Raymond Happy is a Partner at CCS. He has planned, directed, and supervised fundraising campaigns throughout the United States and provided strategic advice to leading organizations around the globe. Ray has worked for CCS for 32 years.
He has conducted numerous feasibility and planning studies, building programs, endowment campaigns, and annual appeals. He has helped institutions recruit new trustees, solicit transformational gifts, develop strategic plans, and install and operate new information systems. At CCS, he has conducted numerous seminars concerning the solicitation of major gifts, the use of information systems in fund raising, and the training of volunteers. He has also written company guidelines on prospect research, feasibility studies, major gifts, planned giving, and electronic screening.
Ray lives in New York City with his wife, Carolyn, and daughter, Eleanor. He is a graduate of Grinnell College.
Ray has planned major campaigns and provided strategic advice and counsel to numerous organizations in arts & culture, higher education, civil rights & human rights, independent schools, and healthcare.