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Local councils of the Boy Scouts of America The Ideal Scout, a statue by R. Tait McKenzie in front of the Bruce S. Marks Scout Resource Center, the former headquarters of the Cradle of Liberty Council in Philadelphia Scouting portal The program of the Boy Scouts of America is administered through 272 local councils, with each council covering a geographic area that may vary from a single city ...
The Key 3 consists of the Scout executive, a paid employee who administers a staff of professional Scouters; a council president, a volunteer, serves as the chairman of a volunteer board of directors; and a council commissioner, also a volunteer, coordinates the efforts of trained volunteers who provide direct service to the units (Cub Scout ...
The program of the Girl Scouts of the USA is administered through local councils. Each council covers a geographic area of the United States , that may vary in size from a single U.S. county to multiple U.S. states .
The first of two Linwood Hayne Scout camps in Augusta was in an area surrounded by what is now Boy Scout Road. It opened for its first season in the summer of 1926, and remained there for 20 years before the campground was sold in the mid-1940s and moved to a site 12 miles south of Augusta on Georgia Highway 56.
All Boy Scouts of America units are owned and operated by chartered organizations. Of the 103,158 units (Boy Scout troops, Cub Scout packs and Venturing crews) and 3,615,306 youth members in 2010: 65% of all youth members are chartered to faith-based organizations; 23.5% of all youth members are chartered to civic organizations
The Quapaw Area Council is a regional council of the Boy Scouts of America. It is the largest council in Arkansas in both area and members and is headquartered in Little Rock . [ 1 ] The council serves over 18,000 youth and 3,600 adults in thirty-nine counties divided into ten districts, and approximately 100 boys become Eagle Scouts each year.
In 1961, the Spanish Trail Scout Reservation (STSR) was founded in the Gulf Coast Council. STSR is one of the largest Scout reservations in the southeast. It offers a full range of facilities including: a 40-acre (160,000 m 2) lake for swimming, canoeing, and fishing; a dining hall; and many places to camp. There are two camps on the STSR, Camp ...
Gulf Stream Council is a council of the Boy Scouts of America in southeast Florida with the headquarters in Palm Beach Gardens. Founded in 1914, the Gulf Stream Council serves Scouts in Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River, Okeechobee, Glades and Hendry counties. Throughout its area, it serves over 24,000 youth.