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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSubmittal-Bob Kovacevich-Avatar Company examples of Multimillion Dollar ProjectsSubmitted into the publi record fo ite s) Si�, , on / � /'t . City Clerk Avttar AN INTERNATIONAL NONPROFIT SECTORULTANC AUDIENCE RESEARCH STRATEGIC PLANNING FUNDRAISING Since 1978 Examples Of Multimillion Dollar Projects • Museum of Science and Industry — MOSI capital campaign. Located in Tampa this is the largest museum in Florida and 5 largest in the Southeast. This was a successful $120 million capital campaign. • Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College — Avatar produced millions of dollars in Federal, State of Florida and private -sector grants and required private sector matching funds. Rollins College was able to advance a successful capital campaign for a new facility and advanced the museum's endowment. • Orlando Museum of Art Avatar produced a multi million capital campaign to add galleries and public spaces. Additionally, Avatar enhanced and managed the fundraising programs that produced operating income and grants. The museum is funded by private and public sector sources is located on city property and governed by a private sector board of directors. campesslul cap' and endowment aigns for the Cornell Fine Arts Museum. Ro, College • Friends of Mead Garden, Winter Park, FL Avatar conducted a capital campaign feasibility study, secured funding from a community foundation used to enhance the organization's campaign readiness and sustainability, and produced a strategic plan supported by funding programs for each goal. The City of Winter Park owned botanical garden is governed by a private -sector board of directors and funded by public/private sector funds including grants. 1 Avatar Company avatarwayl&icloud.com 407-620-9473 Voice/Text 5 dn - 904s4A-a\ \I\mce,\IN(\\a o,t Us�n a�n� 2� av�n �S � I � Submitted into the public record fo ite s) on 5 City Clerk • Boca Raton Museum of Art and School Avatar provided strategic planning, capital campaign feasibility study and campaign management services to the museum/art school including a $2 million Kresge Foundation award with a 1:1 match component and three public sector grants totaling $4.5 million with match. The multi million dollar new facility is located on city property and the old facility was renovated and programed as an art school producing substantial earned income for the new museum facility's operations. The project was 50% over goal and the excess was used to create a multi million dollar endowment. • Naples Art Association/Von Libig Art Center Avatar provided strategic planning and campaign management services to support a multi million dollar initiative on city property as part of a downtown revitalization program. At the conclusion of the successful campaign Avatar conducted several strategic planning retreats designed to financially sustain the organization in its new facility governed by a private sector board of directors. Avatar went on to produce a highly successful capital campaigns for a downtown theatre and adjacent botanical garden. • Naples Sugden Theatre Avatar provided planning and campaign management services for a multi -million dollar theatre initiative on city property, conducted a mission/program compatibility/campaign planning research study, designed the case -for -support and related print/ electronic campaign materials, researched potential grants business and family foundation grantmakers and produced $4.5 million in grants with match. The theatre is governed by a private sector board of directors. • Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL Avatar conducted a comprehensive internal/ external assessment of the center's funding programs, designed, implement and provided staff/ board training in fundraising program administration. Avatar was also retained to conduct a comprehensive strategic planning 2 Avatar Company avatarway@icloud.com 407-620-9473 Voice/Text Submitted into the public record 5�ixns@. on j ` City Clerk process. • PBS/NPR Washington DC Avatar developed and administered multi -million dollar fundraising programs that included membership, annual giving, sponsorship, several major special events, grants and deferred giving for both Public Broadcast Stations including budget planning and development. Programs were nationally awarded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. • Valarie Theatre, Inverness, FL Avatar identified and secured funding sources for the renovation of the historic 1928 Valarie Theatre into a community performing arts space. The facility is owned and operated by the City of Inverness. ▪ ISKCON Foundation, Mayapur India Avatar provided feasibility and campaign readiness services for a $250 million international project including strategic planning for a project in India. Avatar also designed a multi year campaign plan, develop support materials, provided training. Additionally, Avatar provided strategic planning and campaign services for a $7.5 million ISKCON Foundation project in San Diego, CA. • St. Gregory University & Museum, Oklahoma Avatar was funded by the Reynolds Foundation to provide support for a comprehensive statewide capital campaign feasibility study. Avatar also provided services designed to assess and increase the performance of operating income programs and conducted grant identification and research services. • Michelee Puppets Orlando Avatar's services, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, were designed to produce a multi year funding program that would support the organization's strategic plan for advancement and provide operating support including grant 3 Avatar Company avatarwayeicloud.com 407-620-9473 Voice/Text rni121ppet: Submitted into the public record for ite s) J[ l on `J I K I t % . City Clerk research. To date Michelee has performed for 2 million children over the last 25 years and is nationally awarded for its children's programing on subjects such as empathy, bullyism, divorce, obesity and other sensitive children's issues. Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL Avatar conducted a strategic visioning process, conducted a campaign feasibility study for the city owned and operated museum. The outcome included nearly $9 million in art donations, a multi million legacy gift and a capital campaign lead gift. - GRIN nem b Qledol aces sear Be. R .au.ld+m to r erase at daft Nat terrd Br no to mak. Bib lets $8 maxi -plus Brt donation spun growth to Mennello, Loth >ausPork • rap anonym* am rrrm... at an wa rtda.aa da.Pa Laat Nam Pat 018 .c0seneRrnu Yvonne Scarlet Golden & Midtown Education Cultural Centers and Peabody Auditorium renovation Daytona Beach, FL. All are city owned and operated. Avatar's services included feasibility studies, $25 million fundraising programs, community engagement activities, private and public sector fundraising plans. The centers were part of a community revitalization initiative. • Other examples of Avatar multimillion dollar projects include: The Jewish Museum, Miami Beach; Gurvich Museum, Uruguay; city owned Jacksonville Zoo a $72 million capital campaign; $20 million capital campaign for the Customs House Museum, Key West, Florida and numerous others. 4 Avatar Company avatarway@icloud.com 407-620-9473 Voice/Text LI Yverw,. Saida Golden Education and Cultural Cr..r. City of Daytona Basch, FL - chant 2011 Capital facility comwetion carnation. Located In and poOranmed for t.dtnearad audiences. Submitted into the publich record r f it s) 5v ,, on 5 / /A . City Clerk Introduction to Bob Kovacevich, Founder and Principal In 1978, after more than a decade of service as a nationally awarded Public Broadcast Service senior executive, Bob Kovacevich formed Avatar Company, Inc.1 The new consultancy's thrust was to apply market -researched solutions to the challenges of nonprofit -sector strategic decision making and fundraising. This focus was prompted by the vexing issue that many nonprofit organizations' missions, initiatives and/or strategic plans were simply incompatible with the needs and interests of their vital audiences. Hence, outcomes were chronic financial instability and underachieving strategic advancement. ilanthropy On Not Happen Without A Strategic Plan.: Avatar Company Since !978 Today, Avatar's emphasis remains thereby enabling hundreds of successful nonprofit - sector consulting initiatives some of which are funded by noteworthy foundations. A sampling includes the following: strategic planning and training services funded by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation for the Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute & Festival -Arkansas; fund development services for PBS' Jim Lehrer NewsHour- Washington DC; capital campaign services for the Boca Raton Museum of Art and School, von Libig Art Center -Naples, Sugden Theatre -Naples and Naples Botanical Garden; campaign readiness/feasibility study funded by the Donald Reynolds Foundation for Oklahoma's Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art; capital, grant and strategic planning services for the Cornell Fine Arts Museum -Rollins College; production of a multi year fundraising plan funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the nationally awarded MicheLee Puppets; private -sector fund development training for Uruguay's Gurvich Museum and other prestigious nonprofit organizations worldwide. As Avatar's consultancy matured, it was invited to lecture at conferences that today included the American Association of Museums, PBS/NPR, Florida Association of Museums, National Association of United Arts Organizations, Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership Center -Rollins College, Florida Association of Nonprofit Organizations and others. Further, Avatar has been invited by international NGOs to conduct instructional programs and consultation services. Project countries include India,England, Belgium, South America, England, Canada, Serbia, Uruguay and UAE. Bob Kovacevich is a Boston College School of Business Graduate. Avatar is registered and in compliance with the FL Division of Consumer Services as a nonprofit organization consultancy under Florida's Solicitation Act Sampling of Current And Former Clients Since 1978 Mennello Museum of American Art Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College City of Inverness - Valerie Theatre 5 Avatar Company avatarway( cloud.com 407-620-9473 Voice/Text Orlando Ballet Young Singers of Palm Beach Lighthouse of Central Florida and Lighthouse Works Performing Arts of Maitland Timucua Foundation, Orlando Valarie Theatre and City of Inverness Friends of Mead Garden/City of Winter Park Seminole Tribe -Arts Institute Project, Miami Jewish Museum of Florida, Miami Beach Boca Raton Museum of Art/City of Boca Raton Mabee Gerrer Museum of Art, OK Cincinnati Ballet, Cincinnati The Mayapur Foundation, India -England - USA Victim Service Center/City of Orlando FANO-Florida Association of Nonprofit Organizations Telfair Museum, Savannah National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) National Coalition for The Homeless, Wash. D.C. Association for the Protection of Children Luciano Pavarotti Art Exhibition, Milan Midtown Cultural & Edu. Center Yvonne Scarlet Golden Cultural & Edu. Center vonLibig Art Center, Naples Sugden Theatre, Naples Athens Theatre Restoration, DeLand Family Services of Greater Orlando/State of Florida Bass Museum of Art, Miami Sri Sri Radha-Krishna Temple and Garden, San Diego Jacksonville Zoo Michelee Puppets, Orlando Palm Beach Opera University of Florida: Harn Museum of Art The Lowe Art Museum -University of Miami Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Florida Audubon Society Frost Museum of Art, FL International Univ. Appleton Museum of Art -Florida State University Brevard Museum of Art American Red Cross Central Florida Museum of Art and Science-Brevard 6 Avatar Company avatarway@icloud.com 407-620-9473 Voice/Text Submitted into the publics record forKeln�s) 5 f ,, S on ( JJ City Clerk State Botanical Garden of Georgia WXEL-TV/FM Public Broadcasting -Palm Beach Orlando Symphony Orchestra Orlando Museum of Art Caldwell Theatre, Palm Beach Theatre West Virginia, Beckley, W. VA West Virginia Public Broadcasting WSWP-TV - Beckley, W. VA Louisville Ballet, Louisville, KY Palm Beach County Council of the Arts Norton Gallery of Art, Miami Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens Bass Museum of Art Center for the Arts -Vero Beach Family Services of Metro Orlando Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Canine Companions for Independence Historical Museum of South Florida WLRN-TV (PBS), West Palm Beach Fairchild Tropical Gardens, Miami Naples Botanical Garden Concert Association of Florida -Miami John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Naples Art Association at the von Liebig Center Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Museum of Florida Art, DeLand Key West Art and Historical Society -Custom House DeLand Arts Association G-Star School for the Arts, West Palm Beach Dance Florida, Gainesville Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Miami Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando Casa Feliz Historic Facility Mennello Museum of American Art Valerie Performing Arts Center Peabody Performance Auditorium Opera del Sol IDEAS for US, Fleet Farming & Orlando Hive Central Florida Vocal Arts Institute & Opera del Sol Miami Museum of Art Space Coast Symphony American Academy of Optometry Foundation Museum of Science & Industry, Tampa Submitted into the public record foitte��s) on 5__1_].__• City Clerk As a note: • Avatar produced 52 $500,000 cultural facilities & endowment program grants recommend for funding through the Florida Division of Cultural Resource since the program's inception. This includes the grantee's match totaling over $72 million for Florida's cultural institutions; • Additionally, Avatar conducts classroom instruction to nonprofit organization leaders in a certificate program in nonprofit organization management through Nova Southeastern University and Broward College in association with Nonprofit First Inc. Introduction to Wit Ostrenko, Senior Partner, Avatar Company Inc After 27 years as CEO Wit retired from Tampa's Science Center and has raised $120 million to build 318,000 science center in Tampa on 73 acres. The science center reached 15 million visitors in 30 years while creating the first Head Start program in a museum in the country, the first public library in a museum, The Bank of America Butterfly encounter in addition to a Florida Hospital IMAX dome theater, special exhibition galleries, and permanent exhibitions. His belief in formal education as a compliment to free choice learning in museums led to the development of the first charter school in a museum, Pizzo elementary school across the 6 lane highway with a pedestrian bridge, and finally the MOSI public elementary school on site. Wit raised $120 million to build 318,000 science center in Tampa on 73 acres. The science center reached 15 million visitors in 30 years creating the first Head Start program in a museum in the country, the first public library in a museum, in addition to an IMAX dome theater, special exhibition galleries, and permanent exhibitions. His belief in formal education as a compliment to free choice learning in museums led to the development of the first charter school in a museum, an elementary school across the 6 lane highway with a pedestrian bridge, and finally the MOSI public elementary school on site. Wit believes in board members that can help shape the future and support the mission of the museum. He created an atmosphere of continuous fund raising to grow an endowment of which he contributed the first $10,000 to start the endowment. He has received some unusual gifts including 20,000 shares of Mel Fisher stock to help start the endowment at the History Miami Museum. Wit Ostrenko is a devoted museum professional that had his start in Miami at the Museum of Science and Planetarium developing one of the leading science education program for children, families and adults in Art, History, Theater and Science. He was 7 Avatar Company avatarway@icloud.com 407-620-9473 Voice/Text Submitted into the publieh record fo�ite ss) 3Y, on 5 LDS_/__ �_1_ City Clerk instrumental in founding the Florida Association of Museums and was its President. He also became President of the international Association of Science and Technology Centers in Washington, D.C. He also helped create the National Hispanic Scientist of the Year Award along with board chair, Maruchi Azorin Blanco to inspire Hispanic students to stay in school and complete college. Wit believes that "The success that museums enjoy is derived from communities demanding and then strategic planning for the best in collections, exhibitions and experiences delivered by museums. Museum donors will fund quality and success for new capital projects and will continue to support their museum through annual and endowment gifts." —E N D— Avatar's Credentials January 25, 2019 8 Avatar Company avatarwayOicloud.com 407-620-9473 Voice/Text