Vanessa and Angela Simmons

Make Girl Scouts your Business
Run's House stars team up with Girl Scouts

Vanessa and Angela are inspiring girls to participate in Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy programs at the Girl Scouts. Who are you a role model for?

On November 29, MTV viewers watched Vanessa and Angela Simmons become the newest members of the Girl Scout family! On the episode of Run's House, cameras followed Vanessa and Angela Simmons, daughters of Rev. Run (aka Joseph Simmons of Run-DMC) as they met with the Girl Scouts for the first time, discovered the opportunities available for giving back and encouraged others to join the organization.

Vanessa and Angela, entrepreneurs and TV stars, are helping Girl Scouts to spread the word about leadership. "There is a real lack of people encouraging young ladies to be leaders," says Vanessa Simmons, on her new role at the Girl Scouts. "Promoting entrepreneurship and financial literacy is important. Girls need to be business-minded so we have more female leaders in the world. I feel the experience girls find at the Girl Scouts is something they don't get anywhere else." Adds Angela Simmons, "I hope we can inspire them to do what they want to do and do it now. And starting now is the best thing girls can do. Selling cookies is a business and you develop those entrepreneurial skills at a young age."

At Run's House the laughs, drama and excitement never seem to end. Rev. Run and his wife Justine continue to manage a very bustling household and keep the lives of their five children as normal as possible. This season the eldest sibling Vanessa, 24, lands her first acting role on the day-time soap opera "Guiding Light" and finds that perfecting her craft is harder than she thought. Angela, 20, sets her sights on expanding her current magazine insert into a bona-fide fashion/entertainment magazine. The Simmons sisters also look into expanding their sneaker company Pastry into a lifestyle brand complete with apparel. The full third season of Run's House reached over 55.4 million viewers across MTV and ranked No.1 in its time period among females 12-34.

Viewers will have the chance to follow Vanessa and Angela online through their official Girl Scouts page, www.girlscouts.org/vanessaandangela as they spread the word on Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy Programs at Girl Scouts. The Simmons sisters, Rev Run and their mom Justine, a Girl Scout alumna, have recorded a variety of television Public Service Announcements (PSAs) and interviews for the cause.