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The Institute for Civic Leadership
...builds Maine’s civic capacity by training, supporting, engaging, and convening a growing network of skilled leaders. We bring innovative and inclusive models of leadership to Maine’s communities and organizations. We open doors and build new relationships. We inspire leaders. We move Maine forward. More »
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The ICL Leadership Intensive
...is a nine-month, 14-day experience-based, skill development curriculum for senior and middle management of Maine’s public, private and nonprofit organizations that teaches collaborative leadership and problem solving techniques. Now in its 18th year, the Intensive has graduated more than 500 leaders and is widely touted by alumnae as the best skills-based leadership training in our state. More »
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ICL’s Consulting Services
…has a demonstrated ability to move organizations forward through an inclusive and thoughtful organizational development process led by our highly-skilled and always neutral facilitators and consultants who have been working to solve the complex communication and leadership challenges of Maine’s municipalities, for-profit and nonprofit organizations for nearly two decades. More »
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With our Young Emerging Leaders Pilot Program
...ICL hopes to reverse national statistics that suggest only 6 percent of board members nationwide are 35 and under with its newest leadership development offering: an innovative program that prepares and launches Maine’s young emerging leaders to successful nonprofit leadership roles through leadership training, mentoring, matching and transitioning. More »
Moving Maine Forward
[View all case studies]The Nature Conservancy...
In their combined 32 years with the Maine Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, ICL Leadership Intensive alumni Bruce Kidman as Director of External Affairs, and Tom Rumpf as Associate State Director, have provided ample opportunities to temper potentially – and sometimes actively – confrontational matters with collaborative approaches that enrich understanding and tolerance between stakeholders.
More »Scott Simons Architects...
Portland-based architecture firm Scott Simons Architects doesn’t get the easy projects, and that’s just the way the firm’s founder and an ICL alum, Scott Simons, likes it. Sometimes, his is the second or even third architect to be hired for a project, and thanks in large part to their ICL training, the firm that finally designs something the gets built. That was the case with the Portland Public Library. From the start, the firm had to overcome the obstacle of an eight-year gap since the design by the architect originally hired for the project’s design floundered from funding challenges.
More »Latest Updates
[View all updates]Institute for Civic Leadership names four to ...
posted on August 31st, 2010Joining the ICL board are Stephen Eddy, Vice President and Fiduciary Consultant at Investment Management and Consulting Group; Barbara Nash, Vice President of Corporate Research at Unum; Linda Mae Ruterbories, Director of the Orthopaedic Surgery Center at Orthopaedic Associates; and Michael Stillings, Principal at Baker Newman Noyes.
More »August 20 deadline for health/human services ...
posted on August 12th, 2010The fourth Nonprofit Sector Viability Program of 2010 will provide senior leaders of 10 nonprofit organizations that contract or have provider agreements with the Maine Department of Health & Human Services with a structured and supportive environment
More »ICL seeks mentors for emerging leaders...
posted on July 7th, 2010ICL seeks those who currently serve or who have served in the past on a nonprofit board or committee to serve as mentors to participants in its Young Emerging Leaders Pilot Program
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