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PORTLAND, Maine — The Mitchell Institute’s strong financial health and ongoing accountability and transparency have earned a Four-Star Rating from Charity Navigator, America’s largest and most-utilized independent charity evaluator. This rating designates the Mitchell Institute as an official “Give with Confidence” charity, indicating that the organization is using its donations effectively based on Charity Navigator’s… Read more »

At the Roux Institute, Mitchell Scholars engage with NIMBLE Founder and CEO Mariette Wharton to help solve a crisis facing teen refugees in Kenya. Gathering at the ‘Roux MILE’ to Learn Design Thinking by Mitchell Institute on on Exposure

In late June, we announced the Class of 2023 Mitchell Scholars on our social media channels and website. It is, by far, the most joyful news we share with the world every year. We also announced the 166 new Mitchell Scholarship recipients in a wave of press releases to newspapers large and small across Maine,… Read more »

With his first two semesters at Bates College done and dusted, Tristan Seavey, the 2022 Mitchell Scholar from Calais Middle/High School, had some time to reflect on how the Mitchell Institute and the Mitchell Scholar community have been forces for good this past year. Since attending his first Mitchell Institute event — the Welcome Celebration… Read more »

In the latest episode of the Scholars Speak podcast, host Michele Martin, the 1999 Mitchell Scholar from Scarborough High School, catches up with one of Maine’s most impactful public health leaders: Cassandra Cote Grantham, the 2000 Mitchell Scholar from Falmouth High School. Listen up as Grantham, who earned a bachelor’s in French and Religious Studies… Read more »