On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.

Receive this limited edition council shoulder patch for your donation of $125.00. The cost of providing Scouting to each youth.

If your employer has a matching gift program, your gift may be worth twice as much! Vist your employer's human resources department for an application.

WHAT ARE SCOUTS DOING TODAY?

Scouts and their families collected over 122,000 lbs. of food for the hungry through the Scouting for Food Program.

Scouts performed over 35,000 hours of service for the 11 counties we serve to other community orgnizations.

418 young men achieved the highest rank in Scouting - Eagle Scout, providing 60,862 hours of service.

Over 1,700 Scouts and Venturers attended a week of summer camp this past summer, earning over 6,000 Merit Badges.

Over 2,600 Cub Scouts participated in a one-day educational camp.

WHY GIVE TO FRIENDS OF SCOUTING?

Ore-Ida Council serves over 14,100 young people in 41 communities. The yearly cost to provide programming and service for one Scout is $125.00.

Your FOS Contribution:

Helps keep camps affordable and maintained
Keeps programs current
Helps subsidize leader training
Keeps activity costs down
Provides commumunication tools for volunteer leaders

All boys, young men & young women (14+) deserve the opportunity to be a Scout. With your support of this campaign we can provide the resources necessary to make sure every kid can benefit from Scouting's fun, exciting, adventure-filled activities that foster character, honesty respect and life-long values.

Men who were Scouts five or more years as boys are more likely then men with no Scouting experience to:

Graduate from high school (91% versus 87%)
Gradute from college (35% versus 19%}
Earn higher annual household incomes ($80,000 versus $61,000)
Value family relantionships highly (81% versus 72%)
Have lifelong friendships (89% versus 74%)
Attend religious services (87% versus 83%)
Believe helping others should come before one's own self-interest (92% versus 83%)

WHERE OUR DOLLARS COME FROM Here's what it costs to make Scouting happen in the Ore-Ida Council. That's why we need the generous and loyal support of our Friends of Scoutings	WHERE OUR DOLLARS GO

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT Gifts to the Ore-Ida Council, BSA are Tax-deductible