2020-05-15T09:45:22-05:00 2019-06-30 GRANT THORNTON LLP 757 THIRD AVENUE 3RD FLOOR NEW YORK NY 100172013 990 2018-07-01 208783702 The Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Educational Media and Research Inc % DARYL MINTZ/SESAME WORKSHOP JOAN 2125953456 1900 Broadway New York NY 10023 DARYL MINTZ treasurer 3474737400 2020-05-08 true SCOTT THOMPSETT P00741490 2125990100 69.248.93.196 26377520201365000008 2020-05-15 P 8AD3A003972A0FFAB7AABDBC572466F87D231599 437EC5B07076EA06E028235484EAD49167793D57 2018 2021-01-29 14:40:06Z MICHAEL Preston 1900 Broadway New York NY 10023 211082 false X www.joanganzcooneycenter.org X 2007 DE THE CENTER'S MISSION IS TO CATALYZE AND SUPPORT RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND INVESTMENT IN DIGITAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES TO ADVANCE CHILDREN'S LEARNING. 5 2 0 0 0 0 4559 0 4848 0 0 211082 669 0 10076 211082 83179 185051 0 0 1166053 674590 0 0 79720 496819 225374 1746051 1085015 -1735975 -873933 24340832 23734911 3646203 3708296 20694629 20026615 X THE COONEY CENTER IS AN INDEPENDENT RESEARCH AND INNOVATION LAB THAT CATALYZES AND SUPPORTS RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND INVESTMENT IN DIGITAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES TO ADVANCE CHILDREN'S LEARNING. THE FOCUS OF THE COONEY CENTER IS ON LITERACY DEVELOPMENT FOR DIVERSE LEARNERS. PROGRAMS ADDRESS VITAL FOUNDATIONAL CAPABILITIES, SUCH AS READING, WITH A SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THOSE STUDENTS WHO RISK EDUCATIONAL FAILURE IF THEY DO NOT MASTER BASIC COMPETENCIES BY GRADE 4. THE COONEY CENTER IS ALSO FOCUSING NATIONAL ATTENTION ON EVOLVING "NEW LITERACIES" THAT CHILDREN NEED TO COMPETE AND COOPERATE IN THE 21ST CENTURY. MAJOR INITIATIVES FOCUS ON INTER-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING, MEDIA LITERACY, AND ADVANCING SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATH (STEM) LEARNING -- ALL OF WHICH HAVE BECOME CRITICAL IN AN INTERCONNECTED WORLD. false false 541704 130051 0 NEW TECHNOLOGIES: Designing for a world in which new technologies are integral to daily life, bringing new opportunities and new challenges On November 6 and 7, the Center hosted a Salon on Immersive Media & Childhood Development at Arizona State University's Tempe Campus with Dubit and ASU's School for the Future of Information in Society. The Salon was attended by 60 representatives from organizations such as Google, Microsoft, Oculus, Disney, Hasbro, PBS, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, Scientific American, and Common Sense Media. Participants discussed the future of virtual, augmented, and mixed realities in children's lives before the hardware and software are sanctioned for use by the under-13 set. This event was the first ever to bring together a community focusing on young children and immersive media. The salon has led to new collaborations among many participants, including the Cooney Center. In May 2020, the Center published a report of the salon's proceedings that was downloaded more than 1,400 times by July 1. In June, the Center organized a panel at the annual XR for Change Summit in New York City, attended by a primarily industry audience, and a workshop on immersive media at the Interaction Design for Children Conference in Boise, Idaho, attended primarily by researchers. 109808 55000 0 NEW LITERACIES: Advocating for what every child needs to know and be able to do, including creativity, computing, cooperation, communication, critical thinking As part of the Center's Families Learning Across Boundaries (FamLAB) project, the Center published Learning Across Boundaries, a report featuring findings from two national surveys conducted with parents and teachers on the roles they play to support 3-12-year-olds' interest-driven learning. The report highlights how families of various backgrounds are leveraging the resources available to them to bridge their children's learning across settings. The report was downloaded 700 times within one month. The Frameworks Institute ("Frameworks") also produced Wiring Up: Strategies for Talking about Connecting STEM Learning, a communications toolkit for educators and community leaders. The toolkit presents the findings from on-the-street interviews conducted in an effort to map the gaps between public and expert understandings of STEM learning opportunities for young children. In June 2019, The Center, FrameWorks, and PBS Kids co-hosted the Reframing Learning Summit at PBS Headquarters in Arlington, VA. The event convened 65 leaders from education, public media in a working meeting, where FrameWorks focused on training stakeholders to use this wiring metaphor as a first step toward getting the broader public to talk and think differently about connecting children's STEM learning across settings. In 2018, the Center awarded four interdisciplinary teams with Spark Grants of up to $25,000 to implement innovative solutions to bridge children's learning across settings within their communities. Out of the 33 applicants, two teams were awarded grants in the STEM learning category and two were awarded grants in the public media category. These four teams concluded their grant period in August 2019. 199756 0 0 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: inspiring and informing new and emerging technologies to improve the lives of children and families In January 2019, the Center kicked off the Future of Childhood Research Consortium, an interdisciplinary group of thought leaders representing research, industry, and philanthropy, who will work together to identify grand challenges at the intersection of child development and technology; outline a research agenda around these challenges; secure funding to conduct needed research; and broadly disseminate findings for use by the broader field of children's media and tech producers. The Center has also kicked off a partnership with Google to host a Summit in Silicon Valley in March 2020. The Center continued to plan a groundbreaking multinational, longitudinal research initiative designed to better understand the ways in which media and technology are shaping children's health, development, and learning. The initiative is a partnership between two preeminent institutions, the Center on Media and Child Health (CMCH) at Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center (JGCC) at Sesame Workshop. 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THE CENTER FREQUENTLY RECEIVES FUNDS THAT IT SUBGRANTS OUT TO OTHER TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF RESEARCH, EDUCATION, DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL/DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND OTHER CHARITABLE INITIATIVES. EACH OF THESE GRANT ARRANGEMENTS ARE MEMORIALIZED WITH SUBGRANT AGREEMENTS THAT REQUIRE THE SUBGRANTEE TO DELIVER A PROGRAM NARRATIVE SUMMARIZING ANY RESEARCH FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS FROM THE RESEARCH. 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A SECONDARY REVIEW IS DONE BY SESAME WORKSHOP'S GENERAL COUNSEL, AND A COPY OF THE COMPLETED 990 IS DISTRIBUTED TO THE FULL BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRIOR TO ITS FILING WITH THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE. PART VI SECTION B, LINE 12C AS PART OF SESAME WORKSHOP'S CONFLICT OF INTEREST, ALL DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS, INCLUDING THOSE OF THE JOAN GANZ COONEY CENTER, ARE REQUIRED TO REVIEW THE POLICY ANNUALLY, AND DISCLOSE ANY REAL OR POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST IN RESPONSE TO A CONFLICT OF INTEREST QUESTIONNAIRE. THE COMPLETED QUESTIONNAIRES ARE REVIEWED BY THE GENERAL COUNSEL/SECRETARY TO THE BOARD. IN THE EVENT OF A REAL OR POTENTIAL CONFLICT, THE BOARD AND THE GENERAL COUNSEL/SECRETARY SHALL ENFORCE THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY'S REQUIREMENT OF RECUSAL FROM PARTICIPATING IN ANY DELIBERATIONS AND DECISIONS RELEVANT TO THE DISCLOSURES. PART VI SECTION B, LINE 15A Michael Preston, the Executive Director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center as of March of 2019, is reported with no compensation in either Part VII or Schedule J of the Form 990 as he was not employed by the Center in calendar year 2018. MR. Preston'S SALARY WILL BE REVIEWED ANNUALLY BY AN INDEPENDENT COMPENSATION CONSULTANT AND PRESENTED TO THE SESAME WORKSHOP BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR APPROVAL BASED ON COMPARABLE MARKET DATA. FORM 990, PART VI, LINE 15B ALL OFFICERS REPORTED ON THE FORM 990 (INCLUDING MICHAEL PRESTON) RECEIVE THEIR COMPENSATION FROM A RELATED ORGANIZATION, SESAME WORKSHOP. THE PROCESS FOR DETERMINING THE COMPENSATION OF THESE INDIVIDUALS IS REPORTED ON THAT ORGANIZATION'S ANNUAL FORM 990. PART VI SECTION C, LINE 19 THE JOAN GANZ COONEY'S FORM 990 IS AVAILABLE ON ITS WEBSITE (HTTP://JOANGANZCOONEYCENTER.ORG) AND ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.GUIDESTAR.ORG. 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