Current Supporters
National Dance Institute's annual programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council including Council Members Margaret Chin, Daniel Garodnick, Sara Gonzalez, Jessica Lappin, Stephen Levin, Rosie Mendez, and Ydanis Rodriguez.
NDI gratefully acknowledges the generous gifts received from the following foundations, corporations, and individuals.
Includes gifts as of November 28, 2012.
(Click here for a listing of donors to NDI's Capital Campaign.)
Angels ($100,000 and above)
Anonymous
The Irene Diamond Fund
The Heckscher Foundation for Children
Kathy and Joe Mele
Susan and Donald Newhouse
Judy and Josh Weston
Benefactors ($50,000 - $99,999)
The Balm Foundation
Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Paula and Jeffrey Gural
J. P. Morgan Chase Foundation
The JPB Foundation
Helen Stambler Neuberger and Jim Neuberger
Madaleine Berley and Arnold S. Penner
The Pinkerton Foundation
The Shubert Foundation
Patrons ($25,000 - $49,999)
The Alec Baldwin Foundation
Bloomberg
Con Edison
Daphna and Gerald Cramer
Lauren B. Cramer and Demetrius Fexy
Elaine Dannheisser Foundation
Edith and Jonathan Fassberg
Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group
Carol and Robert D. Krinsky
Julie and Jon Landau
Betsy and Hunt Lawrence
Marilyn White Lawrence and Bryan R. Lawrence
National Endowment for the Arts
Beth Kobliner Shaw and David E. Shaw
Anya Herz Shiva and Andrew Shiva
Linda Singer and Louis Klein, Jr.
Vada and Ted Stanley
The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
Underwriters ($10,000 - $24,999)
The Barker Welfare Foundation
Susan Blaustein and Alan Berlow
The Brenner Family Foundation
Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
Nili and Nathaniel de Rothschild
Jennie and Richard K. DeScherer
Valerie and Charles Diker
The Barbara Epstein Foundation
Edward and Carol Goldberg
Muna and Basem Hishmeh
Honda Foundation
Andrew J. Kaiser
L+M Development Partners
The Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Foundation
Dalia and Larry Leeds
Patricia and Robert Levinson
Carol Sutton Lewis and William Lewis
Ketty and François Maisonrouge
The Ann M. Martin Foundation
Ann M. Martin
Kerry and Ron Moelis
Newman's Own Foundation
Alicia Glen and Daniel Rayner
The Toby and Nataly Ritter Family Foundation
Suzie Rizzuto
Babe Rizzuto
Nora Kaye & Herbert Ross Foundation
The Bernard Lee Schwartz Foundation
Scünci, a division of Conair
The Segal Company
The Solomon Organization
Barbara and Lari Stanton
Syracuse University
Eva-Maria and Hans Tausig
Catherine Oppenheimer and Garrett Thornburg
John L. Tishman
Barbara and Donald Tober
The Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund
in The New York Community Trust
The Weil Family
Janice Savin Williams and Christopher J. Williams
The Winston Foundation
Shirley Young
Partners ($5,000 - $9,999)
42nd Street Development Corporation
Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust
Basswood Capital Management, LLC
Donya and Scott Bommer
Capezio/Ballet Makers Dance Foundation
Stuart H. Coleman
Corcoran Group Real Estate
Louise Kerz Hirschfeld and Lewis B. Cullman
Jacques d'Amboise
Sam Ellis
Blythe Masters and Gareth Evans
Susan Foote and Stephen Feinberg
Margaret and Howard Fluhr
Carol and Tony Friscia
Susan and John Fullerton
G.A.G. Charitable Corporation
Gilder Foundation
Barbara Goldsmith
Judith Uman and I. Michael Goodman
Abigail and Steven Hoffman
The Hyde and Watson Foundation
Jones Day
Mary Tyler Moore and S. Robert Levine
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
D.A. McDonald
Michael Tuch Foundation
Millstream Fund
Jenny Morgenthau
The Penobscot Fund
Fatima and Donald Roland
The Rudin Foundation
Jamee and Michael Schleifer
Schwartz Cousins Fund
Andrea and Michael Shindler
The Thompson Family Foundation
United Capital Corporation
Diane and Stephen Volk
The Whitehead Foundation
The William Wishnick Foundation
Wolfensohn Family Foundation
Judith and Stanley Zabar
Supporters ($1,000 - $4,999)
Anonymous
Joan and Mark Abramowitz
Amy Bermant Adler and Elliott Adler
Carolyn and Andrew W. Albstein
Loretta and Walter Anderson
Carol Hope Arber
Jody and John Arnhold
Alexis and Rene-Pierre Azria
Florence and Michael Barkan
Katherine and Gary Bartholomaus
Cynthia C. Wainwright and Stephen Berger
Amy L. Berley
Amelia and Richard Bernstein
Robert L. and Helen W. Bernstein
Georgina Cullman and Chris Berry
Sarah Reines and Richard Bornstein
Ed Bradley Family Foundation
Virginia Brody
Mary and James Brown
Rose and John Cali
Lisa and Stu Cantor
Capital Management Group of New York
Donna Cephas
Ellen and Richard Chassin
Barbara and Charles B. Cohen
Counsel Abstract, Inc.
Joyce Cowin
Barbara and John Day
Robert de Rothschild
Alice B. Diamond
Deborah Colson and Mark Diker
Daniel Diker
Laurie Abramowitz and Robert Doherty
Susan and James Dubin
Pam and Martin Edel
Claire Edersheim
James Eldridge
Thomas O. Enders
Margot and John Ernst
Melvyn J. Estrin
Lisa and Jeremy Fielding
Sabina Fila
Nina and Scott Fine
Roberta and Stuart Fine
Sarah and Peter Finn
Charlotte and William Ford
Sanja K. Frank
Barbara and Robert Freedman
Freestyle Marketing LLC
The Friars Foundation
Alice and Lawrence N. Friedland
Pamela Patton and Ivan Galanin
Amy and Jonathan Gallen
Marilyn and Lance Garcy
Arlyn and Edward Gardner
Jerome & Delores Zuckerman Gewirtz Charitable Trust
Mark Ginsberg
Kyle Good
Sallie T. Gouverneur
The Harkness Foundation for Dance
Harlem Arts Alliance
Anne and William Harrison
Robert E. Helpern
Sheryl and George Hinckley
Shay and George Hirsch
Carol and Richard Hochman
Judith M. Hoffman
Denise M. Hofmann
Horizon Media, Inc.
Minalie Chen and Jackson Hsieh
Rosemary Carey and Ed Hynes
Insuregy Agency, Inc.
Shea and Gary Jacob
Julia C. Tobey and Kenneth Johnson
Marcella Kahn
Linda and Fred S. Kantor
Betty P. Kenan
Debbie and Steven Klein
Penny and David Klein
Barbara and Martin P. Klein
Shahnaz Batmanghelidj and Radford Klotz
Barbara Kravitz
Laura and Les Landau
Solange Landau
Mary and Richard Lanier
Betsy and Stewart Lawrence
Margot and Robert Linton
The Linton Foundation
Maya Williams and Barry Lippman
The Ernest and Joan Liu Foundation
Richard and Julie Lobel
Claire and Joseph LoCicero
Susan Sain Sain Lu, M.D.
Christiane MacArthur
Orazio Maddalena
Arthur and Barbara L. Michaels
Vicki and Fred Modell
Gaye Gross Moelis
Julie and Ken Moelis
Teri and Martin Monas
Elinor and George B. Munroe
Deborah Lesser and Dori Nagar
Mary Hughes and Eiji Nakagawa
Grigory Nersesyan
Ellen and Sam Newhouse
Newmark Knight Frank
Norvin Partners LTD
Nora Ann Wallace and Jack H. Nusbaum
Michelle Toll and William O'Flanagan
Deborah Bohr and James Oakes
Nancy and Morris Offit
Jacynth Paterson Orridge
Hannah Pakula
Moses L. Parshelsky Foundation
David Perez
Pink Adobe Productions
Yvonne and Leslie Pollack
Pond Consulting Corporated
Donna Matteo Rabinowitz and Steve Rabinowitz
Joya and Edward Reines
Vicki Reiss
Kammi and Bradley Reiss
Rexford Fund, Inc.
Ellen Slaby and Bruce M. Richardson
RJL Charitable Foundation
The Jerome Robbins Foundation
Rocking Chair Foundation
Sandra Priest Rose
Rosen Brothers, LLC
The Edward John and Patricia Rosenwald Foundation
Lori Cohen and Christopher Rothko
Amy and Robert Roy
The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
Mara Sandler
Dana J. Golding and Richard Scharf
Michelle Ores and Charles Schorin
Robert A. Schulman
Ruth Schwartz, Liz Hinden, and
the Jane Schwartz Foundation
The Seedtime Fund
Stephen H. Shane
Erika and Keenan
Catherine Sweeney Singer
Florence and Warren Sinsheimer
Virginia Sloane
Fern Smith
Soon-Young Yoon and Richard M. Smith
Richard, Ann, John & James
Solomon
Families Foundation
Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel
and Carl L. Spielvogel
Vera Stern
H. Emma Strathy
Tracy Straus
Jeanne Straus
Shining Sung
Elise Ingalls and Norman F. Swanton
Rhana and Charles Tabouchirani
Susan W. Talbot
Oscar Tang
Target
Jennifer and Erich Tengelsen
Jennifer Hand and Thomas Tierney
Steve Tisch Family Foundation
Lee and Marvin Traub
Carrie L. Van Syckel
Lisa A. Huestis and David E. Van Zandt
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation
Wellfleet Foundation, Inc.
Wells Fargo Advisors
Shelley and Claude Winfield
Patty Theis and Salvatore Zizza
Friends ($500 - $999)
Rosina Abramson
Allade Inc.
June LeBell Alley and Edward Alley
Margaret C. Anadu
Amy Astley
Anne Barnard
Phoebe Barnard
Caroline Barnett
Elissa and Matthew Bernstein
The Birk's Works Foundation
Talia Bornstein
Denis Bovin
Barbara Brill
Barbara and Andrew Brill
Brookwood Financial Partners, LLC
Diane A. Crawford
Richard Darrow
Margaret Davidson and John Stein
Maria Di Dia and Doug Salmon
Todd Dimston
Bethany and Niko Elmaleh
Marilyn and Robert Fassberg
Amy Feldman
Patricia and Robert Ferrari
April Fey
Financial Comfort, Inc.
Jean and Desmond Fitzpatrick
Four Winds, Inc.
Theodore Gagliano
Garden Homes Fund
Jennifer Geller
Karin Von Aroldingen and Morton Gewirtz
Barbara L. Goldsmith
Josie Harris
Sheila Haskell
The Home and Office Network, LLC
IvyLife
Yasmin and Jermaine Jones
June and George Kalinsky
Jun and Kiyoshi Kanai
Joanne Witty and Eugene Keilin
Karenne Koo
Anastasia Liefshitz
Barbara and Stephen Litke
Renée N. Khatami and John R. MacArthur
Sanny Makki
Susan Carr-Malatzky and Howard Malatzky
Brian McComak
Virginia and Larry Meuers
Arthur Mitchell
Montag Family Foundation
Linda Nisselson
North Star Foundation
Frank Ohman
Martha J. Olson
Annie Fan and Sung Ki Park
Kathryn Grody and Mandy Patinkin
Eve W. Paul
Andrea Phillips
Joan C. Pollitt
Madeleine Rice
Elizabeth and Theodore Rogers
Donna and Mark Rosen
Melissa Saperstein
Roslyn R. Schwartz
Sheri Severino
Lorraine Shemesh
Robert Sherman
Anya Shiva
Amy Silverman
Ellen Parry and J. Douglas Simon
Theresa Thompson
Cindy Touma
Seran Trehan
Alice Young and Neil deGrasse Tyson
Kathy Van Ness
Susan Frunzi and David Wachtel
Jeanette Wagner
Marvin and Sandra Wax
John L. and Sue Ann Weinberg
Ronald Weston
Margo and Irwin Winkler
Mary Collins and Anthony Yarborough
Eve and Steven Yavers
Yadey Yawand-Wossen and Adam Richman
Phua and Phualin Young
Advocates ($100 - $499)
Anonymous
Nancy Gropper and Robert P. Aaronson
Emily and Dan Adler
Suzanne and James Aisenberg
Lois Refkin and Louis Alvarez
Ann L. Amendolagine
Alan and Judith Appelbaum
Lynn Appelbaum
Sue Ellen and Warren Appleman
William E. Austin
Jim Babchak
Manjula and Rajendra Bansal
Deborah and Ken Baron
Carol Barrington
Maryanne Barry
Aileen Marie Barry
Elizabeth Barton
Kate Weil and Stuart Bauchner
MaryBeth Kretz and Robert H. Baum
Susan and Benjamin Baxt
Asari D. Beale
Anita M. Beale
Laurie Beckelman
Roberta Beech
Carol and Barry Belt
Ellen and Samuel Bender
Julianne and Benjamin Berry
Marcilee Bierlein
David Binder Productions Inc.
Linda and Maurice Binkow
Margery M. Bloom
Sara and Andrew Blotner
Blue Point-Bay Point Lions Club
Laura Bluman
Ellen and William Blumstein
Rick Bobrow
Sam and Eleanor Bogoch
Pat Schlegel and A.J. Bosco
Marie Bosco
Greg Brophy
Mary Beth and Walter Buck
Kamala Buckner
Messieurs William and Stuart Buice
Ellen Burke
Abigail Carlen
Susan Carnochan
Abigail and John Carr
Sarah Worthington and Nathan Carrer
Mary and Robert Carswell
Lemina and Robert Cashel
Central Synagogue
Trudy Chan
Barbara Chong
Erica Chong
Katherine Chouinard
Jane Chu
Evangeline Chua
Julie Chua-Perrone
Danielle Claro
Stephanie Connor
Arlene C. Cooper
Monica Corton
Elissa and Edgar Cullman, Jr.
Beth Barron and Christian Custodio
Sarah Cutler
David Danziger
Linda D. Davey
Karie Davidson
Laura Goff Davis
Ed and Jane Deacy
Christine and Gerard DeSantis
Marcia Diaz
Emily Doubilet
Barry and Lindsay Drogin
Claudia Dumitrescu
E.W. John Framing & Fine Art, LLC
Kira Moirah and Charles Edel
Dorothy Krauss-Eisenpress and Aron F. Eisenpress
Barbara and Jerome Eisner
Karen Elizaga
Barbara and Paul Elliot
Mary Ellson
Lydia Emil
Renee Estopinal
Neil Faden
Laura Falb
Ellen and Michael Fedida
Mimi Apfel and Andrew Feigin
Helen Fenwick
Agnes and Phillip Ferro
Karen Feuer
Suzanne Finney
Nancy Fisher
Elva Fisher
Allen Flicker
Lynne and David Forrest
Meira Rosenberg and David Friedman
Sheila Gaeckler
Cherilyn and Dufftin Garcia
Ellen Winner and Howard Gardner
Ruth Ann Gardner
Lauren and Michael Gaviser
Bruce S. Gelb
Susan and Adam Gilbert
Elisa Gilbert
Johnnie M. Gilbert
Patricia M. MacKenzie and William L. Gillen
Nancy and Ross Gillman
Carolyn and Richard Glickstein
Wendy and James Gold
Deborah Goldman
Vivien and Sherwin Gordon
Elizabeth and Benjamin Gordon
Stephanie and Douglas Gould
Richard W. Gowing
Alexandra Grannis
Gayle Grifith
Karen Gutch
Sari Guthrie
Toni Haida
Judith and Patrick Hanlon
Gabrielle and Scott Haskell
Peter Haskell
Gabrielle and Steven Haskell
Mentor Haxhija
Kathy Hayes
Robert Haynes
Donna M. Heiland
Darren Henault
Terry Heyman
Mary Hilliard
Liz and David Hinden
Sarah Hipkens
Lynn Hippen
Claudia and Sheldon Hirshon
Connie and Mark Hochman
Renée B. Hoffman
Talia Hoffman
Olivia and Warren Hoge
Teresa Hommel
Antonia Hommeyer
Laurie Lindenbaum and Bob Horne
Jill Horwitz and Todd Hixson
Jerome and Isabelle Hyman
Judith Insell
Michael Issacs
Rosemary and Alfred Iversen
Janet Jackson
Sally Jameson
Linda and Morton Janklow
Marcy A. Sandler and James T. Janover
Judith A. Jedlicka
Jocelyn R. Jerry
Hilary Joel
Rosalind Cohen and Richard Joelson
Traci Paige Johnson
Susanne Rostock and David Johnson
Lucy Johnson
Leslie Jones
Phyllis Jordan
Magda Saleh and Jack A. Josephson
David Kahn
Nancy Kahn
Kirsten Kairos
Sandra and Michael Kamen
Mary and James Kane
Ira Kantrowitz
Eugene Kasanof
Tanya Kaufman
Phyllis Weinstein and Robert P. Kellenberger
Erin Kellerman
Joan Feder-Kelman and Andy Kelman
David and Pamela Kenney
Elizabeth Kent
Roger and Patricia Keresztes
Judy Kinberg
James P. King
Michele Klausner
Peggyann Klein
Rachel and Mark Klein
Priscilla Kleinberg
Lynne and Jack Kleinman
Linda Klingos
Mira Rivera and Jerome Korman
Manfred Korman
Shiou and Jeffrey Kossak
Hilda Kraker
Joan and Dan Kram
Linda Hassani and Johannes Krarup
Karen and Mitchell Kuflik
Grace and Merrill Kuller
Emily Laber-Warren
Donna Laikind
Renee Landau
Sidney and Sarah Landau
Tina Landau
William and Megyn Lansing
Karole Larsson
Marlene and Stephen Lazar
Catherine Morris Leach
Emily and John Lee
Margaret and Tilden Lemelle
Staci Levine
Jennifer Levine
Margot L. Levinson and John Gantz
Debra F. Lewin
Alison Lieberman
Joan W. Lindley
Rebecca F. Lipman
Judy and Michael Lipstein
Lucy Lu
Gain Lu
Lutz and Carr CPA's
Robert Mairano
Melody Mansfield
Paul Marcus
Jesse Margolis
Angela and James Margolis
Margaret Mastriau
Jennifer Maxwell
Juliana May
Dave McDowell
Christine and Kevin McKay
Megan McLaughlin
McLaughlin & Stern, LLP
Richard McNally
Emily and Craig Meisner
Charisse Meloto
Patricia S. Metz
Frances Milberg
Peri Smilow and Budd Mishkin
Barbara and Jay Mitchell
Elinor and Marvin Mitchell
John Modjeski
Jill S. Montaigne
Karen Montanaro
Teresa Moran
Sabrina Moreno-Dolan
Hansi Mueller
Oscar Muscarella
Jennifer Aks-Neuman and Michael Neuman
New Paltz School of Ballet
NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York
Cassidy Noblett
Toni C. Noblett
Michele and Colm O'Mara
Ontra Presentations, LLC
Michael Pack
Lili Yamasaki and Michele Pagano
Barbara Banchik and Leon Paley
Rachel Passaretti-Wu
Lyle Peacock
Phoebe Pearigen
Charlotte Perebinossoff
Patricia Dugan and William Perlmuth
Nancy Petschek-Kohn
Georgina Petty
Betty M. Pincus
Donna Polisar
Fredi Pomerance
Susan J. Poole
Poster Boy, Inc.
Judy Potash
Ronnie and William Potter
Lynn Povich and Stephen Shepard
Laura Presant
Valerie and Atkins Preston
Mary Jonaitis and Stephen Quigley
Stuart Rachlin
Amy and Mitchell Radin
Philip Raible
Christine and Bill Redpath
Susan M. Reed
Miriam K. Reines
Amelia Relles
Anthony Reyes
Ali Reza
Margaret Crotty and Rory Riggs
Voza Rivers
Nancy Orr and Richard Robbins
Lars Rosager
David Rosenberg
Stewart G. Rosenblum
Sharon Roth
Michael and Alison Rothschild
Vicki and Jack Rovner
Amanda Rubin
Tracy and Mark Rudd
Robin Rupli
Priya and David Sable
Paul Sackett and Francis Sackett
Francis J. Sackett
Amy and Lawrence Saperstein
Joseph and Jo Anne Sarubbi
Scheuer Associates Foundation
Joan Blackett Schlank
Toni Schulman
Lisa Scolari
Janet Z. Segal
Martin E. Segal
Frances Shahar
Eleanor Shakin
Jonathan B. Shearer
Danny and Marilyn Sheffield
Sheryl and Cary Sherman
Andrea and Michael Shindler
Lee Shull
Carole and Ira Singer
Anitra Swaminathan and Milton J. Sipp
Haruko Smith
Sheila and Jonathan Smith
Suzanne and Brian Smith
Clara Hemphill and Robert W. Snyder
Robert and Karen Sobel
Clea and Kurt Soderlund
Che Che and Luis Solivan
Ferne Goldberg Sperling and Allan Sperling
Marjorie Spohn Hyatt
Paul Springer
Lena Sradnick
Elizabeth Stafford
Heidi Stamas
Carl Steeg
Steeple Arts Academy of Dance
Barbara and Leonard Steiner
Emily R. and Steven J. Steinman
Rachel and Alexander Stern
Wilma Steuer
Allyson Tucker and Brian Stokes Mitchell
Paula and Michael Stoler
Deborah Stone/The Northern Trust Company
Strategic Services Group
Anita Sum
Andrew Sussman
Sutton Impact Studio, Inc.
Jill and Alan Swerdloff
Martha J. Swope
Ronald J. Tabak
Angela M. Tangredi
Joshua Targoff
The Teagle Foundation
Ann Stevens
Blaine Templeman
Rick Thiounn
Beatrice and Jose Tirado
Jean E. Toussaint
Annette Troxell-Collins
Jennifer and Stephen Turano
Cyril Tyson
Rebeca Vargas
Olga Votis
Doris and Scott Wagstaff
Arthur Waldhorn
Jessie Walker
Grace Warnecke
Phyllis and Michael Warren
Steven Warren
Harriet Clark Webber and Barry Webber
Lynn and Barry Weinberg
Judy Weinraub
Ellen Weinstein and Eric John
Stacy and Greg Weinstein
Catherine Weisblum
Elizabeth Wells
Mei Ling Wen
Monica and James Wesson
Malika Lee Whitney
Garielle Whittle
Bernard Wilkerson
Wilmore Living Trust
Carol Fineberg-Wilson and Charles Wilson
Betsy Witten
Carol Wood
Janet Yan
Jacalyn Yang
Barbara and William Yee
Choo Yin Chung
Michelle and Kenneth Yoon
May W. Lee and Benito J. Young
Sandra Zions
Lawrence P. Zuckerman
Donor Profile: Rachel Passaretti ('91)
Attorney and NDI Alumna Rachel Passaretti ('91), never forgot her time with NDI, and she recently had the opportunity to give back to the program that meant so much to her.
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