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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’s communities and organizations. We open doors and build new relationships. We inspire leaders. We move Maine forward.
Our 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. Since then, more than 450 men and women from the private, nonprofit, and public sectors have benefited from the Institute’s 15-day ICL Leadership Intensive, a leadership training program that takes place over nine months. Individual participants are given the opportunity to reflect on the process of effective leadership and their aspirations for community life, and to learn the skills necessary for successfully leading their organizations, and broader community collaborations that benefit our region.
In April 2006, the Institute for Civic Leadership merged with The Board Network, an organization founded in 1999 to build stronger nonprofit boards of directors in Maine. The Board Network has increased the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations through its Board Matching program, a variety of board education workshops, and a statewide conference on board governance.
Together, the new ICL offers a range of programs to train, support, and engage civic leaders across the state including: the Leadership Intensive; the Board Builders Matching program that matches prospective board member candidates to appropriate nonprofits; one-, two-, and three-day public and customized Leadership Workshops; half-day Board Builder Workshops on nine different topics; a Leadership in Action breakfast series; and Consulting Services in collaborative process design and facilitation, leadership and team development, strategic planning, and strengthening nonprofit boards through a combination of assessment, on-site customized training, and facilitation of capacity building processes.
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