{"id":65446,"date":"2016-01-23T13:30:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T18:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=65446"},"modified":"2016-01-23T10:10:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T15:10:10","slug":"friends-of-the-zoo-hires-new-director-of-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=65446","title":{"rendered":"Friends of the Zoo Hires New Director of Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_65447\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65447\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Denise-Headd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65447\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Denise-Headd.jpg\" alt=\"Denise Headd\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Denise-Headd.jpg 214w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Denise-Headd-107x150.jpg 107w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Headd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(Syracuse, NY \u2013 Jan. 2016) Friends of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo announces the hiring of Denise Headd of Onondaga Hill as director of development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very pleased to welcome Denise to the Friends staff,\u201d says Janet Agostini, president and CEO of Friends of the Zoo. \u201cHer experience, skill in creating relationships and love of animals position her nicely to work with us in our next phase of growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In her position with Friends of the Zoo, a 501(c) (3) non-profit support organization to the Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Headd will develop and maintain ongoing fundraising activities and donor stewardship and oversee new programs that arise from the recently completed strategic and master planning process.<\/p>\n<p>Headd holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in English with a concentration in communications from Canisius College. She has more than eight years\u2019 experience working in the non-profit sector including eight years of board management in addition to 14 years of special events planning with a concentration on fundraising. She most recently served as director of development for Joseph\u2019s House for Women and was formerly executive director of Friends of the Central Library Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series.\u00a0 She sits on the board of the Willow Street Foundation and is past president and former board member of Literacy Volunteers of Greater Syracuse (now LiteracyCNY).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Syracuse, NY \u2013 Jan. 2016) Friends of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo announces the hiring of Denise Headd of Onondaga Hill as director of development. \u201cI am very pleased to welcome Denise to the Friends staff,\u201d says Janet Agostini, president and CEO of Friends of the Zoo. \u201cHer experience, skill in creating relationships and love of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}