The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s capital campaign was a well-choreographed project that breathed new life into the organization’s fundraising plan

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

“In the past 10 to 12 years, we’ve seen enormous growth in fundraising and in the overall budget of the organization,” he says, “which is why I think we were able to launch the campaign. This building in many ways has really taken Ailey to another level in terms of fundraising, in terms of its stature in the cultural life of this country, in terms of our future.”