May 3, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
E. Burr Gibson, 83, the former executive chairman of Marts & Lundy, in Lyndhurst, N.J., has died.
After serving as a fund raiser for the March of Dimes for 16 years, Mr. Gibson joined Marts & Lundy in 1964. He was the first consultant at the firm to serve several nonprofit organizations at once. Previously, consultants were “resident managers,” who literally moved to an institution and worked there fulltime for a year or more to manage a fund-raising campaign.
In 2008 Mr. Gibson received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education for his contributions to the fund-raising profession.
