Our Supporters

We’re grateful for the dedicated public agencies, council members, foundations, and individual donors who help us bring free and low-cost dance programs to older adults across NYC. Your support helps us promote wellness, joy, and connection through movement.

Group of dancers in colorful attire performing in front of a large American flag displayed on a building with columns.

Dances For A Variable Population is supported by public funds from:

the National Endowment for the Arts, and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.

This program is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City Department for the Aging, in partnership with the City Council and Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine.

We are also thankful for Council Member support from:

  • CD 3 Erik Bottcher

  • CD 6 Gale Brewer

  • CD 7 Shaun Abreu

  • CD 9 Yusef Salaam

  • CD 16 Althea Stevens

  • CD 26 Julie Won

  • CD 39 Shahana Hanif

With additional support from:

  • Alpern Family Foundation, Inc.

  • Brooklyn Monthly Meetings of the Society of Friends

  • Leibowitz and Greenway Family Charitable Foundation

  • Jody and John Arnhold Foundation

  • NYU Community Fund

  • Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

  • Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation

  • Columbia Community Service

  • New York Community Trust

  • New York Foundation for Eldercare

  • Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation administered by LMCC

  • West Harlem Development Corporation