{"id":1188,"date":"2013-04-18T14:32:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T14:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2013-04-18T14:32:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T14:32:43","slug":"greg-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/greg-powell\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 56: Director and Chairman of the Harold Alfond Foundation Greg Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong> 56
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0April 6
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Greg Powell
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Director and Chairman of the Harold Alfond Foundation Greg Powell was in the studio with TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods and the two talked about how Powell was asked by Alfond, while playing a round of golf, to manage his wealth and philanthropy.\u00a0 Powell also told Stevoe the story of how the Dalai Lama wore a pair of Dexter shoes, which are on display at the Harold Alfond Center for Cancer Care in Augusta.<\/p>\n

Greg Powell grew up in Waterville, where the Powell\u2019s were close family friends to the Alfonds.\u00a0 Powell left Maine to attend Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, where he was a political science major.\u00a0 In 1977, Powell attended the University of Maine, School of Law.\u00a0 This was followed by a clerkship for Maine Supreme Court Justice Ed Godfrey.\u00a0\u00a0 Powell then began trial work at Pierce Atwood and litigation at the firm Friedman and Babcock, which led to a 15 year career.<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left) is joined in the studio by Director and Chairman of the Harold Alfond Foundation Greg Powell (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

Powell currently serves as an officer and trustee of other Alfond family foundations, is a former director of Spinnaker Trust (investment planning), and has served on multiple boards of community organizations and educational institutions, including the University of New England.<\/p>\n

In 1996, working with Alfond, Powell founded Dexter Enterprises, Inc. For well over a decade, Powell worked closely with Harold Alfond on all of his charitable projects in Maine and other states.<\/p>\n

The Harold Alfond College Challenge is part of Harold Alfond\u2019s legacy, who believed that every Maine baby should have the opportunity to pursue higher education.\u00a0 At present, 40 percent of Maine families with newborns are enrolled in the program (giving $500 to every baby born in ME), but the foundation is committed to achieving 100 percent participation in coming years.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1950, The Harold Alfond Foundation<\/a> is a private foundation organized as a trust, created under the laws of the State of Maine.\u00a0 The Foundation is governed by a Board of Trustees, which meets periodically to decide which worthwhile public charities will receive support.\u00a0 The board consists of individuals, whom Harold Alfond knew well and selected personally.<\/p>\n

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Director and Chairman of the Harold Alfond Foundation Greg Powell talked with TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods about growing up close family friends to the Alfonds, in fact Greg’s father was Harold’s dentist. Powell also told Stevoe the story of how the Dalai Lama wore a pair of Dexter shoes, which are on display at the Harold Alfond Center for Cancer Care in Augusta. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}