Bravo!

Good news for patrons of the arts in Palm Beach County.

The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach announced that Toby and Leon Cooperman, part-time residents of Boca Raton, have donated a leadership gift of $1 million to the Kravis Center’s Capital Campaign. Known for their generous giving, the Coopermans are signatories of The Giving Pledge, a campaign to encourage affluent people to contribute a majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes. 

“One of the four things you can do with money is to put it back into society to make the place you came into a better place when you leave,” Leon says. “That’s what we are doing by supporting the Kravis Center’s expansion project. Toby is a former special-needs teacher, and we are especially fond of the work the Kravis Center does to enrich the lives of students in Palm Beach County with their arts education programming.”

The Kravis 2020: The Future is Now Capital Campaign will fund the renovation and expansion of the Kravis Center’s campus to enhance the customer experience for the more than 500,000 people who attend events there each year. The project will increase the size of the Dreyfoos Hall Lobby; create a welcoming, pedestrian-friendly plaza opening onto Okeechobee Boulevard; add a new valet parking garage; add a new ramp to the existing garage for self-parking guests; and improve the overall traffic flow on and around the 10-acre campus. The project is expected to be completed in spring 2020 and will be funded through donations. Interruptions in the performance schedule are not anticipated. O

For more information, call 561-651-4273 or visit kravis.org/kravis2020.