Rick Dunham

Rick is a 35-year veteran in direct response marketing and fundraising, organizational management, and media ministry development for nonprofit organizations.

Rick began his fundraising career in 1978. Over the next 11 years he served as Director of Operations at Insight for Living (a Christian radio ministry), Vice President for Public Affairs at Campus Crusade for Christ, International School of Theology and Vice President for Advancement at Biola University. In 1989, Rick began his consulting career.

In 2002, Rick founded Dunham+Company to establish a new model to serve ministries, a model which seeks to integrate the variety of organizational and marketing components that must work in concert in order to optimize income generation and impact long-term organizational effectiveness. These components include brand strategy development and implementation, organizational development, and the creation and implementation of strategic offline and online marketing and fundraising initiatives. Today, Dunham+Company serves over 50 organizations in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, South Africa, and Australia with offices in Dallas, Texas and Sydney, Australia.

Rick holds a BA from Biola University and a ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary. He is an active member of the National Religious Broadcasters and the Direct Marketing Association, where he serves annually as a final round judge for the International ECHO Awards. Rick also serves on the board of The Giving Institute, which is the publisher of Giving USA, the most widely respected annual report on giving in the U.S., where he serves on the Editorial Board. Rick is also a member of the Giving Coalition, the national voice for charitable organizations in the U.S.

Rick is the author of Secure: Discovering True Financial Freedom and If God Will Provide, Why Do We Have to Ask for Money? He has also been published and quoted in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, USA Today, Dallas Morning News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Washington Post and Townhall.com as well as numerous other publications. Rick has served as a commentator on Fox Business News as well as participated as a frequent guest on numerous regional and national radio programs.

Rick has been married for 39 years and has 3 children and 8 grandchildren.