The Campaign for DISCOVERY Children’s Museum
DISCOVERY Children’s Museum has embarked upon a $25 million campaign to raise crucial funds to accomplish three main goals.
$15 MILLION
Making our world-class children’s museum experience more accessible for all kids by updating and improving our educational exhibits and facilities.
Cosmetic Improvements
If you’ve ever had kids around, you know that things can get messy and worn out fast. Even after 10 years, our current space is a wonderful, safe, and welcoming environment for our children. But a space used by young people incurs wear and tear that requires regular capital improvements. It’s time to update the Museum and make sure it looks like a place that reflects our standing as one of the premier non-profit educational organizations in the state.
GOAL: $12 MILLION
Expanding educational programming to provide targeted support to schools, educators, and our youngest learners.
DISCOVERY has proven to be an essential community resource. We are poised to build on that foundation. With support for Our Next DISCOVERY campaign, we can launch a range of new educational opportunities in and outside of our space, with a special focus on families who have difficulty accessing early childhood education, homeschool families, and middle school and high school students.
We’ve identified four core areas where campaign funds will help us make valuable contributions to the educational environment in Las Vegas:
- Growing our popular DISCOVERY on Wheels program and offering it free-of-charge
- Augmenting early-childhood literacy programs
- Creating a robust robotics program for elementary and middle schoolers; and expanding our YouthWorks program
- Expanding educational programming to provide targeted support to schools, educators, and our youngest learners
GOAL: $3 MILLION
$10 MILLION
Increasing our endowment and operating reserves to ensure the Museum’s resilience to serve our region’s children and families for decades to come.
Endowment Campaign for DISCOVERY Children’s Museum
As a community non-profit, we need to ensure the opportunity to experience discovery is as accessible as it can be. Our endowment fund serves as a long-term investment in our financial health and our ability to serve children across Southern Nevada. The cost of admission to the Museum does not cover the total cost of operations for the proposed growth in our programs, making our endowment a critical source of funding for our day-to-day operations and the programs that allow more children, regardless of financial circumstances, the opportunity to experience DISCOVERY.
This campaign will more than double our endowment, from $6 million to $14 million, allowing us to:
- Continually maintain, update, and improve our facilities—stewarding major capital investments, and improvements we plan to make with our current campaign
- Keep admission prices affordable and accessible to all Southern Nevada’s children a priority
- Invest in ongoing internal initiatives and programs like YouthWorks and early literacy
- Focus on the biggest needs of children in our community, not our biggest funding needs
- Endure fluctuations in earned revenue
GOAL: $10 MILLION
Over the past three decades, we’ve been responsible stewards of donor investments. Our financial foundation remains strong. While a number of children’s museums permanently closed during the pandemic, we emerged with our entire staff intact, without debt, and positioned to grow. If anything, the pandemic proved how crucial a healthy endowment fund is to our ability to provide our much-needed programs for children even during tumultuous economic conditions. Making these investments in DISCOVERY was the right thing to do.
Now is the time to secure a future full of Lasting DISCOVERIES — and an endowment investment is the place to do it.
Join us for our next DISCOVERY!
DONATE
Please contact Caitlin Shea at cshea@discoverykidslv.org or call 702.382.3445 ext. 133 for more information about planned giving opportunities for our Lasting DISCOVERIES endowment campaign.
All conversations will be held in strict confidence.
Send a check to:
DISCOVERY Children’s Museum
360 Promenade Place
Las Vegas, NV 89106