“Dance for Every Child.” Catching Up With Educator, Advocate and Philanthropist Jody Gottfried Arnhold

“Dance for Every Child.” Catching Up With Educator, Advocate and Philanthropist Jody Gottfried Arnhold

Jody Gottfried Arnhold wants every child in America to have access to dance education. We check in with one of performing arts philanthropy’s most important advocates on the heels of another big gift to advance her goal.

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IP Briefing: What's Going On With Philanthropy for Dance?

IP Briefing: What's Going On With Philanthropy for Dance?

The dance funding ecosystem is small compared to other performing arts, and the impacts of the pandemic on top of decades of declining public funding mean a growing role for philanthropy. Here’s what you need to know.

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Sparking Something Bigger: A Donor’s Big Bet on Dance Education is Starting to Pay Dividends

Sparking Something Bigger: A Donor’s Big Bet on Dance Education is Starting to Pay Dividends

With a second big gift in less than three years, Jody Gottfried Arnhold and her husband John have carved out a distinctive and impactful philanthropic brand around dance education—a niche largely devoid of big-ticket patrons.

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