About ICL
Our Mission
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 communities and organizations. We open doors and build new relationships. We inspire leaders. We move Maine forward.
ICL 2013-2014 Board of Directors
Chair: Pat Palmer, Community Volunteer
Former Chair: Pete Thaxter, Curtis Thaxter
Secretary: Jamie Morin, WEX
Treasurer: Michael Stillings, Baker Newman Noyes
Richard J. Abbondanza, Hopkinson & Abbondanza
Edgar Anderson, Human Resources Consultant
Andrew Colvin, Office of Chellie Pingree
Wendy Cunningham, Unum
Stephen Eddy, Investment Management & Consulting
Daryl Fort, Independent Consultant
Thomas Francoeur, Woodard & Curran
Tom Gale, Ethos Marketing and Design
Larry Henry, Martin’s Point Health Care
Alice Kornhauser, United Way of Greater Portland
Kazeem Lawal, Portland Trading Company
Marie McCarthy, L.L. Bean
Elizabeth Ross-Holmstrom, TD Bank
Linda Mae Ruterbories, OA – Centers for Orthopaedics
Heather Sullivan, CIEE
Karen Suva, Konbit Sante
Mission & Values
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
More »History
ICL was founded in 1993 following a study by the Unum Charitable Foundation, which revealed the need to rejuvenate and rebuild Greater Portland’s civic leadership.
More »Moving Maine Forward: News & Views
ICL 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
More »"Having gone through the ICL Leadership Intensive and the HLD II trainings, I have come to realized deeply the impact of the trainings and their influence on my work and the underserved populations that I work with. For..."
— Kolawole Bankole, MD, MS, Nu Class (2005-2006) and HLD II , Access Project Director Minority Health Program for Portland Public Health and Human Sevices Department
