Possible Clues:

• Harold Gray's Annie, for one
• Sounds as if one is frequently alone
• Annie or Dondi, of the comics
• Cries leaving chairperson with Oliver, for one
• Annie, e.g.
• Unfunded, as a research project
• Bruce Wayne or Harry Potter, e.g
• Bereaved child
• "Little ___ Annie"
• Chairperson ignores cries from Oliver