Annual Report 2019-2020 & 2020-2021

PLEASE TOUCH MUSEUM F Y 2 0 2 0 & F Y 2 0 21 ANNUAL REPORT

A LE T T E R F R OM M U S E U M L E A D E R S HIP Dear Friends: What a journey we have been on since March 2020. It is hard to believe that “two weeks to stop the spread” became almost two years — but as we look forward from the COVID-19 pandemic, I am proud to write that Please Touch Museum has weathered this incredible storm and remains a cornerstone of play, learning, and community in the City of Philadelphia.

This Annual Report chronicles our journey from normal operations to extended closure to reopening. There are few institutions that could survive a 56-week closure, but thanks to the wonderful generosity and commitment of so many, especially our Board of Trustees and team, Please Touch Museum did just that. To be named by USA Today as one of the Top 10 Children’s Museums in the nation right after our reopening in 2021 was an affirmation of all our efforts. I am filled with deep gratitude and tremendous pride in all we achieved during this unprecedented time.

As we have reopened our doors, we continue to be overwhelmed by the happy return of children to Memorial Hall. To see their joy makes the struggle of these past two years worthwhile. But we can’t forget that in the wake of COVID-19, Please Touch Museum is needed now more than ever before. The children of this region have suffered a trauma that will define their childhood, especially our littlest ones. As their grown-ups, we need to help them process the experience and explore how to positively re-engage in the world around them.

That’s the work of today… and so many of our tomorrows at the Museum. And it couldn’t be more important.

As always, thank you for joining us in this work.

Yours In Play, Patricia D. Wellenbach President & CEO Please Touch Museum

Christine Campbell Chair, Board of Trustees Please Touch Museum

BEFORE THE WORLD CHANGED From October 2019 to February 2020, Please Touch Museum was fully activated with engaging events and programs, fantastic traveling exhibits, and more!

Fall 2019 saw the Museum celebrate its annual Imagination Ball, embracing the wonder of famed children’s author Eric Carle and the Museum’s seasonal traveling exhibit, Very Eric Carle, which allowed visitors to play and learn through activities inspired by five of Eric Carle’s classic books, including the The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

The Museum also hosted a special Giving Tuesday initiative in 2019 when it welcomed a few of its favorite canine friends for PAWS for Reading, which provided young visitors with a dog or cat’s nonjudgmental encouragement and calming presence while learning to read.

Celebrating New Year’s Eve before naptime, Countdown2Noon, sponsored by PM Pediatrics, provided families the opportunity to celebrate the arrival of 2020 with live music, a traditional New Year’s Eve ball drop, confetti cannons, musical performances, and full access to Please Touch Museum – all before noon! With more than 4,000 visitors to the Museum that day, it was the last large-scale event prior to closing the Museum doors to the public.

And in the month just prior to the pandemic, Please Touch Museum opened XOXO: An Exhibit About Love & Forgiveness (XOXO). Locally sponsored by Main Line Health and Nemours duPont Pediatrics, XOXO provided children and caregivers the opportunity to explore feelings through a variety of interactive components designed to help them understand the power of articulating their emotions in honest, constructive ways.

In January 2020, Please Touch Museum adopted its new strategic plan, PTM 2024: Elevating Play Learning Together (PTM 2024).

This plan focused on the next three years of work for the Museum in preparing for reaccreditation by the American Alliance of Museums and looking ahead to the national celebration of America’s founding in 2026. While reaffirming the Museum’s mission to “change a child’s life as they discover the power of learning through play,” PTM 2024 took a bold step forward in creating a new Museum vision of “a world where all children are creative, compassionate, confident and curious.”

E L E VAT I N G P L AY LEARNING TOGETHER

PLEASE TOUCH MUSEUM

2024

In developing its strategic plan, the Museum’s executive team, board, management, and staff came together to set future goals through the lens of a critical question: What does the Please Touch Museum need to do to become a “must have” in Philadelphia instead of a “nice to have?” In answering this question, PTM 2024 established four critical goals to which the Museum is wholly committed: Provide Best-In-Class Experiences, Foster Inclusion, Advance Our Field, and Strengthen the Organization.

Despite the challenges of the past two years, the Museum continues to work

ELEVATING PLAY LEARNING TOGETHER

diligently to deliver on the promise of this strategic plan. To read the Executive Summary of PTM 2024: Elevating Play Learning Together, click here.

RESPONDING TO COMMUNITY On Saturday, March 14, 2020, Please Touch Museum closed in response to COVID-19. For 56 weeks, the Museum remained closed.

No excited laughter or joyful play was heard in Memorial Hall for more than a year. The prolonged silence in the building was heartbreaking.

But despite the closure, the Museum demonstrated the type of resiliency that it teaches children every day. While its doors were closed, Please Touch Museum’s heart opened to its Parkside community as it pivoted, partnered, and piloted deeply meaningful programs during its unparalleled closure.

Working with lead sponsors PNC and The GIANT Company, Please Touch Museum delivered thousands of children’s backpacks filled with books, games, art supplies, and snacks in the Summer and Fall of 2020. Through these backpacks, the Museum sought to address the learning loss, food insecurity, and social isolation, which so many children experienced due to COVID-19.

Also, during the pandemic, 44 School District of Philadelphia students were welcomed to Please Touch Museum as a remote learning center in Parkside when neither their school nor their local recreation center could be opened.

And when the Museum finally reopened in April 2021, it welcomed the community back with two weekend opportunities for free admission provided by the Museum’s key partners: The GIANT Company and PNC Bank, through its Grow Up Great Program.

Truly, throughout the pandemic, Please Touch Museum worked to meet our community, especially those in Parkside, exactly where they were with exactly what they needed from us.

F I N A L LY ! A RETURN TO LEARNING THROUGH P L AY !

After 56 weeks closed – and countless emails, social media posts, and letters from children expressing “how much they missed their Museum” – Please Touch Museum reopened on April 8, 2021, to its Members, with its full public reopening on April 22.

And since then, the Museum has picked up right where it left off in March 2020.

In Spring 2021, the Museum hosted The Pigeon Comes to Philadelphia!, the traveling exhibit based on the beloved Mo Willems book series, and Pride, both sponsored by TD Bank.

The Museum also hosted our Juneteenth Celebration and Double Rainbows, a pop-up exhibit which featured rainbow-inspired art created by local children during the COVID-19 pandemic and displayed in windows of their homes to spread joy and hope to neighbors and the community.

In June 2021, the Museum hosted a press conference with Acting Secretary of Health for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Meg Snead, Physician General of the Commonwealth Dr. Denise Johnson, and Health Commissioner for the City of Philadelphia Dr. Cheryl Bettigole. This special event focused on how families could safely engage in summer fun while navigating the ongoing pandemic. State and City officials highlighted the critical work that Please Touch Museum had undertaken to safely reopen.

The Museum also began piloting its Kindergarten Readiness Program, which seeks to address critical social-emotional skills the Pre-K set needs after two years away from the classroom due to the pandemic.

Supported by Vanguard, this program looks to expand as more families in the local community engage.

A MUSEUM IN TRANSFORMATION When the pandemic began in March 2020, Please Touch Museum was just weeks away from the gala ribbon-cutting of Centennial Innovations, its new permanent gallery, which would anchor the transformation of the Museum’s lower level. However, with the Museum’s extended closure, additional and significant work commenced in redesigning and enhancing “the Center Core” through funding by the McLean Contributionship. When children and families returned to the Museum 13 months after the pandemic struck, they saw two brand new experiences and exciting plans for one of Please Touch Museum’s most iconic exhibits.

CENTENNIAL I N N OVAT I O N S Exploring how creativity and critical-thinking skills can inspire children to develop solutions to problems they see in their own world, the Museum’s new $1.75 million permanent gallery, Centennial Innovations, opened after a full year delay.

Using the 1876 Centennial World’s Fair as a historical framework, the exhibition asks children to consider, “If you could change the world…” and encourages them to explore that concept through three subsequent questions: What would you create? Who would you become? What would a new world look like? In the turmoil and uncertainty created by COVID-19, these questions have taken on new meaning as children process the experience of the pandemic and positively re-engage the world around them. More, these questions allow children to tap into their imagination and cultivate resiliency in considering what the future can be.

With its colorful installations, multi-sensory interactives and custom illustrated mural, Centennial Innovations further builds upon PTM’s strong commitment to address contemporary social issues and represent Philadelphia’s culturally diverse populations.

Support for Centennial Innovations has been provided to Please Touch Museum through an Advancement grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Additional support has been received from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Hess Foundation, The Anderson Family Foundation, and the City of Philadelphia, with special thanks to Councilman Curtis Jones, Jr. Funding for Centennial Innovations is also supported by a grant from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

ALBERT M. GREENFIELD M A K E R S PA C E Intentionally located across from Centennial Innovations and PTM’s Creative Arts Studio, which offers facilitated and self-directed artmaking for families, the Albert M. Greenfield Makerspace is a dedicated space for open-ended exploration and prototyping. Focused on how kids are creating, not what they are creating, the Makerspace empowers children to think of themselves as an “inventor” and through facilitated and self-directed experiences, discover that learning is found in the process of making, not the end result.

With STEM principles driving its design, the Makerspace is outfitted with adjustable height workbenches and industrial stools, mobile storage units and hanging peg boards to organize tools such as hammers, screwdrivers, drills, saws, hot glue guns, wrenches, measuring tape, levels, electrical wires, and more.

The Please Touch Museum Albert M. Greenfield Makerspace Studio is made possible with a gift from The Albert M. Greenfield Foundation.

CREATING THE FUTURE O F P L AY

From 21st Street to historic Memorial Hall, generations of children have walked through the doors of Please Touch Museum and into a magical world, discovering the joy of learning through play, imagining who they might become, and creating happy memories with siblings, friends, and the grownups in their lives.

But when COVID-19 hit, that magical world was only accessible through those memories. Like all arts and cultural institutions that rely on visitors to sustain both mission and business operations, the pandemic deeply challenged Please Touch Museum, especially as we contemplated a reopening that would need to account for the very thing our name encourages.

To navigate these challenges and to accelerate necessary transformation, Please Touch Museum launched a $5 million campaign in September 2021 entitled, Creating the Future of Play. The campaign sought to redefine Please Touch Museum’s role in Philadelphia and create new learning and support opportunities to help children navigate the complex world around them.

Further, the Museum sought to serve the children of this region better and more creatively by responding to their social and emotional needs, fully recognizing that when children returned to the Museum, their childhoods would be forever changed.

Please Touch Museum raised $3.6M in resiliency support, surpassing its goal of $3.5M.

F I N A N C IA L R E V I E W

FY 2020 and FY 2021 were both significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the closure from March 14, 2020 through April 7, 2021, all revenue streams were impacted, as the Museum was only open to visitors for five months in both FY 2020 and FY 2021. Please Touch Museum received a PPP loan in 2020, which allowed the Museum to continue to pay salaries for 18 staff members as well as pay utility bills during the closure; in FY 2021, the federal government forgave that loan.

The Museum reopened to visitors on April 8, 2021 for four days a week with limited capacity in contrast to a pre-pandemic operating model of seven days a week.

During the summer of 2021, the Museum opened to the public five days a week with continued limited capacity which increased over time as City of Philadelphia restrictions allowed.

Earned revenue in FY 2021 covered 38% of operating expenses, compared to almost 50% in FY 2020. Prior to the pandemic, the earned revenue to operating expense ratio was 82%.

Cash and marketable securities were $3,890,000 in FY 2020 and $6,082,000 in FY 2021, an increase of 56%. The increase primarily related to PPP loans, Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG), donations, and other loans. Funds were used to supplement revenues to cover Museum program and operating expenses.

S TAT E M E N T O F AC T I V I T I E S FY 2021

Revenue & Support 21%

34%

Admissions

17%

Revenue & Support $4,839,793 12%

Museum Revenue

7%

Expenses $6,246,122

6% 10% 3%

77%

15%

Fees for Special Events Other Items

COVID-Related Federal Funding

Investment Income

Donated Goods

Grants & Contributions

Total Revenue

FY 2020 24%

55%

Memberships

Revenue & Support $6,422,171 3%

6%

12%

6%

Museum Expenses

15%

Expenses $6,794,957 79 %

Program Service

Management & General Fundraising

Total Expenses

$

FY 2021

FY 2020

998,270

$ 1,532,591

496,998

413,456

718,814

-

288,207

124,134

743,713

26,019

570,864

176,560

1,642,506

3,506,642

-

23,190

$4,839,793

$6,422,171

$ 4,784,435

$ 5,340,289

410,493

424,069

1,051,194

1,030,599

$6,246,122

$6,794,957

($1,406,329)

($372,786)

Beginning of Year

$ 33,374,644

$ 33,747,430

End of Year

$31,968,315

$33,374,644

Change in Net Assets Before Other Items Net Assets (Deficit)

PLEASE TOUCH MUSEUM F Y 2 0 2 0 & F Y 2 0 21 DONORS

AN NUAL F UND D ONORS

FY 2 0 2 0 Our sincere gratitude goes out to all of our contributors who supported Please Touch Museum between October 1, 2019 and September 30, 2020.

$100,000 and Above

$1,000-$4,999

$100-$499

Hallee Adelman

Catherwood Family Fund

Richard Bowen

* Patricia D. Wellenbach &

Joseph Cileone

Mary & Howard Hurtig

Robert Cohen

* Pachy & Sergio Cabral

Anonymous

Denise Weaver

Larry McMichael

$25,000-$99,999

Lourdes Frau

* Scott Sukko

* Meghan & Ben Johnson

Sunir Garg

Evan Fieldston

* Aisling Murphy

Judi & Scott Hartzell

Mary Hangley

* Christyn Rossman

Barbara Hauptfuhrer

* Sally & Lee Stetson

* Family of Portia Sperr

Henry Nassau

* Monique Pittman

* Richard Tewksbury

* Meagan & Osman Sheikh

Marta & Robert Adelson

* Portia Sperr

Barry Becker

Salima Suswell

James Buck

* United Way of Greater Philadelphia

* Elizabeth Cartmell & Paul Zoubek

$10,000-$24,999 * Chris Campbell & Bill Massa * Sharon & Kevin Coghlan

and Southern New Jersey

Saul Epstein

* David M. Davis

Jolly & Joe Waterman

Carol Johnson

* Karen Griffith Gryga

* Diane Welsh

Terry McCormick

* Kristen & David Han

Hari Palaiyanur

* Arianna & Cole Lewko

$500-$999

* Tracey Santilli

Marcy Bacine

Wudbhav Sankar

* Elizabeth & Steven Singh

George Becker

Suzanne Vezina

Wilo Carey & Peter Benoliel

Lisa Carmalt

Harris Bock

Joyce Gamburg

Dana Connors

Nikki DiCaro

Dorothy McCrosson

* Ronald Koch & Keith Zotti

* Marcos Duque

Jacqueline Morrill

* The Kothari Family

* Benjamin Fisher

Angela Ngai

Sara McGowan

Samantha Gibb Roff

Kate Barron-Alicante

Robert McNeil

Averill Jarvis Nannos

Megan Brossman

* Christopher Scarpa

Cheryl & Bruce Luehrs

Shari Mintz

Seidman Family Fund

Cynthia Schiff

Tina Frascella

Tevah Fund, Judy and Ken Weinstein

Stephen Soulas

* Matt Thomas

Kristen Traynor

* United Way of Alabama

* Marie Weaver

* Tina & Shawn Tuli

Ginny Palmieri

Mary Austen

Cheryl Weigel

* Shannon Diallo

$5,000-$9,999

Roger Wood

Daniel Ross

Nancy Dunleavy

* Donors whose gifts were designated to the Museum’s Creating the Future of Play Campaign

*

AN NUAL F UND D ONORS

FY 2 0 2 0

Terence Edwards

* Emily Zarek

Mindy Posoff

* Amanda Glatfelter

* Susan Lonergan

Daniel Rottenberg

* Barbara Gray

Alicia Bader

Laura Sparks

* Jon Hadfield

James Marquess

Sharon Starr

* Leah Halstead

Krisda Chaiyachati

Andrew Swanson

Mariesa Hinchey

Catherine Conahan

Alissa Van Volkom

* Shih Wei Ho

Jane Dellheim

* Carolyn Watson

Victoria Lupica

Vicki Kramer

Cynthia Weiss

Robert Margolskee

Robin Lincoln

Lesley Wendell

* Hilleary & Jonathan Nguyen

Jessica Marlin

* Rey Ramirez

* Kerry Miller

* Donors whose gifts were designated to the Museum’s Creating the Future of Play Campaign

AN NUAL F UND D ONORS

$100,000 and Above

$1,000-$4,999

$500-$999

* Anonymous

* George Ahern

* Marta & Robert Adelson

* Family of Portia Sperr

* Sarah & Mark Becker

* Wilo Carey & Peter Benoliel

* Patricia D. Wellenbach &

* Harris Bock

* Marc Brownstein

* Eric Brooks

* James Buck

* Susan & Cummins Catherwood

* Pierce Dever

* Debby R. Peikes & Robby Cohen

* Linda Disston White

* Jane B Daggett &

* Alice Haynesworth Hendricks

Larry McMichael

$10,000-$24,999 * Chris Campbell & Bill Massa * Elizabeth Cartmell & Paul Zoubek

William O’ Daggett, Jr.

* Geoffrey Mills

* Sharon & Kevin Coghlan

* Ann Marie & Terry Horner

* Samantha Gibb Roff

FY 2 0 2 1

* Karen Griffith Gryga

* Carol Johnson

* The Henry J. Fox Trust

* Meghan & Ben Johnson

* Meg Kane

* Michael Walker

Our sincere gratitude goes

* Aisling Murphy

* Maggie & Alan Kaplan

* Denise C. Weaver

out to all of our contributors

* Christyn Rossman

* Holly Kinser

* Daniel Zelikovich

* Tracey Santilli

* Ray & May Massa

* Ivy Silver & Steven Leshner

* Christie Little, MD &

who supported Please Touch Museum between October 1, 2020 and September 30, 2021.

* Lois & Richard Tewksbury

Bruce A. Meyer, MD

$100-$499 * Sandra Aguilar-Rodriguez

* Averill Jarvis-Nannos

* Patricia Bailey

* Ginny Palmieri

* Andrea Bartus

* Vince Powers

* Katie Behringer

* David M. Davis

* Jane Ratchford

* Alice Berman

* Samantha Funk

* Adam Rom

* Patricia Best

* Kristen & David Han

* Mengmeng Shen

* Hannah Bornmann

* Judi & Scott Hartzell

* Chrissy Teigen & Family

* Christine Bossone

* Ronald Koch & Keith Zotti

* Mark Silow

* Lee Bradway

* The Kothari Family

* Sally & Lee Stetson

* Melanie Breaux

* Arianna & Cole Lewko

* United Way of Alabama

* Karen Buzby

* Beth & Edgar Miranda

* United Way of Greater Philadelphia

* Lisa Carmalt

* Jennifer & Timothy Vecchiarelli

$5,000-$9,999

* Ramona Rogers-Windsor & Thomas P. Windsor * Christopher Scarpa

and Southern New Jersey

* Amy Choules

* Fred Vincent

* Karen & Francis Ciccarino

* Jolly & Joe Waterman

* Krista Crusemire

* Matt Simon

* Marguerite Cudahy

* Jeannette & Gee Smith

* Jane Dellheim

* Tina & Shawn Tuli

* Emily Demartino

* Judy & Ken Weinstein

* Jane Diamond * Donors whose gifts were designated to the Museum’s Creating the Future of Play Campaign

AN NUAL F UND D ONORS

FY 2 0 2 1

* Dana Dorman

* Sean Mays

* Amy Dorsey

* Wieka Mcbride

* Marcos Duque

* Anne Marie McCarthy

* Matt Thomas

* Brittany Edwards

* Jennifer Miller

* Jane Till

* Michael Elkins

* Marvin Mills

* Jeff Turkin

* Kathryn Enchelmayer

* Jacqueline Morrill

* Robert Tuteur

* Marie Failey

* Sara Nerken

* United Way of Lancaster County

* Jaliya Faulkner

* Paul Nestor

* Michael Vaughn

* David Fechtman

* Brendan O’Hara

* Kumar Velpuri

* Jane Federowicz

* Sarah Kloss & Hari Palaiyanur

* Maria Wasowski

* Evan Fieldston

* Charlene Palmisano

* Ilene Wasserman, Ph.D.

* Kyle Fleagle

* Susan W. & Robert Peck

* Carolyn Watson

* Jesse Ford

* Nancy Plate

* Marie Weaver

* Kelly Frasca

* Jason Poon

* Emily Welde Remster

* Timothy Gallacher

* Mindy Posoff

* Gail Whiffen

* Joyce & Sidney Gamburg

* Kathryn Potalivo

* Jeffrey Wild

* Jonah Gelbach

* Joseph Rapier

* Christine Wilmer Barkus

* Laura Geller

* Nisha Reddy

* Sandra Wintner

* Floyd A. Glenn

* Robin Rifkin

* Lisa Wyatt

* Gregory Gosfield

* Roy M. Rosin

* Katherine Yun

* Sarah D. Green

* Diane Rurode

* Nyra Zaracho

* Owen Hayes

* Lacy Ryan

* Michael Zonies

* Michele Hermansen

* Wudbhav Sankar

* Mariesa Hinchey

* Carrie Scheitrum

* Mary & Howard Hurtig

* Karen & Kevin Scoles

* Eric Jacob

* Peter Sneeringer

* Kate Jiggins

* Sidney Spahr

* Danielle Karasko

* Laura Spain

* Barbara Kreider

* Laura & Andrew Sparks

* Gail Krimstock

* Toba & Mitchell Spector

* Nancy Laskowski

* Jean Stakias

* Althier Lazar

* Sharon Starr

* William Loeb

* Scott Suko

* Kate Malgieri

* George Taylor

* Zhi Martinez

* Marc Tepper

* The Julius & Ray Charlestein Foundation, Inc.

* Donors whose gifts were designated to the Museum’s Creating the Future of Play Campaign

C ORPOR ATE F OUNDATIO N & GOVERNM E NT S UPPORT

FY 2 0 2 0 Our sincere gratitude goes out to all of our contributors who supported Please Touch Museum between October 1, 2019 and September 30, 2020.

$500,000 and above

$10,000-$24,999

* The GIANT Company

Bassetts Ice Cream Company

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

Gerry Lenfest Legacy Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation

$250,000-$499,999 Albert M. Greenfield Foundation

Main Line Health - Nemours PECO

The Anderson Family Foundation

$2,500-$9,999

Hess Foundation

* Christian R. & Mary F. Lindback Foundation

Philadelphia City Council

Coventry

* PNC Foundation

* Fulton Bank

Vanguard Group Foundation

HP Law, LLC

$100,000-$249,999

Imagination Playground * Janney Montgomery Scott, LLC

Bimbo Bakeries USA

* Keystone First

Harmelin Media

* Penguin Random House

National Endowment for the Humanities

* Philadelphia Cultural Fund

$50,000-$99,999 * COVID-19 Arts Aid PHL

$25,000-$49,999

PM Pediatrics William Penn Foundation

$1,000-$2,499 Bank of America

Bloomberg Global Philanthropy & Engagement

* Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation

* Connelly Foundation

* Innovative Compensation & Benefits Concepts

Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

* Network for Good

Councilmember Cherelle Parker

Snapology

Councilmember Curtis Jones, Jr.

Snider Foundation

Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson * TD Bank * TD Charitable Foundation

* Donors whose gifts were designated to the Museum’s Creating the Future of Play Campaign

$1,000,000 and above

* Connelly Foundation * PNC Foundation

* The GIANT Company

C ORPOR ATE F OUNDATIO N & GOVERNM E NT S UPPORT

FY 2 0 2 1 Our sincere gratitude goes out to all of our contributors who supported Please Touch Museum between October 1, 2020 and September 30, 2021.

* Tierney

$500,000-$1,000,000 The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

$5,000-$9,999

* Vanguard Group Foundation

* Bank of America/Merrill Lynch * H.P. Law, LLC

$250,000-$499,999

* Ladies Aid Society of the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

The Albert M. Greenfield Foundation The Anderson Family Foundation

* Philadelphia 76ers

* Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

* PNC Bank, NA

Philadelphia City Council

* William Penn Foundation

$100,000-$249,999

$1,000-$4,999

Harmelin Media

* AmeriHealth Caritas

* Councilmember Curtis Jones, Jr.

* The Barnes Foundation * Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation

$50,000-$100,000

* Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation

* TD Bank

* FCM Hospitality

* TD Charitable Foundation

* Keystone First

* The McLean Contributionship

* Philadelphia Phillies

$25,000-$49,999 * PECO * Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Councilmember Cherelle Parker Councilmember Curtis Jones, Jr. Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson

$10,000-$24,999 * AmerisourceBergen Service Corporation * Anonymous Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation Bassetts Ice Cream Company Bloomberg Global Philanthropy & Engagement

* Donors whose gifts were designated to the Museum’s Creating the Future of Play Campaign

Imagination Sponsor ($15,000)

IM AGINATIO N B ALL S PONSO R S

AmerisourceBergen Service Corporation

Play Sponsor ($10,000) Anonymous Tierney

FY 2 0 2 0 Our sincere gratitude goes out to all of our contributors

Wonder Sponsor ($5,000) Bank of America/ Merril Lynch

Cynthia & Robert Johnson

Karen Griffith Gryga

Main Line Health

Hersha Hospitality Trust

The Malvern School

Innovative Compensation & Benefits

Mary Dougherty & Erik Neumann

Concepts

Permit Capital Advisors

Kinser Group

Philadelphia Phillies

M&T Bank

Tina & Shawn Tuli

Maripeg Bruder

Friend Sponsor ($1,000)

Sara McGowan Pep Boys Philadelphia Eagles

BBD, LLP

Meagan & Osman Sheikh

Chamber of Commerce for Greater

Catherine Shields

Philadelphia

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young

Bimbo Bakeries USA

Context Business Lending, LLC

Richard Tewksbury

who supported Please

Brulee Catering

Drucker & Scaccetti

Tompkins Insurance Agencies, Inc.

Touch Museum between

Byrnes Family Foundation

Samantha Funk

USI Insurance Services

October 1, 2019 and

Dilworth Paxson

Gallagher & Associates, LLC

Visit Philadelphia

September 30, 2020.

Judi & Scott Hartzell

GDI Services Inc.

Independence Blue Cross Averill Jarvis Nannos Meghan & Benjamin Johnson PECO PNC Bank TD Bank Kristen Traynor Twiddy & Co. Portia Sperr

Curiosity Sponsor ($2,500) Accenture Boenning & Scattergood Sharon Coghlan Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania

* Donors whose gifts were designated to the Museum’s Creating the Future of Play Campaign

PLEASE TOUCH MUSEUM F Y 2 0 2 0 & F Y 2 0 21 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

B OARD OF TR UST EES & C OM M UNIT Y ADV ISORY C OU NCIL

Benjamin L. Johnson, Chair Christine Campbell, Board Chair-Elect Aisling Murphy, Secretary Nikki DiCaro, Treasurer Patricia D. Wellenbach, President & CEO

Members David M. Davis Karen Griffith Gryga Kristen D. Han Ron Koch Rahul Kothari

OC TOB E R 1 , 2 0 1 9 T H R OU G H S EP T E M B E R 3 0 , 2 0 2 0

Arianna Orpello Lewko Sara C. McGowan Angela Monaco Christyn Rossman Tracey Santilli Christopher Scarpa Kate Shields Matt Simon Steven A. Singh Salima Suswell Richard (Dick) Tewksbury, Jr. Shawn Tuli

Emeritus Elizabeth B. Cartmell Sharon Coghlan, Esq. Anne Hamilton Portia Sperr Sally W. Stetson

COMMUNITY ADVISORY COUNCIL

John Jordan Jennifer Mahar

Ron Allen

Charlene Mills

Shakia Boulware

Pastor Joe E. Nock

Mike Burch

Ray Parker

Catherine Cahill

Chris Spahr

Roberta & Alfonzo Connor

Kelly Thomas

Calla Cousar

Crystal Walker

Ruby Davis

Dwayne Walker

Evon Delee

Delcina Wilson

Julia Diggs

Alice Wright

Pam Evans Lorraine Gomez Cass Green Falena Hand Monica Harmon Tina Harris Lucinda Hudson

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

B OARD OF TR UST EES & C OM M UNIT Y ADV ISORY C OU NCIL

OC TOB E R 1 , 2 0 2 0 T H R OU G H S EP T E M B E R 3 0 , 2 0 2 1

Christine Campbell, Chair

COMMUNITY ADVISORY COUNCIL

Shawn Tuli, Vice Chair

Ron Allen

Lucinda Hudson

Benjamin L. Johnson, Immediate Past

Shakia Boulware

John Jordan

Mike Burch

Jennifer Mahar

Kristen D. Han, Secretary

Rob Buscher

Charlene Mills

Donna Saul Millen, Treasurer

Catherine Cahill

Pastor Joe E. Nock

Patricia D. Wellenbach, President & CEO

Roberta & Alfonzo Connor

Derrick Pratt

Calla Cousar

Ray Parker

Ruby Davis

Chris Spahr

David M. Davis

Evon Delee

Kelly Thomas

Samantha Funk

Julia Diggs

Crystal Walker

Karen Griffith Gryga

Pam Evans

Dwayne Walker

Ron Koch

Lorraine Gomez

Delcina Wilson

Rahul Kothari

Cass Green

Alice Wright

Arianna Orpello Lewko

Falena Hand

Yuka Yokoyama

Edgar Miranda

Monica Harmon

Chair

Members

Aisling Murphy Christyn L. Rossman Tracey Santilli Christopher Scarpa Matt Simon Richard (Dick) Tewksbury, Jr. Timothy Vecchiarelli

Emeritus Elizabeth B. Cartmell Sharon Coghlan, Esq. Anne Hamilton Gie Liem Portia Sperr Sally W. Stetson

Tina Harris Rachel Honore

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