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The Institute’s 2022 Annual Report is now available to the public. Click here to view a full-screen digital version.

Governor Janet Mills has donated the surplus funding from her inauguration to three Maine nonprofit organizations that support the growth and success of Maine youth, giving $10,500 each to the Olympia Snowe Women’s Leadership Institute (the Institute), the Mitchell Institute, and Camp Susan Curtis. “From day one, the success and wellbeing of Maine’s kids have… Read more »

15 years ago in Bethel, Maine, hundreds of volunteers built a snowperson named “Olympia.” Named and decorated in honor of Olympia Snowe, former United States Senator and Founder of the Institute, it measured 122-feet-high and became the tallest snowperson in the world, entering the Guinness World Book of Records. She was only a few feet… Read more »

2022 Leadership Luncheon Speakers: Dellana Kessler, Kaci Alley, Leah Gemeinhardt, The Honorable Olympia J. Snowe, Melissa Denbow, Gigi Georges, Ph.D. LA Sophomore Surprise Panelist at Snowe Leadership ConferenceThe Lincoln County News – December 15, 2022 When the Olympia Snowe Women’s Leadership Program participants from Lincoln Academy headed off for the Olympia Snowe Women’s Leadership Institute… Read more »

Senator Snowe recently hosted her Eighth Annual Leadership Luncheon to recognize the deep network of support helping the Institute develop the next generation of women leaders in our state. Hundreds of community partners and friends of the Institute gathered at the luncheon to celebrate the program’s ability to raise the confidence and aspirations of high school girls across Maine. News Center Maine coverage: