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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.
 

Raymond P. Happy

Senior Vice President and Managing Director

Raymond Happy is a Senior Vice President and Managing Director of CCS.  He has planned, directed, and supervised fund-raising campaigns throughout the United States and provided strategic advice to leading organizations around the globe.  His projects have raised billions of dollars.

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, among others:

 NGO’s

  • The American Civil Liberties Union
  • Amnesty International
  • The Committee to Protect Journalists
  • Episcopal Relief and Development
  • Human Rights First
  • Human Rights Watch
  • Medicins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders
  • Mercy Corps
  • Millennium Promise
  • The New Israel Fund
  • Women for Women International

The Arts and Culture

  • Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
  • American Ballet Theatre
  • Artists Space
  • Dance Theater Workshop
  • The Drawing Center
  • The Joyce Theater
  • The Film Society of Lincoln Center
  • The Franklin Institute
  • The League of American Orchestras
  • The National Constitution Center
  • The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
  • The New York Historical Society
  • The Orlando Performing Arts Center
  • The Public Theater
  • The World Trade Center Memorial
  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • WNYC Public Radio

Health and Social Services

  • American Law Institute
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • Jewish Home Lifecare
  • NYU Child Study Center
  • The Fresh Air Fund
  • The Nation Institute
  • The New York Academy of Sciences
  • UJA/Federation of New York
  • Women in Need

Education

  • Bard College
  • Brooklyn College
  • City College
  • Columbia University
  • Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
  • Hunter College
  • NYU School of Medicine
  • Pace University
  • St. John’s University
  • The Chapin School
  • The New School
  • The New York Institute of Technology