Support
Your partnership, your support, and your investment are key to Metropolitan’s ability to move forward with its proven-successful programs and ambitious plans for the future.
Built on a vision and a dream, Metropolitan has grown into an institution – in the best sense of the word – committed to the highest ideals of artistic skill, personal growth and discipline, educational enrichment, and life and career preparation. In its 28 years, Metropolitan has had a profoundly positive influence on thousands of children and young people in the Greater Philadelphia region.
Your partnership, your support, and your investment are key to Metropolitan’s ability to move forward with its proven-successful programs and ambitious plans for the future. Please support this outstanding record of success and service with your most generous financial commitment.
With your support, we will offer more scholarships, train more dancers, commission new choreography from acclaimed and emerging artists, and increase our educational programs for those with limited access to the arts.
Your tax-deductible gift helps Metropolitan Ballet keep classical dance alive in our community.
MOVING FORWARD
Our Supporters
Season Sponsorships & Special Gifts
Presenting Sponsor ($10,000+)
Generous Anonymous 2023-2024 Season Sponsor
New Choreography Sponsors ($5,000-$9,999)
Joy Falk Schorr
The Greg Lalicker Fund
The Metropolitan Ballet Board of Directors
Soloist Sponsors ($1,000+)
Anonymous
Christopher Conklin & Emily Bergson-Shilcock
Glanzmann Subaru
June & Andrew Morfopoulos
Sam & Kora Peck
Return To Real Fund
Joe Stampone
UKRFCU
Corps de Ballet Sponsors ($500+)
Advanced Chiropractic of Philadelphia
Janet & Stephen Blenheim
Experience Vinyl
DJS Associates, Inc.
Fine Design Associates, Inc.
William Foster & Jennifer Pennington
Loeb Performing Arts Fund
Barbara Mattleman & Dean Kaplan
June Hines Pilates, LLC
Julie L. Price & Robert K. Reed
Swan Dancewear
Jon Tavares
Marian W. Wentworth & David J. Nice
Met Community Sponsors ($150+)
Anonymous
Michael Cover
Dress 2 Dance
Eye Options
The Foot and Ankle Center
Franklin Investment Realty
James Meyers
Linda Karash Mintzer
Hedra L. Packman
Ksenia M. Rudensiuk
Philip & Joan Steel
Tiny Bird Vintage
Annual Campaign & Year-Round Gifts
Visionary ($5,000-$25,000)
William A. Loeb
Anonymous
Producers ($2500-$4,999)
Apice Family
Judith E. Bishop
Janet & Steve Blenheim
Nina & Daniel Edelman
Directors ($1000-$2,499)
Ms. Arleen Armstrong and Mr. David Del Beccaro
Lynn Jones & David Ballard
Julie Gerberding, MD & David Rose
The Robert S and June L. Hudson Charitable Fund
Hedra Packman & Stephen Steinberg
Julie L. Price & Robert K. Reed
Brendan & Vanessa Ryan
Marcia M. Steinberg
Stacey Su & Jim Branch
Anonymous (1)
Benefactors ($500-$999)
Nicole Batdorf
Alan & Pamela Berkowitz Charitable Fund
Caroline Broullon & Seth Frank
Jessica Feierman & Justin Mixon
Anne Hilton
June Hines & Andy Morfopoulos
Susan K. Howard & Gene Ronald Frank PhD
The Kent Family
The Loeb Cullen Family Fund, in loving memory of Arthur P. Loeb
Barbara Maimon
Barbara Mattleman & Dean Kaplan
Betsy McKinstry & Joel Edelstein
Marian Wentworth and David Nice
Luna and Truman Seeberger
Steamfitters Local Union No 420
Anonymous (1)
Patrons ($250-499)
Rodd & Stephanie Berro
Deborah Boardman Lefevre
Wendy Epstein & Dr. Louis Broad
Margaret & Craig Griffen
Paul & Amy Kaminski
Geoff and Lisa Moulton
David and Linda Mintzer
Denise Murphy-Rohr
Laurie Nelson
Rockwood Wealth Management Charitable Fund,
in honor of the retirement of our friend Dean A. Kaplan
Lois K. Rudnick
Pearl Schaeffer
Cathie & Ed Suarez
David & Elsie Viehman in honor of Lila Diehl
Michael & Michele Yarnoff
Anonymous (1)
Sponsors ($100-$249)
Amaro Family
Vivian Arguello & Johann Rafael Cornielle-Caamano
Amanda Bergson-Shilcock
Emily Bergson- Shilcock & Christopher Conklin
Ed & Sharon Collins
The “Crew”
The Eyre Family
Kristen Repyneck Dennis
Judy Golland
Marjorie & Scott Gorman
Christopher & Jessica Kohles
Leslie Kraemer
Anita & Joel Kulick
The Lane Family
Christine Lee
Laura Madeleine
Maureen M. McCrimmon
John & Joanne Marshall
Carolyn Ming
Jacinda Ojeda
Elizabeth and Scott Parker
Jennifer Pennington & William Foster
Cailine Petzold
Rachael Pontillo
Lavonne Reardon
Laurie D. Reynolds
Jean & Douglas Rowand, in honor of Jonathan Tavares
Karen Wiley Sandler
The Santangelo Family
Mary Ann Sells
Tom & Pat Sherrill
Heather & Eric Silberman
Janice S. Silcox, in honor of Emily Bergson-Shilcock & Chris Conklin
Amir Shoham & Ofra Shoham Bazel
Stacy & Alan Smith
Swan Dancewear
Joann & Bill Vaughan
Jose & Giovanna Vega
Derek Warden & Margaret Laudise
Bonnie & Dave Webster
Leslea Baker Weil
The Yu Family
Mike & Donna Zanetti
Anonymous (4)
Friends ($1-$99)
Karlyn Aires
Margaret Barrett
Ellen Iwamoto & Richard Barron
Millie Lane Berg
Peter A Bergson, in honor of Emily Bergson-Shilcock
Nancy & Melvin Breckenridge
Janet Cantor
Mary Lynn Carson and Lester Lloyd, Kinetic Literacy, in honor of Donna Jones
Patricia Czajka
Susan Dearolf
Kathleen & Colin Drummond
Lesly & David Eckstein
Elizabeth & Paul Fine
Dante & Celeste Fulginitti
Chloe Haaz and Vincent Sica
Gisela A. High
Peter & Tamara Hulayew
In honor of Arleen Armstrong
Donna Jones
Amanda & Charles Marion
The Peoples Family
Michael & Donna Podolsky
Courtlandt van Rooten
Hanna Russo
Ms. Mary Jane Rutherford
Sarah Mettin Schorr, Kinetic Literacy
Tracey Scott-Hall
John & Rebecca Silva
Lainey Sotolongo
Sara Marks Tabby
James Templeton, Jr
Ellen Warren
Arlene Weissman, in honor of June Hines
Jessica Young
Katherine & Moises Young
Anonymous (6)
Alumni Choreography Fund ($1-$1,000)
Anonymous
Juan Castellanos
Tyler Diggs
Rebecca & Bruce Eaton
Juliann Ellis
Jon Tavares
In Kind Gifts
Cannon Graphics, Inc.
Tanya & Brian Regli
Paul Sheriff
Grantors, Foundations, Corporate & Institutional Gifts
Visionary ($2,500-$9,999)
The Loeb Performing Arts Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation: Supporting Metropolitan’s Boys’ Scholarship Program since 1999
Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts: Metropolitan Ballet Company receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency
Meridian Bank: Supporting Metropolitan’s Kinetic Literacy Program through Pennsylvania’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC)
PNC Charitable Trusts
Rosenlund Family Foundation
Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial
Directors ($1,000-$2,499)
A.S.E. Global Bridges, Inc.
Friends ($1-$249)
Benevity
CAF America
Network for Good
Pampered Chef
PayPal Giving Fund
Matching Gifts
Bristol Myers Squibb
Citizens Charitable Foundation
The Merck Foundation
Johnson & Johnson
JP Morgan
Boys' Scholarship Program
$5,000+
William A. Loeb | The Loeb Performing Arts Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation: Supporting Metropolitan’s Boys’ Scholarship Program since 1999
$1,000-$4,999
Anonymous
Judith E. Bishop
Janet & Steve Blenheim
Julie Gerberding, MD & David Rose
Robert E. Keppler
The Panzak Family
$500-$999
Borkert Family
Anne Hilton
June Hines & Andy Morfopoulos
Barbara Mattleman & Dean Kaplan
Brian O.
Hedra Packman & Stephen Steinberg
Jonathan Tavares
$50-$499
Anonymous (3)
The Amaro Family
Rodd Berro
Juan Castellanos
Zipporah & Shawn Daly
Sara & Christopher Diehl & Family
The Diggs Family
Dress 2 Dance
Marjorie & Scott Gorman
Lily Jensen & Christopher Farina
Anita and Joe Kulick
Kimberly & George Mehler
Laurie Nelson
Hedra Packman
Eve Persicketti
Julie L. Price & Robert K. Reed
Trapp’s
Leigh & Michele Weber
Arlene Weissman, in memory of Charles Morfopoulos
Variations Collaborations 2024 / in/with/in
Choreography: Tommie-Waheed Evans / Photo by Eduardo Patino.NYC
Support Our Work
Metropolitan is grateful to our individual, institutional, foundation, corporate and EITC donors! Support the Metropolitan mission! Make your tax-deductible gift to Metropolitan Ballet Company today. Or, if you prefer, please mail check payable to “Metropolitan Ballet Company”:
Metropolitan Ballet Company
700 N. Cedar Road
Jenkintown, PA 19046
Metropolitan Ballet Company is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization providing scholarships, performance training for pre-professional dancers and outreach programs designed to promote a love and appreciation of dance in our community.
Metropolitan welcomes Matching & In Kind Gifts. Please contact our office at 215-663-1665 or collinsvidnovic@metropolitanballetcompany.org.
