Boy Scouts of AmericaShawnee Trails Council
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Local Council Financial Resources
The community pays for the Boy Scouts America's local council expenses required to provide the staff and services needed to achieve planned goals of membership growth and quality program. These services include maintaining outdoor programs and training facilities.
Financing within the communites of Shawnee Trails Council is based on broad base of overall community support from the United Way and the Friends of Scouting campaign conducted among parents, registered Scout leaders, and others interested in Scouting. Income from activities and endowment funds are sources of additional support. Special funds are frequently secured from foundations, grants, product sales such as Trail's End popcorn, and project sales.
What is Friends of Scouting?
Friends of Scouting is an annual direct-solicitation campaign where the Shawnee Trails Council asks Scouting families, businesses, and civic-minded citizens to support our mission of providing the Scouting program to the youth in our area.
The Friends of Scouting provides roughly one-third of the money needed to operate Shawnee Trails Council's Scouting camps, programs, and facilities for the calendar year. These camping and training facilities are the "outdoor classrooms" in which Scouts have fun, learn leadership skills, and develop into better young men and women. The Shawnee Trails Council spends $200 per Scout each year to deliver the programs of Scouting and much more.
If you would like to make an on-line contribution to the Shawnee Trails Friends of Scouting campaign, please use the button on the left pane or click here to be taken to our on-line donation site.
Does this go towards council expenses?
Each Scout's registration fee goes directly to the National Office of the Boy Scouts of America. If their unit collects monthly dues, that money stays with the unit to help pay for trips and other activities. None of that money helps Shawnee Trails Council pay for:
- Maintaining and staffing the council's two camping properties.
- Training thousands of adult volunteer leaders in youth protection and position specific training.
- Providing quality programs like Cub Scout Day Camp, Cub Scout Family Weekends, Boy Scout Summer Camp, Boy Scout Winter Camp, and the newest program addition, Aquabase.
Where does the money raised for Scouting go?
Funding raised by Shawnee Trails Council supports the various Scouting programs within the area served by the council. The most visible use of funds raised by the council is in the organization of new units, the service and support to existing units, maintaining the council's camping facilities, and maintaining the council's service center. Other use of council raised funds include professional staff support, training for volunteer leaders, activites and events, and liability insurance for each Scout and Scout leader registered in the Scouting program.
