Reach for the Stars!

His work with charities is unique and renowned. According to colleague Geoff Peters, “When Special Olympics didn’t have enough money to mail its own housefile, Ray loaned it the postage and rebuilt the file from fewer than 40,000 names to more than 400,000. When the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation wound up on the front page of The New York Times because it had paid a fundraiser $1.1 million to raise $1 million, the organization came to Ray to turn its program around. (CDR now raises approximately $15 million annually for Toys for Tots, with an overall cost-of-fundraising ratio of less than 2 percent.)