Long Island Children'S Museum

“Robert & roni lemle [trustees] are married.”

“& form 990, part v, line 2a : the museum leases their employees through prestige, professional employment organization.”

“Copies of the tax return are sent to all board members to read. Then a vote is taken to submit the 990 to the internal revenue service.”

“The museum requires individuals who fall under the disclosure to sign the conflict of interest policy statement annually.”

“During the 2023/2024 fiscal year there was no review or change of the president's salary”

“Certain governing documents, conflicts of interest and financial statements are available upon request.”

“Nea mural, and land ack art works in oby and lobby; piloted lullaby project.”

“School groups, public programs, community programs initiatives and specialized programming [early childhood, outreach, scouts, birthday parties]: the long island children's museum (the "museum") focuses its public programming on children from birth through 12 and their families, and school group programs on the pre-school level through grade 6, with school sub-contracts for special initiatives serving young people through middle school and high school. Public programs include cultural festivals, programming themed to supplement new and traveling exhibits, organized workshops and pop-up activities. During the 2023/2024 fiscal year, the museum's school group programs have included a broad range of disciplines, supported state and national standards, and emphasized inquiry based learning on a variety of topics, including stem (science, technology, engineering, math), art, and cultures. Community program initiatives serve primarily low-income families and high need school districts. The museum received the national medal for museum and library service at the white house in november 2012 for its community based programming. These initiatives include: [1] stem partnership with the westbury school district: the westbury stem partnership is a school-museum teaching model which expands the district's science education program beyond the confines of the classroom. The westbury stem partnership emphasizes inquiry-based learning - where students develop experimental and analytical skills rather than just memorization of information. The program includes a substantial teacher professional development component and serves all first and second grade students and teachers in the district multiple times during the year. (approximately 1,200 students). - at the request of the teacher advisory council, the museum expanded this program to serve all of the third grade, and subsequently received federal funding to continue this expansion and add all students with special needs in the district from grades k through 12. [2] together to kindergarten: this program serves families with limited english proficiency who have children about to enter kindergarten. It provides daily, english language immersion, half-day sessions at the museum for a month for pre-school age children about to enter kindergarten, focusing on social and academic skills, and half day, once per week sessions for their parents/caregivers. Sessions for parents/caregivers are taught in the language of their country of origin and acclimate them to the culture of the u.s. Classroom and public education system as well as providing techniques and activities to support their children's education. Together to kindergarten is taught in english with translation in spanish, haitian creole, and mandarin. The program is provided free of charge and includes door-to-door transportation for participants who live close to the museum. -as a result of positive changes necessitated by the covid 19 pandemic, the museum opened up this program to families from other communities and other cultural/ethnic groups as long as they could get to the museum on their own. This was a very successful adaptation and made the program more inclusive. Participants in the first few years of this program are now attending college. One student, now attending hofstra university, came back to the museum to work part-time and wrote a testimonial about how important this program had been to her and her family. [3] early learning workshops: these workshops are held daily in the museum's early childhood workshop space and include: little learners art lab, music and movement, and pop tots. [4] outreach: the museum provides off-site educational programs and workshops at schools, community groups, libraries and children's hospitals for groups who cannot come to the museum. Led by museum educators, all workshops complement themes presented in museum exhibits and programs. [5] birthday parties: the museum incorporates the themes and”

“Visitors services program: performances are interactive and diverse in their content and the intimate nature of the space decreases aesthetic distance between audience and performer, making it an excellent venue for families and children to enjoy cultural, theatrical and musical performances as well as dance and puppetry. Special program series include collaborations with performers outside the u.s. As well as the development of in-house productions to augment the museum's exhibitions and programs and to offer performances to schools, many of which choose the double your learning option and add on a performance to the traditional field trip option for one bus price. The educational, community and family-based focus of the museum defines the philosophy of the theater: when parents introduce even their youngest children to live theater at the museum, the museum supports the development of future audiences for the performing arts. The museum is committed to keeping theater admission costs low for affordability and access for children and families from a variety of economic backgrounds. With grants from the institute of museum and library services (imls), licm was able to prototype new theater presentations and has developed a rich schedule of in-house theater productions in addition to bringing in outside performers. This has enabled the museum to serve school groups in a different way. For most of the participating schools, this is their only theater-oriented field trip experience.”

“Exhibit program: the museum's exhibits are the most public facing program offering, enjoyed by all visitors. Approximately 305,000 visitors attended the museum and engaged with the highly interactive exhibits in the 2023-2024 fiscal year. These visitors include families from throughout long island and eastern queens, school and camp groups and children and adults attending special programs and initiatives. During fiscal year 2023-2024, the museum has more than 29,000 square feet of exhibit space, including an award-winning, 4,000 sq. Ft. Exhibition, our backyard. In addition to the permanent exhibit galleries, licm has a traveling exhibit gallery, hosting three traveling exhibits each year, and two art gallery spaces - one exhibiting works by a diverse group of adult artists and a community gallery exhibiting works by children. During the fiscal year 2023-2024 one of the highly successful traveling exhibits was the very eric carle exhibit. One of the community gallery exhibitions featured works by high school students, paired with veterans. Works exhibited by the students included portraits and stories of the veterans. An opening reception was attended by participating veterans, the students and their families and representatives of veteran organizations. Licm's interactive exhibits are interdisciplinary, age-appropriate, and intergenerational, fostering both independent and cooperative exploration, and encouraging concept development and skills building.”