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Brian Wishneff & Associates Coloring Historic Theatres

Contact: Adam Markwood, Managing Director of Contact: Escott O. Norton, Author / Illustrator
Investments 7190 W. Sunset Blvd #36E, Los Angeles, CA 90046
30 W Franklin Road, Suite 503, Roanoke, VA 24011 escott@EONDesignCo.com; Escott@
adam@wishneff.com / (540) 982-1317 ColoringHistoricTheatres.com / (323) 459-5005
https://wishneff.com/ https://coloringhistorictheatres.com/

Company Description: Brian Wishneff & Company Description: Coloring Historic Theatres
Associates is a tax credit consulting and creates custom tools for your theatre that can be
syndication firm that specializes in helping used for fundraising, marketing, and community
facilitate projects seeking to utilize tax credits outreach. Author/Illustrator Escott O. Norton
and a variety of other funding sources. Since produces original, highly detailed coloring books
our inception in 1995, we have facilitated for all ages, focused on the unique beauty,
investments in over 350 projects involving over hidden details, and history of each specific
$900 million in tax credit proceeds, including theatre. Illustrations created for the coloring
dozens of theatres throughout the U.S. We books can also be used for other colorable gift
understand the unique opportunities and items and marketing materials. Escott brings
challenges of working with historic theater four decades of theatre advocacy and design
projects. BW&A brings a unique perspective to experience to the creation of each custom
each transaction with our extensive real estate, coloring book and works directly with your team
economic development, legal and accounting to create a custom coloring book that best
background which helps our clients maximize represents your theatre.
their benefit from the use of these programs.
We have expertise in a variety of programs The Compass Group, Inc.
including Federal and State Historic Tax Credits,
Federal and State New Markets Tax Credits, and Contact: Robert Bull, Jr., President
Renewable Energy Tax Credits among others. 124 Quay Street, Alexandria, VA 22314
rbull@compassgroup.com / (800) 809-3170
Casablanca Payments https://compassgroup.com/
Company Description: The Compass Group
Contact: Wynn Salisch, Principal is a national fundraising consulting firm that
245 West 104th Street #4E, New York, NY 10025 teaches mission-based organizations to build
wynn@casablanca-ventures.com / (203) 253-7259
https://www.mpiprocessing.com/wynn their capacity for sustainable impact. With
an average of 32 years of experience, our
Company Description: Casablanca Payments consultants leverage real-world expertise to
gives you better service at lower cost. Our low provide tailored service. Our culture—and service
costs and highly personal and responsive White model—is based on partnership. Philanthropy
Glove Concierge Service has given us one of the doesn’t happen on its own. We need to create
best client loyalty rates in the payments industry. the right environment for it to thrive for maximum
The only credit card processing company in the impact. That’s why The Compass Group is
nation founded by an actual theatre owner, committed to engineering philanthropy. As
we excel at improving your bottom line through a minority-led business, we proudly serve the
significant cost savings, a lifetime rate lock in most diverse portfolio of clients in the industry,
writing, and direct phone lines (no annoying including a dynamic group of arts and culture
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All photos in this directory section
were taken by Don Telford for
the League at our 2023 National
Conference in Kansas City.

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