ScienceWorks Needs Your Help To Grow and Thrive!
ScienceWorks Hands-on Museum supports our community through our mission of inspiring curiosity and wonder through scientific exploration and interactive experiences.
We strive to constantly serve our community in ways that meet your needs for childcare, education, and safe activities for families in the area. There is no amount too small, or too large, to help us in our goal to be a welcoming space where we spark curiosity and wonder in every guest who visits.
Our goal is to encourage our community to get involved in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM)! In 2024 we had so many successes through our programs!
ScienceWorks has:
- Seen more than 25,000 guests enter our museum through daily admission, events, and celebrations.
- Secured funding for 100 Summer Camp scholarships so that our underserved communities could experience all that ScienceWorks has to offer.
- Hosted 113 field trips with more than 7,700 children experiencing STEAM workshops and museum visits through their schools!
- Created amazing partnerships with other leaders in our community such as the Growers Market, the Southern Oregon Fire Resiliency Collaborative, the Boys and Girls Club, and the Boy Scouts of Ashland!
In 2025, we are dedicating ourselves to renewing our partnerships and refreshing our museum. With your help, we will grow our exhibits, create new family events, and help support other organizations doing good work for our community. We just need you to catalyze the dream! We love our community and we hope that you will help ScienceWorks in the coming year! Support your ScienceWorks today, and we promise to continue to support you in new and meaningful ways all year long.
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“Our staff are heroes who inspire the next generation of critical thinkers and problem solvers. Without the work they do, we would not have a ScienceWorks.” - Piper von Chamier, ScienceWorks Board President |
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“As a low-income family having a place like ScienceWorks available to us has been amazing. We have enjoyed every event we have attended, as well as the regular time spent in the museum. Having the opportunity to attend a summer camp was very meaningful for my child and we hope we can do it again!” - Local Parent, Summer 2024 |
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“I am so appreciative of the efforts you and your team put into making the camp an inclusive and neurodiversity-affirming environment. I highly recommend your camp to other families and look forward to the opportunity for my son to engage in camp again next summer. Thank you for everything you do to create such a positive and enriching experience for the kids.” - Local Parent, Summer 2024 |
ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum is a community-supported 501(C)(3) Non-Profit Organization.
ScienceWorks Gives Back!
We happily donate day passes to nonprofit community partners for use in their fundraising efforts.
To help manage the requests for donated passes in a manner that maximizes the impact of our limited inventory designated for donations, ScienceWorks has established the following guidelines.
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ScienceWorks is unable to grant monetary donations.
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ScienceWorks is unable to grant passes to individuals or a single family.
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ScienceWorks has chosen to donate passes to local organizations whose work is congruent with our mission. Your organization must be raising funds for education or youth and family services, including medical disorder research and support. For example, school fundraisers or carnivals, children’s programs, scholarship funds, and services to individuals with medical conditions would all qualify as eligible.
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The donation of ScienceWorks passes must result in a direct cash benefit to your organization. For example, we will donate passes to be included in a raffle or auction that generates cash gifts to your organization. We do not donate passes to be used as complimentary door prizes, employee or volunteer incentives, or thank-you gifts.
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A letter of request should be sent to info@scienceworksmuseum.org. Please include the name and address of your organization, along with a tax ID and any additional information that may be useful, such as important deadlines and the name and phone number of a point person. Your request must be received a minimum of 30 days prior to your organization’s event or donation receipt deadline (whichever is earlier.) Phone requests will not be considered.
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Once your request has been received and approved, a response and passes will be sent to your organization.
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Passes are limited to 4 per organization per calendar year.
ScienceWorks receives many requests for passes every day. Please allow time for us to respond to your request and refrain from calling to follow up on the status of your request. Due to the volume of requests we receive, we are unable to return individual phone calls. We appreciate your consideration as we try our best to meet the needs of the communities we all serve! Donation requests that include a self-addressed envelope and paid postage will receive a response within 10 business days, upon receipt of request. Note, this does not guarantee donations.