How your donations help build a place for our children
The Children’s Museum of Tacoma is the first and only privately-funded children’s museum in the country to offer Pay As You Will admission, which allows every family to spend time connecting, learning and exploring through play. This year we will serve over 160,000 visitors; 41% will come from low income households, while another 25% will come from the military.
With your help we can continue to meet our mission by growing accessible services for the community like the Play to Learn program. Now in its tenth year, Play to Learn offers free preschools classes at 25 Pierce County locations each week starting January 2019, and is now serving 20,000 children and their adults each year.
And, the Museum does all of this with a modest budget and careful stewardship of the resources that community members, like you, have entrusted.
Please consider providing a gift to the Children’s Museum of Tacoma.
Even a modest gift will have a big impact on our ability to continue to offer high quality and accessible play experiences for young families. Your gifts are a thoughtful investment in our community’s future; the Museum is grateful for your commitment.
Give 253
The Children’s Museum of Tacoma is excited to announce our new Give 253 Monthly Giving Program! Invest in child-centered educational programming at your Museum by pledging at least $22 a month, for 11 consecutive months, for at least a total of $253.
This funding will go towards Museum operations and access programming, including Pay As You Will admission, Wee Ones Weekly and Play to Learn. All first-time Give 253 Monthly Giving members will receive a CMT 253 Heart decal, to proudly display your commitment to our community’s children and Pierce County pride.
Questions? Contact Julia Beerbower at jbeerbower@playtacoma.org or 253.627.6031 x223.
Give Back While You Shop
Amazon Smile
We are happy to introduce a new way that you can support the Children’s Museum of Tacoma that is easy and free for you, and helps us meet our fundraising goals.
AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support your favorite charitable organization every time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you’ll find the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to your favorite charitable organization. You can choose from nearly one million organizations to support.
To shop at AmazonSmile simply go to smile.amazon.com from the web browser on your computer or mobile device. You may also want to add a bookmark to smile.amazon.com to make it even easier to return and start your shopping at AmazonSmile.
Fred Meyer
Fred Meyer is donating $2.5 million per year to non-profits in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, based on where their customers tell them to give. Here’s how the program works:
Sign up for the Community Rewards program by linking your Fred Meyer Rewards Card to Children’s Museum of Tacoma at www.fredmeyer.com/communityrewards. You can search for us by our name or by our non-profit number 85085.
Then, every time you shop and use your Rewards Card, you are helping us earn a donation! You still earn your Rewards Points, Fuel Points, and Rebates, just as you do today. If you do not have a Rewards Card, they are available at the Customer Service desk of any Fred Meyer store.
For more information, please visit www.fredmeyer.com/communityrewards.
Play Champions
Our Play Champions are an exceptional group of donors whose annual investments:
Raise $1,000 or more
Support groundbreaking programs like Pay As You Will admission and Play to Learn
Fulfill our mission to honor children and champion play
Fund dynamic programs, playscapes and community initiatives that promote early learning
Become a Play Champion and receive the following benefits:
A Play Champions Museum membership – to redeem or share – with free admission to museums across the United States, including but not limited to TAM, BAM, MoPOP, MOHAI, etc. and over 600 participating museums in the North American Reciprocal Museum Program
Special invitations to exclusive engagements such as tours, preview parties and the annual Museum Party
Recognition on the Museum website, the annual report and on the lobby screen page
Gift of original children’s art or canvas
Insider information on upcoming Museum initiatives and programs
Museum branded merchandise including hats, tee shirts and other gear
Invitation to the Symposium Soiree with featured guest speaker
Curated articles, news and literature featuring important early learning topics
Our Play Champions
Bates Family Foundation
Ben B. Cheney Foundation
Benevity Community Impact Fund
BNSF Foundation
City of Tacoma
Columbia Bank
Commencement Bank
Dimmer Family Foundation
Discuren Charitable Foundation
Eatin Right LLC
Florence B Kilworth Foundation
Forest Foundation
Franciscan Health System
Georgia-Pacific Foundation
Gottfried and Mary Fuchs Foundation
Jordan Fund
KBTC Public Television
KeyBank Foundation
Laird Norton Family Foundation
Marco J Heidner Charitable Trust
McEachern Charitable Trust
McGavick Graves
MultiCare Health System
Names Family Foundation
Niagara Bottling
Nordstrom
Norman Archibald Charitable Foundation
Patriot Fire Protection, Inc.
Propel Insurance
Puget Sound Energy Foundation
Puyallup Tribe of Indians Charity Trust Board
Safeco Insurance Fund
Schwab Charitable
Sequoia Foundation
South Sound Together
Sprague Pest Control
Tacoma Public Schools
The Baker Foundation
The Bamford Foundation
The DeFalco Family Foundation
The Scott E Silver Trust
The Seattle Foundation
Titus Will Enterprises
Titus Will Families Foundation
Umpqua Bank
UNICO Properties, LLC
Union Bank
Union Pacific Foundation
Vanguard Charitable
Wells Fargo Foundation
William Kilworth Foundation
Anonymous Family
Anna and Chuck Ahrens Family
Donna Albers Family
Nicole Ancich and Brian Bumpers Family
Elaine Andrews Family
Bridget and Joshua Baeth Family
Joanne and Calvin Bamford Family
Holly Bamford Hunt and John Hunt Family
Rex and Angela Bates Family
Matthew Beckingham and Piper Cheney Family
Bob and Kathy Bethke Family
Rod and Stacy Bigelow Family
Brent and Tara Binge Family
Jim and Donna Boulanger Family
Diana Brovold Family
Jacquie and Conor Boyd Family
Guillermo Chacon and Molly Raybuck Family
Diane Cecchettini and Frank Scoggins Family
Tenley and Eric Cederstrand Family
Brad and Carolyn Cheney Family
Jimmy and Linda Collins Family
John and Angela Connelly Family
Tina DeFalco Family
John and Diane Dimmer Family
John and Marilyn Dimmer Family
Corinne Dixon Family
Doug and Kathy Dorr Family
William Driscoll and Lisa Hoffman Family
Erik Dugger and Olive Goh Family
Phillip and Tanya Durand Family
Dave Edwards and Pat Shuman Family
Sandra and Denny Eliason Family
John Folsom and Mary Folsom-Lobrovich Family
David Graves Family
Judson and Gayle Gray Family
Mimi and Larry Green Family
Brian Green and Annie Katica Green Family
Bob and Margie Haan Family
Carol and Brian Howell Family
Jenny Hubbard and Jim Shoemake Family
Roger and Gloria Hunt Family
Thomas Keskey and Abbe Salk Family
Rachel and Adam Knutz Family
John and Lisa Korsmo Family
Angela Korvas Family
Clara Ladd Family
Samara and Timothy Laynor Family
Collin Lee and Trish Wong Family
Elizabeth Lufkin Family
Brian and Amanda Marlow Family
Scott and Sandy Marshall Family
Pamela Mayer Family
Beth McCaw Family
Megan and Ben Michels Family
Monica Names Family
Don and Lissa Nelson Family
Neel Parikh Family
Mark Pinto and Jeff Williams Family
Spencer and Annie Quinn Family
Les and Estelle Reid Family
Kent and Linda Roberts Family
William and Della Robertson Family
Ed and Debbie Rogel Family
Don and Barbara Russell Family
Sheila and Thomas Ryan Family
Katherine and Gary Severson Family
Erin Shagren Family
Herb and Paula Simon Family
Maureen Sorenson Family
Mary Jane Stackpole Family
Lucinda and James Stangl Family
Carolyn and Alfie Treleven Family
Lawrence and Apinya Tsai Family
Theresa and Charles Walters Family
Jeffrey and Linda Watts Family
Bill and Gail Weyerhaeuser Family
James and Sally Will Family
Trish Wong and Collin Lee Family
Stuart and Dori Young Family