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Supporting Your Scouting Program

Family Friends of Scouting
Units can sign up now to hold a family FOS presentation in 2008. Each year East Carolina Council conducts its annual friends of scouting campaign and 2008 will be no different. Your unit can join the 150 plus units from across the council that participates in a unit FOS presentation to support East Carolina Council! Contact your local District Executive or the council service center for more information on how you can become a part of the Trailblazer Program to support your local council! Your unit must conduct a family FOS presentation to qualify for the Tartan Guard Award program.

Individuals may also pledge their support by downloading the Friends of Scouting Pledge form (below) and submitting to the council service center.

• Friends of Scouting Pledge Form (PDF)

Popcorn
"Develop the ideal year of scouting for your unit"

Even though scouting is the most affordable youth program in the world, it still cost to operate your unit to the degree we all hope and strive for! Every time your unit conducts a meeting, event, outing, activity, or trip… it cost money to support. Rechartering, youth advancement, training events, special awards, and adult recognitions all put a drain on unit funds. Why not develop your own “ideal year of scouting” budget and fund your program for the year though popcorn sells! We have Cub Packs who never ask parents for financial support and Boy Scouts who pay their own way to Philmont and the National Jamboree simply by selling popcorn.

The major benefits to the popcorn sale; there’s no financial obligation for your unit & there are no upfront costs! It’s an easy program to run with tons of support material and the Scouts earn prizes and have lots of fun in the process. Just ask any unit that has gotten behind the program. BE PREPARED for the 2008 fall popcorn campaign. Contact your local District Popcorn Chairman or District Executive and get on the list of participating units. Don’t get left behind!

James E. West / Endowment
Can you image our great nation without the scouting program? We all would like to make sure the scouting movement and programs are here to stay for generations to come! You may ask how? How can I help? The East Carolina Council, Boy Scouts of America offers many different types of programs for you to make sure scouting is here for the next generations: one such program is the James E. West Fellow Program. James E. West was the first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America, and he served in the position for more than three decades. The West Fellowship program award is available for gifts of $1000.00 and up in cash or marketable securities to the council’s endowment fund. The gift must and should be in addition to and not replace or diminish the donor’s annual friends of scouting support. Many individuals and corporations make these gifts either on behalf of someone else- such as in honor of an Eagle Scout, Silver Beaver recipient, a retirement, a special accomplishment, or anniversary or in memory of a special individual. There are other types of endowment gifts available: for more information contact the scout office!

Wildgame Feast & Golf Tournaments
And other Special Events
The East Carolina Council, BSA offers many different types of ways you and your company support the greatest youth movement in the world: from the Wildgame Feast to be held on April 17, 2008 to the different types of golf tournaments you may want to play in, the Heritage Society event for endowment, project sales or gifts in kind of items that you or your company may want to give to the East Carolina Council. For information of these events and how you can be apart of them contact the council office at 252-522-1521.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED FINANICAL SUPPORT OF THE ECCBSA!