The NISE Network achieves its reach and impact through the participation of hundreds of partner organizations across the country. Each NISE Network project has a different mix of core partners, advisors, funders, and partners. This page includes summary lists of leadership group organizations, core project partners for individual projects, and lists of partners across the country.
Leadership group
The Network's leadership group includes representatives and advisors from informal learning organizations across the US, providing a wide range of knowledge, expertise, and connections. The Network also maintains connections on an organization-to-organization level with other national networks, centers, and professional associations. The leadership group regularly seeks and acts upon feedback from Network partners in order to identify needs in the field that the Network can help to address, as well as knowledge and practices that the Network can help to spread.
The NISE Network extended leadership group includes representatives from the following organizations:
- Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
- Children's Creativity Museum, San Francisco, CA
- Children's Museum of Houston, Houston, TX
- The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA
- Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley, CA
- Museum of Life and Science, Durham, NC
- Museum of Science, Boston, MA
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), Portland, OR
- Sciencenter, Ithaca, NY
- Science Museum of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN
- Tulsa Children's Museum, Tulsa, OK
- University of California, Berkeley, CA
Advisors include representatives from:
- Afterschool Alliance
- Association of Children's Museums
- Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE)
- National Girls Collaborative Project
Partners across the country
NISE Net achieves its reach and impact through the participation of over 600 partner organizations in Network activities each year. The NISE Network creates resources on a national level, and Network partners coordinate and implement project activities locally. Through the diversity of our partner organizations, the Network has broad geographic and demographic reach across the country. Together, we engage over 15 million people each year in high-quality STEM learning! Learn more about NISE Network partner impacts.
Most NISE Network partners are museums and university outreach educators and scientists located in the United States.

List of partners who have received kits (combined list for all projects)
List of partners who received kits (listed by individual project)
- Partners who received a physical Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkit (2020) 350 copies
- Partners who received a physical Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkit (2019) 350 copies
- Partners who received a physical Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkit (2018) 250 copies
- Partners who received a physical Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkit (2017) 250 copies
- Partners awarded a Sun, Earth, Universe exhibition 52 copies
(please note that these may be shared with other organizations as well) - Partners who received a physical Explore Science: Let's Do Chemistry (2018) 250 copies
- Partners who received Sustainability Fellowships (2016-2018, 2019-2020)
- Partners who received a physical Building with Biology kits (2016) 200 copies
- Partners who received a physical NanoDays kits (2008-2015) 250 copies in 2014 & 2015
- Partners who received a Nano mini-exhibition 93 copies
(please note that these may be shared with other organizations as well)
Core project partners
Each NISE Network project has a different mix of core partners, advisors, and funders; learn more about each different NISE Network project:
- Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
- Building with Biology
- Sustainability in Science Museums
- Space and Earth Informal STEM Education (SEISE)
- Frankenstein200
- ChemAttitudes
- Moon and Beyond
- Changing Brains
- Citizen Science, Civics, and Resilient Communities (CSCRC)
Funders
The NISE Network's affiliated projects are generously supported by a variety of funders.
Without their vital support these efforts would not be possible.
Summary of project funding sources and acknowledgements.