{"id":203,"date":"2024-11-25T02:14:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T02:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/?p=203"},"modified":"2024-11-25T02:25:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T02:25:15","slug":"seth-brown-98-named-director-of-advancement-alumni-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/campus-currents\/seth-brown-98-named-director-of-advancement-alumni-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Brown \u201998 Named Director of Advancement &#038; Alumni Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"subCategory\">Leadership<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Seth Brown \u201998 Named Director of Advancement &amp; Alumni Relations<\/h1>\n<p>THE ADVANCEMENT OFFICE is pleased to announce Seth Brown \u201998 was named the Director of Advancement &amp; Alumni Relations at Maine Maritime Academy. Brown, who received his BS in Marina\/Boatyard Management, is well-known and respected throughout the MMA community. He is an alum, passionate MMA volunteer, former women\u2019s soccer coach and most recently Advancement Office and Major Gifts Officer. In this newly created position, he will be responsible for the planning and execution of Alumni Relations, coordination with the Alumni Association, and helping create a greater link in stewardship and strategy between the Advancement and Alumni functions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feature\">\n<div id=\"attachment_204\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204\" class=\"wp-image-204 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2024\/11\/sbrown-pic.jpg\" alt=\"Seth Brown\" width=\"860\" height=\"817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2024\/11\/sbrown-pic.jpg 860w, https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2024\/11\/sbrown-pic-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2024\/11\/sbrown-pic-768x730.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seth Brown, Director of Advancement &amp; Alumni Relations<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Together with Interim President Johnson \u201991, Brown has had many discussions on generating a greater link between our current students and their future relationship with the Alumni Association and the Academy. Brown\u2019s optimism, outlook at aptitude on engagement, and creating synergies within a given community will serve MMA and our alumni.<\/p>\n<p>Brown has spent his professional career developing people with a demonstrated history of impacting organizational growth. Most recently, in his capacity as Major Gifts Officer he has supported the stewardship and development of gifts from individuals and corporations to the Academy. Brown has been instrumental in rethinking how our office engages with alumni and students alike. He served as an Annual Fund Ambassador, Adjunct Faculty in the IBL program, the women\u2019s soccer coach for seven seasons, and a member of the men\u2019s soccer team. Additionally, Brown is the parent of a 3rd year MMA student studying IBL and member of the women\u2019s soccer team.<br \/>\nTim Leach, who graciously stepped in as acting Director of Alumni Relations at our request, will transition to an advisory role within the Advancement Office where we will continue to look to him for his vast and decades long industry relationships. We thank him for his support and leadership during this time of transition.<br \/>\nWe are delighted to welcome Brown to this new role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leadership<\/p>\n<p>Seth Brown \u201998 Named Director of Advancement &amp; Alumni Relations<\/p>\n<p>THE ADVANCEMENT OFFICE is pleased to announce Seth Brown \u201998 was named the Director of Advancement &amp; Alumni Relations at Maine Maritime Academy. Brown, who received his BS in Marina\/Boatyard Management, is well-known and respected throughout the MMA community. He is an alum, passionate MMA volunteer, former women\u2019s soccer coach and most recently Advancement Office and Major Gifts Officer. In this newly created position, he will be responsible for the planning and execution of Alumni Relations, coordination with the Alumni Association, and helping create a greater link in stewardship and strategy between the Advancement and Alumni functions.<\/p>\n<p>Together with Interim President Johnson \u201991, Brown has had many discussions on generating a greater link between our current students and their future relationship with the Alumni Association and the Academy. Brown\u2019s optimism, outlook at aptitude on engagement, and creating synergies within a given community will serve MMA and our alumni.<\/p>\n<p>Brown has spent his professional career developing people with a demonstrated history of impacting organizational growth. Most recently, in his capacity as Major Gifts Officer he has supported the stewardship and development of gifts from individuals and corporations to the Academy. Brown has been instrumental in rethinking how our office engages with alumni and students alike. He served as an Annual Fund Ambassador, Adjunct Faculty in the IBL program, the women\u2019s soccer coach for seven seasons, and a member of the men\u2019s soccer team. Additionally, Brown is the parent of a 3rd year MMA student studying IBL and member of the women\u2019s soccer team.<br \/>\nTim Leach, who graciously stepped in as acting Director of Alumni Relations at our request,<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/campus-currents\/seth-brown-98-named-director-of-advancement-alumni-relations\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}