Nonprofit Moneyball: How To Build And Future Proof Your Team For Big League Fundraising

The "Moneyball" thesis is simple: Using statistical analysis, small-market baseball teams can change their odds for success by accruing assets that are undervalued or overlooked by other teams (and selling overvalued ones). Through a nonprofit lens, this thesis could be compared to a small organization regularly securing large donations traditionally captured by larger national entities and institutions such as medical research organizations, hospitals, global humanitarian organizations, and more.

In today's society, where nonprofit sector information is more accessible and transparent than ever, it's not just the mission of the more established organizations that yields more significant donations. There are considerable disparities at play, including the ability to secure the very best in fundraising talent and the systems and tech that support their continued success.

Nonprofit Moneyball tackles those disparities head-on by deconstructing the skills of the most successful fundraisers and provides a blueprint for organizations and the sector at large on how to identify, recruit, develop, and equip a new generation of talent to help build a diverse and robust social sector that can raise the resources needed to support and strengthen our society at a time when it's needed the most.

Ryan Ginard, CFRE, is the international award-winning author of Future Philanthropy: The Tech, Trends & Talent Defining New Civic Leadership and founder of Fundraise for Australia, a social enterprise whose mission is to identify, recruit and train over 1000 new fundraisers by 2030, leveraging an additional $120 million in charitable donations as the Government of Australia seeks to double giving by 2030.Currently the Head of Advancement for Australia's top-ranked university, The Australian National University, Ryan's career in organizedphilanthropy has seen him lead dedicated efforts in civic engagement, public policy, operations, and fundraising at the University of Texas atAustin, The San Diego Foundation, and as Chief of Staff for a $185 million philanthropic program across early education and charitablegiving, impacting over 11 million students and 22,000 schools across 20 countries including the top 10 school districts in the U.S.An active writer and thinker about future directions in philanthropy, Ryan has had his work highlighted in numerous sector-leading publications and has been a speaker at internationally renowned conferences such as South By South West (SXSW), the Public Relations Society of America's International Conference (PRSA ICON), Good Tech Fest, and Social Media Week, on themes focused on civic technology and immersive storytelling.Ryan's work has leveraged over $2.5 billion in community infrastructure funding and directly raised over $35 million for charity and groundbreaking academic research including transformative gifts in machine learning, computational oncology, and social justice efforts