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This pack adopts family’s service project to help underserved students

September 26, 2024 0

Working with a grocery store and local television station, Pack 443 in Spanish Springs, Nev., gathered enough school supplies to fill 150 backpacks.

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Cub Scouts help their communities with these amazing projects

August 13, 2024 0

We wanted to highlight the work Cub Scouts are doing, so we recently asked Scouters on social media to share with us their packs’ service projects.

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Decorated military veteran encourages young Scouts to continue to serve Scouting

June 18, 2024 1

Channing M. Zucker, retired naval officer and Distinguished Eagle Scout, says service shouldn’t end when you earn the rank of Eagle or age out of Scouting as a youth.

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Living shorelines project at this BSA camp is a conservation success story

May 6, 2024 0

As the Tidewater Council was exploring ways to improve its shoreline damaged from decades of erosion, the environmental division of the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) was searching for ways to improve water conditions in the entire Chesapeake Bay region.

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See how these Cub Scouts served their communities

April 11, 2024 0

Your Scout’s service doesn’t always have be that grand. Your youth can follow the Scout Oath by helping other people at all times, in little or big gestures.

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Removing timber, burning underbrush – is this conservation?

March 12, 2024 4

On the surface, this work might seem counter-productive. Shouldn’t wild places just stay wild? 

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Getting to know the enhanced Messengers of Peace recognition program

September 14, 2023 0

The BSA’s Messengers of Peace program has launched a series of enhancements designed to more clearly define the awards available and to make it easier to understand how to earn them.

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Here’s how you can help people, Scouting families in Maui after devastating fires

August 22, 2023 2

Scouts help people in need. It’s what they do. But sometimes, in disasters, Scouting families need help, too.

Scouts put supplies into a flood bucket
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The Jamboree is over, but this service project will help people far into the future

August 2, 2023 0

When you get 15,000 Scouts together, good things happen. In addition to the zip lines, mountain biking and patch trading, Scouts at the 2023 National Scout Jamboree assembled 5,000 flood buckets to be used in

At left, Scouts at Palace Station in the 1980s. At right, a photo from 2018
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This troop has served the same historic site for more than 40 years

June 6, 2023 0

Palace Station, a historic site deep in the woods of the Bradshaw Mountains, has been around a long time. Thanks at least in part to Troop 109 in Phoenix, Arizona, it’ll be around a lot longer.

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