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Ryan
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Last Name
Dumas
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Director
Biography
Ryan Dumas is a dramaturgically-minded project manager, producer, fundraiser, and consultant for nonprofit organizations, specializing in philanthropy, strategy, and finance with a particular focus on the arts & culture sector. His practice centers both holistic qualitative evaluation and rigorous data-based analysis from a project’s inception to best serve all stakeholders. His areas of expertise include institutional giving, strategic planning, financial analysis, program evaluation, events management, and new work development. He is passionate about partnering with nonprofit organizations to ensure sustainable growth, establish new and alternative forms of income generation, create mutually beneficial partnerships, invest in community engagement, and develop long-term mission-centric strategies.
Ryan currently serves as a consultant at CCS Fundraising, providing imbedded advisory services to impactful nonprofits. He has led CCS' partnerships with The Woodruff Arts Center, the Bob Woodruff Foundation, and Hagerstown (MD) Community College, conducting multiple feasibility and planning studies and managing capital campaigns that have raised over $50 million, personally securing gifts totaling over $8 million. He has also provided strategic planning, Case for Support development, survey design, and leadership transition services to the firm's engagements with the National Association of Cancer Center Development Officers, Delaware Community Foundation, and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Prior to CCS, Ryan worked extensively in the arts & culture sector. He served as a fundraiser for Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, and held institutional producing and management roles with Roundabout Theatre Company, The Public Theatre, the Alley Theatre, and William Morris Endeavor. His dramaturgy has been seen at City Theatre Company, PlayPenn, FringeArts Philadelphia, Roundabout Theatre Company, the Drama League, the Alley Theatre, and the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. He worked as a consultant for Sweetwater Center for the Arts, On Site Opera, and Mattel, Inc., and his research on nonprofit arts management has been supported by the Arts Management & Technology Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, the Theatre Communications Group, and Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. Ryan is currently developing the New Work Risk Assessment Calculator, a season-planning tool for nonprofit theatres combining dramaturgical and managerial considerations that is pending patent approval and under beta testing.
Ryan is a member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, the Association of Fundraising Professionals, and the Theatre Communications Group, and was selected for the TEDxBroadway Young Professionals 2020 cohort. He holds a BFA in Dramaturgy from the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama and Master of Arts Management from Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College of Information Systems & Public Policy. He is proudly based in Pittsburgh, PA.
Ryan currently serves as a consultant at CCS Fundraising, providing imbedded advisory services to impactful nonprofits. He has led CCS' partnerships with The Woodruff Arts Center, the Bob Woodruff Foundation, and Hagerstown (MD) Community College, conducting multiple feasibility and planning studies and managing capital campaigns that have raised over $50 million, personally securing gifts totaling over $8 million. He has also provided strategic planning, Case for Support development, survey design, and leadership transition services to the firm's engagements with the National Association of Cancer Center Development Officers, Delaware Community Foundation, and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Prior to CCS, Ryan worked extensively in the arts & culture sector. He served as a fundraiser for Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, and held institutional producing and management roles with Roundabout Theatre Company, The Public Theatre, the Alley Theatre, and William Morris Endeavor. His dramaturgy has been seen at City Theatre Company, PlayPenn, FringeArts Philadelphia, Roundabout Theatre Company, the Drama League, the Alley Theatre, and the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. He worked as a consultant for Sweetwater Center for the Arts, On Site Opera, and Mattel, Inc., and his research on nonprofit arts management has been supported by the Arts Management & Technology Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, the Theatre Communications Group, and Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. Ryan is currently developing the New Work Risk Assessment Calculator, a season-planning tool for nonprofit theatres combining dramaturgical and managerial considerations that is pending patent approval and under beta testing.
Ryan is a member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, the Association of Fundraising Professionals, and the Theatre Communications Group, and was selected for the TEDxBroadway Young Professionals 2020 cohort. He holds a BFA in Dramaturgy from the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama and Master of Arts Management from Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College of Information Systems & Public Policy. He is proudly based in Pittsburgh, PA.
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