MANAGEMENT
The Koltun Group's team specializes in high-touch service with expertise in:
- Strategic Planning
- Development
- Capitol Campaigns
- Leadership
Our services feature tactics like community service, assessment and research, construction, fundraising, Board engagement, Non-Profit development, and more.
SERVICES
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STRATEGIC PLANNING
CHART YOUR FUTURE Realizing organizational mission through vision articulation that is actionable and sustainable is key to long-term well-being. Marion has led in-depth Strategic Plan engagements, leadership retreats, and coaching sessions for Boards and management to build on-going capacity. The Koltun Group's offerings include:
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Planning
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation approved a five-year Strategic Plan in 2014 and leadership required support in realizing key initiatives including capital expansion as well as launching new programs such as a national community-building initiative, Destination Dance. |
Retreats
Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, MA, is a farm-based ensemble theater company, specializing in performance, training, research, and cultural exchange. At a critical juncture of growth, Board and Staff retreats were key components of developing a formal five-year Strategic Plan. |
Board Development
Classical Theatre of Harlem secured a suite of services from 2021 -2023 spanning fundraising, strategic planning, and Board development that led to sourcing a Governance specialist to underpin ongoing organizational alignment for the Board and Senior Management. |
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DEVELOPMENT
Cultivate Your Donors From designing comprehensive annual campaigns, to crafting major institutional grant requests, to galvanizing Board leadership, Marion has stepped in as Interim Development Director during critical transitions, or has been engaged for short and long-term Development projects. Original contracts are frequently extended. The Koltun Group's offerings include:
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Individual
During its 2016 leadership transition, Westport Country Playhouse required stewardship of Board and Staff, bridging its Development operations to achieve annual fund goals. |
Institutional
The 52nd Street Project's Fund for the Future Campaign secured the organization's program expansion with new and ongoing institutional sources alongside a growing pipeline of individual supporters. |
Government
On numerous projects, analyses are requested for potential capital awards and bond issues. Advising on best timing is critical as in work for Classical Theatre of Harlem, Miami Cultural Coalition and the Millbrook Community Partnership. |
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CAPITAL CAMPAIGNS
Build For Your Mission Marion has led and coordinated numerous institutional expansion initiatives such as property acquisition, refinancing, new construction, space fit-outs, and establishing or building endowments. The Koltun Group's offerings include:
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Alvin Ailey
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation's $30M flagship building expansion was secured through its Fund for the Future Campaign over a three-year period including a $4M award from the City of New York. |
Dance Theatre Workshop
Breaking New Ground, DTW's $14M Campaign, included the development and construction of performance, rehearsal and service facilities, and the establishment of its first program endowment. |
O Cinema
O Cinema is Miami's non-profit arthouse cinema featuring first-run films, engaging programs and interactive events. In 2023, the quiet phase of it's campaign to expand from South Beach to a second mainland Miami location began the design phase. |
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LEADERSHIP
Develop Lasting Impact For nearly 40 years, investment in strengthening the not-for-profit sector has consistently included teaching and mentoring the next generation of leaders. A highlight of Marion's training (M.F.A. Yale; B.A. Vassar) was being selected for the Leadership - Arts Business School Graduate Certificate program at Stanford University. Marion's offerings include:
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Seminars, Courses and Lectures
For over a decade, Marion has taught seminars at the Yale School of Drama: - The History of Theater Management in the United States - Construction for the Theater Manager. For Winthrop University's Arts Management Program, Marion developed and teaches a seven-week online course in Sustainability and Development for graduate students from Oregon to the Carolinas, Wisconsin to Alabama in as many arts genres and more. At Vassar College, Marion taught a strategic planning course for under-graduates, seeing early plans blossom into theater companies that exist today. |
Panels (illustrative)
Panel participation spans over twenty years:
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