The Divas Experience
COCKTAIL HOUR
6:00 – 7:00PM EST
DINNER AND DANCING
7:00 – 10:00PM EST
As a Signature Sponsor, your support makes the deepest impact—advancing The Apollo’s education programs and helping us uplift the next generation of young artists and dreamers.
Sponsorship
Divas Signature Sponsor
Benefits Include:
- Admission and premium Lounge seating for 10
- Complimentary bottle of spirits or wine for you and your guests
- Customized Apollo Presents Education experience
- Historic Theater Hard Hat Tour
- Acknowledgement from the Stage
- Prime Logo Inclusion Plasma Screens, Divas event page, digital invitation and printed materials
- Recognized as a Dining with the Divas Committee Member
- Opportunity to Provide a Branded Item for Gift Bag and Onsite Product Sampling
$20,000
($18,000 is tax-deductible)
$2,000 Donor Ticket
Benefits Include:
- Seated admission for one (1) to the event
- Listing in annual report
Benefit Chairs
John Smith
Jane Doe
FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 2025
Sponsorship
$100,000 Apollo Premier Sponsor
Benefits Include:
- Only 2 Available
- 20 premium seated table
- Recognition on marketing materials, onsite signage and Step-And-Repeat banner
- Acknowledgment from the stage and speaking opportunity
- Listing in annual report
$2,000 Donor Ticket
Benefits Include:
- Seated admission for one (1) to the event
- Listing in annual report
APOLLO in the Hamptons
The Apollo Theater returns to the Hamptons for an intimate night of dinner and dancing
in honor of our mission and Historic Theater Renovation.
in honor of our mission and Historic Theater Renovation.
All proceeds from Apollo in the Hamptons will support the non-profit organization’s year-round, world-class artistic, education, and community programs, as well as its commitment to articulating and projecting the Black narrative using arts and culture and creating a 21st century performing arts canon.
We invite attendees to join us as we honor our Apollo Rising 2.0 Capital Campaign leading contributors. Music and entertainment provided by Apollo Amateur Night artists, DJ Cassidy and more.
We invite attendees to join us as we honor our Apollo Rising 2.0 Capital Campaign leading contributors. Music and entertainment provided by Apollo Amateur Night artists, DJ Cassidy and more.
COCKTAIL HOUR
6:00 – 7:00PM EST
DINNER AND DANCING
7:00 – 10:00PM EST
Benefit Chairs
John Smith
Jane Doe
FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 2025
Sponsorship
$100,000 Apollo Premier Sponsor
Benefits Include:
- Only 2 Available
- 20 premium seated table
- Recognition on marketing materials, onsite signage and Step-And-Repeat banner
- Acknowledgment from the stage and speaking opportunity
- Listing in annual report
$2,000 Donor Ticket
Benefits Include:
- Seated admission for one (1) to the event
- Listing in annual report
PREMIER SPONSORS
VICE CHAIRS
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Goldman Sachs |
Lou D’Ambrosio
Lou D’Ambrosio
Karen and Charles Phillips
- GCM Grosvenor | Derek Jones
- HSBC Bank USA | Racquel Oden
- JP Morgan Chase
- Natasha and Aaron Holiday
- Paramount | BET
- Patricia M. Zollar
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
- Peter and Katie O’Neill
- Providence Equity Partners
- Schulte, Roth & Zabel LLP | Howard Schiffman
- American Express
- Bally’s
- Hearst
- Bloomberg Philanthropies
- Gibson Dunn
- Morgan Stanley
- Clarence Otis and Jacqueline Bradley Otis
- JoAnn H. Price
- TD Securities | Adora and Carlos Whitaker
- Nat Zilkha
list updated as of 06.04.2025
SPONSORS
Premier Sponsor
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- 24 premium tickets and reserved VIP seating for 24 at after-party
- Access to VIP Pre-Reception
- Recognition on The Apollo marquee, lobby, outdoor plasma screens and step and repeat
- Opportunity to walk red carpet
- Acknowledgement from the stage
- Listing on the digital invitation and printed program
Tent Sponsor
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- 20 Premium tickets and reserved VIP seating for 20 at after-party
- Access to VIP Pre-Reception
- Recognition on The Apollo marquee, lobby, outdoor plasma screens and step and repeat
- Opportunity to walk red carpet
- Acknowledgement at After-Party
- Listing on the digital invitation and printed program
Vice Chair
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- 16 premium performance tickets and reserved VIP seating for 16 at after-party
- Access to VIP Pre-Reception
- Recognition on The Apollo marquee, lobby, outdoor plasma screens and step and repeat
- Listing on digital invitation and printed program
Leading Benefactor
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- 10 Premium performance tickets and reserved VIP seating for 10 at after-party
- Recognition on The Apollo marquee, lobby, outdoor plasma screens
- Listing on the digital invitation and printed program
- Access to VIP Pre-Reception
Benefactor
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- 8 performance tickets and admittance to the afterparty
- Listing on digital invitation and printed program
INDIVIDUAL
Patron
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- Premium ticket and admittance to afterparty
- Listing on the digital invitation and printed program
Donor
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- Performance ticket and admittance to after-party
- Listing on program
Friend
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- Performance ticket ONLY
Contribution
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Can’t Attend? Please Consider Making a Gift to Support our Mission. All Gifts Over $2,500 will be acknowledged in the Annual Report.
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- 645 Ventures
- Kathleen Adams & Rachelle Daglis
- Blueprint Capital Advisors
- Dr. Tiffany Bowen Burkett
- Marcie Cleary & Aaliyah S. Thompson
- Elizabeth A. Davis
- Melissa Downing
- Diana Elghanayan
- DeNora Getachew
- ICHOR Strategies
- Cheryl Jones
- Imani Laners
- L’Oreal Groupe
- Tracy Marie McNeil
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Ralph Lauren Center
- Rhonda Mims & Barbara Scott
- Liz Neumark
- Mutale Nkonde
- Blaine North
- Jade Magnus Ogunnaike
- S&P Global
- Kathleen Tait
- Lana Bailey Tamaro
- LuShawn Thompson & Erika Liles
- Pamela Wheeler
- Patricia M. Zollar
- Jennifer Jones Austin
- Monica Azare
- Wendy Short Bartie
- Terri Borden
- Charlane Brown-Wyands
- Ann Charles
- Ashley Nikkole Davis
- Dr. Jeanine Downie
- Jennifer Dozier
- Regina L. Henry
- Kathryn Jones
- Tammye Jones
- Tonya Lewis Lee
- Courtney Lee-Mitchell
- Ajaa Long
- Annette Mitchell
- Paulette Murphy
- Nordstrom
- Kimberly Paige
- Melonie Parker
- Jelena Pasic
- Orlett W. Pearson
- Orinthia E. Perkins
- Minerva Phifer
- Shawna Rodgers
- Kristian Little Stricklen
- Jennifer Streaks
- Susan L. Taylor
- Karen Tucker
- Shawanda Vickers
- Carra Wallace
- Shani Waugh
- Dawanna Williams
- Lisa Gittens Williams
- Saundra Williams-Cornwell
- Lauren W. Wilson
- Cheryl Jordan Winston
list updated as of 01.27.2025
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Celebrate the past, present, and future of Black creativity. Your generosity supports The Apollo in fulfilling its mission and sustaining its legacy of excellence.
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