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The CCS Leadership Team includes highly successful and experienced fund-raising professionals. CCS Executives are extensively involved in the projects they manage.
 

Frederic J. Happy

Senior Vice President and Managing Director

Frederic J. “Rick” Happy, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, joined CCS in 1986. Rick is one of twelve partners who own and manage the firm, with direct responsibility for operations in the western United States and Canada. Over the past two decades, Rick has provided professional counsel to numerous educational, healthcare, civic, environmental, and religious institutions, directing over 100 capital campaigns, which have raised a combined total exceeding $1 billion. Rick has personally managed individual campaigns with goals as high as $30 million, $75 million, and $150 million.

Rick’s extensive experience includes capital campaign consulting and management; endowment fund raising; feasibility and planning design and implementation; telemarketing; public relations; foundation and corporate giving; major gift solicitation; and pledge redemption.

A graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, Rick and his wife Kate and three children reside in Clayton, California. 

The organizations and institutions Rick has served or is currently serving as executive consultant include:

  • University of California, San Francisco Medical Center
  • All Saints Church, Pasadena, CA
  • Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Berkeley, CA
  • Kent Denver School
  • Diocese of San Jose
  • Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
  • Denver Zoological Society
  • Diocese of Fresno
  • Deep Springs College
  • Goodwill of Orange County
  • Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles
  • Hanna Boys Center, Sonoma, CA
  • St. Monica Church, Santa Monica, CA
  • Cardinal Newman High School, Santa Rosa, CA
  • Utah Zoological Society (Hogle Zoo)
  • Walnut Creek Library Foundation
  • Colorado Symphony Orchestra