Help Keep Us on Our Toes!


“It’s especially important to have new shoes at SAB because all of our classes are en pointe. It’s such a relief when my pointe shoes [are delivered] on Fridays because I know I’m going to be prepared for the next week ahead of me!”

SAB’s advanced students use 1-2 pairs of pointe shoes per week. Retailing at $110 or more a pair, pointe shoes can be a serious financial barrier to students from Level IV and up. With the help of our Pointe Shoe Fund and generous donors like you, we are able to subsidize the cost of pointe shoes for our talented students.

Donate by April 28 and your gift will be matched 1:1 — doubling your impact.

To donate online, fill in the form below!

To donate via check, mail it to:

School of American Ballet
Attn: Pointe Shoe Fund
70 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY 10023

To make a stock gift, call the SAB Development office at 212.769.6699.

Calculate Your Impact

     Your Gift     
+ Match Becomes
 = Your Impact
$50 $100 Supports pointe shoe needs for an SAB student
$100 $200 Provides pointe shoes for one week of training for an Advanced Division student
$150 $300 Provides pointe shoes for a student’s rehearsal schedule preparing for Workshop Performances
$370 $750 Provides a pair of shoes for a class of Girls IV going en pointe for the first time
$750 $1,500 Supports pointe shoe needs for a Workshop performance cast
$1,500 $3,000 Supports an advanced student’s pointe shoes for a full school year

Freed of London is SAB’s Summer Audition Sponsor, helping make possible our National Audition Tour and video applications that recruit dancers from across the country and around the world to the School’s Summer Course and New York Junior Session. As a longtime provider of pointe shoes for SAB’s students, Freed partners with the School to offer custom individual shoe fittings and to make pointe shoes accessible and affordable for our students.