rachel colbert / development resources

Fundraising Consultant in New York

rachel colbert / development resources

Fundraising Consultant in New York

Hello and welcome! Glad you found me.

I’ve worked in arts and culture for over 35 years, in institutional roles like General Manager (The Kitchen) and Director of Development (Academy of American Poets) and in independent roles as producer and project manager.

As a development consultant I’ve raised over $45M in project, capital, and capacity building funds. My specific focus is on small nonprofits and individual artists.

Institutional clients have ranged from The National Jazz Museum in Harlem to the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, from The Apollo Theater to the Under the Radar Festival, and from Bronx Council on the Arts to a San Antonio-based nonprofit that's turning a former KKK meeting house into a cultural center.

Genius artist minds I've worked with include performing artists Mark Bamuthi Joseph and Liza Jesse Peterson, puppeteer Dan Hurlin, and MacArthur Award-winners Ralph Lemon, Meredith Monk, Barbara Kopple, and Okwui Okpokwasili.

Favorite projects include Save the Savory, a National Jazz Museum initiative to preserve hundreds of hours of lost jazz recordings from 1936-1940… UnseenAmerica, an SEIU/1199 initiative that gave cameras to thousands of everyday workers, now a HarperCollins coffee table book… a capital campaign to build a new state-of-the-art facility for The Flea Theater… and producing Anthony de Mare's Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano, a landmark homage to Stephen Sondheim that commissioned 50 of the world's leading composers and is now available across four CDs on ECM and Avie Records.

That’s just a small sampling of the impossible, brilliant, weird, uncategorizable projects I love to work on. But enough about me - how can I help you?