{"id":2109,"date":"2013-12-03T11:39:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T11:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2013-12-03T15:45:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T15:45:31","slug":"mark-swann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/mark-swann\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 89: Executive Director of Preble Street Mark Swann"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong>\u00a089
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0November 30
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0 Mark Swann
\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

Executive director of Preble Street<\/a> Mark Swann grew up in Massachusetts.\u00a0 Swann graduated Cum Laude from Bowdoin College with a bachelor\u2019s degree in History.\u00a0 He then went on to earn a master\u2019s degree in Public Affairs from the University of Massachusetts.\u00a0 Swann told Stevoe how he moved back to Maine at the age of 28 to pursue a career in social service.<\/p>\n

Swann told Stevoe how growing up in home with others who help\u00a0is most likely what led him on his career path.\u00a0 In 1991, Swann became executive director of Preble Street, where he has since grown the organization from a small organization with a staff of two, into one of the most highly respected human service organizations in Maine.\u00a0 The organization currently employs more than 200 people and organize hundreds of volunteers.<\/p>\n

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Steve Woods (left) host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe was joined recently by the Executive Director of Preble Street Mark Swann (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

As executive director of Preble Street Resource Center, Swann oversees a hub of programs: three soup kitchens, a food pantry, medical clinic, day shelter, social services, a housing location program, a homelessness prevention program and a teen center.<\/p>\n

Swann was selected in January 2012, as a national finalist for the Congressional Medal of Honor \u201cService Before Self\u201d award.\u00a0 This award honors \u201cthose ordinary Americans who become extraordinary through their indomitable courage and selflessness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Preble Street was founded in 1975, by Joe Kreisler, as a neighborhood center to involve and empower homeless and low-income residents.\u00a0 The mission of Preble Street is a living, breathing directive:\u00a0\u00a0 “To provide accessible, barrier-free services to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger and poverty; and to advocate for solutions to these problems.”<\/p>\n

Swann\u00a0lives in Portland, Maine with his wife Mary, and three grown children.\u00a0 He has been a volunteer basketball coach with the Portland Recreation Department and has served on the several local Boards, including Spring Harbor Hospital, York-Cumberland Housing, The Board Network, the Immigration and Legal Advocacy Project, and the Center for Prevention of Hate Violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe, Steve Woods, was recently joined in the studio Mark Swann, Executive Director of Preble Street. The two talked what lead Swann on his career path, as well as all the services that Preble Street offers. Swann also dispelled a few myths regarding homeless benefits in Maine. 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\/2109"}],"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=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}