Take the Lead 2025
Wind Creek Bethlehem Celebrating Outstanding Leaders in Our Community
Lehigh Valley Tuesday, April 29, 2025
2025 Take the Lead Honorees
Lori A. Alfonse, DO Deputy Physician-in-Chief
Lehigh Valley Topper Cancer Institute
MaryEllen Dickey, CFRE Chief Philanthropy Officer Da Vinci Science Center
Corinne Goodwin Founder & Executive Director
Eastern PA Trans Equity Project
Carolina Hernandez Assistant Dean & Director, Community Service Office
Lehigh University
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 2025
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 2025
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 2025
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 2025
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 2025
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 event 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.
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 the Lehigh Valley by providing financial aid to 100% of girls who apply.
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 7, 2025. For questions, please contact Gina J. Range at grange@gsep.org or 267-332-5483.
2025 Take the Lead Lehigh Valley Event Committee
Tina Hasselbusch
Social T Marketing & PR
CO-CHAIRS
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
Anne Baum
Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital
Kelly A. Chando
St. Luke’s University Health Network
Vicki Doulé
Capital Blue Cross
Marilee Falco
CW Advisors
Dorota Gasienica-Kozak King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul, LLC
Lauryn Graves Air Products
Elise Hill PNC Bank
Merry Landis Fine Art Resources
Allison Longenhagen B. Braun Medical Inc.
Lauren McHugh
United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley
Adrienne McNeil Lehigh University
Dianne Pagano Magnes, CFA Truist Foundation & Endowments Specialty Practice
Jacquelyn Nattress Crayola
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
Stephanie Sherry Olympus Corporation of the Americas
Lynn Staples
Cedar Crest College
Karla Trumbauer
First Commonwealth Credit Union
= Board Member = Past Honoree List complete as of 11/1/2024