Community Opportunities & Service Projects

Welcome to the Community Opportunities and Service Projects page!  Here we will list activities, events and service projects that are available in our community for your Pack, Troop, Team or Crew. Be sure to check back often as we will post new opportunities as they come available.

Service Projects

• There is a potential Eagle Scout project available, for 16-17 year old boys, at Joplin Cemetery.  This project is quite detailed, needing a professional outcome.  Please contact Ray Wallace at 377-9535. 

• We are looking for a scout who needs an Eagle project and would be willing to start on it right away.  Parks & Rec. is fast becoming the last remaining haven for wildlife in this part of Boise.  We are enhancing the habitat on our property to create a winter supply of food for wildlife, to create a more aesthetically appealing setting, and we are attempting to eradicate noxious weeds on our property.

  Idaho Fish & Game has donated 2,000 bitterbrush & sage seedlings to us that need to be planted by the end of April at the latest.  The planting site is on our property at 5657 Warm Springs Ave. 

  The project would include these items:

  ·       Meet with Fish & Game biologists and Idaho Parks & Rec. (IDPR) planners to decide where to plant

  ·       Assist in the development of a site plan

  ·       Gain knowledge of how to sow the seedlings for optimal growth

  ·       Pick up and deliver seedlings to IDPR

  ·       Gather tools and manpower

  ·       Plant seedlings

  ·       Possibly would include noxious weed removal

  Please call me at the contact information to discuss our project further.  Thanks!

  100 Years of State Parks in Idaho
  "Celebrate our Past, Experience our Future"

  Kathryn Hampton
  Volunteer Services Coordinator
  Idaho Department of Parks & Recreation
  5657 Warm Springs Ave.
  Boise, ID 83716
  Direct phone:  (208) 514-2493
  Fax:  (208) 334-3741
  Email:  KHampton@idpr.idaho.gov
  <http://www.parksandrecreation.idaho.gov

   

• Children Services Field Advisor for WICAP at the Payette Idaho Head Start Center has quite a number of tricycles that are in need of repair.  This could be a great Eagle Scout Service Project.  

   

  For details please contact Kathy Blazor, email blazork@wicaphs.com or by phone 208-642-4008. 

   

Take Care of Oregon Day Service Opportunity for Oregon Scouts

Service project opportunity for Oregon Scouts - On February 14th, 2009, Oregon is turning 150, and we think that calls for a celebration.
For this grand event, Oregon 150 (Governor Kulongoski’s planning commission for the state’s sesquicentennial in 2009) has commissioned SOLV, Oregon Volunteers, and Rural Development Initiatives, Inc. to bring you the largest volunteer event in the State’s history - Take Care of Oregon Days!

For more information on how you can help please follow this link.

Treasure Valley YMCA High Ropes Challenge Course

Needs help with general landscaping.  This would be a good troop service project for boys needing service hours for their 1st Class and Star Ranks.

The attached document describes the program.

Please contact Ryan Beck at 208-344-5502 x270.

Foothills Learning Center - Potential Eagle Project

The Foothills Learning Center in Boise has need of a 3-bin yard waste composter.  This could potentially be a great Eagle project. 

Please contact Kristin Lundstrom at 208-514-3757 for details.

Community Opportunities