2024-11-05T16:12:20-05:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 650522787 MZ GOOSE INC % Helen Gage MZGO 3052512458 10203 SW 169TH TER MIAMI FL 331574223 HELEN GAGE CEO PRESIDENT 2024-11-05 false 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z X N A X X 180716 X 180716 0 0 0 180716 17262 18513 758 245363 281896 -101180 125000 0 23820 125000 23820 125000 23820 125000 23820 Mz Goose Inc. is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that promotes cultural and environmental awareness good citizenship and social responsibility through the arts historic preservation grassroots community activism and education. See Schedule O 0 17262 17262 Theophilus Bell Director 1 0 0 0 Francis Forbes Director 1 0 0 0 Genevieve Bell Director 1 0 0 0 Alicia Gage Director 5 12947 0 0 Helen Gage CEO President 5 4315 0 0 false false false false false false false false false FL HELEN GAGE 10203 SW 169TH TER MIAMI FL 331574223 3052512458 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 0 0 0 151497 180716 332213 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 151497 180716 332213 0 332213 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 332213 0 1.00 0.00 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Part I, line 16 | Other Expenses:, Amount:| Bethel House Phase 2 Project, $243385.00| Liability Insurance, $1075.00| Supplies, $874.00| Property Tax, $29.00| Program Service Accomplishments (Part III),line 28 | Explanation:| Mz Goose Inc. provides diverse year-round cultural activities for the public. The organizations programming is sorted into three interrelated categories of programs and activities: museum management traveling exhibits holiday celebrations. Together these activities incorporate arts and crafts historic preservation and environmental education to increase awareness and enhance community development. Mz Goose Inc. is responsible for the full maintenance and management of the Bethel House a Bahamian-American historic site and museum. The museum collects preserves and displays photographs documents objects and oral histories related to the history of Perrines black community and its Bahamian heritage. Objects displayed throughout the museums exhibition space are carefully selected by Helen Gage in consultation with Mz Goose Inc.s Board of Directors to reflect Bahamian culture and crafts and the natural links between South Florida and the Bahamas. Mz Goose uses the museums garden of plants indigenous to the Bahamas and South Florida to educate visitors about the history of Bahamian bush medicine and to help promote environmental awareness. The museums hours of operation are by appointment only and entrance is always free. In addition Mz Goose provides free tours of the museum and garden. From February through May Mz Goose will offer a traveling exhibit that features the organizations oral history research and a collection of photographs and information pertaining to the black pioneers of Perrine. The exhibit tells the story of their migration and describes the social life and economic conditions during Perrines early years. For four months the Perrine Pioneers Exhibit will travel to local schools,churches and senior citizen homes to enhance public awareness about the communitys important history. This coming years venues include The Bethel House R.R. Moton Elementary School. Throughout the year Mz Goose Inc. also collaborates with other local organizations to provide a number of unscheduled cultural events and activities. Past events have included working with Drug Free Youth In Town to organize arts and crafts activities for an event serving over 1000 young people; hosting arts and crafts activities and exhibits at Deering Estates Creative Eco-Art Camp; providing free tours and activities for groups of children in the Girl Scouts and the Community Action Agencys Head Start Early Head Start Program; and collaborating with Trinidadian artist Zeal from Safari Art and a class of Miami Dade College students to decorate the walls and fences of the Bethel House with large mural paintings depicting tropical wildlife and nature scenes.