Valued Volunteers
excerpted from FunTimes Newsletter, Spring 2010
Volunteers for an organization like Omaha Children’s Museum are
priceless. There are dozens of people who every day volunteer their time and talents to advance the mission of engaging the imagination and creating excitement about learning, and I ask
you, our treasured members to join me in thanking them.
From our gracious For the Kids Benefit hosts, the Rainbow Connector’s Guild, to Bob and Tom, our dedicated exhibit technicians, and our Board of Directors, who provide insight and support to the Museum’s mission, we are blessed with people who care enough to volunteer their time so freely.
If you have been to the Museum to visit the new Construction Zone
exhibit, you have experienced an environment created by many people – designers, steel workers, carpenters, plumbers, electricians and more – who volunteered countless hours to assist
Museum staff in creating its first larges-scale exhibition from scratch.
The staff and volunteers of Omaha Children’s Museum help build
confidence in our young visitors by giving kids opportunities to see
themselves in different roles. Each individual who volunteers at the
museum helps advance our mission and touch lives. If you are over the age of 14 and have time you wish to give, please contact the museum at
volunteer@ocm.org and let us find a role for you to play.
As executive Director of the Omaha Children’s Museum since June of 2002, Lindy Hoyer brings 20 years of passion for reaching out to children through Children’s Museum work and continues striving to inspire young people to play, explore and learn.
During Hoyer’s tenure as Executive Director, Omaha Children’s Museum has seen fantastic growth and accomplishment from hosting blockbuster traveling exhibits to completing a $6.6 million capital campaign and renovation of the museum’s permanent exhibits and seeing attendance soar to over 230,000 annually.
Hoyer participated in the inaugural Noyce Leadership Institute along with 17 science center executives from across the world. She has served on the board of directors for the Association of Children's Museums (ACM) and participates in Qm2 Roundtable for Museum Executives. Locally, she serves on the Leavenworth Basin Advisory Panel of City of Omaha Combined Sewer Program and is a member of Omaha Sister City Association Board and VSAarts Nebraska Board.