VOICES WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY IScritical 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 ofthe new LICM.

An excellent example of this teamwork can be seen in thedesign and construction of LICM's TotSpot, a gallery createdexpressly for children ages birth to four. Initial developmentof the gallery included extensive focus group interviewswith local and national educators, early childhood experts,parents, exhibit designers, and teenagers who were once

children’s museum-goers themselves. Planning participantsincluded faculty from Hofstra University and NassauCommunity College, as well as staff from the North Shore Childand Family Guidance Center. Exhibit A Design Group, Inc., whichhas collaborated on early childhood activity areas for children’smuseums across the country, designed the installations.

In another example, teachers and students from theNational Center for Disabilities Studies’ Henry ViscardiSchool in Albertson served as informal consultants torenowned climbing structure developer Tom Luckey in thedesigning of ClimbIt@LICM, a one-of-a-kind, two-story sculpture and climbing exhibit that allows both able-bodiedand physically challenged individuals to participate in aunique climbing experience.

Community input has also been vital to LICM programming.LICM's From Generation To Generation Folk Arts Festival wouldnot have been nearly as successful or authentic without thesharing of ideas between Museum staff and members ofcommunity cultural organizations, including the AfricanAmerican Museum, the African American HeritageAssociation, the Chinese Cultural Association of Long IslandChinese School, La Fuerza Unida, Inc., the Haitian AmericanFamily 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 amodern 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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LICM FIRST DEVELOPED EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL outreach programs that travel to schools, libraries, andcommunity centers in 1998. Today, LICM's outreach programs are diverse and speak to many interests. TheSpirit of Invention program encourages children and theiradults to combine elements of technology and use prob-lem-solving skills and their imaginations as they transformrecycled and readily available materials to create futuristicinventions of their own. Participants in the Freedom Quiltsworkshops discover stories that African-American quiltstold in the days before America’s Civil War and then

design and make their own quilts using traditional andoriginal symbols.

Outreach programs offer wonderful opportunities foradults to learn along with children, to observe how children learn best, and to see children interact with theirteachers and peers. The workshops enable parents andcaregivers to gain valuable insights into their children’sworlds and are a way of bringing LICM into the community, an especially important service for familiesunable to travel to the Museum.

In addition to our outreach programs for children and

families, LICM also conducts staff developmentworkshops for local educators. These popular workshopsfocus 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 staffdevelopment workshops to more than 11,600 children,adults and teachers across Long Island.

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the entire Long Island community. When LICM asked for helpin funding the new Museum, our many friends old and newcame through in a big way.

MOVING TO GROWAs of June 30, 2002, LICM's Moving To Grow Capital Campaign,which was launched in 1998 to finance the construction of thenew Museum, had raised $14.6 million towards its $17 million goal, making it one of the largest non-hospital, collegeor university capital campaigns ever conducted on Long Island.

The capital campaign’s success to date can be attributed tothe full commitment of the Museum’s Board of Trustees, as

well as strong backing from both long-time and more recentLICM supporters. Hundreds of individuals and families; dozensof area corporations, including Cablevision SystemsCorporation, Reckson Associates Realty Corp., WLNY-TV 55 andthe Dreyfus Corporation; a number of major foundations andNassau County contributed financial assistance or in-kindresources to this landmark building project.

Largely as a result of the capital campaign, LICM was able toexpand its donor base from the roughly 50 supporters whohelped 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 supportour capital campaign.

Create! Celebrate! was co-chaired by Debby and ScottRechler and honored long-time LICM supporter, KeySpan,and the Museum’s founders, Lisa Greene, RichardHamburger, Jill Stamberg Jarnow, Al Jarnow, Roni Kohen-Lemle and Robert Lemle.

GOVERNMENT SUPPORTLICM is extremely grateful for the generous in-kind support itreceived from Nassau County, which invited us to become apart of the Museums at Mitchel Center, a 15-acre cultural

development that also includes the Cradle of AviationMuseum and an IMAX theater. Nassau County provided theinfrastructure for the museum complex and continues to provide significant site maintenance.

The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) providedfunding to assist LICM's exhibit and program development,including grants that partially funded our From Generation ToGeneration Folk Arts Series, a newly-enhanced staff trainingprogram for Museum Explainers, and the fabrication of ourClimbIt@LICM exhibit. NYSCA also funded a commissionedmusical piece from the percussion quartet Talujon, which thegroup premiered in our mUSic gallery.

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LeadershipJUST AS A CHILD’S HEALTHY GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENTrequire sound and steady nurturing from loving parentsand caregivers, so does LICM's, particularly during thistime of expansion.

LICM has been fortunate to have had strong and stable leadership since its inception. Four of LICM's six founders arestill active members of the Board of Trustees. The Museum’sboard represents a broad range of professions, backgrounds,talents and skills, and more than half of its members haveserved terms longer than five years. Also adding to the continuity and strength of leadership at LICM, Executive

Director Bonnie Thompson Dixon just completed her ninthyear at the Museum’s helm. Collectively, LICM's senior staffhas over 80 years of Museum and other non-profitmanagement 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 existingdepartments – Exhibits, Education & Programs, andDevelopment & Marketing – the Museum has developed aDepartment of Visitor & Support Services to further enhanceour visitors’ Museum experiences. Broad-based recruitmentefforts during LICM's recent expansion have ensured thatour staff reflects the diversity of the Long Island community

we serve. LICM's staff has grown from 11 to 22 full-timeemployees and from 22 to more than 60 part-timers.

Last year, LICM also relied on the talents of more than 100volunteers, whose ranks included retired teachers, businesspeople, homemakers and students, and who logged over4,100 hours of service to LICM in the four months betweenthe Museum’s February 27 grand opening and June 30, theend of our fiscal year.

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THE LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM YEAR END JUNE 30, 2002

CHANGES IN UNRESTRICTED NET ASSETS:

REVENUE AND OTHER SUPPORT Admissions $501,789Contributions (Note 1) 274,057Contributed Services 134,666Memberships 223,409Museum Store 108,551Education Fees 62,365Birthday Parties 41,659Interest Income 405Miscellaneous 4,776

1,351,677Net Assets Released From Restrictions 1,968,311

Total Unrestricted Revenue and Other Support 3,319,988

EXPENSESProgram Services 1,382,015Supporting Services:

Management and General 1,063,817Development 297,250

Total Supporting Services 1,361,067Total Expenses 2,743,082Increase in Unrestricted Net Assets 576,906

CHANGES IN TEMPORARILY RESTRICTED NET ASSETS:

Contributions (Note 1) 1,232,318State Grant 10,000Interest Income 35,711Loss on Sale of Contributed Securities (1,168)Net assets Released from Restrictions (1,968,311)

Decrease in Temporarily Restricted Net Assets (691,450)Decrease in Net Assets (114,544)

NET ASSETS - BEGINNING OF YEAR $8,821,876NET ASSETS - END OF YEAR $8,707,332

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ASSETS

Cash and Cash Equivalents $2,016,355Contributions Receivable (Note 1) 3,550,209Inventory and Prepaid Expenses 21,322Fixed Assets, Net 11,312,066

Total Assets $16,899,952

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

Liabilities:Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses 192,620Loan Payable (Note 2) 8,000,000

Total Liabilities 8,192,620

Net Assets:Unrestricted 4,173,748Temporarily Restricted 4,533,584

Total Net Assets 8,707,332Total Liabilities and Net Assets $16,899,952

Note 1:CONTRIBUTIONS & CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVABLEContributions 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 hasauthorized the campaign with the purpose of providing the necessary funding for construction and renovation ofthe 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, andunrestricted contributions were $274,057. As of June 30, 2002, the capital campaign has received contribu-tions (including pledges) aggregating $10,964,732, of which $3,800,181 (before discount) is included in contributions receivable.

Note 2:LOAN PAYABLEIn March 2001, the Museum entered into a financing agreement with a commercial bank that permitted the Museumto borrow up to $8 million for the construction of a new building and the design and fabrication of certain exhibits.

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Leadership Gifts

FOUNDERS CIRCLE$1,000,000 and above

Cablevision Systems Corporation Roni Kohen-Lemle & Robert S. LemleNassau County (in-kind)Reckson Associates Realty Corp.

& The Rechler Family WLNY-TV 55/The Pascucci Family

LEADERS CIRCLE $500,000 - $999,999

Mr. & Mrs. Lewis S. Ranieri

PRESIDENTS CIRCLE $250,000 - $499,999

The Dreyfus Corporation Susan & Leonard Feinstein Leo & Trude Lemle Family Foundation

Major Gifts

PACESETTER $100,000 - $249,999

Carol & Brian Cohen Cisco Systems, Inc. (in-kind)Verna & David George Susan & Lawrence Kadish The Mayrock/Fortunoff Family Wallace Reader’s Digest Special

Projects Fund at New York Community Trust

PATRON $50,000 - $99,999

Americana ManhassetThe Barker Welfare Foundation Nancy & Kenneth Bob The Bodman Foundation Susan & Mark Claster Levon Graphics Corp. (in-kind) Nancy & Edwin Marks Partners of Sullivan & Cromwell Sterling & Sterling, Inc.Judy & Fred Wilpon

BENEFACTOR $25,000 - $49,999 Ellen & William Bell The Boisi Family Miriam & Robert Caslow Ernst & Young, LLP Amy & Horace Hagedorn From Our Hearts, Inc.Lazer, Aptheker, Rosella & Yedid, P.C.Lisa Greene & Richard Hamburger J. Roderick MacArthur Foundation Elizabeth & Brian Madden Judith & Donald Rechler Jodi & Robert Rosenthal Roslyn Savings Foundation Sony (in-kind)

Associate Gifts

PARTNER $15,000 - $24,999

Anonymous (1) Bonnie & Robert Dixon New York State Council on the Arts Allison and David Rosen

SUSTAINER $10,000 - $14,999

Barbara & Stanley Amelkin (in-kind) The Kopf Family Foundation Maureen & George Marr McMillan, Rather, Bennett & Rigano, P.C.Florence & Robert Rosen Audrey & Marvin Schein Waldner’s Business Environments

(in-kind) Wingate Inn Garden City Barbara & Donald Zucker

COMMUNITY BUILDER $5,000 - $9,999

Automatic Data Processing, Inc.The Blattmachr Family Patricia Caesar Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Co.Daytech Manufacturing Inc. (in-kind) EAB Feldman, Kramer & Monaco

First American Title Insurance Company of New York

Garden City Hotel Ikea Kohler Company (in-kind) New York State United Teachers New York Stock Exchange, Inc.The Dana Wigutoff Memorial

Foundation Glenn Tyranski

COMMUNITY GIFTS $500 - $4,999

The Anglican Foundation The Bosnak Family Catherine Casey & Stuart Newby Country Plaza Associates Fidelity National Title Insurance

Company Freddie Mac Foundation Latin Percussion Inc. (in-kind) Legg Mason Realty Harold Leviton Leviton Manufacturing Company Long Island Analytical Labs Fran Murray Yvonne Nicholas The Timberland Company

2001 SPECIAL EVENTDONORS

EVENT SPONSORS $25,000 and above

Cablevision Systems Corporation & Madison Square Garden (in-kind)

Computer Associates International, Inc.KeySpanReckson Associates Realty Corp.

CORPORATE SPONSORS $10,000 - $24,999

Darby & Darby P.C.Lori & Stephen Garofalo Trude LemleRivkin Radler, LLPThe Signature GroupWLNY – TV 55

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FAMILY SPONSORS $5,000 - $9,999

The Sgouros FamilyMargaret Cuomo Maier

& Howard MaierGoldman Sachs and CompanyInsignia/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 $2,500 - $4,999

Nancy & Ken Bob

Central Staff Services, Inc.

Forchelli, Curto, Schwartz, Mineo,Carlino & Cohn, LLP

M. Robert Goldman & Co.

Kimco Realty Corp.

Elizabeth & Brian Madden

Laura & Ted May

Rebecca & Morty Schaja

Sultan Architecture + Design

CONTRIBUTIONS $1,000 and above

Barbara Chang & Jerry Colonna

Abraham Chehebar

Tony Della Salla

The Heller Foundation

Edward Herbst

Kirsten & Peter Kern

Tracy & Jonathan Landow (in-kind)

Marsha & Scott Layden

Levon Graphics Corp. (in-kind)

Raiff Partners, Inc.

The Taubman Company

JOURNAL $1,000 and above

Rita & Frank Castagna The Claster Family Cohen & Company LLC

DiFazio Electric, Inc.Richard Eisner & Company Debi & Jeffrey Feinstein Susan & Leonard Feinstein Norma & Norm Goldberg Hamburger, Maxson & Yaffe LLP Herrick Feinstein, LLP Roseann & Paul Lettieri Levon Graphics Corp.Maureen & George Marr The Matassa Family Lisa & Lane Maxson and

Anna & David Yaffe Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris

Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.Movado Group, Inc.Beth & Ronald Ostrow Joanne & Bill Quinn Rockway Fuel Satterlee, Stephens, Burke

& Burke LLP Susie & Mike Silverstein UBS Warburg United Realty

ANNUAL FUND DONORSTHROUGH JUNE 30, 2002

$10,000 and above

KeySpan (in-kind) KPMG Peat Marwick (in-kind) Levon Graphics (in-kind) New York State Council on the Arts Yellow Book USA (in-kind)

$5,000 - $9,999

Fleet Bank

$2,500 - $4,999

The Bloomingdale’s Fund of the Federated Foundation

$1,000 - $2,499

Fabrikant Chiropractic Office (in-kind)The Tulchin Family Foundation Contributors to the Gravity Well

$250 - $999

Elizabeth & Leon Barsky (in-kind)

Binney & Smith – Crayola Dream-Makers

Borders Group, Inc. (in-kind)

Barbara & Allen Breslow

Marguerite Brophy & Geoff Cassell

Lisa & Brandon Curran

Jamie & David Deming

Phyllis & Gerald Ente

Nina Foley

Fraternal Order of Police SurgeonsLodge No. 3

Gerald & Lynette Frey

Buela & Jack Friedman

Sarah & Peter Golon

Lauren & Scott Goodman

Elissa & Michael Hammerman

Renee & Gregory Hughes

Marnee & Eric Kaltman

Stephanie & David Lawrence

Elaine Lotruglio

Ann & Giona Maiarelli

Mini-Makers of Long Island

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

Michelle & Robert Wallach

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 byLevon Graphics Corp.

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Board of Trustees & Museum Staff

LICM SENIOR STAFF*

Bonnie Thompson DixonExecutive Director

Rhoda AndorsDirector of Education & Programs

Wolf BraunsteinDirector of Graphic Design

Catherine CaseyDirector of Development& Marketing

Paul OrselliDirector of Exhibits

Janet TempelDirector of Visitor & Support Services

Denise LewisController

Maria JonasLICM Store Manager

LICM STAFF*

Development and Marketing Tama Borer Donna Cave Larry Maier Nancy Pfeffer

Education and Programs Kandel Allard Eli Alvarez Helen Basile James Benedetto Elizabeth Campbell Claire Conway Vania Delgado Lawrence Diamond Cindy Lou Edwards Jeanette Ferraro Caryn Fisch Anne Fontana Aimee Fromick Karen Gibson Peter Giordano Jenn Gordon Randee Gresge Faun Guarino Heidi Hacsi Elise Harris Karen HuntCelina Ilham Shassa Jackson-Carroll Carla Jaszczerski Erik Karff Elizabeth Kisseleff Jessica Krumerman Kristine Lopez Douglas Majano Justin Manjures Katrina McDowell

Shannon Michel Monica Mughal Samantha Murdock Christine Murray Lauren Mylonas Deepti Nair Monica Nedab Theri Negretti Tiffani Norman Ngozichi Nwosu Audrey O’Malley Jim Packard Mayra Padro Julia Patterson Mildred Reese Shirley Resnick Jazmine Silkiss Eva Sipkova Michelle Siry Victoria Skachinsky Linda Smith Robert Spink Jacklynn Stern Svatava Stern Shavone Walker Paula Wang Clarice Washington Eric WeissbrotMark Wilson Colette Wirz Dara Zekowski Joanna Zocco

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

Robert S. LemlePresident

Lisa GreeneVice President

Kenneth BobTreasurer

Glenn TyranskiSecretary

Rev. Adrienne Brewington

Martin Gary Brooks, Ed.D.

Brian Cohen

Richard Hamburger

S. Maxwell Hines, Ph.D.

Roni Kohen-Lemle

Brian Madden

George Marr

Yvonne Nicholas

Carol Polsky

LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM BOARD OF TRUSTEES*

Scott Rechler

Paul A. Schulman

Charol Shakeshaft, Ph.D.

Lewis Warren, Jr.

Education Interns A.J. Garavuso Katherine Santiago Toni Ward Robin Wunsch

Exhibits Danea Silkiss Jennifer Sumner Kim Wagner

Visitor and Support Services Harriet Arolick Joi Chapman Karen D’Alauro Amy Dev Jennifer Fugina Ron Green Rhea Gringhaus Lillian Hertzberg Jordan Hickam Gulshan Mughal Daniel Nauke Rosalou Onate Farrah RampatEric Storch

LICM Store Ann Fugina Janice Kiel Barbara Lewinter

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