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

“Definitely, early on, we were trying to sit down with potential donors,” Rink explains. “Usually there would be two or three people from Ailey — a board member typically, someone who was on the steering committee often would go, and either Judith Jamison, our artistic director, or Sharon Luckman, our executive director, would go.