{"id":2577,"date":"2014-04-10T17:13:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T17:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2015-11-16T18:44:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T18:44:31","slug":"suzanne-mccormick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/suzanne-mccormick\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 106: President & CEO of United Way of Greater Portland Suzanne McCormick"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong>\u00a0106
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday, April 5
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Suzanne McCormick
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

President and CEO of United Way of Greater Portland <\/a>Suzanne McCormick was born on April Fool’s Day in Iowa City, Iowa.\u00a0 Her first venture towards a career of service started at a very young age and she organized her first neighborhood fundraiser when she was in 2nd grade.\u00a0 McCormick graduated from Duke University with a bachelor\u2019s degree in Political Science and Government.<\/p>\n

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Host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe Steve Woods (left) talked community involvement with President & CEO of United Way of Greater Portland Suzanne McCormick (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

McCormick began her career in the nonprofit sector over 20 years ago as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand.\u00a0 McCormick told Stevoe the story about how she became involved with the Peace Corps and how she tells people that she “found her career in a trashcan.”\u00a0 Upon returning to the United States she led a large volunteer program at the International Center in New York City.<\/p>\n

Moving to Maine in 1994, McCormick held several senior level positions at United Way of Greater Portland, including Vice President\u00a0 of Agency Relations and Vice President of Major Gifts & Planned Giving.\u00a0 In 2002, she joined the American Red Cross of Southern Maine. McCormick served as Senior Program Director and then CEO until 2007.<\/p>\n

McCormick serves as a Trustee of the Portland Public Library, Portland Provident Association and as a member of the Piper Shores Board of Directors.\u00a0 She also serves on the United Way Worldwide National Professional Council and Inclusion Council.<\/p>\n

In December 2009, McCormick was selected as President & CEO of United Way of Greater Portland.\u00a0 One of 1,200 community-based United Way organizations, the Greater Portland agency operates with $10 million in annual revenue, a staff of 30 and hundreds of volunteers to support hundred of programs at over 40 nonprofit agencies in the Greater Portland area. It works with 43 partner agencies and distributed money to about 100 programs this past year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The President and CEO of United Way of Greater Portland joined Steve Woods host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe for a discussion on community involvement and how she became to pursue a career in public service. Stevoe and McCormick talked about her decision to join the Peace Corps and the work the organization does throughout the world. They also discussed the essential programs the United Way of Greater Portland work with and how they are working to connect people to their communities. 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\/2577"}],"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=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}