Marbles Fiscal Year 21/22 Impact Report

Now, more than ever, we must leverage the power of play to promote parental mental health and child development.

-UNICEF Office of Research

Dear Friends,

Fiscal Year 21/22 was full of transformation and growth at Marbles. Our visitation bounced back, we resumed in-person events, opened new exhibits and re-launched important community access initiatives. We leaned into our unique role of serving families ready to reignite their spirit of playfulness.

Marbles also experienced a leadership transition, as founding CEO Sally Edwards stepped down after 15 years of monumental impact and dedication. Sally, the Marbles Board and the incredible team guided Marbles to a position of strength and momentum, with many exciting opportunities on the horizon.

Please enjoy this Impact Report from Fiscal Year 21/22 – a year that reminded us to never underestimate the power of play. After all…

PLAY is how children learn best.

PLAY fosters relationships.

PLAY ignites joy.

Marbles’ accomplishments are only made possible with your support – our community of donors, partners, members, guests, volunteers, and teammates. Thank you!

Jonathan Frederick, CEO Julie Paul, Board Chair

PLAY is how children learn best

Throughout Fiscal Year 21/22, Marbles delivered a continuum of play-based learning programs designed to bolster children’s academic success and mitigate learning loss. Marbles is proud to work with Wake County Public Schools, Wake County Public Libraries and dozens of nonprofit partners to support families in our community with safe, enriching play and learning.

-Catty

to Kindergarten

kindergartners plus their caregivers spent a free day at Marbles preparing for the transition to kindergarten.

Ready Set School

County preschoolers and their family members participated in our free, multi-generational, bilingual school readiness programs at Marbles and in library branches across the county.

visited Marbles’ kid-sized career fair, dreaming big about their futures as builders, farmers, dentists, designers

YOU

The United Way of the Greater Triangle, the Barnhill Family Foundation, NC 529, Opendoor and Greene Resources funded these important learning experiences at Marbles in FY 21/22.

PLAY fosters relationships

In September 2021, Marbles opened imagiFAB, a collaborative maker space that transformed the 2nd floor of the museum. imagiFAB is an inclusive and open space where families play side-by-side as they make, create, build and animate.

-Marbles Mom

life being so busy, I appreciated the reminder to just play with my children.

“

THANK YOU

imagiFAB was made possible by a federal grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and funding from presenting sponsor, Nugget. Further support was received from the Cannon Foundation, Cisco, Citrix, the City of Raleigh Arts Commission, PwC and several individual donors.

PLAY ignites joy

As we continued bouncing back from pandemic losses, Marbles was able to re-launch and expand programming designed to reach kids of all backgrounds and abilities, including Sensory Friendly Playtime. Throughout the year, more than 1,650 kids with disabilities and their families played joyfully in a calm, quiet museum environment. Sensory Friendly Playtime is one offering within Marbles’ suite of access initiatives that served more than 45,000 individuals last year.

“ We appreciate Marbles offering this service. Our family looks forward to it every month. While this may not seem like much to some, it’s everything for our special, unique family.

- Marbles Parent

Thank you for doing this for my son and all the other kids that get to experience a night of joy without judgment.

“

- Marbles Parent

THANK YOU

Sensory Friendly Playtime is offered free to participants thanks to generous funding from ABS Kids, BlueSprig, HWY55 Charitable Foundation and the J.W. and M.H. Straker Charitable Foundation. In FY 21/22, Marbles’ access programming was also supported by Wake County, Allscripts, PNC, Terminix, Duke Energy and many generous individual donors.

CONTRIBUTED REVENUE

REVENUE

Earned Revenue $3,901,000

Relief $3,630,000 37%

Revenue $2,344,000 24%

TOTAL REVENUE $9,875,000

Government $757,000 32% Corporate $721,000 31% Individual $448,000 19% Fundraising Events $257,000 11 % Foundation $161,000 7%

CONTR. REVENUE $2,344,000 100%

REVENUE

DIRECTORSFY 21/22 Board of

Julie Paul

Chair

UNC Kenan-Flagler

Business School

Nate Spilker

Immediate Past Chair

Levitate Naeill Leigh Secretary MetLife

Mary Beck Skinner Treasurer First Horizon

Jennifer Badham Development Chair Bank of America

Skip Hill Facilities Chair Highwoods Properties Inc.

Tia McLaurin Communications Chair

Google MariaRosa Rangel Learning Chair WCPSS

John Adams

Advance Auto

Mike Adams

American Board of Pediatrics

Lennie Austin PricewaterhouseCoopers

Lorie Barnes

Community Volunteer

Austin Barnhill Barnhill Construction

Christian Bigsby

Cisco

Phaedra Boinodiris

IBM

Heather Cozart

Dixon Hughes Goodman

Sara Daniel Carolina Hurricanes

Carrie Gray

Advance Auto

Bridget Harrington Community Volunteer

Jason Herndon Parker Poe

Shirley Huang WakeMed

Sarah Morgan BuzzARooney LLC

Mike Munn McAdams

Jennifer Pittman ABB

Melissa Rhodes Kriya Therepeutics

Ericka Santos Burt’s Bees

Guillermo Solares Credit Suisse

Bernette Stivers Wind Rose Construction

Amy Strecker Duke Energy

DONORSFY

• Bank of America

• Barnhill Family Foundation

• Susie & Jim Erlinger

• Institute of Museum & Library Services

• Nugget

• Wake County

• ABB

• ABC11

• BASF

• Carolina Hurricanes

• Chase Bank

• Jandy Ammons Foundation

• John Rex Endowment

• MetLife Foundation

• NC State Veterinary Medicine

• North Carolina Bankers Association

• North Carolina Science Museums Network

• Opendoor

• PNC Bank

• PricewaterhouseCoopers

• Terminix

• United Way of the Greater Triangle

• BlueCross NC

• Burroughs Wellcome Fund

• Cisco

• Citrix

• City of Raleigh Arts Commission

• Duke Energy

• Fifth Third Bank

• First Horizon Bank

• Google Fiber

• Johnson Subaru of Cary

• Little Diversified Architectural Consulting

• Lowes Foods

• McAdams

• NC 529

• WakeMed Health & Hospitals

• Workplace Options

• Jennifer & Paxton Badham

• The Baulch Family

• Deborah & Christian Bigsby

• BlueSprig

• Hannah & Aaron Bockover

• The Bruce Family

• Pat & Sheldon Campbell

• CAPTRUST

• celito.net

• Centrex Properties, Inc.

• Chiesi

• Heather & Jared Cozart

• Sharon & Tim Crawford

• Sara Daniel & Richard Lascell

• Danielle & Britt Davis

• Joyce & Jeff Davis

• Davis Moore Capital

• Brandy & Ben Demick

• Jenn Dominguez & Nate Spilker

• A. E. Finley Foundation

• ABS Kids

• AgFirst Farm Credit Bank

• Alfred Williams & Company

• Jennifer & Brian Ammirati

• Sarah & David Ammirati

• Nicole & Douglas Driver

• Patricia & Jeff Edwards

• Sally & Jim Edwards

• Hardin Engelhardt & Ron Wilder

• Margaret & Rick Faust

• A.J. Fletcher Foundation

• Allscripts

• Arthur J. Gallagher

• Holly & Lennie Austin

• The Fearn Family

• Mary Kate & Wayne Fish

• Flowserve Corporation

• Olivia Fried & Alan Hymowitz

• Katie & Rich Gillespie

• Anna & Jimmy Goodmon

• Google

• Lee Ann & Kevin Gordon

• Carol & Joseph Gosselin

• Wendy Gradison

• Greene Resources

• The Greer Family Charitable Fund

• GrowingGreat

• Kaitlin Harol & Matthew Jackson

• The Hazlehurst Family

• Sherry & David Heuser

• Highwoods Properties

• Sondra & Skip Hill

• Mary Anne Howard

• HWY 55 Charitable Foundation

• The J.W. & M.H. Straker Charitable Foundation

• Parker Kennedy

• The Kimley-Horn Foundation

• Emily & David Kornstein

• KPMG LLP

• Anna & Gerry Lipscomb

• Longfellow Real Estate Partners

• Marsh & McLennan Agency

• Tia McLaurin

• M.R. Metzger Family Foundation

• Microsoft

• Elizabeth & Mike Munn

• Lavanya & Sharat Nagaraj

• NC Egg Association

• New Belgium

• Parker Poe

• Julie & Mack Paul

• Anita Blomme Pinther & George Pinther

• Kathy & Steve Pretzer

• Publix Super Markets Charities

• The Raleigh School

• Red Hat

• Melissa & Brad Rhodes

• Pam Rideout

• Lauren Rivers & Janelle Hoskins

• Rodgers Builders

• SAS Institute

• Amy Strecker & Emmy Coleman

• T. A. Loving

• Britt & Michael Thomas

• Truist

• Emily & David Vanderweide

• Wake County Economic Development

• Wake Orthodontics & Pediatric Dentistry

• Wegmans

• Wells Fargo

• White Oak Commercial

• Carissa & John White

• Sally & Bill White

• Jen & Ryan Wickline

• William C. Ethridge Foundation

• Dargan & Blount Williams

• Rosemary & G. Smedes York

$100-$999

• Mike Adams

• Chris Alexander

• Nancy & Frank Baird

• Bruce Banning

• Lorie & Edward Barnes

• Phaedra Boinodiris

• Kelli Braunbach & Laurie Rose

• Lindsey & Brett Breitschwerdt

• Lori & Dave Brown

• Laura & Watson Bryant

• Danette & Lee Carter

• Caterpillar Inc.

• Dina Coker

• Natalie Cooper

• Elizabeth Corgan & Seth Powell

• Terry Corgan

• Credit Suisse

• Lana Dail

• Kinsey Davis

• Rachel Davis

• Isis Dorado

• Scott Duckworth

• Janine Eash

• Meghan Fitzgerald

• Flagship Wealth Management

• Lucy & David Fountain

• The Fox Family

• Trish & Raiford Garrabrant

• Jeanette Golden

• The Gradison Foundation

• Dante Haywood

• Kristi & Bob Heckel

• The Herndon Family

• Katherine & John Hodges

• Hampton & Nicholas Hofer

• Humareso

• Invicta Environmental Pest Defense

• Caroline & Michael Ives

• The Jeutter Family

• Elizabeth & Thomas Jochum

• Beth & Wyeth Johnson

• Kasey Joyner & Marlyn Thompson

• Victoria Keryc

• Anterio Kittrell

• Carla Marie & Naeill Leigh

• Paul Levering

• Hannah Littlewood

• M/I Homes

• Deborah & Jay Mackie

• Perin & Jeff Marcus

• Donna & Billy McClatchey

• Catherine & John McDowell

• Richard & Jeffrey Mielke

• Sarah Morgan

• Amy & Bill Moyer

• Cindy & Glen Myers

• Cheryl Noll

• Susan Phillips

• Danielle Ripperton

• Susan Rodger & Thomas Narten

• Teresa Wilkerson Rullman & Tyler Rullman

• Dawn & Doug Sander

• Ericka Santos & Adam Garrido

• Sarah Schwab

• Cece & Peter Scott

• The Shamblee Family

• Dionne Silvester

• Mary Beck & Chris Skinner

• Molly & Michael Stuart

• Sarah & Christopher Svec

• Robert Teague

• Leila & Sterling Thomas

• UNC-Chapel Hill

• Jade Walker

• Stacie Walker

• Sarah Walston

• Mary Jo Walter

• Kristin & Eric Weimer

• Madeleine Williams

• Lesley & Steve Wilson

• Sarah & Surry Wood

• Elaine & Fred Wood

• Laura & Richard Zug