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The Friends of Scouting Page

Friends of Scouting

Friends of Scouting is a campaign to provide financial support to your local council. In our case, that is Transatlantic Council. This support is in the form of a pledge or donation from a company, organization or individual to ensure the financial viability of a council. Each council, including Transatlantic Council, must raise all of its own funds to support its operating budget. Councils receive excellent program support from our National office but no financial support is provided.

Read the 2008 FOS Brochure with Card (PDF)

Make a contribution on-line

We conduct the unit level campaign through presentations made preferably at a Cub Scout Blue and Gold banquet, Boy Scout Court of Honor, and Venture parent's night. Presentations are typically 5 to 7 minutes with time to collect the pledge cards.

Attached are sample presentations and pledge card
Friends of Scouting presentation (general)
Friends of Scouting presentation (excellent one developed at SHAPE)

Special Friends of Scouting Recognition

Reverse of coin has flags of all current countries in TAC

View full-size

For our 2002 Friends of Scouting campaign we have introduced a "Scout is Trustworthy" council strip. The first of a twelve part collection of special council strips highlighting the Scout Law for contributions of $100.00 or more. If you  would like to contribute to support the BSA's program in Europe, and receive this council strip, click on make a contribution and follow the instructions. For our 2006 campaign we will offer the 5th Scout Law (Friendly) in the series. For Contributions of $500 or more dollars, you will receive replicas of the council strips of the first 12 countries that formed Transatlantic Council. For $250 to $499, you will receive a 3 1/2" (big) of our original TAC logo (EUCOM Scout Council) with flags of the countries we now serve. For $100 to $249 you will receive the fifth in our series of the Scout Law Council Shoulder Patch collection, "A Scout is Courteous."

Presidential Unit Awards

Link for information on this program

Friends of Scouting Campaign Results

2007 Campaign              

$ Processed as of 25 February	2007 Goal	2007 Result
Transatlantic Council	$183,000	$22,603
Barbarossa District	$21,500	$1,100
Charlemagne District	$32,000	$4,357
Mayflower District	$53,000	$4,080
Edelweiss	$30,000	$8,363
Rheingold	$30,000	$4,104
Horizon/Council Campaign	$8,500	$600
Mediterreanean	$8,000	$0

Memorial Fund/Tribute Fund

The Memorial/Tribute Fund of the Transatlantic Council is a way to recognize the Scouting experiences of a deceased Scout or Scouter. It can also be used to pay tribute to accomplishments in the lives of current Scouts and Scouters, Donations of any amount can be made to recognize a graduation, birthday, birth, retirement or promotion. All Memorial and Tribute contributors will be listed on the website along with the occasion of the gift. The amount of the gift is not listed.   View Memorial/Tribute Fund

Matching Gifts

Many employers/business foundations will match their employee's charitable contributions. For instance, if you gave $500 to the Transatlantic Council and your employer had this program, you would have made a $1,000 donation. If you are a contributor to the Transatlantic Council or are considering a contribution, check with your employer to see if this program exists or if the employer might be interested in starting it. The following companies of matching gifts programs:
Kraft Foods
BP

Dollars for Doers

This program provides for a financial contribution from a company based on volunteer time given to an organization by its employees. If you are a volunteer you should check into this and turn your volunteer time into a contribution to the Transatlantic Council as well.

The following companies have "dollars for doers" programs:
ExxonMobil
BP

James E. West Fellowship Award

The James E. West Fellowship Award is a national recognition for individuals who contribute $1,000 or more in cash or securities to the Transatlantic Council endowment trust fund. This contribution is in addition to, and does not diminish or replace the donor's annual gift to the council's Friends of Scouting Campaign. Organizations or individuals may contribute an award in honor of someone - a Eagle Scout, a Silver Beaver recipient, council president, or district chairman, or in memory of a departed loved one, business associate or special Scouter. The James E. West Fellowship Award is an attractive 8 by 10 inch certificate, personalized with the donor's name date of gift and council name. In addition, there is a distinctive lapel pin/charm and an embroidered square knot for uniform wear. While it is a national recognition, the James E. West Fellowship Award is authorized and presented by the Transatlantic Council. This award is named after the first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America who exemplified Ralph Waldo Emerson's observation that "an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man". Scouting today is the "lengthened shadow" of more than three decades of the farseeing and dedicated leadership of Dr. James E. West. Those who are recognized by the James E. West Fellowship Award will cast their own "lengthened shadow" as they help ensure the Scouting legacy for future generations of young people and create the financial stability of the program in the Transatlantic Council In Transatlantic Council funds can be pledged over a 2 year period but the recognition can only be provided once the James E. West pledge has been paid. Request for More Information/Contribution Form