What is Take the Lead?
Take the Lead is the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania’s (GSEP) signature fundraising event honoring our community’s most distinguished women whose leadership and professional achievements make the world a better place. Girl Scouts of all ages produce this unique leadership program and develop the skills necessary to become the future leaders of tomorrow. A true highlight of the Girl Scout experience, Take the Lead enables girls to forge long-lasting, valuable mentorships with honorees and connect directly with their community.
Interested in nominating an outstanding leader making a difference in your community?
Eligible Take the Lead nominees must:
- Exemplify extraordinary civic, professional, and philanthropic leadership and achievement
- Showcase the Girl Scout values of courage, confidence, and character
- Act as a positive role model for girls and be committed to making the world a better place
- Live or work in the community you are nominating them for:
o Greater Philadelphia (includes Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties)
o Berks County
o Lehigh Valley (includes Carbon, Lehigh, and Northampton Counties) - Be willing to host a high school-aged Girl Scout for a Shadow Day experience
- Be willing to serve on future Honoree Selection Committees (one-day multi-hour meeting)
- Not be an elected official currently running for office
The nomination deadline is Friday, August 29, 2025.
All three Take the Lead events will be held in the spring of 2026.
Please visit our Take the Lead page to view a list of our past Honorees.
Honorees are selected by a Committee made up of past Take the Lead honorees from the past three years and chaired by a fellow past honoree. GSEP collects nominations and facilitates the selection process, but does not select the honorees. Members of the Selection Committee may not nominate honorees for consideration.
Please keep all nominations confidential, including from the nominee. Once the Selection Committee has finalized its decisions, GSEP will reach out to the nominees and nominators.
If you would like to learn more about the nominations process before submitting an application, please reach out to takethelead@gsep.org and someone from GSEP will happily answer any questions or set up a meeting to discuss.
For additional questions contact takethelead@gsep.org or 267.332.6788.
