Annual Report
A Message From ACM Executive Director Janet Rice Elman
Dear Friends,
What a year of inspiration and creativity!
As an international professional organization serving more than 300 children’s museums and a total of 470 members, Association of Children’s Museums (ACM) provides professional development, data, resources and representation. ACM reaches members in 49 U.S. states and in 29 countries located around the world. The growth trajectory of the field continues to climb; nearly 80 start-up children’s museums are projected to open within the next four to six years.
ACM embraced extraordinary opportunities to build the capacity of children’s museum during the 2009 fiscal year.
Accomplishments
- Launched the Good to Grow! Self-Study program to help children’s museums do more to combat childhood obesity.
- Published Increasing U.S. Children and Families’ Understanding of Asian Cultures: A Final Report to measure the impact of interactive cultural exhibits.
- Hosted and trained more than 800 individuals at the ACM signature conference, Inter Activity 2009: Declare Your Impact!
- Promoted children’s museums through media partnerships and allied coalitions.
- Expanded member resources with a management conference call series, metrics reports and monthly outreach to museum staff.
- Distributed $511,000 to children’s museum members via awards, scholarships and initiative grants.
By offering competitive award, scholarship and grant opportunities to its vast children’s museum network, ACM is able to efficiently administer funds on behalf of foundations, corporations and nonprofits. In the year ahead, we look forward to creating strategic partnerships with organizations, benchmarking children’s museums’ progress and helping connect new audiences to the children’s museum field.
ACM gratefully acknowledges the generous support of our members, partners and supporters around the world. Their commitment enables us to advance the children’s museum field, which serves more than 30 million children and families each year.
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ACM thanks all of its donors for contributing so generously to its work. You make possible the impact we have on children's museums and the children, families and communities they serve.