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Children's Museum romps with $$
by Blake Jones
March 08, 2006
Fund-raising for The Children’s Museum/Museo de los Niños has picked up steam with $7.5 million in private donations received in January, as well as two new hires to bring more community money to the once troubled project.
Signing on as the capital campaign director, La Jollan Carolyn Clark will bring local expertise as a fund-raiser and nonprofit consultant. Clark’s resume includes serving as director of development for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego and on the board of directors at the Leukemia Society of America and the La Jolla Opera Guild.
Also new to the museum staff is cellist Jeffrey Levenson, who worked for the La Jolla Music Society, the San Diego Symphony, the San Diego Chamber Orchestra and the Claremont Community School of Music before accepting his new title as director of development.
“[Clark] is an articulate, bright lady, very able to present the museum and understand what the museum is all about and be able to communicate that to the community,” said Kay Wagner, the museum’s executive director. “We are delighted to have [Clark and Levenson] and we really appreciate their experience.”
Both long-time San Diego residents will focus on acquiring additional funds needed to build the new 50,000-square-foot facility at First, Island and Front streets in downtown San Diego. The museum has pledged to match a $5 million donation from Joan and Irwin Jacobs in January with Clark’s community fund-raising.
An additional $2.5 million from two families was anonymously given at the same time, helping the museum toward its goal of completing the project debt-free.
Recent donations included, the museum has raised $21.5 million of an estimated $25 to $28 million project. Fund-raising has not been easy, but it is doable, Wagner said of the largely grassroots effort...
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