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Updated: August 12, 2024

Preble Street receives Housing First-related grant from KeyBank Foundation

Four people hold up a Key Bank Foundation check. Photo / Courtesy Preble Street From left, KeyBank area retail leader Meagan Calhoun, branch Manager Lance Hutchins and Maine Market President Tony DiSotto with Preble Street Executive Director Mark Swann and the nonprofit's VP of mission advancement, Ali Lovejoy.
By Laurie Schreiber

Social services nonprofit Preble Street has received a three-year, $300,000 grant commitment from KeyBank Foundation to support Preble Street’s Site-Based Housing First programs. 

The funds will help Preble Street as it works to achieve Maine's goal of ending chronic homelessness through the creation of 400 new Housing First units statewide.

KeyBank’s donation will support two Preble Street initiatives designed to help meet the goal:

  • Development of a Site-Based Housing First training and technical assistance program for developers and service providers statewide; 
  • Expansion of the organization’s 24-hour social work support services model to a Site-Based Housing First program in Portland to serve an additional 30 people experiencing chronic homelessness. 

“With the current unsheltered homelessness crisis facing our state and more than 140 people already on the waiting list for existing Site-Based Housing First apartments, this funding will allow us to help many other individuals find safety and a place to call home,” said Mark Swann, Preble Street’s executive director. 

Preble Street’s mission is to provide accessible, barrier-free services to empower people facing problems such as homelessness, hunger and poverty. With offices in Portland, Bangor and Lewiston, Preble Street provides emergency services, long-term solutions and advocacy and is the state’s largest nonprofit provider of homeless services.

Preble Street operates three Site-Based Housing First programs in Portland: Logan Place, Florence House and Huston Commons. Combined, the programs provide permanent, supportive, affordable housing to 85 people.  

“KeyBank believes that everyone in our community should have safe, affordable housing and we are committed to providing access to capital and support to neighborhoods and neighbors who have often faced financial barriers,” said Tony DiSotto, KeyBank’s Maine market president. 

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