Sesame Workshop

Sesame Workshop

Logo used since 2018
Founded	May 20, 1968; 56 years ago (May 20, 1968) (as the Children's Television Workshop) June 5, 2000; 23 years ago (June 5, 2000) (as Sesame Workshop)
Type	Non-profit
Tax ID no.	13-2655731[1]
Legal status	501(c)(3)[2]
Headquarters	1 Lincoln Plaza
Location	New York City, US
Area served	Worldwide
President and CEO	Jeffrey D. Dunn[3]
Chairman of the Board of Trustees	Vincent A. Mai[3]
Key people	Joan Ganz Cooney (co-founder) Lloyd Morrisett (co-founder)[3]
Subsidiaries	Sesame Street Inc, The Electric Company, The Joan Ganz Cooney Center, Sesame Workshop Communications Inc, Sesame Workshop Initiatives India PLC, SS Brand Management Shanghai,[1] Noggin LLC (until 2002) The N LLC (until 2009)
Revenue (2014)	$104,728,963[1]
Expenses (2014)	$111,255,622[1]
Employees (2013)	813[1]
Website	sesameworkshop.org
Formerly called	Children's Television Workshop (1968–2000)

Sesame Workshop (SW), originally known as the Children's Television Workshop (CTW) is an American non-profit organization for the research and production of educational children's programs. It established in 1968.

The Workshop oversaw the production of Sesame Street, a television show for pre-school children from low-income families. Two years were spent, from 1966 to 1968, researching, developing, and raising money for the new show. It was called "one of the most important television developments of the decade".^[4]

Sesame Street premiered on PBS in the United States in November 1969. Since then, the Workshop has made many different shows, like The Electric Company, Ghostwriter, and The Upside Down Show. In 1999, the Workshop started its own TV channel, called Noggin.

Co-founder Joan Ganz Cooney said of the CTW model: "From the beginning, we—the planners of the project—designed the show as an experimental research project with educational advisers, researchers, and television producers collaborating as equal partners".^[5] She described the collaboration as an "arranged marriage".^[6]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} "Form 990: Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax". Sesame Workshop. Guidestar. June 30, 2014.
2. ↑ "Sesame Workshop". Exempt Organization Select Check. Internal Revenue Service. Accessed on May 20, 2016.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} "Leadership Team". Sesame Workshop. Accessed on May 20, 2016.
4. ↑ Davis, Michael 2008. Street Gang: the complete history of Sesame Street. New York: Viking Penguin. ISBN 978-0-670-01996-0
5. ↑ Borgenicht, David 1998. Sesame Street unpaved. New York: Hyperion, 9. ISBN 0-7868-6460-5
6. ↑ Cooney, Joan Ganz 2001. Foreword. In Fisch, Shalom M. and Truglio, Rosemarie T. (eds) 2001. "G" is for Growing: thirty years of research on children and Sesame Street. Mahweh, New Jersey: Erlbaum, xi. ISBN 0-8058-3395-1