How You Can Help

As a nonprofit, ADI relies on tax-deductible donations from patrons like you to provide the metropolitan area with affordable access to cutting-edge dance programming and high quality dance training. For as little as $50 you can help bring some of today’s most celebrated dance makers to the DC area or help a child living at The Children’s Inn at NIH enjoy the splendor of ADI’s production of The Nutcracker free of charge. Every dollar invested in ADI by patrons like you directly helps ADI fulfill its mission while adding to the cultural vibrancy of the community where you work and live.

Donor Benefits

As an ADI donor not only will you help bring diverse, cutting-edge dance to the Washington DC area and provide support for the development of the dance field, but you will also receive unique and valuable donor benefits. For as little as $100, you will get exclusive benefits that will bring you closer to the dance world and the artists who influence it than you ever thought possible. Don’t miss out on the outstanding benefits offered this season – donate online now!

Incubator Fund

Support ADI’s efforts to provide literal and emotional space around forward-thinking artists to cultivate and introduce new, important works to the world of American dance by contributing to its National Incubator Fund. Your contribution will directly benefit artists in ADI’s National Incubator program by helping offset costs including housing, travel, production support and a monetary stipend. Help choreographers receive the time and space necessary for the creative exploration and innovation needed to expand the catalogue of American dance by donating to ADI’s National Incubator Fund today.

ADI Israeli Contemporary Dance Fund

Support ADI’s efforts to bring Israel’s most dynamic, inventive contemporary dance companies to the Washington DC area by donating to ADI’s Israeli Contemporary Dance Fund. Your contribution will be used to directly benefit the artists ADI presents through its Israeli Contemporary Dance program, helping offset costs such as travel to and from Israel, hotel costs, visa processing costs, artist fees and more. Help build exposure and enthusiasm for Israel’s compelling contemporary dance by giving to ADI’s Israeli Contemporary Dance Fund today.

Your Gift at Work

Whether you make a $10 donation or a $1,000 donation your gift directly impacts ADI’s ability to affect the lives of those it serves.

• $25 enables ADI to provide one adult with intellectual or developmental disabilities receiving services through The Arc of Montgomery County with a specially-designed movement class.
• $50 enables ADI to provide one free ticket to ADI’s The Nutcracker to a child living at The Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health.
• $100 enables ADI to provide free pointe shoes to a scholarship student attending ADI’s School.
• $250 enables ADI to provide local choreographers in its Incubator Program with free space where they can create and rehearse for one month.
• $500 enables ADI in part to perform The Nutcracker at Walter Reed Medical Center for patients and their families.
• $1,000 enables ADI to provide a child with one ballet class a week for an entire school year.