Nominate an Outstanding Leading Woman today!

Feb. 27, 2012 - PRLog -- (Boston) - Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts is pleased to announce they are accepting nominations for their annual Leading Women Awards. This year’s 21st Annual Leading Women Awards breakfast event will take place in November, 2012.

The Leading Women Awards event raises funds to support Girl Scout programs that are relevant to today’s girls and their interests in fitness and health, science, technology, engineering, and math and, most importantly, serving their communities.

The Leading Women Award honors women who possess the leadership qualities that are at the core of the Girl Scout experience. Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts is dedicated to building girls of courage, confidence, and character.

This distinguished award is a mark of professional achievement and influence in the community and these women are role models for our girls. Girl Scouts has honored more than 200 women with the Leading Women Award since its inception in 1992. The prestigious list of past honorees includes women of outstanding success who made a phenomenal impact in an impressive array of fields. Our Leading Women are explorers, collaborators and innovators - women of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place. The Leading Woman Award celebrates the outstanding commitment and contributions of women leaders. The nominees should be visionary, exemplary in their work, leaders in their community who promotes inclusion and opportunity for all women.

Submit a nomination for the Leading Women Award online beginning February 27, 2012.
http://www.girlscoutseasternmass.org/webforms/leading-wom...
Nominations close on Wednesday, April 4, 2012 and the honorees will be announced April 20, 2012. For more information about the event, call 857-453-5329.

About Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts
Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts serves more than 41,000 girls ages 5-17 and 18,000 adult volunteers in 178 communities across Eastern Massachusetts with the mission to build girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place. The Girl Scouts provide girls with the opportunity to DISCOVER their world, CONNECT with and build an understanding for others and TAKE ACTION to make the world a better place. Girls are guided by committed and caring adults who make learning fun. Girl Scouting helps each girl achieve her personal leadership pathway to the future. The Girl Scouts organization has a rich history and has been the nation’s leading expert on girls for nearly 100 years.

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Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place. Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts serves more than 45,000 girls ages 5-17 and 17,000 adult volunteers in the 178 communities we serve.