2015-02-09T11:12:59-08:00 2014-06-30 SCHALL & ASHENFARB CPAS 307 5th Ave 15th Floor NEW YORK NY 100166517 990 2013-07-01 133973196 MOUSE Inc MOUS 6465746446 55 Broad Street 16th Fl New York NY 10004 Daniel Rabuzzi Executive Dir. 2015-02-09 true David C Ashenfarb P00535436 2122682800 2013 2016-03-07 17:11:31Z X Daniel Rabuzzi 55 Broad Street 16th Fl New York NY 10004 1608049 false false X www.mouse.org X 1997 NY MOUSE empowers underserved youth to learn, lead and create with technology, preparing them with skills essential for their academic and career success. 19 18 13 50 0 833144 707476 502812 518665 73191 57274 344246 145 1753393 1283560 0 0 882311 912948 0 189940 813797 632375 1696108 1545323 57285 -261763 2277470 2102240 67169 98321 2210301 2003919 MOUSE empowers underserved youth to learn, lead and create with technology, preparing them with skills essential for their academic and career success. false false 1252456 Our programs provide youth development for the digital age, leveraging the technologies that young people are already curious about to introduce them to skills, ideas and pathways that will enable them to become the innovators and leaders of tomorrow.Since 2000, more than 27,000 students have participated in MOUSE programs, providing valued technical support and leadership for more than 1.9 million students, teachers and administrators in their schools and communities.As a result of participating in MOUSE, students report: - 92% Improved communications, leadership and teambuilding skills - 92% Increased confidence - 91% Improved problem solving skills - 88% Better prepared for college - 70% More motivated to pursue a career in STEMMOUSE SquadThe MOUSE Squad program trains students to become digital media and technology experts in their schools, improving the use of technology to enhance learning, while also building confidence and developing skills for 21st century innovation. MOUSE connects students around shared interests as a national network of youth technology leaders.MOUSE Squad provides specialist curriculum and hands-on events to give youth opportunities to deepen their skills and interests in tech innovation, including robotics, game design and web-making. - 4,264 Students participating in the MOUSE Squad program - 593 Educators participating in the MOUSE Squad program - 4,857 Total MOUSE Squad active learners - 238 MOUSE sites nationwide - 65% of students at MOUSE Squad schools were eligible for free and reduced price lunch - 15 States: Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Washington; Two International sites in Ecuador and SingaporeMOUSE CorpsBuilding on our students interest in creating and building new technologies, MOUSE Corps is a youth design and technology program for high school students from MOUSE Squads across New York City.As MOUSE Corps members, students brainstorm, prototype and present a technology project that addresses a social need, developing their skills and experiences with technology mentors in real life professional settings.This year's MOUSE Corps group researched, designed and prototyped 4 innovative Legacy Projects in FY14, each addressing a challenge identified by research, interviews, and observation in collaboration with volunteers from United Cerebral Palsy of NYC: - Omni-Palette: an assistive, rotating painting palette and brush cleaner for artists with Cerebral Palsy. - Gap-Assist: An wheelchair attachment designed to help people with limited mobility move over gaps and other urban terrain more easily. - Able-Racer: An adaptive video game controller designed to help people with Cerebral Palsy enjoy playing racing games. - Remote-Vac: a remote controlled vacuum cleaner that enables people in wheelchairs be able to clean their homes more independently.Other Program Highlights: - Learning Events: MOUSE offered 91 on-site orientations and tech trainings during this school year, with many new workshops covering specialist content in garage robotics, serious games and GreenTECH. Additionally, MOUSE held two live Team Training event with a total of 136 students attending from 20 schools. Our annual Coordinator-Con event for MOUSE educators was hosted at Google in the fall and MOUSE offered half-day trainings for our educators in Chicago in February. - MOUSE Squad UnPlugged Events: MOUSE provided 14 UnPlugged opportunities for students and educators to strengthen the New York City learning network. These included Maker Faire, two PlayTech Saturday events, two level one Garage Robotics events and one level two offering, two BrainPOP game jams, one Scratch Jam at the Island School, two MakerBot PD opportunities for coordinators as well as a 3D Design & Fabrication workshop for teachers and students, the 6th Annual Emoti-Con! and a special opportunity for students to do 3D printing in conjunction with the American Museum of Natural History. - Monthly MicroProjects: MOUSE had more than 740 submissions for our monthly MicroProject Competitions that give our students the opportunity to get creative with free online tech tools and cover a wide range of topics, from remixing a photos to make an ad, to designing a logo for a MOUSE Squad. We were also pleased to see about 60 submissions for our DIY Competition, including videos, slide shows, screencasts, and other step by step instructions teaching skills possessed by MOUSE Squad members across the nation. - School/District Partnerships: During FY14, MOUSE brought on 8 new single-site schools and 3 new district partnerships: 8 charter schools from the Richard Milburn Academy Schools in Texas, 8 schools in the Normandy School District in Missouri, and 7 schools in AUSL network in Chicago. - GreenTECH: GreenTECH aims to give schools an opportunity to kickstart greening efforts for their technology, or for students and coordinators looking for fun ways to blend technology with environmental science. This year, MOUSE launched a beta version of the GreenTECH Specialist module, which includes 3 new Specialist Wins! and the GreenTECH badge, as well as the GreenTECH Lab, with which students can record the kilowatt energy usage of multiple activity states of electronic devices around their classrooms and the school and make recommendations to reduce the carbon footprint in their schools. - MakerBot: MakerBot has continued to partner with MOUSE to extend its 3D Design and Fabrication program to more than 30 schools across New York City and through our MOUSE Corps Design and Technology program to extend the ways members rapid prototype aspects of new assistive and adaptive designs. In June, students from two MOUSE Squads exhibited amazing 3D-printed projects at Emoti-Con! Far Rockaways P256Q-Gateway Academy squad presented a 3D-printed zipper attachment that could aid people with physical disabilities to close zippers. The MOUSE Squad from Halsey Junior High School presented the 3D-printed dinosaur models and dioramas they designed as part of their apprenticeship with the American Museum of Natural History in February. - MOUSE and Mozilla Summer Webmaker Institute: 14 Educators from across the national MOUSE Network attended our first-ever MOUSE & Mozilla Webmaker Summer Institute. Over the 2 day event, they built their expertise around the competencies with the Web Literacy Map, playtested 9 new MOUSE webmaking activities, created and shared their own Open Education Resources that integrate web literacy into subject area learning and plan to implement a year of Webmaking at their schools in the fall. - GadgITERATION: MOUSE joined forces with Brooklyn College Arts Lab (BCAL) and Parsons/The New Schools GadgITERATION program -- a curriculum that offers an art and design-centered approach to technology -- to design and lead 2 weeks of free technology, tinkering and design day camps for middle and high school students in Brooklyn. 6 MOUSE Corps Students and several BCAL MOUSE students spent a week learning to lead hands-on, entry-level design workshops that encourage a creative and artistic engagement with technology, before leading the two weeks worth of camps as peer mentors, leading the campers in design and circuitry lessons and collaboratively building noise makers. 1252456 true true false false false false false false false false false false false false true true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 25 0 true 13 true false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false false false false X 19 18 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true false false X X Daniel Rabuzzi 6465746446 55 Broad Street 16th Fl New York NY 10004 Brian Miller Chair 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Robin Griffiths Treasurer 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Dawn Barber Secretary 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Caroline McCarthy Vice Chair 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Ted Cohen Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Tony DiSanto Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Jeffrey Goldberger Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Matt Greenfield Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Amy Kadomatsu Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Curtis Kendrick Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Harold Levy Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Mayra Linares-Garcia Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Jeanne Meyer Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Mark Mooney Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Ejovi Nuwere Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Linda Roberts Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Peter Vincent Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Carole Wacey Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Blaze Waleski Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Daniel Rabuzzi Executive Dir. 40.00 0.00 X X 137124 0 12593 Mike Capobianco Dir of Development 40.00 0.00 X 107964 0 11485 245088 24078 2 false false false 0 126072 581404 707476 MOUSE Squad 518665 518665 518665 46763 46763 0 0 0 335000 324489 10511 10511 10511 0 0 0 Miscellaneous Income 145 145 145 1283560 518665 57419 0 0 0 0 167593 125694 8380 33519 0 591984 491571 14125 86288 27613 22470 808 4335 72900 60120 1874 10906 52858 43010 1548 8300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27057 22015 795 4247 0 0 110469 89889 3235 17345 8157 6639 238 1280 0 0 0 0 0 6363 5178 186 999 Program expense 333787 333787 Consultant Fees 102794 22494 63288 17012 Telephone 17065 13885 500 2680 Miscellaneous 6471 5267 189 1015 20212 10437 7761 2014 1545323 1252456 102927 189940 115920 164848 0 480730 402793 0 0 0 0 0 19940 0 0 1651798 1525517 0 0 0 9082 9082 2277470 2102240 59624 61304 999 36345 6546 672 67169 98321 X 1992117 1935735 218184 68184 2210301 2003919 2277470 2102240 -261763 55381 X false true X true false X 1071880 1411061 1845723 1335956 1226141 6890761 0 0 1071880 1411061 1845723 1335956 1226141 6890761 974966 5915795 47322 51309 37052 59633 46763 242079 0 15979 344246 145 360370 7493210 0.78950 0.76250 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Deferred Rent 672 672 X 1834520 55381 495579 550960 1283560 1283560 2040902 495579 495579 1545323 1545323 Part X : FIN48 Footnote MOUSE Inc. does not believe its financial statements include any material, uncertain tax positions. Tax returns for periods ending June 30, 2011 and later are subject to examination by applicable taxing authorities. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process Management reviewed a draft of the form 990 with the Finance & Audit committee and provided edits to the tax preparer. After this process was performed, the form 990 was sent to the full board of directors for comment prior to being filed with the IRS. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts The organization has a "board approved" conflicts of interest policy. Each board member must fill out an annual declaration stating they had no conflicts or identifying the nature of their interested party transactions. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management Each year, the Compensation Committee of the MOUSE Board of Directors reviews comparable salaries based on a recognized study and reviews the performance of the Executive Director. Based on both the performance of the Executive Director and prevailing market data, a new proposed salary and benefit package is voted on by the committee. The minutes of the Compensation Committee reflect the nature of this process. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available Financial statements are available upon request.