ISLANDWOOD COMMUNITY REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2014

JULY 1, 2013 - JUNE 30, 2014

A SUMMARY OF FISCAL YEAR 2014

BEN KLASKY President & CEO

July 2013 – June 2014 Dear Friends, The period leading into this past fiscal year was marked by reflection, planning, and dreaming. We had hundreds of conversations with people – staff, board, teachers, students, local leaders, and many others – about how IslandWood could best serve the community. The message was clear: It was time to think big – to grow beyond our campus with game-changing new programs that honored our past while defining our future. And we did. We produced a plan outlining new initiatives that would deepen our impact and expand our mission to more people in more places, from our core campus to the full Puget Sound region and beyond. I am excited to report that 2014 was the year reflection, planning, and dreaming became action. We hired a talented Director of Urban Programs to bring the Urban Graduate Program to life and formalized a wonderful partnership with Antioch University Seattle. Now, we are close to achieving accreditation – a critical step before we begin recruiting the inaugural class of graduate students who will come from all over the country to help us redefine environmental education in the city. Another bold dream – the Nature Passport App – also became a reality in 2014. We worked with our project partner Nature Play Western Australia to create a tool that would give millions of kids worldwide a way to get outside, moving, playing, and exploring. Now, the app is set to be launched this November at the World Parks Congress in Sydney, Australia.

This summer, we also held our second Military Families and Veterans Action Summit. Leaders from grassroots organizations to the Joint Chiefs of Staff came together to create an action plan to improve the lives of military veterans and their families. In a speech at IslandWood, Senator Patty Murray referred to the Action Summit as a “defining moment” in the treatment of veterans. The Urban Graduate Program, Nature Passport App, and Action Summits are exciting, game-changing initiatives. Perhaps most exciting is how they build on – and enrich – our core programs. The new graduate program builds off our current graduate program while injecting more positive energy into the city where kids live and learn and interact with the environment. The app puts missions inspired by our School Overnight program into the hands of families everywhere. And the Action Summits bring fresh voices and ideas to IslandWood, helping us build the field. I am grateful to everyone at IslandWood and in the community who helped make 2014 a transformative year. You are opening a door to nature for a generation of kids who will shape the future. Thank you for all you do. Ben

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A SUMMARY OF FISCAL YEAR 2014

Fiscal Year 2014 Highlights The School Overnight Program served a record 4,311 students from 92 schools from communities all across the region during the school year. IslandWood awarded more than $300,000 in scholarship funding to our partner schools. IslandWood’s graduate program is leading our charge to diversify the education and environmental fields. Last year’s class included seven people of color and our first international student. The incoming graduate class reflects a similarly diverse group of students. In the second full year of programs at Brightwater, IslandWood helped more than 5,000 students to build deeper understandings of the ways humans interact with local water systems. An additional 600 people attended free community events at the Brightwater Center. Last school year, Homewaters enhanced its core programs, implemented the newly designed Sakai Murden Cove Salmon Project on Bainbridge Island, and increased total contacts with students by more than 50% (to 6,662 students). Homewaters provided a record number of students an experience that connected their classroom science units to the communities in which they live.

Fueled in part by a $600,000 grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, the urban graduate program has grown from a concept into a program ready for launch in fall 2015, complete with an accredited university partner (Antioch University Seattle) and community champions embracing IslandWood’s forward-thinking approach to place-based environmental education. For the third year in a row, IslandWood partnered with the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) and school districts statewide to provide Voices from the Field, a week of science learning at IslandWood for middle school students whose parents are migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Voices from the Field has more than doubled its reach since 2012. Support from Boeing enabled IslandWood to evolve our strategic plan for serving teachers in the Puget Sound Region. One result has been a Schoolyard Nature Series that has attracted 70 teachers and increased participants’ comfort with leading meaningful learning experiences on school grounds.

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A SUMMARY OF FISCAL YEAR 2014 With the signing of an MOU this spring, Geocaching (with more than 6,000,000 participants worldwide) is an official partner on IslandWood’s Nature Passport app. The app will be launched in November 2014 at the World Parks Congress in Sydney, Australia. On Tuesday, August 4th, Senator Patty Murray spoke to more than 100 leaders gathered at IslandWood for the second annual Military Families and Veterans Action Summit. Senator Murray referred to the Action Summit as a “defining moment” in the treatment of veterans. The hashtag #forcesforchange reached more than 275,000 people in just three days. IslandWood was profiled in the July issue of Alaska Airlines Magazine as a leading environmental education organization. With a readership of nearly 1 million passengers, the article increased the visibility of IslandWood’s work to an international audience. This summer, IslandWood was represented on Governor Jay Inslee’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Parks and Outdoor Recreation. Ben Klasky chaired a subcommittee on getting youth and families outdoors. The Task Force’s recommendations will be announced this fall.

Gatherings and Events IslandWood’s newly formed Event Sales team generated $1,856,000 in revenue from retreats, weddings, and other events, and brought momentum into FY15: revenue in July 2014 was up 178% over July 2013. Notable clients include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Nature Conservancy, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, the National Parks Conservation Association, and the National Military Family Association Operation Purple Healing Adventures family camp.

Awards In May, E3 Washington presented IslandWood with the 2014 Diversity in Action award recognizing achievement in multicultural education. In April, IslandWood was selected as a recipient of the 2013- 2014 Science Champions Science Education Awards presented by LASER, a program co-led by Pacific Science Center, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. IslandWood was once again recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work” in America, by Outside Magazine.

Philanthropy With extraordinary generosity from Debbie and Dennis Madsen, Honorary Chair Martha Kongsgaard, and more than 200 other guests assembled in the Dining Hall, Dinner in the Woods 2014 generated more than $675,000 in donations, helping IslandWood meet its contributed revenue goal for the year. A gift from Connie and Steve Ballmer funded a matching challenge for any new or increased donations up to $500,000 and The M.J. Murdock Trust provided IslandWood with a three-year $190,000 grant to hire a Director of Impact to spearhead program assessment.

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A SUMMARY OF FISCAL YEAR 2014 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES

Fiscal Year Ending June 30

Fiscal Year Ending June 30

Cash Accounts Receivable Pledges Receivable Investments Inventory and Prepaid Expenses Property and Equipment (net)

829,102 246,397 1,033,563 17,120,407 296,270 35,179,989

980,898 256,840 607,624 15,758,857 234,310 36,057,021

Unrestricted Operating Fund SUPPORT & REVENUE 2014 Contributions 2,428,542 Programs Service Fees 4,014,569 Investment Income 802,085 In-kind and Other Revenue 74,329

Total Assets

54,705,728

53,895,550

Total Support and Revenue

7,319,525

6,689,370

EXPENSES Program Services Management and General Fundraising

5,929,136 842,967 678,631

5,426,833 816,185 686,563

Total Expenses

7,450,734

6,929,581

Net Surplus (Deficit)

(131,209)

(240,211)

ASSETS

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LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

Liabilities Accounts Payable Accrued Expenses Deferred Revenue Line of Credit Total Liabilities Net Assets Total Liabilities and Net Assets

85,882 189,768 703,192 –­

129,041 196,132 545,246 73,000

978,842 53,726,886

943,419 52,952,131

54,705,728

53,895,550

ISLANDWOOD REVENUES (In Thousands)

SUPPORT AND REVENUE

EXPENSES

Fiscal Year 2014

Fiscal Year 2014

Unrestricted Operating Fund 2013 1,987,802 3,987,684 598,927 114,957

8,000 7,000

1.0%

$876,414 $713,884

6,000

9%

11.0%

11%

5,000 4,000

$4,014,569

33.2%

54.8%

80%

$3,987,684

3,000 2,000 1,000

$2,428,542

$1,987,802

FY 2014

FY 2013

0 Program Service Fees

Program Services

In-kind, Investment and Other Revenue

Contributions

Management and General

Programs Service Fees

Investment Income

Contributions

In-kind, Investment and Other Revenue

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ISLANDWOOD BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2013-2014 BOARD CHAIR

BOARD MEMBERS

FOUNDER

David Goldberg

Jason Baumgarten

Debbi Brainerd

Larry Estrada SECRETARY

Dave Goldberg

BOARD EMERITUS

Martha Kongsgaard

Gretchen Hund Andrews

Fraser Black

Marguerite Kondracke

Paul Brainerd

Martha Kongsgaard

Kim Ackerley Cleworth

Dennis Madsen

Ty Cramer

Nate Miles

Dwight Sutton

Beth Bryson Morgan

Patricia Wasley

TREASURER

Jon Snare

Linda Myhrvold

Howard Wollner

Steven Rogers Katherine James Schuitemaker Preston Singletary

PRESIDENT AND CEO

Ben Klasky

Alan Smith Bradley Smith Jon Snare Dale Sperling Tom Stritikus Ed Thomas John D. Warner Jessie Woolley-Wilson

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