‘20 YEAR IN REVIEW
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Dear ShareWell Community, What a year it has been. So much has happened since we opened the doors of the Cayton Children’s Museum and closed a two-decades-long chapter as the Zimmer Children's Museum. We were growing our team at a record pace—tripling in size to accommodate a much larger visitorship. We were welcoming the first generation of campers at Camp Cayton. We were bringing the Derfner Theater to life with performances and story time as part of a robust schedule of creative arts classes and cultural programming. We were navigating growing pains and learning how to become the best version of ourselves.
And then COVID happened. When we first closed our doors in March, we were in disbelief that the world was shutting down. We acted quickly, making difficult but critical decisions focused on the long-term sustainability and future of ShareWell. We struggled, experimented, took risks and made mistakes— all the while finding that we are much bigger than our physical space. Now—nearly a year into the pandemic—we have introduced weekly outdoor programming that is offered at no cost to eliminate barriers to participation. We have partnered with public libraries and non-profits to distribute "Cayton Creativity Kits" to families that have suffered increased hardship as we continue to weather the economic instability. Our virtual programming has come to life through puppet shows, art classes, storytelling, reflection and more. We have launched a virtual field trip program, which is being offered several times a week to schools, ranging from Pre-K through elementary. For older youth, youTHink, our youth development initiative that brings the creative arts into schools and underserved communities, has adapted its curriculum to the virtual space almost overnight.
Students are working alongside accomplished filmmakers and producing their own short films around social issues they care about in youTHink’s Filmmaking Fellowship. They are discovering how creative expression can be a platform to advocate for change in their neighborhoods as part of our Student Ambassador program. To think that all of this is happening remotely is startling. There is no doubt that the ways in which we work have changed significantly. But it hasn’t changed what we do and who we are. Charles de Gaulle once said “Character is the virtue of hard times.” Though it’s easy to reminisce about the path we were on before COVID, it has allowed us—forced us even—to evolve into a better institution. One that looks at each day as an opportunity to grow. One that looks at change as not something to fear, but to embrace in hopes of finding new ways to bring our mission to life. One that is committed to helping teach children and youth that we have a responsibility for one another, especially in these times.
That is ShareWell. That is who we have always been, and who we will continue to be on the other side of this crisis. And we look forward to being there for this lively community—to spark connection and provide healing—when it needs us most. With gratitude and respect,
ESTHER NETTER CEO & FOUNDER
ANDY KAPLAN CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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2020: A YEAR IN REFLECTION In everything we do, ShareWell is guided by a universal mission: to nurture children and youth to grow to be responsible members of commu- nity with the ability to positively shape the world. Whether it's in our museum or beyond its walls, this central theme is the impetus for how we envision all programming, operations and initiatives.
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In 2019, we found ourselves one step closer to realizing our vision: first with the opening of the Cayton Children’s Museum and then as we began the reformation of youTHink—our long-running school outreach initiative. We had barely dipped our toes into 2020 when it brought us a pandemic, forcing us to recalibrate and evolve once again to operate in a world that suddenly looked very different than the one we knew. A lot has happened at ShareWell—and in the world—over the past year. But we are a stronger institution for it. From setbacks to big milestones, read on to follow ShareWell’s journey from the grand debut of the all-new Cayton Children's Museum through the momentous year that was 2020.
REIMAGINING PLAY: CAYTON CHILDREN’S MUSEUM BY SHAREWELL They say that when one door closes, another opens—and so it did. On February 17, 2019—after more than 20 years on Museum Row—we welcomed our last visitors at the Zimmer Children’s Museum. The Zimmer had brought the Los Angeles community much joy in its lifetime. But by 2018, it was attracting 90,000 visitors a year—a population it was not built for. It was time to evolve and find a new home that was big enough for our ambition and imagination. That home would be on the rooftop of Santa Monica Place in downtown Santa Monica, where the all-new Cayton Children’s Museum by ShareWell opened to the public on June 30. Named with support from Andrea and Barry Cayton and the Cayton-Goldrich Family Foundation, the “Cayton" offered 21,000 square feet of discovery based exhibits, a state-of-the- art theater, two art studios, a public art gallery, and multipurpose rooms for arts education and celebrations. Its debut also came with an inspiring message: play has the power to trans-form lives and build a better world. Our new home afforded us something that the Zimmer no longer could: the ability to bring our mission to more children, youth and families— 360 days a year. Our close proximity to the expo line made us accessible to more remote parts of Los Angeles. Our bigger space meant we could accommodate more than double the visitors from all over the globe. Thirty years of knowledge, expertise and passion were built into the walls of this new space—now it was time to let everyone in.
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ARTS & CULTURAL PROGRAMMING At ShareWell, we know that there is no better tool to teach children than play. Among many important skills that children gain through play, it’s also how they learn about the world around them and how to engage in it— even if they don’t know it. This is the framework that guides our team of early childhood educators, teaching artists and facilitators in developing all programming at the Cayton. From the performing and visual arts to literature and music, we tap into many artistic mediums to provide children with the creative tools, imaginative outlets and a colorful community of people to explore them with so that they grow to appreciate the value of each of our contributions and unique differences.
DAILY PROGRAMMING Beyond our exhibits, the Cayton offers a signature curriculum of arts, culture and social justice programming that is always free with admission. In our first year, we hosted sensory experiences such as messy art, bubble play and make-and-take projects that explored undersea landscapes and art as a form of activism in the Kevin & Chelsea Washington Art Studio and S. Mark Taper Foundation Brilliant Blue Room. In our Derfner Theater, visitors enjoyed interactive story time, sing-a-longs and live performances, such as the all-female Brazilian drum ensemble, Bloco Obini. Our commitment to community could also be found in our nonprofit and civic partnerships. With support from our founding corporate supporter VCA Animal Hospitals, we partnered with organizations like Pet Partners to show young visitors the special powers that animals have to heal others.
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CAMP CAYTON Our inaugural session of Camp Cayton kicked off just as the museum was opening its doors with 10 weeks of museum play and arts-based programming designed to encourage children ages 3 to 8 to take risks, express themselves creatively, engage with their community and discover their purpose. Each week, campers took part in imaginative themes like World Wonders, Inspired by Nature, Global Music, the Cayton Olympics and our most popular—Intergalactic Expedition. In its first summer, Camp Cayton enrolled over 250 participants with winter session reaching near-capacity. More than 60-percent of participants were new to Camp, having never attended one at the Zimmer before.
CAYTON CLASSES For our littlest of visitors, the Cayton offers 14 classes across a variety of curricula, including artistic expression, music & movement, cross-cultural exchange, school readiness and foreign language. Classes are designed to nurture motor and language skills, stimulate visual learning and create self-awareness. In our first six months, we enrolled 92 registrants and their “bigs” in our classes, each offered over three to five weeks. 2019-2020 class offerings included Preschool Prep, Movers & Maestros, Toddler Town in English and in Spanish, Messy Masterpieces, Yoga Explorers and our most popular, Art Crawl—which encourages “littles” to use anything in the room as their canvas.
FIELD TRIPS Our field trip program is an important component of Our field trip program gives children an opportunity to apply what they are learning in the classroom in the real world. Each 90-minute program is facilitated by a museum ambassador, combining free play with art-making and experiential learning. The program kicked off in fall 2019 with morning and afternoon slots offered three days a week. Enrollment quickly reached capacity, prompting the addition of a fourth slot. From its opening to the pandemic shutdown, the Cayton hosted field trips for 891 students from 30 partner schools. We hit our stride in January and February 2020, welcoming 220 students each month. 7
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CAYTON CULTURAL FESTIVALS At the Cayton, we look at programming as an opportunity to expose children to worlds that look different from their own. Our goal is to recognize the different ways in which we honor the values we collectively share to create a better understanding of one another and affirm our shared sense of humanity. We launched the Cayton Cultural Festival series to explore the many traditions, practices and customs that make us who we are. These daylong festivals are programmed and facilitated by native people and artists, celebrating our cultural stories and the individual voices responsible for preserving them.
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS In October 2019, we explored the origins, traditions and rituals of the lively and now widely celebrated, Día de los Muertos. Hundreds of visitors joined us for a traditional folk music and dance performance by Conjunto Tenocelomeh; a pop-up exhibit where visitors honored loved ones who are no longer living through a communal ofrenda, or altar; and traditional sugar-skull-decorating curated by Mexican-American artist Daniel González.
HANUKKAH IN SANTA MONIKKAH
LUNAR NEW YEAR In January 2020, we partnered with Santa Monica Place to pay homage to Lunar New Year with in-museum art activities and authentic cultural performances such as the traditional Chinese lion dance, Korean fan dance, stilt-walkers and New Year’s Wishing Trees. In the museum, visitors could make their own paper lanterns or “Year of the Rat “masks. The festival was held on Museum Free-for-All Day, a partnership established with SoCal Museums to increase access to the arts by offering free admission all day long. The day marked our biggest attendance to date at 2,280 visitors.
HOLI Then on March 7, we celebrated Holi, the ancient Hindu “Festival of Colours” honoring India’s end of winter and the beginning of spring. The festival was a visual display of love, joy and kindness. Visitors got to experience an entire day of color play, traditional Bollywood dance, storytelling sessions and workshops that explored the Holi theme of “new beginnings.”
PROMOTING INCLUSIVITY More than 8,000 visitors attended our first four festivals. For each festival, we offered anywhere from 50 to 500 complimentary tickets to local nonprofits, community based organizations and cultural groups, depending on community reach. These promotional partners serve primarily lowincome families or diverse ethnic populations to promote inclusivity and give all families the opportunity to honor their own cultural practices and gain a better understanding of another.
In December, we hosted Hanukkah in Santa Monikkah, a day-long festival that explored the themes and values of the “Festival of Lights.” Through communal art making, musical percussionists and storytelling, visitors explored some of the universal themes of Hanukkah: searching for light in the darkness, the importance of generosity and embracing our uniqueness. With funding from Diane & Guilford Glazer Philanthropies, we were able to offer halfprice admission all day long.
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COMMUNITY ACCESS INITIATIVE At ShareWell, we believe that each of us has the ability—both individually and collectively—to better the world for someone else. Through immersive play, experiential learning and creative expression, we strive to nurture a shared responsibility for one another in children and youth to advocate for a world built on equity, inclusivity and accessibility. But if we are to educate on the importance of equity, we must practice it by removing some of the barriers that limit participation, such as financial hardship or having special needs. This idealogy is built into the heart and soul of ShareWell and materialized at the Cayton Children’s Museum and through our youth outreach initiative, youTHink (see page 16). We look not only for opportunities where we can limit barriers to entry within museum walls, but also beyond them to reach neighborhoods that lack access to quality arts enrichment or outlets for creative expression.
THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY ACCESS FUNDERS
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FREE ACCESS INITIATIVE
FIELD TRIPS
We want all children to have access to the wonder of the Cayton—regardless of their ability to pay. In 2019, the Cayton carried on the tradition of the Zimmer to launch its Free Access Initiative, which provides free admission to children and families on public benefits assistance. Prior to our closure, we waived admission for 7,700 children and families thanks to the generous support of our corporate sponsor, Entertainment One (eOne). To celebrate the partnership, eOne brought friends from their celebrated familyfriendly brands for meet-and-greets throughout the year, including Peppa Pig and PJ Masks.
Limited budgets often prevent students in under-resourced neighborhoods from experiencing field trips. Yet, field trips expose children and youth to new places and ideas and provide the community support that is needed to improve their circumstances. This is why the Cayton reserves a minimum of 50 percent of all field trips for Title 1 schools, low-income charter schools and Head Start programs. From our opening until the shutdown, we subsidized field trips for 17 Title 1 schools, or 585 students—65 percent of total participants.
ARTS EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIPS The cost of a week of Camp Cayton or a fiveweek session of Cayton Classes is cost prohibitive for many families. We strive to make these opportunities more accessible for children in low- income households by offering scholarships. Scholarship opportunities are promoted through Early Head Start and Head Start programs and Title 1 schools across greater Los Angeles. With support from our funders, we provided 28 camp and 15 class scholarships in 2019-2020—or 11% and 16% of total class enrollment, respectively.
Kevin & Chelsea Washington Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation The JIB Fund Entertainment One Mark Hughes Foundation Teach A Man to Fish Foundation Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation Clancy Collins White & Dean White The Rosalinde & Arthur Gilbert Foundation Dick Lippin & Sally Hightower Lippin The Wonderful Company Allen Family Foundation
CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES When the shutdown happened, research, training and planning was underway to integrate changes across our operation to better serve the unique needs of children with disabilities. In February, our staff participated in the first of a number of trainings with Rosie’s Foundation. Apart from staff training, we plan to introduce a “Sensory Sensitive” toolkit that parents can check out for their visit. This kit would include items such as sunglasses, weighted vests and noise-canceling headphones to help create a more comfortable experience for children sensitive to new environments, as well as a virtual guided tour of the museum so parents can prep their children for what to expect during their visit, thereby easing some of the anxiety around new places.
Dwight Stuart Youth Fund Hollywood Foreign Press Association Louis L. Borick Foundation Lon V. Smith Foundation Leo Rosner Foundation Linda Gach Ray & Steve Ray Jennifer Simchowitz Los Angeles County Department of Arts & Culture California Arts Council Santa Monica Department of Cultural Affairs Bruce Whizin Philanthropic Fund
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YEAR IN REVIEW OUR FIRST YEAR AS THE CAYTON CHILDREN’S MUSEUM WAS ONE OF MANY MILESTONES. LET’S TAKE A LOOK BACK AT SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM SUMMER 2019 TO THE SHUTDOWN IN SPRING 2020.
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WE DOUBLED IN SIZE FROM OUR 10,000 SQUARE-FOOT SPACE
AT THE ZIMMER TO
21,000 SQUARE FEET AT THE CAYTON
FIELD TRIP ADMISSION WAS SUBSIDIZED OR WAIVED FOR
595 STUDENTS FROM 17 TITLE 1 SCHOOLS
2,280 VISITORS ON JANUARY 25, 2020
891 STUDENTS
— OUR HIGHEST
WENT ON FIELD TRIPS
2,700
FROM 30 SCHOOLS
AT THE CAYTON 8,000 VISITORS ATTENDED CAYTON CULTURAL FESTIVALS
132,845 VISITORS IN OUR FIRST
8 MONTHS OF OPERATION, PUTTING US ON
THE TRAJECTORY TO REACH 200,000 VISITORS IN YEAR ONE
ONE-DAY ATTENDENCE
FAMILIES BECAME OUR FIRST
ANNUAL MEMBERS
125 BIRTHDAYS & MILESTONES CELEBRATED AT THE CAYTON
7,700 FAMILIES WERE WAIVED ADMISSION THROUGH OUR FREE ACCESS INITIATIVE
THANKS TO THE SUPPORT OF
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BEYOND MUSEUM WALLS: YOUTHINK BY SHAREWELL
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very age offers an opportunity to learn and grow. As babies and young children, we learn through play. Then as we enter our adolescent years, we learn that we have opinions, perspectives and ideas that can impact the world around us. It's in these formative years that we recognize our ability to create influence and seek outlets to do so. We start to see the power of one voice and the responsibility we have to speak up when we feel something infringes on the rights or abilities of others.
THIS IS THE WORK OF YOUTHINK BY SHAREWELL. Founded in 1992, youTHink was conceptualized shortly after the opening of the original Zimmer Children’s Museum to reach youth beyond museum walls. The program empowers youth— primarily those in under-resourced parts of Los Angeles—to look at the arts as a catalyst, a social currency, for activism and meaningful change. Today, after more than 30 years of operation, youTHink has become a safety net, a trusted space and a door to possibility for thousands of youth in Los Angeles that face generational barriers to success. And like the former Zimmer, the program is going through its own evolution to ensure it is still achieving what it set out to do more than three decades ago.
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RETHINKING YOUTHINK youTHink started as a museum outreach program, but it has no doubt come into its own. By 2018, the program was serving 40 Title 1 schools through in-school residencies, neighborhood and after-school programs, a year-long student ambassador program, youth camps, and workshops focused on civic engagement and college readiness. We were reaching more students than ever before but started to see a ripple: enrollment and completion rates were seeing a slight decline. We knew that some of the attrition in recent years was a result of external factors we could not control, including a teacher strike across Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and increased gang violence in a number of youTHink districts that impacted after-school activities. Still, with the Cayton wrapping up completion, we decided it was time to hone in on youTHink. A partial evaluation signaled that youTHink was trying to do too much for too many, creating disjoint, diluting the experience and sense of community, and making program oversight difficult to manage. We needed to get back to the program’s founding principles and rethink our approach to meet students where they were at. In the 2019-20 academic year, we started to test some strategies that arose from our very early findings. We introduced a curricula broken into modules that could be adapted across programs to better measure outcomes and set clearer expectations for participants. We also sought skilled facilitators and teaching artists to make sure instruction was immersive, engaging and would resonate with students. To start, we put some of the more recent youTHink activities on hold and turned our focus to two of our longest-running youTHink programs: our Student Ambassador program and our Filmmaking Fellowship (formerly called “Filmmaking for Social Change”).
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STUDENT AMBASSADOR PROGRAM
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he veteran initiative and most intensive of youTHink’s programs, the Student Ambassador program was born in the late-90s out of students’ growing desire to play a more active role in choosing the community service projects that they advocated for as participants in youtTHink’s after-school programs. The Student Ambassador program—originally called youTHink Leadership Corps—was designed to provide access to meaningful extracurricular activity that would help students stand out in college applications. As program completion saw a decline, it was clear we needed to look at what made it successful early on to motivate participation.
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2019-20 SCHOOL YEAR For the 2019-20 school year, youTHink recruited 40 students from East and South Los Angeles— communities of increased focus—for an immersive 9-month-long youth development program that combined the arts and social justice. Guided by recent findings, we built our new approach around some of the program's earlier fundamentals, such as building in networking and mentorship opportunities that provided access to positive role models, strengthening our facilitator criteria, and implementing more structure so students knew what to expect and what they might gain from participation. Following a sleep-away retreat at Camp Bob Waldorf in Glendale, Ambassadors met each week at the East LA Renaissance Academy within the Esteban Torres High School complex. In an effort to create more structure, the curriculum was broken up into four modules—Story- telling, Photography, Urban Planning and Theater—to give students the opportunity to explore a social justice issue one artistic discipline at a time. Each module consisted of about seven sessions and concluded with a culmination event that acted as a final project. Modules were designed sequentially to feed into the next, so students could build upon what they learned and see their progress. Another big shift from previous years included partnering with different facilitators for each module based on their expertise, rather than the old program model of working with one facilitator for the entire semester. Students also went on “field trips” to see how what they were learning could be applied in the real world while meeting potential mentors. Among them, Ambassadors visited Self Help Graphics—a printmaker in the Boyle Heights community that has ignited activism for the past 50 years—and LA Plaza de Artes y Cultura—a cultural organization on the historic Olvera Street that showcases the important contributions of Chicano and Latinx people in shaping Los Angeles.
While COVID cut the program short, facilitators and youTHink staff reported "visible" transformation in students over the first two modules.
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By the end of the year, Ambassadors were confident enough to look at their peers and talk about deeply personal issues like body dysmorphia, drug use and injustice in their everyday lives." — SHIRLEY RAMIREZ Program Coordinator
Shirley Ramirez, youTHink’s program coordinator, said that participants were more confident to open up to their peers about personal issues and share perspectives that they would have feared being judged for only months earlier. We also discovered some important takeaways that would inform future planning. For one, we saw the high demand for opportunities that connected participants to community resources they might not have otherwise had access to. Students also appeared more engaged as we implemented more structure and partnered with facilitators better fitted to each module.
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FILMMAKING FELLOWSHIP
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ouTHInk's Filmmaking module has made incredible progress since changing the format a year ago.
Formerly titled “Filmmaking for Social Change,” the initiative used to be part of our youTHink Neighborhood Programs, a catch-all for initiatives that convened in public and community spaces outside of the classroom environment and school hours. In 2018, we began to see participation fluctuating. Student and facilitator feedback clearly showed that an increase in program offerings took a toll on staff capacity, creating less day-today program oversight. As such, facilitators were given more liberties in structuring the lesson plan and staff lacked the foresight to “course correct” when engagement began to slip. But interest in the subject remained high, telling us that some simple yet broad-stroke changes would make the program more compelling.
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o start, we planned on making a few changes. First, we moved the curriculum from a Neighborhood Program to an inclassroom artist residency. Our in-classroom residencies partner with a teacher to institute the curriculum in place of the usual lesson plan for an entire semester, therefore completion is tied to a final grade. With our attention turned to improving structure, we partnered with a journalism class to maintain alignment with course work and professionalized the lesson plan with guidance from the teacher and filmmaker facilitator. The end product was rebranded as youTHink’s new “Filmmaking Fellowship”—a 12-week course broken up into three modules, each teaching students about different yet integral stages of the filmmaking process. As they learn new skills, the class also encourages students to explore their selfidentities, tap into their own stories, and see how the camera can be a catalyst for positive change. At the end of the 12 weeks, students have the opportunity to share their final film with friends, fellow students and their communities via a short film festival. When COVID hit, our Filmmaking Fellowship was just two weeks into instruction at Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights. But perhaps because the program was still in the early stages, we were able to quickly adapt and move to virtual instruction, thanks largely in part to our facilitator and accredited filmmaker, Elizabeth Gray Bayne, and the nimbleness of journalism teacher, Ms. Brenda Casanova. Though we lost two weeks in the transition to virtual, students spent eight weeks learning how filmmaking can be a compelling medium to effect positive change within their communities. The course took place weekly via Zoom, and classroom time was followed by one-to-one Zoom time with Bayne, where she offered critique and guidance.
On May 27, students showcased their final films—each focused on documenting how the pandemic had impacted their lives or neighborhoods—as part of a film festival that culminated on Zoom. Students extended invites to friends and family while ShareWell invited key stakeholders, donors and funders to participate in a virtual filmmaker Q&A.
For their final films, students were asked to document how 2020 had impacted their lives. Here are the stories they chose to tell: • One student's struggle with "artist's block" and how COVID helped him work past it • How the shutdown affected one student's hikes and connection to nature • How Kobe Bryant's death changed one student's family bond over basketball
Apart from piloting some new program strategies, the transition to virtual allowed us to explore alternative and more cost-effective methods for program delivery. For instance, the the film festival, which showcases the students' final projects, was traditionally held at a local theater or community center. When hosted virtually, the film festival saw record attendance, telling us that removing barriers to attendance even post-pandemic—such as work obligations and rush-hour traffic—will make it less prohibitive for family and friends to support students in presenting their final work.
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I think having a unique space where you can really voice your story is empowering. To have that [experience] at such a young age was almost healing for me." - Andrea
Junior at Woodrow Wilson Law Magnet
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When I think of the Student Ambassador program, I think of community. Coming into the program, we immediately began building a foundation of trust and respect. Every time I made comments, built on others’ opinions or just shared my ideas with the group, I felt supported." - Laylaa
Junior at Culver City High School
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youTHink trains us to be the leaders of tomorrow by helping us understand the issues and how to resolve them. I feel like I have the ability now to go out into the real world and make change." - Briza
Senior at Alliance Piera Barbaglia Shaheen Health Services Academy
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THE GLOBAL SHUTDOWN: SHAREWELL RESPONDS TO COVID-19 On March 12, 2020, we temporarily shut our doors to help curb the looming pandemic. Overnight and without notice, all of our sources of earned revenue—which had made up half of our annual budget —were cut off entirely.
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e acted quickly, furloughing and laying off staff and cutting expenses by 60 percent —all for the long-term preservation of the institution. Our now much smaller team took on additional responsibilities that were once foreign to them, forcing everyone to learn new skills; we spent countless hours in Zoom meetings with other industry leaders to build a new set of best practices; we sought guidance from our Board of Directors almost daily; we brainstormed program alternatives that fit within public health guidelines; and we fumbled, recovered and tried again—all the while finding our way. Despite the uncertainty and setbacks, the pandemic has forced us to be nimble and look at how we can improve everything from our operations and systems, to programming and community access efforts. Since our museum closure, we have made tremendous progress toward our goals, including: • Developing a three-year strategic plan • Defining our vision and mission statements for future planning • Building a crisis response plan • Launching virtual museum content and weekly outdoor arts experiences free-of- charge across the Los Angeles community • Assembling and distributing Cayton Creativity Kits to inspire creativity and healing in under-served neighborhoods • Repurposing our field trips virtually • Re-envisioning youTHink for virtual delivery and instruction
As you will see, though our doors remain closed for the foreseeable future, ShareWell’s mission is still very much alive in this time. Here is a glimpse into what we have been doing to inspire creativity, create connection and promote healing as children, youth and families navigate a new normal.
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97% OF PARTICIPANTS SAID CAYTON CREATORS WAS ENGAGING NOT JUST FOR THEIR CHILDREN, BUT FOR
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VIRTUAL PROGRAMMING
CAYTON @ HOME When we could no longer welcome visitors through our doors, we knew we would have to go to them. So, we created CAYTON @ HOME— a virtual program series that builds on the museum’s approach to values-based learning with fun, educational and interactive content. Curated by our team of teaching artists and early childhood educators, Cayton @ Home takes viewers on an imaginative journey with music and movement, story time, art making, self-reflection and more—all available on Youtube.
SINCE THE START OF COVID
WE HAVE PRODUCED
130+ EPISODES OF CAYTON @ HOME WITH
8,300 VIEWS Since its launch in April 2020 launched numerous series, including “Artmaking with Teonna” and a new virtual puppet show called “Animal APT,” which follows the adventures of Tabs the Cat, Chizzle the Rat and more animal apartment dwellers as they put core values such as integrity, kindness and empathy into practice. The program has since garnered more than 8,300 viewers on Youtube with 315 daily subscribers. As the virtual space becomes a way of the future, we have started working with early childhood educators and experts in the field to adapt programming for babies and toddlers to the virtual space. Our efforts will focus on how we activate virtually to align with the building blocks of childhood development. The program framework will be informed by documented research from CASEL—Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning.
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VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS As schools moved to virtual learning in fall 2020, we were challenged with re-thinking what a field trip to the Cayton could look like without an open museum. We soon got to work to reconfigure the curriculum for virtual delivery. Our virtual field trips are aligned with California Common Core standards and invite classrooms from pre-K through third grade to choose from themes tailored to different age groups. Each field trip includes a pre-recorded introduction video and a 30-minute program facilitated live by one of our teaching artists to create an interactive experience. Teachers leave with a learning guide that offers prompts for engaging students in conversation around core themes to enhance classroom learning. In fall 2020, we offered virtual field trips three days a week. Enrollment was priced at $3 per student and included a make-and-take art activity. With growing concern that distance learning was increasing disparities for children in low-income schools, we pledged to waive fees entirely for Title 1 schools and reserve at least 50% of field trip spots for these classes. Our museum team also did special outreach to teachers at Title 1 schools to promote participation. By the end of the first half of the school year, we had 345 participants—all from first and 2nd grade classrooms at Title 1 schools.
IN FALL 2020, WE HAD
345 PARTICIPANTS
IN OUR VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS.
100% OF STUDENTS WERE ENROLLED IN
TITLE 1 SCHOOLS
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COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING
CAYTON CREATORS OUTDOOR PROGRAMMING As the pandemic continued to loom, we started exploring how we could repurpose museum programming to meet our changing circumstances. As more research pointed to the outdoors as a safer place to gather, we began mapping out a way to safely and responsibly take the Cayton on the road. Soon, CAYTON CREATORS was born—an outdoor experience that moves beyond museum walls to ignite creativity, create connection and provide healing and hope for children and families during the pandemic. Cayton Creators made its outdoor debut in August 2020 on the third level of Santa Monica Place in front of the museum. The hour-long program is curated for “littles” ages 3 to 8 and facilitated live to support social-emotional development and provide a constructive outlet for children to make sense of what is going on around them. The program is offered twice per day every Wednesday and Saturday for a total of four weekly sessions. Designed with the health and safety of our community at its core, programming closely adheres to public health guidelines, including socially distanced stations that can accommodate up to 10 members of a household or quarantined group at a time and strict mask wearing requirements. Through the Kevin & Chelsea Washington Arts Access Fund and the support of other major funders, we have been able to offer the program free-of-charge to the community with pre-registration. Each child is provided with their own art kit to participate in the activity, which they get to take home in an effort to limit exposure. The program has been met with high demand, typically “selling out” online a month ahead of time. In December, the program was temporarily put on hold to support stay-at-home restrictions and help curb a rise in COVID cases. In the meantime, Cayton Creators has moved online, offering a live facilitated program every week.
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1,500 ATTENDEES HAVE PARTICIPATED IN
48 SESSIONS
OF CAYTON CREATORS
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Thank you for taking a chance and trying something new. As a parent, these past few months have been difficult keeping a young mind entertained within small quarters. Your outdoor program has been engaging and something to look forward to, all while feeling incredibly safe.
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CAYTON CREATIVITY KITS The intention behind Cayton Creators was always much bigger than programming at Santa Monica Place. As we saw how remote learning and a disconnection from society was only creating more limitations for children and youth in low-income neighborhoods, we began collaborating with community-based organizations, nonprofits and municipal agencies to explore ways that we could bring the transformational power of play and creativity into parts of Los Angeles that could benefit the most. To date, we have built partnerships with Santa Monica Public Libraries, Community Corporation, Westside Infant Network (WIN), New Economics for Women, LIFT-LA and the Magnolia Community Initiative to distribute CAYTON CREATIVITY KITS free-of-charge to underprivileged families each month. Each kit contains materials, supplies and instructions for an art project curated by the Cayton team. To enhance the experience, families can log on to our Youtube channel for a guided project recording.
MORE THAN 600 CAYTON CREATIVITY KITS ARE DISTRIBUTED MONTHLY
TO LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS THROUGH NONPROFIT PARTNERS
With support from our Women's Philanthropy Circle, we will be assembling and distributing 600-900 kits per month, beginning in January 2021. Efforts are also underway to introduce programming outdoors in public parks, libraries and community centers when it is safe to program in person again.
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YOUTHINK GOES VIRTUAL When the pandemic hit, youTHink was already undergoing changes to its program delivery. After our internal evaluation, we had pared down a number of programs and started experimenting with some new strategies. We were only just dipping our toes in this work when the pandemic sidelined progress, forcing us to press pause again. Recognizing that the pandemic will undoubtedly influence life even after we return to "normal," we are looking at this not as another setback, but as a way to press reset. Our opportunity lies in understanding how we can leverage the program's strengths in this evolving landscape to continue being a driving force in students' lives. So when LAUSD announced its plans to go virtual just prior to the start of the 2020-21 school year, we were already cultivating partnerships to support our transition to remote instruction and contemplating opportunities for reinvention.
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STUDENT AMBASSADOR PROGRAM In fall 2020, we selected 14 students to join us for the next nine months as part of our 2020-21 Student Ambassador Program cohort. While the move to remote learning created added challenges, it also removed some of the barriers that historically hindered engagement—including access to reliable transportation and long distances to travel—thereby opening doors for citywide participation. This year’s cohort includes students from across Council Districts 1, 9, 13, 14, and some from unincorporated LA county. The 2020-21 curriculum is broken up into three sequential modules—Theater Arts, Storytelling through Photography, and Creative Writing & Spoken Word—so students can gain a broader awareness of social issues through the lens of each artistic medium. The artistic mediums are carefully selected to push youth out of their com- fort zones, building their confidence and encouraging bold thinking to help them develop their voices as “Artivists”—a term we coined for artists that use art to ignite activism. Apart from convening weekly on Zoom with their facilitator, Ambassadors also have access to college readiness workshops and mentorship support throughout the course of the school year to complete their A- G requirements for graduation and CSU/UC college application requirements. Thus far, we are seeing an average of 10-12 Ambassadors in attendance each week, slightly above previous years. They will wrap up their first module, Theater Arts, in December 2020 and reconvene in February 2021 to embark on their second module, Storytelling through Photography. youTHink staff will be surveying the Ambassadors and facilitators following the first module to inform adjustments for 2021 sessions.
FILMMAKING FELLOWSHIP For the first time in youTHink’s history, we are partnering with the Career Technical Education (CTE) department within LAUSD to offer youTHink's Filmmaking Fellowship as the capstone project for student graduating in the Arts Media Entertainment pathway. This partnership will allow us to recruit students to expand our reach, while engaging communities where the achievement gap is high. In fall 2020, we partnered with independent filmmaker Elizabeth Gray Bayne again to facilitate three cohorts—a total of 77 students—at Hollywood High School and USC Media Arts Magnet School. Even in the pandemic, this was triple our student population from the 2019-20 academic year. Over the course of the 12-week program, Bayne worked with students to help them tap into their personal narratives and the stories they wanted to tell, while teaching them the skills and techniques of film production, screenwriting and editing. From climate change and air pollution, to affordable housing and the Black Lives Matter movement, students chose to document a broad range of social issues and topics that have impacted their lives, communities and world today, including: • The everyday discrimination of Latinx people • The journey of Asian immigrants to the U.S. in hopes of finding the American Dream • The harsh realities immigrants face in seeking asylum told through the lens of a man recently released from a U.S. detention center • A day in the life of a Black teenager and the discrimination and dehumanization people of color are often subjected to On January 29, 2021, we will show 16 of the semester’s 33 short film submissions as part of our Fall 2020-21 Virtual Film Festival. The festival also acts as the program culmination ceremony, giving students an opportunity to share their work in front of their peers, friends and family, program supporters and alumni. 33
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OPERATIONS & STRATEGIC PLANNING
REDEFINING OUR WHY
For all of its challenges, the pandemic has given ShareWell the space and new perspective to do some of the evaluation, goal-setting and planning that will be critical to our long-term growth and sustainability.
With support from a member of our Board of Directors, Susan Goldsmith, we were able to enlist Deloitte on a pro bono basis to guide us through the process. Deloitte conducted interviews with our Board of Directors, key stakeholders, staff and members of the community to help us better understand our strengths and weaknesses, tease out our value proposition and identify opportunities for growth. From there, a Boardled committee worked closely with staff to take these findings and create new purpose, vision and mission statements that would act as a compass for future planning and programming.
Equally as important as the programmatic work is the work we have been doing internally to strengthen our institution, hone in on our vision and improve our workplace culture. Here were some of our biggest undertakings over the past year:
As we enter the new year, we are now looking to see how our why shapes our brand identity. With leadership from another member of our Board of Directors, Adam Waltuch, and a team of brand and marketing strategists, we are currently building a brand strategy that will help to create more clarity around our mission and work, expand our reach and build trust among our community.
The opening of the Cayton gave ShareWell access to a global audience and much larger visitorship to spread our mission. With so much transition over the last 30 years, we decided to pause and ask ourselves why we do what we do and the legacy we hope to leave on this world.
REALIGNING OUR POLICIES & VALUES Several years ago, we received a grant from Los Angeles County Department of Arts & Culture to improve diversity, equity and inclusion within our organization and across our programs—all part of an initiative designed to ensure everyone in Los Angeles has equitable access to arts and culture. As part of the grant, our management team had the opportunity to participate in a series of cultural sensitivity workshops and trainings, leading to a Board-adopted Cultural Equity & Inclusion Policy. In 2020, we took this commitment a step further, launching our first Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Task Force—otherwise known as JEDI. Led by Deloitte and comprised of staff and members of our Board of Directors, the JEDI Task Force embarked on an internal audit of our policies, procedures and infrastructure, and gathered feedback via staff and stakeholder surveys, to understand whether our workplace culture aligns with our core values—that we "walk the walk"—and that we nurture a culture of inclusiveness across all aspects of our work. Together, they have begun to develop a strategic roadmap for implementing changes and new practices in 2021 that will be embedded in our organizational culture, operations and programs.
REEXAMINE OUR SPACE
While funding is still needed to complete many of the items on the list, we have made progress toward modifying some of those that are cost-efficient and highest priority, using a phased approach. These include: •
Expanding the Welcome Lobby & Retail Store service desks, installing sneeze guards and a touch-free POS for payment processing to ensure a safer interactive experience.
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Installing bathroom upgrades such as touch less faucets and soap dispensers, as well as stepping stools that allow children to safely reach sensors.
• Removing “high-touch” exhibits that cannot be easily disinfected between use, such as the “Moving Mountains” sand table. • Replacing water fountains with water bottle filling stations. • Updating and expanding our health and safety protocols with guidance from public health experts. • Implementing new training procedures and standards to inform cleaning, janitorial and maintenance schedule. In the coming months, we will begin work to expand The Lounge & Nursery Building to create a more comfortable distance between visitors and make critical repairs to the “Team Waterworks” water table and underlying floor to prevent leaking and slippage.
FOR A SAFE REOPENING As the pandemic carries us through a full year of quarantining and social distancing, it’s clear that it will shape life ahead as we know it. Experts say that human behaviors and the sensitivities of a post-pandemic world will have implications for “hands-on” spaces like the Cayton. As a pillar of the Los Angeles community, we take this responsibility very seriously. To ensure we can open with confidence, we convened health officials and professionals, custodial experts and exhibit fabricators to reexamine our space, operations, janitorial and maintenance procedures. This evaluation led to a punch list of more than $500k in critical upgrades and procedural changes that will be needed to safely welcome visitors again. 35
WHY WE PLAY: THE TEAM BEHIND SHAREWELL For the staff at ShareWell, this is more than a job. Our team of museum ambassadors, teaching artists, program managers and administrative staff are invested in and committed to creating a positive impact in our community—both professionally and personally. To understand what drives the hardworking people that make up our diverse team, we asked staff to tell us what ShareWell means to them and what they hope to impart on the next generation.
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I hope to encourage parents and children to embrace kindness, community and celebration. That kind of reinforcement will lead to a more positive future where we can look at the problems in our country without obfuscation."
Here were a few of their responses:
- ANDRÉS SOLORZANO
Museum Programming Manager
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As a member of the African American community, the lack of educational pathways and opportunities the children in my community have access to is disheartening. I make it my effort to educate and create equity for these children so that they can flourish in society, as well."
- NOAH CHANAIWA
Museum Ambassador
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Our community access initiatives are among the most important services that we offer to families. Being able to provide arts enrichment to kids that don’t get the opportunity in school is so important."
- LADY SANTOS
Lead Museum Ambassador
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What we do helps stimulate and ex- ercise kids’ brains and minds, raising their curiosity which facilitates learning. By being innovative and providing interaction with teachers they can trust, we are building their confidence for personal growth."
- SUMIHA MATH
Teaching Artist
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I found a place where, when I show up to work, I get a glimpse into the future ... and can positively impact it!"
- KATARINA STOJAKOVIC Senior Director of Operations
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WHY WE SUPPORT PLAY Those of us on the front-lines know the importance of the work we are doing, but what drives our donors to give? With so many great causes working toward social change, we asked some of our long-time donors why they continue to give their time and philanthropy to ShareWell.
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I really think the Cayton Children’s Museum provides impressionable young children with positive values and experiences in these divisive and confusing times of untruth and eroding morality.” - BARRY CAYTON
Founding Donor, Cayton Children’s Museum
Here is what they shared:
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In today’s world, it is important for our children and next generation of leaders to have a safe place to explore, play and learn about the world that will become theirs."
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I can think of no better investment than in our young children and no better place for a wonderful childhood experience and early education than the Cayton Children’s Museum!"
- CRAIG ERWICH
Director, ShareWell Board of Directors Senior Vice President of Original Content at Hulu
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- RICHARD S. ZIMAN
Trustee, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation
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Being able to provide children of all economic backgrounds, races and ethnicities a place to learn and explore should be the norm and not the exception. The Cayton Children’s Museum provides and nurtures an environment of love, care and play that is essential to development during the transformative childhood years.”
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The Cayton Museum helps children see what’s possible. The organization is made up of passionate, empathetic, motivated advocates for young people and their love of discovery is contagious." - NICOLE CLEMENS
President, Paramount Television
- KAREY BURKE
President, ABC Entertainment
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The important work being done to create a place for kids to learn, play, grow, experiment and dream makes me want to continue to participate and contribute to the organization, more than ever. The Cayton and its new Santa Monica home have given the organization a renewed energy that I am confident will yield the most exciting and long-term future for the organization for many years to come." - ANDY KAPLAN
Chairman, ShareWell Board of Directors Founder, KC Global Media
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CAYTON CHILDREN’S MUSEUM
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN DONORS The following donors helped us meet our $15M fundraising goal to make our vision for the city's preeminent children's museum, a reality.
THANK YOU
Their leadership and financial commitment will leave a lasting legacy in the Los Angeles community.
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$1,000,000+ Andrea & Barry Cayton The Derfner Foundation
$500,000+ Dr. Gabriel Chiu & Christine Chiu Larry & Stacey Kohl S. Mark Taper Foundation VCA Animal Hospitals
$250,000+ Art & Kate Coppola DiPaola Family Foundation Simms/Mann Family Foundation The Ahmanson Foundation The Braun Family The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation The Younes & Soraya Nazarian Family Foundation W.M. Keck Foundation
$100,000+ Andy Kaplan & Allison Wright Courtney Mizel Erwin Rautenberg Foundation Jamie Mandelbaum & Steve Byrnes Jennifer & Curtis Cohen Joy & Jerry Monkarsh, Heidi & Jon Monkarsh, Julie Monkarsh Gadinsky & Larry Froch Leonard & Annette Shapiro Family Foundation Rayni & Branden Williams The Fong Family The Carl & Jennifer Freed Family The Held Foundation The Kallick Family The Mizel Family Foundation The Perlstein Family The Sydney D. Holland Foundation
$50,000+ Dianna Lau & Kevin Beggs
Karey Burke, Michael Duggan & Family May & Richard Ziman Richard & Dana Smith Richard & Suzanne Norton & Family The Klein/Marcus Family Wendell & Celeste Birkhofer
$25,000+ Amy & Mark Kestenbaum Eileen & Bob Stringer Esther Netter & Family Fernando & Nadina Szew Frederick R. Weisman Discretionary Trust Heather & Ben Braun Holden, Halle & Oliver Hammond Hollywood Foreign Press Association Jennifer Yen & Gemma Yen Cervieri Judy & Aryeh Goldberg Karen Lehmann-Eisner & David F Eisner Kendra, Tierra & Pleas Ferguson Londyn & Milan Thornton Lynn & Les Bider Family Natalie Grof Weiner & Josh Weiner Saffian/Straus Family Shari & Michael Weiner Family Stacy & Jesse Sharf & Family Stella Frank & Jeremy Frank Susan & Aaron Amster The Brinah & Roy Bank Family Foundation The Brown Family- Marilyn, Laurie, Steve, Linda, Bruce & grandchildren The Lindsey Family The Share Family The Wachtel Family The Withers Family The Zedeck Family Waltuch Family
$5,000+ Leo Rosner Foundation Tammy Brandt & Anne Tyrrell Wrenn & Bill Chais Craig Erwich Choiwan & David Essey
$1,000+ Alon Shtruzman & Avi Mittleman Anina & Nathaniel Bach Kerry Phelan The Jeff Astor Foundation
$10,000+ Matthew S. Hanover M3 Creative The Bonnie Sue Schwartz Legacy Fund
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SHAREWELL
2020 ANNUAL DONORS
$1,000,000+ Andrea & Barry Cayton Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation
$250,000+ Kevin & Chelsea Washington The JIB Fund
THANK YOU
$100,000+
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Art & Kate Coppola Entertainment One Mark Hughes Foundation Teach a Man to Fish Foundation, Vincent Smith & Victoria Flaherty The Derfner Foundation VCA Animal Hospitals
$50,000+ Clancy Collins White & Dean White Diane & Dorothy Brooks Foundation DiPaola Family Foundation James Brooks Kari Simmons Larry & Stacey Kohl The Held Foundation
$25,000+ Carl & Jennifer Freed Courtney Mizel Dick Lippin & Sally Hightower Lippin Jean E. Hide-Cohen Jennifer & Curtis Cohen Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Foundation Los Angeles County Department of Arts & Culture Million Dollar Baby Rayni & Branden Williams The Braun Family The Erwin Rautenberg Foundation The Kallick Family The Sydney D. Holland Foundation
$10,000+ ABAR Foundation ABC Entertainment, Freeform, Disney Television Studios, FX, & Disney Channels Andy Kaplan & Allison Wright Annette & Leonard Shapiro Aryeh & Judy Goldberg Bill Prady & Jessica Queller Bradley & Lisa Mindlin Capital Group Dana & Richard Pachulski Danhakl Family Foundation Debmar/Mercury, LLC Deloitte Eisner, LLP Esther Netter & Family Gordon Godfrey & Mary Kerr Greg Berlanti & Robbie Rogers Heather & Ben Braun Holden, Halle & Oliver Hammond Hollywood Foreign Press Association IEQ Captial James Mandelbaum & Steve Byrnes Jon Goldwater & Penny Goldwater Karen Lehmann-Eisner & David F Eisner Karey Burke, Michael Duggan & Family Kevin Beggs & Dianna Lau Larry & Rebekah Shuman Leo Rosner Foundation Linda Gach Ray & Steve Ray Martin Gero NBCUniversal Richard & Suzanne Norton & Family Richard & Dana Smith Richard & May Ziman Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Ron Perlstein Susan Goldsmith The Klein/Marcus Family The Komberg Family The Meyers Family The Mizel Family Foundation The Perlstein Family The Rasmussen Family
The Rosalinde & Arthur Gilbert Foundation The Rovner Family Tom O’Hern Trevor Lai Wendell & Celeste Birkhofer
$5,000+ Alexa Dell Amy & Mark Kestenbaum Andrea & Glenn Sonnenberg Bruce Whizin CalPrivate Bank Channing Dungey Charlene & Steven Konsker Craig Erwich David & Suzanne Robinson Deutsche Bank Fernando & Nadina Szew Gloria Shulman & Curtis Cohen, CenTek Capital Group Hudson Pacific Properties Jennifer Yen & Gemma Yen Cervieri Jeremy Johnson Julie Plec Lionsgate Lynn & Les Bider Family Mark Cohen Mark Pollack Michael Grassi Paramount Pictures Rafe Pery Richard and Dana Smith Rodney Freeman Saffian/Straus Family Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division Shari & Michael Weiner Family Showtime Networks, Inc. Stacy & Jesse Sharf & Family Stanley Black Stella Frank & Jeremy Frank Susan & Aaron Amster Ted Waitt The Brown Family - Marilyn, Laurie, Steve, Linda, Bruce & grandchildren The Lindsey Family 43
$5,000+ The Sudacks The Wachtel Family The Zedeck Family Tom Lallas & Sandy Milo Waltuch Family
$2,500+ Aashika Patel Alon Shtruzman & Avi Mittelman Benyamin & Jannelle Ross CCS Fundraising Chip & Carrie Robertson Cody Liebel Covenant Foundation Damon Lindelof Danielle & Adam Del Deo Dianette Wells Eileen & Robert Stringer Fake Empire Productions Gavin Donnelly Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Grace Bene Greenbean Ventures Harlene & Henry Appleman Heidi & Jon Monkarsh & Family
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James & Claire Fraser Janine Sherman Barrois & Lyndon Barrois Joan Borinstein & Gary Gartsman, Melanie Borinstein & Jake van Leer Jonathon & Mari Cardoos Layne Judy Citron Kendra, Tierra and Pleas Ferguson Kyle Kazmer Marc Russell MarVista Entertainment Matt & Carina Miller McMaster-Carr Supply Company MGM Michael & Lori Milken Family Foundation Natalie Grof Weiner & Joshua Weiner Navi Rawat OFFICEUNTITLED Sandra Stern Sera Gamble Stephanie Schaffer Tammy Brandt & Anne Tyrrell The Comrie Family The Newman-Wright Family The Withers Family Todd Sandler & Jana Winograde Sandler Tracey Gluck William Desser
$1,000+ Adrienne Turner Ali Rushfield Alla Furman Ann Blanchard & Sandy Becker Ares Operations, LLC Balian-Chinn Family California Arts Council Cassie & Eitan Weinstock Corinna Cotsen Dana Uzzo Diane Shader Smith & Mark Smith Eric Doelle Frances Berwick Harry & Judy Friedman ICM Partners Iris & Micahel Smith J.P. Morgan Securities James Parriott & Diane Cary Jeffrey & Linda Glaser Jodie & Steven J. Fishman Julie Monkarsh Gadinsky, Larry Froch, Jonah & Isaac Gadinsky Leslie Morgenstein
Linda Gach Ray & Steve Ray Linda Gerstel & Ed, Kayla, Sarah & Adin Joyce Lisa Hofheimer & Josh Hofheimer Lisa Ling & Paul Song Londyn & Milan Thornton Nancy Etz Nathaniel & Anina Bach Nelson Chan Netflix Nicholas Grad & Carolyn Bernstein Nigel Lythgoe Patrick Herning Paulette & Ron Nessim Rob Thomas Robert Word & Laura Lizer Ryan Solovy Sarah Aubrey Seth Schulweis Sherri Nourse, Ambition Media Tekoa Hash The Brinah & Roy Bank Family Foundation The Siega Family The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation Valentino USA Walter Delph 45
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Andy Kaplan, Chair James Mandelbaum, Vice Chair Richard A. Smith, Vice Chair Courtney Mizel, Vice Chair Aryeh Goldberg, Treasurer
Susan Amster Nathaniel Bach Kevin Beggs Kendra Bracken-Ferguson Tamara S. Brandt Heather Braun Karey Burke Andrea Cayton Jennifer E. Cohen Mark DiPaola Craig Erwich Rodney Freeman Susan Goldsmith
Matt Hanover Sydney Holl& Larry Kohl Heather Lindsey Pauline Malcolm-Thornton Andy Meyers Dana Pachulski Aashika Patel Rayni Romito Williams Fernando Szew Sheryl Wachtel Adam Waltuch Grant Withers
WOMEN’S PHILANTHROPY CIRCLE Danielle Del Deo, Co-chair Sydney Holland, Co-chair Alexandra Nechita, Co-chair Denise Perlstein, Co-chair Stephanie Schaffer, Co-chair
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Jaymie Beckett Sarah Busbice Dickerson Andrea Cayton Anna Churchill Ripley Lewis Victoria Danhakl Alexa Dell Jessica Fogel Scott Jen Garcia Allen Halle Hammond Laura Katzenberg Mary Kitchen Christine Lim Lisa Ling
Pauline Malcolm-Thornton Kshama Mehra Heidi Monkarsh Catherine Powers Navi Rawat Tracy Robbins Jackie Rubin Rayni Romito Williams Chelsea Washington Jennifer Wexler Shannon Wollack Haeran Zedeck
Become a HUMANITARIAN. Become an INCLUSIONIST. Become a HARMONIZER. And you will inspire a child to BECOME one, too.
Join ShareWell as we play our way to a better world. Your support will allow us to spark imagination, create connection and expand possibilities for the health, well-being and healing of our Los Angeles community in the year ahead.
ADVOCATES for ACCESS $1,000+
The INCLUSIONISTS $10,000+
Join our annual giving circle and help keep our outdoor programming free-of-charge for the community during the pandemic and beyond. Members will be recognized on our Annual Donor Wall when the museum reopens.
Pledge $10,000 and help ShareWell live up to its social justice mission by carrying out its Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion plan within the organization and in the community to limit barriers to entry. Your commitment will be honored on a dichroic tile in a play installation for the lifetime of the museum.
The HUMANITARIANS $5,000+ Pledge $5,000 and help ShareWell bring virtual and community programs to underserved neighborhoods through nonprofit partnerships. Humanitarians will be recognized in a play installation for the lifetime of the museum.
The HARMONIZERS $25,000+ Pledge $25,000 and help fuel our community work while funding COVID-critical upgrades that are necessary to reopening our museum doors. Your support will be recognized on a "note" in the Harmony Steps, a permanent sound installation that will live inside the museum welcome lobby for the lifetime of the museum.
Donations of $10,000+ can be made over multiple years. Major underwriting and naming opportunities of exhibits and community spaces are also available. Please contact Esther Netter at enetter@sharewell.org or 424-416-8332. 47
Unaudited financials available upon request. FY20 audited financials will be available by spring 2021.
CAYTON CHILDREN’S MUSEUM / YOUTHINK 395 Santa Monica Place, #374 Santa Monica, CA 90401 CAYTON CHILDREN’S MUSEUM Web Caytonmuseum.org Social @caytonmuseum YOUTHINK Web Youthink.org
For interest in partnering, supporting or getting more involved, please contact our Chief Advancement Officer Carly Harrill at carly@sharewell.org or 424-416-8327.