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Stunning views. Captivating spaces. Personalized service. Let us help create your knockout event.

Whether you are planning a professional conference, a lavish catered reception, or an offsite team meeting, the Muhammad Ali Center has a variety of options to meet your special event needs. Located between historic Main Street and the Ohio River in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, the architecturally captivating Muhammad Ali Center offers beautiful river views, modern design, built-in audio/visual capabilities and urban appeal. The Center’s entire facility is ADA compliant and designed for flexibility of size, function, and presentation requirements. Just a few of the types of private events that can be held at our facility include: * Anniversaries * Association/Convention Receptions * Awards Dinners / Receptions * Birthday Parties * Business Meetings * Corporate Dinners / Receptions * Fundraisers * Proms * Retirement Parties * Holiday Parties * Reunions * Wedding Ceremonies * Receptions * Rehearsal Dinners, and * Showers. Seven distinctive spaces are available:

VIew Pointe Hall: Located on the top level of the Muhammad Ali Center, View Pointe Hall is a private, stunning space that creates a superb environment for any event. The 6,700 square foot space includes a cocktail and dinner area that can be used separately or in conjunction with one another. Floor-to-ceiling windows provide breathtaking panoramic views of the Ohio River, the Belvedere and downtown Louisville. Built-in audio/visual capabilities; Wireless Internet available. The Torch Terrace is a 1,225 square foot outdoor space, included with the rental of View Pointe Hall. This space makes the perfect cocktail area during a reception. Entire Room: 6,700 square feet.
- Capacity: 500 Standing reception / 400 Seated rounds / 300 Seated rounds with 21 x 21 dance floor / 580 Theatre style / 250 Classroom style
View Pointe Notth: Located on the top floor of the building; this space has floor-to-ceiling windows providing you with a panoramic view of the Ohio River and Downtown Louisville. Built-in audio with microphones and wireless internet available. View Pointe North also includes a beautiful balcony for your guests to enjoy and watch the river boats go by. This space provides the perfect location for an intimate dinner, wedding ceremony, or corporate meeting. Entire Room: 2,500 square feet.
- Capacity: 150 Standing Reception / 100 Seated Rounds / 250 Theater Style / 60 Classroom Style
Main Lobby: The Main Lobby is located on the second floor of the Muhammad Ali Center. This modern and open space is highlighted by a ceiling view of the base of the copper torch inspired by Muhammad Ali’s participation in the 1996 Olympics, a key architectural element of the Center. Entire Room: 3,200 square feet
- Capacity: 200 Standing reception / 100 Seated rounds / 220 Theatre Style
Howard Bingham Gallery: The Howard Bingham Gallery is located on the second level, just down the hall from the Main Lobby and adjacent to the Auditorium. The unique two-level 1,600 square foot space gallery has a warm and colorful feel. The mezzanine gallery, just above the Bingham, adds an attractive add-on for small, intimate dinners or lunches, casual meetings or cocktail receptions. Entire Room: 1,600 square feet
- Capacity: 150 standing reception / 100 seated rounds (lower level seats 70, mezzanine level seats 30) / 100 Theatre style / 48 Classroom style
Auditorium: Located on the Center’s second level, the Auditorium is situated adjacent to the Howard Bingham Gallery. The room’s multi-purpose design allows for stadium-style theatre seating, which can be retracted for an open floor plan. The Auditorium is equipped with a green room, a 16 x 19 projection screen, translator’s booth and surround sound. Audio and video capabilities are all built-in. The Auditorium provides the perfect environment for meetings, presentations, and films. Entire Room: 1,400 square feet.
- Capacity 158 Theatre style/stadium seating / 120 Seated rounds of 10 / 54 Classroom style or crescent rounds of 5
Brown-Forman Pavilion: The Brown-Forman Pavilion is an outdoor event space with lovely landscaping and stunning views of the Ohio River. The Pavilion is adjacent to the Howard Bingham Gallery and Auditorium and can be utilized in conjunction with these two indoor spaces. Perfect for * cocktail receptions * dinners * wedding ceremonies, and * special events like Thunder Over Louisville, the Brown-Forman Pavilion is sure to be a crowd-pleaser. Entire Pavilion: 2,200 square feet.
- Capacity: 200 Standing reception / 80 Seated rounds of 8 / 150 Theater style.

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The Muhammad Ali Center mobilizes Muhammad Ali’s legacy with exhibits, events, and programs that create positive change and inspire greatness. Be part of preserving and sharing Muhammad Ali’s life journey, supporting today’s changemakers, and developing tomorrow’s leaders.

Membership:

Experience all that the Muhammad Ali Center offers as a member. Enjoy free admission, gift store discounts, members-only access to exclusive events, and much more. Muhammad Ali Center members are more than supporters who believe in our mission, they share a special connection—a desire to carry on Muhammad Ali’s legacy, a hope for peace and cultural understanding and a dream for themselves to continue on the journey to personal and global greatness. Membership Levels include: * Individual * Family, and * Entourage Circle.

Donations:

Your donation to the Ali Center makes an impact. Make a gift today and join others who see the importance of preserving and sharing the legacy of Muhammad Ali. Your gift will support educational and community outreach programs like the Muhammad Ali Center For Humanity and Justice (CHJ). The CHJ mobilizes Muhammad Ali’s legacy and core principles through curricular and experiential learning; and curates community-engaged programs designed to foster respect, challenge systems of oppression, and promote positive social change. Some of the programs and materials available for both students and educators at the Muhammad Ali Center include: * Youth Leadership Programming * University Programming and Partnerships * Learning Hub * Professional Development Workshops, and * Community Engagement.

Donations at specific amounts are designated and you may customize your gifts. Recurring gifts are encouraged. Memorial and Tribute gifts are welcomed.

Corporate Support: Corporate membership with the Muhammad Ali Center is about forging a partnership. Just as your support helps advance the Center’s mission, a Muhammad Ali Center corporate membership can also bring new energy and resources to your organization. It provides you and your employees with a variety of benefits.
Sponsorship: Be part of something great. Sponsoring the Muhammad Ali Center can bring your company visibility at programs celebrating the best of humanity, such as:
- The Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards – participate in hosting our central fundraising event, which honors the people continuing Ali’s life legacy of humanitarianism.
- Ali Festival – This special week-long program is designed to celebrate the life and legacy of The Greatest, Muhammad Ali. Throughout the week, we offer a variety of public programs and events that highlight Ali’s remarkable achievements and contributions to society.
- Daughters of Greatness – The Daughters of Greatness series honors women who are changemakers in the arenas of social philanthropy, activism, and pursuits of justice. By supporting Daughters of Greatness, you help us to amplify the voices of women who stand at the fore of social change while inspiring others to seize their power and carry forward the torch.
Bequests: A charitable bequest made through your will is one of the most meaningful gifts you can make to the Muhammad Ali Center. You may write a new will or simply add a codicil to your existing will. Your charitable bequest is one hundred percent deductible for estate tax purposes.
Retirement Plans: When you name children or other non-charitable heirs (other than your spouse) as beneficiaries of your retirement plans, they receive only a small fraction of the plan’s face value, with inherited assets of retirement plans being subject to both estate taxes and income taxes. You may wish to designate the Muhammad Ali Center as the beneficiary of all or part of your retirement plan assets and set aside other assets for family and friends. As a tax-exempt organization, the Center will generally receive the full amount of the plan’s value.
IRAs: Philanthropic taxpayers have embraced the IRA charitable rollover as an opportunity to transfer up to $100,000 each year to charity without it being treated as a taxable distribution.
Life Insurance: You may want to donate an old insurance policy to the Muhammad Ali Center. Depending on the type of policy donated, you may receive an immediate income tax deduction and be able to deduct any future premium payments on the policy.
Stock Transfers: Donations of appreciated stock help to preserve the legacy and ideals of Muhammad Ali, and often come with great tax benefits. Stock gifts allow you to avoid paying capital gains tax and take a charitable deduction for the full current value of your stock.
Charitable Remainder Trusts: When you establish a charitable remainder trust, you make an irrevocable gift which is placed in the trust. You can retain a certain payment that lasts for your lifetime (or includes a spouse or others). At the end of the trust term, the trust principal is turned over to the Center to be used as you set forth in the trust document. When you fund a trust gift, you not only receive a stream of payments, but you also qualify for an immediate income tax charitable deduction, defer capital gains tax on the transfer, and reduce your taxable estate. The SECURE 2.0 Act permits up to $50,000 of the funding of a Charitable Remainder Trust to come from IRA assets.
Charitable Lead Trusts: With a lead trust, you donate assets to a trust that makes payments to the Muhammad Ali Center for the term of the trust. When the trust terminates, the assets are transferred back to you or directly to your heirs, as pre-designated by you. If the trust assets revert to you at the end of the trust term, your gift entitles you to an immediate income tax charitable deduction. If the trust assets are transferred to someone other than you at the end of the trust term, you may enjoy a substantial reduction in estate and gift taxes on the future transfer to your heirs.
Acquisitions and Collections: The Muhammad Ali Center Museum collects items relating to the legacy of Muhammad Ali. Our curators will discuss your donation with you and our Collections Committee will decide if it is something that fits into the scope of the Museum’s collection. The Muhammad Ali Center does not purchase items for our collection.
Volunteer: Join Team Ali and become part of one of the most meaningful volunteer opportunities in Louisville, Kentucky.