Miami City Ballet fundraising effort raises $65 million

Dancing Trousers
Viktorina Kapatinova and Renan Cerdeiro in Miami City Ballet’s production of "Swan Lake," as revitalized by Alexei Ratmansky.

Capping an work that persevered all through the worst times of the COVID-19 pandemic, Miami Metropolis Ballet declared this thirty day period that it has lifted $65 million around the study course of a 4-year capital campaign, $10 million above its ambitious focus on. 

The Miami Seashore-dependent company also added 2,000 new donors all through its now-concluded Reworking Life Marketing campaign, which started in 2018 with an “unprecedented objective” of raising $55 million. 

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“MCB is stronger and our long run brighter than at any time,” Artistic Director Lourdes Lopez explained in a geared up statement. 

Miami City Ballet Artistic Director Lourdes Lopez

The ballet troupe, which routinely performs its seasonal choices at the Kravis Middle in West Palm Seaside, brought in $57 million in excess of the length of the campaign, and secured an further $8 million in pledges for long run fiscal durations, MCB officers claimed. 

The fund-elevating energy was led by Kristi Jernigan, former chair of MCB’s board of trustees and onetime head of the Argonaut Cash hedge fund. She and her spouse, Dean, CEO of business true estate finance corporation Jernigan Money, ended up main figures in a revitalization of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, from 1997 to 2002. 

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