Help make the Waterloo Regional Children’s Museum an extraordinary learning experience for children & families!

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There is no better way to show your enthusiasm and support for the Waterloo Regional Children’s Museum than by becoming a donor. Your assistance will help us provide children and families with a place where they can discover the world of art and technology at play through interactive exhibits and programs.

The Waterloo Regional Children's Museum is a not-for-profit organization that depends on the generosity and vision of individuals, businesses, foundations and other organizations to fulfill our mission.

Thank you to the Founders who have made the dream of a Children's Museum in downtown Kitchener a reality. To learn more about how you can support the Museum, please read the following information or call the Museum's Development Department at (519) 749-9387 #222 or email [email protected]

Individual Support
Annual Fund - Friends of the Museum
Your support is vital in helping us develop programs and design exhibits that will positively impact the educational lives of our children, and to help them discover the world of art & technology at play!  Your donations can help support:

• School Outreach Programs
• Exhibits Public Program Development
• Community Outreach
• Accessibility for a family in need and more.

There are three easy ways to make a donation to the Waterloo Regional Children's Museum Annual Fund:

• Donate on-line through CanadaHelps
• Complete this donation form to:
  Waterloo Regional Children's Museum
  10 King St. West, Kitchener, N2G 1A3
  or, FAX to: (519) 749-8612
• Contact the Museum's Development Department at (519) 749-9387 ext. #222 and we will process your donation (by Visa or MasterCard) by phone.

Annual donors can choose to have a tax receipt for the full amount of their gifts or, if the gift is over $85, a partial receipt will be issued for the remaining amount while allowing you to enjoy the additional benefits of Membership.  For information on giving categories and benefits starting at $125 click here

We appreciate your support.

The Waterloo Regional Children's Museum was fortunate to receive a $4 million donation from The Musagetes Foundation. It is our hope this gift will be directed into an endowment fund to help subsidize operating costs and keep admission prices accessible. This donation will help to ensure the financial stability of our new organization and is important in helping the Museum meet its annual operating budget.

You can help us build the Endowment Fund to ensure that Museum has a continuous and secure source of funding. Endowment Funds provide security by releasing only a portion of the interest earned on the fund, thereby protecting the initial gift in perpetuity. Designated Contributions and Planned Gifts, such as bequests and proceeds from an insurance policy, are common sources of endowed funds.

Planned Giving - The Ultimate Gift
Help ensure a healthy future for the Waterloo Regional Children's Museum's exhibits and our educational programming by making a planned gift with a bequest in your will, a gift of life insurance or a charitable annuity to the Museum. Your gift can make a significant difference to the Museum's future.

The Museum's staff are pleased to work with you and your financial advisors to set up a planned gift suited to your lifestyle, personal and financial circumstances. We appreciate your consideration in making a planned gift to the Museum.

Please, don’t forget if you plan to make a gift to the Museum, please inform us of your generosity.

Corporate Partners
A corporate gift demonstrates good corporate citizenship; it aligns your business with things that matter - our children and their development. The Museum offers several opportunities for Corporate Giving that provide benefits for your company and employees. Choose from Corporate Sponsorship, Corporate Gifts-in-Kind, Corporate Annual Support or Occasional Gifts to our major campaigns.

Your organization's support will help enrich the lives of more than 100,000 visitors who visit each year.

Sponsorship
Opportunities for sponsorship exist allowing you to support travelling exhibits, programs, Artist in Residence & Guest Artist workshops, and more. Sponsorship benefits can be tailored to support your organization’s objectives and include recognition in the Museum’s newsletter, visibility on the website or, we will work with you to provide the benefits that best support your organization’s needs while providing the community with meaningful programs and activities.

Some Sponsorship Opportunities include:

• Education Programmes
• Public Programmes including March Break, Summer & Day Camps, & Family Programs
• Travelling Exhibits
• Artist in Residence & Guest Artist
• Gallery Exhibits
• Classrooms

In-Kind Donations
In-kind donations provide needed supplies and services to the Museum, allowing more of our operating budget to go directly toward funding programs and exhibits.  In-kind gifts can range from office supplies to exhibit components and everything in-between.

Museum exhibits have been developed to showcase local technology, industry and research and to celebrate the diversity and richness of our community.The fourth floor of the Museum is currently under development and will be the future home to our Communications exhibit.  If your company can help us by providing inspiration or expertise to complete this floor we want to hear from you!  Please contact the Museum at (519) 749-9387 ext 222 or e-mail [email protected].

Gifts In Tribute
Gifts In Tribute to the Waterloo Regional Children’s Museum are a thoughtful way to celebrate an event or to acknowledge family and friends.  When you make a Gift In Tribute, a personalized acknowledgement is sent to the honouree, recognizing your gift.

The Waterloo Regional Children’s Museum has adopted the Ethical Fundraising & Financial Accountability Code (Link to www.ccp.ca)

Charitable Number:  86950 9554 RR0001

We appreciate having a facility where my family can visit to discover and learn together.  My children love it and I love to see the way their faces light up with they visit.  Both my husband and I have as much fun as the children.   Carol Ann Achtymichuk, Cambridge Capital Campaign Leader.

We really believe in this project. It is important to us that the Museum’s future is financially secure and keeps the facility accessible and affordable.  Representatives of The Musagetes Foundation

The idea of using art as the vehicle to explore technology is inspired to start children exploring, playing intuitively and creating with the building blocks of technology is very important. The open-ended nature of the exhibits produces a museum unlike any other in Canada.   Jim Balsillie, Chairman & Co-CEO, Research In Motion (RIM)