Support Us

As a non-for-profit, student-run dance organization, the Harvard Ballet Company relies on ticket sales, member dues, and donations to support its vibrant and expressive productions. Over the years, donations from generous alumni, parents, and friends have also sustained our growing endowment account, which one day we hope to put towards establishing a student endowment fund with Harvard University. This fund would help to provide resources for the Company for many years to come.

How Your Contributions Help Us

Donations from our supporters are crucial to the Company's success. If you choose to support HBC during a performance season, your contribution will help us to bring in accomplished guest choreographers, which is always a rewarding experience for our dancers and a treat for the audience. Furthermore, by featuring guest work on our stage, we enhance HBC's standing in the dance community. Donor contributions also help pay for new costumes, set props, lighting, and access to performance spaces like the Loeb Mainstage. Donations that do not go directly to performance costs are deposited into our endowment account.

How to Donate

If you would like to support the Harvard Ballet Company, tax-deductible donations are welcome by personal check made out to Harvard University, with "Harvard Ballet Company" in the memo line. Please let us know if your employer would like to match gifts.

Donations can be mailed to:

Harvard Ballet Company
c/o Whitney Fitts (Fundraiser)
111 Dunster Mail Center
945 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02138

Credit card donations are also welcome and may be made online by clicking here. Please be sure to enter "Harvard Ballet Company, Fund 330298" in the Additional Information section to ensure gifts are allocated correctly. If you donate online, please send a confirmation email with your name and amount donated to our fundraiser, Mari Sosa, at msosa@fas.harvard.edu, so that we can be sure to properly recognize you.

Donor Acknowledgements and Benefits

1. Recent donors (within one academic year) will be mentioned in all performance programs, as well as the alumni and donor newsletters, under the categories below.

2. All alumni and parents on record will receive a biannual e-newsletter, with updates on the progress of the company over the last semester, past and upcoming performances, and some photos. In keeping with Harvard's effort to support Green technology and reduce the University's carbon print, HBC has decided to convert to an e-newsletter. We feel that this decision will facilitate communication with our large mailing list, while conserving paper. All donors will receive the general HBC e-newsletter and also receive a more personal biannual newsletter by mail, including more behind-the-scenes photos, interviews, and a close look at how their donations are benefiting the Company.

Questions?

Please address questions, comments, and requests to join our emailing list to:

Mari Sosa, msosa@fas.harvard.edu
313 Dunster Mail Center
945 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02138

Thank you in advance for your support!