A Kid Again and Connecticut Community Foundation Get New Leaders

A Kid Again

Oyauma Garrison has been named the first president and chief executive officer of the national office for this Columbus, Ohio, nonprofit, which provides recreational outings for children with life-threatening illnesses. The charity is seeking to develop its national profile.

Previously, Mr. Garrison was a senior vice president at the Jacobson Group, an executive-search firm for the insurance industry. Jeffrey Damron, who has led the organization’s local efforts for more than 20 years, will stay with the organization as executive vice president.

Center for Education Reform

Lesley Albanese has been appointed president and chief operating officer, reporting to Jeanne Allen, the charity’s founder and CEO. Ms. Albanese was most recently vice president at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

Connecticut Community Foundation

Julie Loughran has been appointed the $98 million fund’s new president and chief executive officer. Ms. Loughran joined the foundation in 2014 as its director of development and communications. She will take the helm in December, succeeding Paula Van Ness, who plans to retire after having led the foundation for six years.

Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance

Patricia Barretto has been promoted to president and chief executive officer of this cultural institution in Chicago. She was previously its executive vice president for external affairs.

University of Florida Health Jacksonville

Leon Haley Jr. has become chief executive of this nonprofit health system. Dr. Haley will continue to serve as dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine at Jacksonville when he assumes his new role on January 1, after the current CEO, Russ Armistead, retires at the end of December.

Other notable appointments:

Pauline Abernathy, executive vice president at the Institute for College Access & Success, will become chief strategy officer at Benefits Data Trust next month.

Patrick Brennan, chief of staff at the Rockefeller Foundation, has been promoted to chief operating officer.

Laurie Craft, a program director at the Grand Rapids Community Foundation, is now vice president for community investment. Kate Luckert Schmid, also a program director at the foundation, has been promoted to vice president for program.

Rozella (Rozie) Kennedy, individual-giving officer at New Door Ventures, in San Francisco, has joined the Women’s Foundation of California as chief development officer.

Jen Matheson, formerly a community-engagement officer at the Northwest Health Foundation, is now the director of programs.

Amanda Sbriscia, senior director of advancement at Bay Path University, has been hired as vice president for institutional advancement at Holyoke Community College, effective October 30.

Tami Simmons has been named vice president for institutional advancement at Johnson C. Smith University. She currently serves as executive director of Susan G. Komen Charlotte.

Michelle Weise, chief innovation officer for the Sandbox Collaborative at Southern New Hampshire University, has joined the Strada Education Network as senior vice president for work-force strategies and chief innovation officer.

Nancy Winship, senior vice president for institutional advancement at Brandeis University, has been promoted to chief philanthropic adviser. Zamira Korff, senior vice president for strategic philanthropy at Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston, will succeed Ms. Winship in the senior vice president role.

Departures

Melanie Norton, vice president for development and alumni engagement at DePauw University, will leave the university in November to establish her own consulting firm, Norton Philanthropic Counsel.

Suk Rhee, vice president for strategy and community partnership at the Northwest Health Foundation, has left to become director of the Office of Neighborhood Involvement Portland. Ore.

John Viola, president and chief operating officer of the National Italian American Foundation since 2012, announced he will resign, effective December 31.

Legacies

Gregory Maney, co-founder of the Greater Uniondale Area Action Coalition, which advocated on behalf of New York residents throughout the foreclosure crisis, died on September 2 following a long battle with cancer. He was also a professor of sociology at Hofstra University and a scholar on nonviolent social change.

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