Celebrating Outstanding Leaders in Our Community
2024 Take the Lead Lehigh Valley
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 ArtsQuest™ Center at SteelStacks
2024 Take the Lead Honorees
Carmen Bell
Katarah A. Jordan
Senior Director, Healthy Aging United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley
Director The James Lawson Freedom School
Danielle M. Joseph
Stephanie Sherry
Executive Vice President, Diversity Councils Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce
Vice President, Corporate Communications Olympus Corporation of the Americas
Opportunities for Support Sponsorship Levels & Benefits Presenting - $20,000 (Tax-deductible value: $18,800) • Invitation for 16 guests • Highly visible recognition as Presenting Sponsor on both digital and mailed invitations • Sponsor recognition in media announcements, publications, and all materials related to the event, including print, digital, signage and social media • Opportunity to provide remarks at the event • Premier placement of full-page ad in event program • Invitation for 4 to Cookies & Cocktails honoree reception in February 2024
Ambassador - $15,000 (Tax-deductible value: $13,950) • Invitation for 14 guests • Logo recognition on both digital and mailed invitations • Sponsor recognition in event materials including print, digital, signage and social media • Prominent placement of full-page ad in event program • Invitation for 2 to Cookies & Cocktails honoree reception in February 2024
Senior - $10,000 (Tax-deductible value: $9,100) • Invitation for 12 guests • Logo recognition on both digital and mailed invitations • Sponsor recognition in event materials including print, digital, signage and social media • Prominent placement of full-page ad in event program • Invitation for 2 to Cookies & Cocktails honoree reception in February 2024
Cadette - $7,500 (Tax-deductible value: $6,750) • Invitation for 10 guests • Logo recognition on both digital and mailed invitations • Sponsor recognition in event materials including print, digital, signage and social media • Prominent placement of full-page ad in event program • Invitation for 2 to Cookies & Cocktails honoree reception in February 2024
Junior - $5,000 (Tax-deductible value: $4,400) • Invitation for 8 guests • Logo recognition on both digital and mailed invitations • Sponsor recognition in event materials including print, digital, signage and social media • Full-page ad in event program • Invitation for 2 to Cookies & Cocktails honoree reception in February 2024
Brownie - $2,500 (Tax-deductible value: $2,050) • Invitation for 6 guests • Text recognition on both digital and mailed invitations • Half-page ad in event program
Daisy - $1,000 (Tax-deductible value: $700) • Invitation for 4 guests • Text recognition on both digital and mailed invitations • Quarter-page ad in program
Benefactor - $500 (Tax-deductible value: $350) • Invitation for 2 guests • Name listed in program
Campership Paddle Raise at Take the Lead will support Girl Scout Camp! Please consider raising your paddle at the event to help provide a safe and local summer camp option for girls in the Lehigh Valley—at no cost to their caregivers. Please use the enclosed gift form to make your commitment or visit gsep.org/takethelead. For Presenting through Junior level sponsors, please submit logos for invitations no later than February 5, 2024. For questions, please contact Cecily Macy at cmacy@gsep.org or 267-281-5610.
By Supporting Take the Lead you...
Inspire 13,000 volunteers and adult members to serve as mentors and leaders for girls throughout our council.
Help to fund innovative badge programs focused on life skills, career exploration, STEM, civics, financial literacy, mental health and wellness, and more, to give girls the tools they need to lead in the face of an ever-changing world.
Empower girls to learn, grow, and explore the outdoors in an all-girl environment at seven of Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania’s resident and day camps.
Strengthen Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania’s efforts to make Girl Scout programming accessible to all girls throughout Carbon, Lehigh, and Northampton counties by providing financial aid to 100% of girls who apply.
2024 Take the Lead Lehigh Valley Event Committee CO-CHAIRS Tina Hasselbusch Social T Marketing & PR
Mary E. Lisicky, CFP® Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
VICE CHAIRS
Nicole LeVine PECO Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania Chair, Board of Directors Kim E. Fraites-Dow Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania Chief Executive Officer, ex-officio Courtney Angle Just Born Quality Confections Santa Bannon Santa Bannon Fine Art Anne Baum Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital Amy C. Beck Lehigh Valley Center for Independent Living Kelly Chando St. Luke’s University Health Network Vicki Doulé Capital Blue Cross
Deborah Fries-Jackson Boys & Girls Club of Allentown Dorota Gasienica-Kozak King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul, LLC Laurie Hackett Air Products Merry Landis Fine Art Resources Jacquelyn Nattress Crayola, LLC Krista Ortwein Olympus Corporation of the Americas Beverly Pesaresi Fulton Bank Darlene Pors H.T. Lyons Erin Rockenbach Lehigh Valley Phantoms Ashley Russo ASR Media Productions
Marilee Falco Agili
List complete as of 11/17/2023
= Board Member = Past Honoree