Marbles Kids Museum

“The president and director of accounting will do the initial review of the form 990. Final review and approval will be with the finance committee and the executive committee of the board of directors.”

“Board members and officers are asked annually if they are aware of any possible conflict of interest.”

“The board reviews and approves compensation for the president and key employees. Marbles relies on salary surveys and other relevant industry data obtained from sources such as the association of children's museums, guidestar, and north carolina center for nonprofits.”

“The form 990 and 990-t is available upon request.”

“All disclosures are available at our office and financial statements are available upon request.”

“Our mission is to spark imagination, discovery, and learning through play. 1. Ready set learn: play builds intellectual, social, and emotional skill for success in learning and in life. 2. Be healthy be active: play promotes physical development and good health. 3. Create innovate: play encourages imagination, creativity, and self-expression. 4. Explore experiment: play leads to discovery and kindles curiosity. 5. Connect: play teaches cooperation and collaboration, strengthens families, and unites our community.”

“Program accomplishments for fy2015-2016 - the 2015-2016 fiscal year was productive, eventful and purposeful for marbles kids museum. Our mission is to inspire imagination, discovery and learning through extraordinary adventures in play and larger-than-life imax experiences. It is through play that children learn best, discovering who they are, how to solve problems, express feelings and share ideas. In support of our mission, marbles delivers powerful play experiences aligned with five core content initiatives: create/innovate, be healthy, be active, build your brain, connect & communicate, and grow up green. Content is delivered through innovative and interactive exhibits, daily educational programs, field trips, camps, special access programs and giant screen imax films. Marbles kids museum served over 674,000 visitors in fy2015-2016. Award-winning field trip programs were attended by over 77,000 students from across the state of north carolina in fiscal year 2015-2016. Museum field trips offer open-ended museum exploration as well as specialty programs using hands-on activities covering subjects like financial literacy, physical activity, weather, engineering and more giving kids the opportunity to explore topics learned about in the classroom in a hands-on way. Marbles offers an innovative approach to curriculum-aligned educational material by integrating imax documentaries with hands-on programming called learning labs for students in grades 5-8, exposing students to unique ways to explore content delivered in the film, bringing it to life with hands-on manipulatives and activities. Camp marbles was highly successful in fy2015-2016, engaging 3,695 kids in hands-on, minds-on activities such as cooking, creating, building and experimenting. As part of our marbles full circle access program, 112 children from low income families received scholarships to participate in our popular summer camps programs. Through our marbles full circle outreach programs, we served over 39,500 guests in traditionally underserved populations by providing free museum access, inviting all children in the community to play at marbles despite financial or physical limitations. Playfree, our museum access program dedicated to serving at-risk title i and preschool groups and a component of full circle, enabled over 5,100 children to visit marbles in fy2015-2016. We also had our weekly twilight thursday nights presented by terminix for working families. This is when we stay open late and offer reduced admission. This program served over 16,300 visitors in fy2015-2016. Kickoff to kindergarten, a free event held for incoming kindergarteners and their families, every june for families in year-round schools and every august for families in traditional calendar schools, served cose to 2,600 guests. Family fun night, a bimonthly event for children with special needs and their families, served over 1,600 visitors with special programming and activities. In addition, more than 6,700 admission passes were distributed to nonprofit and community organizations serving families in need, enabling them to experience the power of play together at the museum. Marbles was listed once again among the top ten field trip destinations in north carolina and was the second most visited museum in raleigh. In addition, marbles kids museum received various other honors, including carolina parent reader favorite rainy day outing and area museum (honorable mention), best place to entertain the kids (gold) and best museum (bronze) midtown magazine diamond awards, and best place to take children (honorable mention) cary magazine maggy award.”

“BAD DEBT -544.”

“There have been no changes to the process since the prior year.”