Ways to support VLA

No gift is too big or too small. Donations of $25, $50, or $100 today really can make a difference tomorrow. All donations are tax deductible to the extent allowable by law. Your personal contribution to VLA will help us continue and expand our services:

  • Legal services to low-income artists
  • Legal services to arts nonprofit organizations
  • Educational programming
  • Scholarship programs for artists
  • Outreach programming
  • Maintain lower fees for legal services and educational programs
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Organizing a fundraiser?

Whether you are coordinating a lecture, party, or concert, donating the proceeds to VLA is simple and guarantees the continuation of our services to the arts community. If you plan to support us with a fundraiser, please contact Kathryn E. Wagner, Esq., registrations@vlany.org.

CONTACT: 212.319.2787, ext.1

MEMBERSHIP PACKAGES

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Artist and Arts Organization Membership

Membership for artists and non-profit or for-profit arts organizations. Find out more about the levels and benefits of membership.

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Attorney Membership

Membership for attorneys at any point in their career. Find out about the levels and benefits of membership, and become a member.

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Institutional Membership

We extend special benefits for law firms and corporate donors. Click below for more information on corporate and law firm membership benefits.

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Supporters*

Our sincerest thanks to all our supporters. VLA is a nonprofit legal service organization supported in part with public funds, by state agencies, and through generous gifts from all our wonderful supporters.

Institutional  Members

Benefactor Level

  • Advance
  • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
  • Davis & Gilbert LLP
  • Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
  • Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
  • Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
  • Jenner & Block LLP
  • Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
  • Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
  • Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius LLP
  • Paul Hastings LLP
  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • Shearman & Sterling LLP
  • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
  • Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
  • Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP

Sustainer Level

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • DLA Piper LLP
  • Ernst & Young LLP
  • Haynes and Boone LLP
  • Leichtman Law PLLC
  • Lowenstein Sandler LLP
  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • Pryor Cashman LLP
  • Shapiro Arato Bach LLP
  • Winston & Strawn
  • Withers Bergman

Foundation, Government, and Corporate Support

Foundation Supporters

  • Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS
  • The Cowles Charitable Trust
  • The Jean & Louis Dreyfus Family Foundation
  • The Jerome Robbins Foundation
  • The Lucille Lortel Foundation
  • Mellon Foundation
  • The Reed Foundation
  • The Shubert Foundation
  • The Van Norton Family Foundation
  • The Venable Foundation

Law Firm and Corporate Contributors

  • BNY
  • Comcast
  • Law Offices of James Kendrick
  • NBCUniversal Media, LLC
  • Leason Ellis LLP
  • Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
  • Morrison & Foerster Foundation
  • Norton Rose Fulbright, LLP
  • Viking Global Foundation

*As of February 2025

Public Support

VLA is supported in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with The City Council.

2024 Gala Supporters

Platinum

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
    American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)

Gold

  • Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP
  • Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP
  • Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
  • Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
  • DLA Piper
  • Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP
  • Proskauer Rose LLP

Silver

  • Latham & Watkins, LLP
  • Paramount Global
  • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
  • Sonos

Bronze

  • Advance
  • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, LLP
  • Dechert LLP
  • Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, LLP
  • Jenner & Block LLP
  • Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP
  • King & Spalding LLP
  • Lee Sullivan Shea & Smith LLP
  • LVMH North America
  • Meta
  • Miner-Romanoff Family
  • Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
  • Morrison Foerster Foundation
  • Perkins Coie LLP
  • Winston & Strawn LLP

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