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MANAGEMENT

The Koltun Group's team specializes in high-touch service with expertise in: ​
  • Fundraising for Change Capital
  • Strategic Planning
  • Non-Profit Management
  • Community Service
  • Assessment and Research
  • Construction

SERVICES

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, all in service of building on-going capacity. The Koltun Group's offerings include:
  • Planning and execution
  • Board development
  • Staff retreats (senior and middle management)
​Planning
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Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation ​approved a five-year Strategic Plan in 2014 and leadership required assistance in realizing key initiatives including capital expansion as well as launching new programs such as a national community-building initiative, Destination Dance. 

​Retreats
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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.
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Board Development
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Independent Media Arts Preservation 
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serves the caretakers of media collections through continuing education and networking opportunities.  IMAP received a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Media Arts Assistance Fund to engage its board at a key transition point
​for its ongoing operations.
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DEVELOPMENT
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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:
  • Full service fundraising
  • Short-term "step-in" assignments"
  • Long-term consultancies
Individual
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During its 2016 leadership transition,
Westport Country Playhouse required stewardship of Board and Staff, bridging its Development operations ​to achieve annual fund goals.

Institutional
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The 52nd Street Project's Fund for the Future Campaign will secure the organization's program expansion with new and ongoing institutional sources alongside a growing pipeline of individual supporters.
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Government
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The Stephen Petronio Company has established a retreat center ​in the Catskills for contemporary dance . Essential government agency contributions will take this project from concept to reality.
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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:
  • Designing and implementation 
  • Planning and coordination (pre-construction, building, opening, start-up operations)
​​Alvin Ailey
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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.
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Dance Theatre Workshop
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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. 
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​​New Victory Theater
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The New 42nd Street, Inc. led the reclamation of Times Square with the renovation of the historic New Victory Theater, created as New York City's only year-round Theater dedicated to youth.
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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:
  • Graduate courses and seminars 
  • Undergraduate lectures
  • Panel participation (conferences and events)
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.  
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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

​Panel participation spans over twenty years:  
  • ​New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
  • New YorkEconomic Development Corporation’s Cultural Facilities
  • The City of New York Department of Small Business Services
  • Women in Housing and Finance
  • Columbia University
  • Dance New Jersey
  • The Foundation Center
  • Dance/USA
  • New York Grant Makers in the Arts
  • Alliance of Resident Theaters/New York 
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​Connect with Marion

MarionKoltun@Gmail.com

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