My team
My Story…
Why is a mom of 3 boys running on behalf of the Girl Scouts? The answer is easy: to support empowering our next generation of women leaders. Over my 25-year career working in financial services, as a woman in 2 very male-dominated fields, I am constantly fighting to find my voice and my confidence. I am doing this race (which is a stretch athletic goal for me) to run like a girl - with confidence, boldness, and no fear of failure. I want to raise money for Girl Scouts of Eastern MA to enable programs that inspire girls and young women to be confident - to run a meeting like a girl, be ambitious like a girl, to be bold like a girl, to take career risks like a girl, and to lead like a girl. To try new things without fear of failure and not being good enough. To not worry about judgement and to shut down that inner voice in your head that says "you shouldn't" or even worse "you can't". I can't wait to run this race and support fundraising for this incredibly important cause.
Description
Building strength and confidence in girls is the cornerstone of Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts’ (GSEMA) mission. Girl Scouts allows girls the opportunity to take risks in a safe and supportive environment, challenging them to try new things and build their confidence. Armed with this assurance, girls go on to do great things: leading peers and others, innovating and forging new paths, and thinking outside the box to benefit their families, communities, and beyond. GSEMA membership is 30,000 strong, with girls and adults in 178 communities in eastern Massachusetts.
Girls gain valuable skills in the four pillars of the Girl Scout Leadership Experience: Life Skills, STEM, Entrepreneurship, and the Outdoors. The Girl Scout programming is a collection of engaging, challenging, and fun age-appropriate activities including earning badges, selling cookies, exploring science and the outdoors, and implementing community service projects. The Girl Scout Leadership Experience is a collection of engaging, challenging, and fun age-appropriate activities including earning badges, selling cookies, exploring science and the outdoors, and implementing community service projects.
For over 110 years, Girl Scouts has delivered diverse leadership programming to develop the next generation of strong female leaders with self-confidence and positive values who seek out challenges, maintain healthy relationships, and are committed to improving their communities and beyond. There are currently over 50 million Girl Scout alums; 60% of female members of the 117th Congress are alums, virtually every female astronaut who has ever flown in space is a Girl Scout alum, and every female secretary of state in U.S. history is a former Girl Scout- Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice, and Hillary Clinton.
Recent donors
| Donation date | Donor name | Donation amount |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 13 | ORourkes | $55.35 |
| Aug 07 | Janigian Family | $28.10 |
| Aug 03 | Hannah Pentz | Undisclosed amount |
| Aug 03 | Jaime Budzienski | $55.35 |
| Aug 02 | The Huettig Family | $28.10 |
| Aug 02 | Noranne O'Connell | $28.10 |
| Aug 01 | Sharyn Morris | $109.85 |
| Jul 20 | Shannon and Dan St. Onge | Undisclosed amount |
| Jul 18 | Braden O’Connell | Undisclosed amount |
| Jul 17 | Nield Montgomery | $164.35 |
