Exploratorium - Annual Report of Philanthropy 2014 Apr 2014 | Page 14

Education & Learning Anonymous Barbara and Gerson Bakar Gary F. and Cynthia S. Bengier Jennifer Caldwell and John H.N. Fisher William Fries II Foundation Lynn and Anisya Fritz Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund Google Stephanie and Bill Mellin The Noyce Foundation Salesforce.com Foundation Marie Urrere-Pon � Anonymous Alka and Ravin Agrawal Shona L. Brown The G. Steven Burrill Family Clif Bar & Company George Cogan and Fannie Allen Coulter/Weeks Charitable Foundation The Eucalyptus Foundation John and Marcia Goldman Foundation The Hellman Family Foundation William R. Hewlett Trust Barrett and Margaret Hindes Foundation Jeff and Laura Huber The James Irvine Foundation Michael Jacobson and Trine Sorenson Van and Merrill Kasper Mr. and Mrs. Jude P. Laspa Robert and Connie Lurie McBean Family Foundation Nan Tucker McEvoy Family Michael Moritz and Harriet Heyman Paul and Sandy Otellini Bill and Eva Price The Schwab Family Barclay and Sharon Simpson TomKat Charitable Trust Diane B. Wilsey The Yue Foundation � Ann S. Bowers John M. Bryan Family Fund The Buchheit Family Anna Chavez and Eugene Eidenberg Coblentz, Patch, Duffy, & Bass The Penny and James Coulter Family Sarah and Tony Earley Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund Walter and Elise Haas Fund The Hearst Foundations, Inc. The Herbert Family Mr. and Mrs. Franklin P. Johnson, Jr. McMurtry Family Foundation TOSA Foundation Wells Fargo Foundation � Lauren B. and Alan Dachs The Kramlich Family Akshata Murty and Rishi Sunak Ruediger Naumann-Etienne and Annette Campell White Vincent L. and Jean Ricci Lynn and Peter Wendell � Byers Family Kevin P. Connors Greg and Julie Flynn Harvey and Gail Glasser The Dirk and Charlene Kabcenell Foundation Laura and Gary Lauder and Family Divesh and Diksha Makan Ken and Kris Moore Eric and Wendy Schmidt Silver Giving Foundation THE REACH OF THE EXPLORATORIUM’S EFFORTS in education and learning extends far beyond our local community. Educators around the globe use our online resources, making interactive learning accessible to students in far-reaching areas. An educator in Pakistan shares with us: For the past seven years I have been a regular visitor to the Exploratorium’s website. I have benefited hugely from the workshop guides produced by the Institute for Inquiry and have used them to conduct workshops, which have always been well received.   The participants have been Pakistani teachers from low-income schools in working class areas with very limited resources. . . . I have had to translate handouts into Urdu, scout around retail markets to get supplies, identify carpenters to make scrapers, blocks, etc. But it has been a vastly enjoyable journey. I have been enriched.  Every year, thousands of educators bring hands-on science to their classrooms through our teacher education programs and hundreds of Bay Area high school students develop leadership skills while investigating scientific phenomena with Exploratorium visitors.