Marts & Lundy Acquires Raybin Associates, of New York

LYNDHURST, N.J., Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Marts & Lundy, America's leading full-service strategic consulting firm serving the nonprofit sector, announces the acquisition of Raybin Associates, a fundraising, strategic planning, and management consulting firm serving nonprofits in the New York area.  Raybin's clients include top tier arts and cultural organizations, human services organizations, and independent schools.  Raybin has completed major assignments for the New York Public Library, New York University, UJA-Federation of New York and Friends of the High Line, among many others.

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Nancy Raybin, managing partner of Raybin Associates, thinks that the combination with Marts & Lundy offers a vital way to meet the dramatically changed needs of nonprofit clients. "The philanthropic market is flat," she says. "Nonprofits understand that they need to focus more intently on crafting more effective long term strategies, strengthening Board governance practices, and raising operating and capital funds. Our combination with Marts & Lundy helps us address these needs even more effectively, with our new colleagues who specialize in services such as data analysis and communications.  We can serve our longstanding clients more completely, and the bench-strength of the combined company allows us to reach out to new clients as well."

Marts & Lundy president and CEO Donald M. Fellows says,

"Nancy Raybin and her colleagues have done consulting work of the highest quality with organizations in the New York metro area, where so many leading philanthropies and foundations are based.  They really understand that market's institutions and donors.  Marts & Lundy's existing clients will also reap enormous benefits from Raybin Associates' special expertise in consulting on nonprofit governance issues."

Raybin Associates was founded by the late Arthur Raybin in 1973.  Nancy Raybin became managing director after her brother's death in 1987.  She had been a consultant at McKinsey & Company, which she joined after graduating from Vanderbilt University and receiving an MPPM from the Yale School of Management.

Marts & Lundy, a full-service strategic fundraising firm founded in 1926, is the leader in innovative and successful philanthropic programs.  It counsels clients in major gift strategies, planned giving, capital campaign planning and management, communications and prospect research. Its consultants, with an average of 20 years of experience, work in seven Practice Groups: Arts & Culture, Environment & Conservation, Health Sciences, Higher Education, Schools, Analytical Solutions and Strategic Communications.  Recent New York area clients include Columbia University, Rutgers University, Princeton University, and the Brooklyn Museum, among others. For more information, visit www.martsandlundy.com.

SOURCE Marts & Lundy