HMH Bearing Witness - December 2017

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LETTER FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Dear HMH Family and Friends,

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LETTER FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

consider how social justice and social responsibility connect and how these ways of thinking and acting increase the relevancy of the Holocaust in the 21st Century.

It is my privilege to share with you the Holocaust Museum Houston 2016-2017 Gratitude Report.

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FINANCIAL SUMMARY

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OUTREACH

Entering our half-way mark in the Remembering Our Past. Building Our Future 2014-2018 Capital Campaign, this year has been a year of great excitement associated with the receipt of a $15 million matching grant from the Lester and Sue Smith Foundation. As a result of their incredible generosity, the Museum was able to initiate its plans to begin construction on its new 30,000-square-foot expansion and renovation project, bringing the museum to 57,000 square feet. Houston is a space of difference, a place where history and memory are mined and interwoven. The Museum’s physical presence and the capacity of its programs and exhibits will invite visitors into a relationship, finding ways to open doors of possibility that provide entry points into a dialogue with a difficult past-and a conservation with the present-and the future. We

We need your help as we work to combat ignorance with education and replace disbelief and denial with proof. If you have not yet donated to our Capital Campaign, please join us in support of this important effort so that we can draw attention to the reality of the Holocaust and other genocides and apply those lessons to present-day issues.

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EDUCATION

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GENERATION TO GENERATION LEGACY SOCIETY

BOARD + STAFF

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It is up to each of us to Remember Our Past but at the same time Build Our Future!

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DONORS

Thank you to our entire community for making our Capital Campaign such a huge success!

Sincerely,

KELLY J. ZÚÑIGA, Ed.D. Chief Executive Officer

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GRATITUDE REPORT 2017

One of HMH’s “Engines of Change” student ambassadors taking part in the opening workshop.

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